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Premium network Showtime gave an approval nod to John Wells Productions for a one-hour pilot based on the British drama series, Shameless headlined by William H. Macy. Wells and the UK series creator Paul Abbot will write the US version as well as executive produce the pilot. Production begins in December and it will be co-produced with Warner Bros. Television. The UK version was based on Abbot’s childhood growing up in a working-class family of eight children headed by an alcoholic father, Frank Gallagher. The US edition, set in working-class Chicago in the present day, will have Macy play the often inebriated single dad and his oldest daughter Fiona must take charge of her five younger brothers and sisters.