Showtime Renews 'The Big C' and 'Weeds'

According to a report by Deadline.com, both Weeds and  The Big C have  been renewed by Showtime. Both shows have been picked up by David Nevins for atleast 13 episodes.

Weeds is an American television dark comedy-drama series created by Jenji Kohan and produced by Lionsgate Television, which began airing on the Showtime cable television network in 2005. The show revolves around Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker), a widowed suburbanite mother of two, who turned to selling marijuana to support her family after her husband unexpectedly died. Over the course of the show, Nancy becomes involved in illegal activities on an escalating scale. In the current season finds Nancy, her eldest son Silas (Hunter Parish), and Nancy's brother-in-law Andy (Justin Kirk) working at a hotel, while trying to establish a normal family life. As the season goes on, Nancy becomes weary of being a maid and begins dealing hash.

In The Big C, Linney plays a reserved suburban wife and mother whose recent cancer diagnosis forces her to shake up her life and find hope, humor and the light side of a dark situation, while managing her immature but well-meaning husband, played by Oliver Platt.