Final season for Californication

The US TV show will end after its upcoming season. The Golden Globe-winning comedy-drama show, following the unapologetic hedonistic life of New York author Hank Moody (played by David Duchovny, pictured), returns for its seventh and final season in April, after being pushed back from its regular January debut. This season’s guest stars include Michael Imperioli, Roger Howarth and Mercedes Masohn. “With its unique blend of lyricism and excess, has been one of our groundbreaking signature series,” Showtime entertainment president David Nevins said. Californication won two Emmy Awards in addition to a Golden Globe awarded to Duchovny in 2008 for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Series. A thief who stole a nude portrait from a hotel urinal while drunk was ordered by staff to write lines as punishment. The wedding guest was captured on camera walking out of the toilet at the Citizen Hotel in Sacramento, California, with the pricey portrait of a naked lady sitting on a cigar in his bag. Barent Larkin later tracked the inebriated thief down using Google and LinkedIn, and gave him a call. “He sounded legitimately upset about what he did. It was a drunken mistake, one he wished he could take back,” Larkin told CBS Sacramento. As punishment, and to avoid police involvement, the thief was ordered to sit down and write over and over: “I will not get drunk at a wedding and go steal the naked picture of a woman on a cigar over the urinal in the Citizen Hotel.” A business in the United States offering clients “therapeutic cuddling” for $60 an hour closed over the weekend, a mere three weeks after opening. Concerns over the legitimacy of the Snuggle House in Madison, Wisconsin, had delayed its official opening for a month. Fears the house could be a front for prostitution re-emerged last week, causing it to close. Alderman Mike Verveer of the 4th District said a number of his constituents approached him with questions about the Snuggle House. Verveer was “a healthy skeptic of their business model. But I was keeping an open mind.” He added: “My guess would probably be that they just didn’t have the business that they anticipated.”