Californication Spinoff: Coming to Showtime?

The sixth season of Californication will take Hank to Broadway. Might it also take a few steps toward spinning off this long-running hit?

According to Entertainment Weekly, the upcoming season of David Duchovny's dark comedy will introduce viewers to Faith, described by Showtime as a groupie in her 20s who is an example of “what happens when an innocent young Catholic school girl is exposed to the evils of rock and roll and falls heads over heels in love with the music and the men who make it."

Look for Faith - a religious young woman who has been on the road with musical acts for years - to appear on nine Californication episodes and to then receive her own series if all goes according to plan.

Californication is coming off another successful year, averaging 2.8 million viewers per week, a 12 percent increase over season four.

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