Awaking to find that the Earth is still revolving and the atmosphere still has the appropriate balance of nitrogen and oxygen, Showtime president David Nevins issued a fifth-season renewal to Nurse Jackie, thus doing what a David Nevins does. "I am David Nevins, and I sound my barbaric yawp of endorsing a Showtime series as 'better than ever' over the roofs of the world!" Nevins said, probably. Anyway, though the Edie Falco-starring comedy is a Showtime original series—and therefore is guaranteed a long and happy life, unless it suddenly forgets how to point cameras at things—its continuation was genuinely in question after the departure of co-creators Linda Wallem and Liz Brixius last month.