Shameless: Why Frank Gallagher must die

It's time to drop the axe on the dumb, selfish Frank - a walking punchline that stopped being funny long ago.

A rollicking start to season eight: Mimi goes knocking on doors to figure out who the father of her child is; a blast from the past comes back to shake up Libby's impending nuptials with Frank; while Frank himself receives some devastating news.

We still love Frank Gallagher

David Threlfall plays alcoholic Frank as well as being an executive producer and directing a number of episodes. Sipping chicken soup in his lunch break on set, he agrees that Shameless is very much a series for our recession-hit times.

Tina Malone on wanting to become a mum again aged 47

Shameless star Tina Malone returns to TV screens tomorrow night as brash battleaxe Mimi Maguire, who has suddenly become a new mum in middle-age.

Frank Gallagher (David Threlfall) and the rest of the crew from his working-class Manchester estate return for an eighth series of Channel 4's increasingly tired-looking drama Shameless tonight, with an opening plotline in which a raucous stag do somehow leads to a psychedelic alien abduction (don't ask). Four episodes follow on consecutive nights this week, before the series settles back into its regular Tuesday night slot next week.

Shameless remake set for US TV debut

Remarkably faithful US version of Shameless transplants action to downtrodden Chicago suburb, but changes little else.

Shameless star abused by Muslim hardliners

Muslim Shameless star Qasim Akhtar has revealed he has suffered abuse from Islamic hardliners over his character's on-screen antics.

William H Macy: 'Shameless is groundbreaking'

William H. Macy has claimed that the forthcoming Showtime remake of Shameless is "groundbreaking material".

Shameless to screen lesbian sex scenes

First it was Brookside, followed by EastEnders, Emmerdale and most recently Coronation Street - now Shameless is the latest long-running UK TV show to feature a lesbian sex scene.

Frank's back as Shameless returns for ninth series

It's full steam ahead for Frank Gallagher and the Chatsworth Express. The nation is about to get a lot more Shameless with the return in January of the Manchester drama, expanded from 16 to 22 episodes.