Shameless is a blisteringly funny comedy drama following the lives, loves, sexual adventures, scams and triumphs of Lip Carter and his family in a Manchester housing estate.

Larkin said your parent's mess you up and what he should have added is that they don't have to be around to do it. Raised by their eldest sister since mum went AWOL and dad hit the bottle, Lip and his siblings have had to explore life's ups and downs without the help of regular adult influence. How do you come to terms with finding your twin's stash of gay porn? Or having one sister steal a baby while another falls in love with a man whose secrets are even more dangerous than your own?

Shameless charts the wickedly unpredictable chapters of family life against the backdrop of a passionate and unlikely love affair struggling to survive the pressures of an uncompromising environment.