Shameless Series Three

Episode 1
Shameless returns with a feature-length special that kicks off the third season. How are the Gallagher's coping since Fiona's departure? Is Debbie managing to keep the family together? And more importantly, can the family convince the estate that Liam has cancer to avoid him being excluded from school?

Episode 2
Ian meets Jack and soon begins an affair with him. What will Kash say if he learns the truth, and more importantly, why is Jack behaving suspiciously?

Episode 3
Mandy goes into labour after a run in with a masked robber inside the corner shop. Lip desperately wants to visit his new daughter, but will Mandy's parents allow the visit? And if not, just what will it take for Lip to prove himself to them...?

Episode 4
When Carol discovers her best friend Lillian had an affair with her husband back in the seventies, she takes revenge by reporting her to the DSS for benefit fraud. Frank Gallagher, who has been posing as Lillian's dead husband and claiming his benefits, comes under suspicion.

Episode 5
On the day that Kev should be happily celebrating his 35th birthday, his mother throws herself from her balcony. To add to his woes, he sees his ex-wife Roxy, who's recently out of prison and far from reformed, at the funeral. Fatherhood has had a positive effect on Lip and Mandy.

Episode 6
The Gallagher clan can't believe it when Carl starts to bring money into the household - but his mini-enterprise involves growing cannabis for the Maguires and the police are quick to bust him. Lip is jealous when Mandy gets a new boyfriend and he later discovers that she was the brains behind Carl's business.

Episode 7
Debbie has a new best friend who is everything she wants to be and has the boys falling at her feet. Suddenly Debbie realises what other girls her own age have been getting up to and what she's been missing out on while left holding the fort at home. Sue disappears leaving Marty to deal with the debt collectors in the only way he knows how.

Episode 8
In preparation for her wedding to Frank, Sheila commissions the building of a conservatory in her back yard - but she suddenly remembers her first husband is buried under the patio. Veronica's last stab at IVF on the NHS fails, so she hatches a macabre plan to raise cash for private treatment.

With adult humour and real life events 'Shameless' is one of the best of its sort around to date.

First appearing on our screens in 2004 'Shameless' never seizes to change its image or its approach to its audience. It always grabs your attention with its chain of events every episode.

After leaving the second series with Fiona leaving the Chatsworth Estate with Steve while carrying Crag's baby. The Gallagher family in series three are still acting the same as ever with Philip (Lip) getting his brother Ian's 'girlfriend' pregnant and actually taking the responsibility of this by taking the role as its father. This should be a surprise to every dedicated viewer who knows what Philip is like.

One the whole 'Shameless' has very sexually graphic and strong language content making it not for the lighthearted. The series resembles to the hit film 'East is East' and should be enjoyed by people who also love 'No Angles', 'Sugar Rush' and the other to series of the show. 'Shameless' also has jokes that pop up when you least expect them to this gives series' strong storylines a bit of light relief.

Linzi Jowett

PICTURE AND SOUND

The sound and picture are very clear with Dolby Digital (2.0) Stereo and 16x9 Widescreen.

BONUS FEATURES

Feature length New Year Special Episode
This extra is very much like the Christmas bonus episode and it seems like a follow up to it but is clearly not. As in the Christmas bonus there is a big situation. Because of this we finally get to see the children's mum who ran away with another women when the series began.

OVERALL

This DVD has not many bonus extras but on a hole this series is as good and as funny as the first day it was on our screens.

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