Shameless signs off after 10 years

Wednesday 10 October 2012 10:18 BST

Frank Gallagher in Shameless (Channel 4)

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The Shameless creator Paul Abbott has called time on Frank Gallagher after 11 series of the hit TV drama.

The writer announced that the dysfunctional Gallagher and his family will make one last outing at the Chatsworth Estate with a new Channel 4 series to be broadcast early next year. Its broadcast, in 2013, will mark 10 years since the drama was first filmed in 2003 in Manchester.

Mr Abbott said: "Its 10th anniversary seems a fitting time to shut the book on Shameless. We've had an absolute ball making this stuff up for a living. We've given back in spades and got away with absolute murder, on behalf of such a fantastically outspoken audience."

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