[Scarlett.]

Reading this from Ian Wylie's (Manchester Evening News) twitter than the final series of Shameless is being filmed and will air in January

Source: https://twitter.com/ianwylie

"Last orders in The Jockey. Shameless series 11, currently being filmed, will be the last. TX from January. The right decision. "

"Shameless final series of 14 eps has been filming for a number of months. The end of a Frank Gallagher Chatsworth era"

[Vicky.]

Good, its gone way down hill in recent years IMO. its not awful yet, but I would like them to end it before it is.

[Vanessa]

It should have ended ages ago. It lost its spark.

[Black Dagger]

About damn time, it's a parody of it'self now.

The fact they had a talking dog (which I guessed would happen before it did) says how far the show has gone downhill.

Series 1-3 will always be the pinnacle of the show and it's a shame it didn't end there and is now going to be seen as another show that jumped the shark.

[Kate!]

Yeah stopped watching it after series four, it grew very tired, shame really, was brilliant in its hayday.

[Scarlett.]

Paul Abbott, Company Pictures and Channel 4 today announced that they are calling time in the Jockey and bringing multi award-winning and iconic Channel 4 drama series Shameless to an end, with one final series - its eleventh, to be broadcast in early 2013.

One last series with fourteen brand new episodes, Shameless 11 is currently filming in Manchester. Creator Paul Abbott is story-lining the full series and is planning a suitably Shameless finale for this blisteringly funny and offbeat drama series.

Paul Abbott says: "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.

But this is also the year my Dad died and he was, in abstract, my core inspiration for starting the whole Shameless party rolling, I wanted to make invisible people vivid. Closing the two eras in the same year feels very right. Now I'm off to build the next whatever-it-is."

Channel 4 Chief Creative Officer Jay Hunt says: "Shameless: ground-breaking when it launched and gob-smacking ever since, has over the years built a loyal following. We are in Paul Abbott's debt for bringing his defiantly dysfunctional band of characters to Channel 4 and I'm delighted to say we have other drama projects with Paul in the pipeline. It's not over yet and I wait to see how Paul, David Threlfall and the talented team at Company Pictures create a fitting farewell to Frank and co on screen early next year."

Having begun filming in 2003 in Manchester, Shameless 11 will mark the celebratory tenth year anniversary for the series when it broadcasts in 2013. At the end of series eleven a staggering 139 episodes will have been screened on Channel 4.

Shameless charts the wickedly unpredictable chapters of the lives of feckless anti-hero Frank Gallagher (David Threlfall) and all the colourful characters living on the Chatsworth Estate. Over the years Shameless has been key to the careers of many British screen stars including: James McAvoy, Anne-Marie Duff and Maxine Peake, not to mention a talented team of now high profile writers and directors.

Shameless 11 will be as celebratory, defiant and as unapologetic as ever. With the hilarious energy of the stalwarts of the Chatsworth thriving in the Double Dip recession - always a law unto themselves, always with family at their core, living in their robust micro climate. Stella Gallagher runs the Gallagher roost with a rod of steel - aged six! Jamie Maguire (Aaron McCusker) discovers he isn't a pure blood Maguire and introduces the estate to his Muslim half-brother Kassi (Jalaal Hartley - The Borgias) and his Jewish cooking mad wife Esther (Isy Suttie - Peep Show) as they disembark on the estate with their four feral children in tow. Mimi Maguire (Tina Malone) makes saving the local school her personal mission. Feckless patriarch Frank finds himself climbing the employment ladder as the janitor of "St Mimi's" School and falls into the arms of the Gastric Bandits - a prostitute double act, Sherilee and Derilee (Sarah Totty and Sue Vincent). Fireworks fly when Avril (Karen Bryson) moves in with her loud and overbearing sister Patreesha (Jacqueline Boatswain - Grange Hill) and niece Mary Mae (introducing 21 year old Adelle Leonce) ). Chesney (Qasim Akhtar) opens up a chemist section in Chescos, run by white Muslim atom bomb on a timer Ramona (Moya Brady). And Lip Gallagher (Jody Latham) turns up mid series - and nothing has changed between father and son.......

Creator Paul Abbott is story-lining the new series alongside a pool of talented writers including: Jack Lothian, Mark Brotherhood, John Kerr, Melissa Bubnic plus Sean Conway and Jimmy Dowdall (who are two of the many young writers that Paul has mentored over the years). Executive Producers are George Faber, Charles Pattinson, Paul Abbott and David Threlfall. Series Producer is Jean Holdsworth and producer Tim Whitby. Directors are: Paul Walker, David Threlfall, Dominic Leclerc, Daikin Marsh and Gordon Anderson. A Company Pictures production for Channel 4.

The press release

[Tom4784]

It should have ended about 5-6 series ago.

[Mrluvaluva]

It's a bit hit and miss. You can have a great episode one week, and a completely uninteresting one the next. It still remains one of my favourite shows that I watch avidly. It will be a shame to see it go after all these years.

[Omah]

Shameless to come to an end next year

Not bovvered - stopped watching it years ago .....

[Locke.]

Season 3 should have been the last.

[InOne]

I think 1-2 were definitely the best things I've ever seen on TV. Halfway through series 3 was where it started to lose it I think, it began the chain of losing a load of great characters.

[Ramsay]

About time

[Shaun]

about 5 years too late. the year Debbie & Ian left is the year it just became a farce.

[Jordan.]

Thank god. I hope they get some of the previous cast members back and ignore the irrelevant ones in it now... but I'm doubtful.

[Black Dagger]

Originally Posted by Jordan.

Thank god. I hope they get some of the previous cast members back and ignore the irrelevant ones in it now... but I'm doubtful.

Most of the decent characters got successful after Shameless and wouldn't touch it with a barge-pole anymore, but still, they can always bring back Lip, Ian, Debbie and Carl.

[Kizzy]

Thank god! the brilliantly written and dramatized series it was has been hacked to death. RIP shameless =(

[bbfan1991]

I will miss the show but this is the right decision IMO.

[Iceman]

They need to get everyone back and do another sing song......

[bbfan1991]

So far I know that

Spoiler:

Lip

is coming back because pictures of him were tweeted by the Actor who plays them and were RT'd by another cast member, so that will be one former character hopefully there for the series ending.

[Jordan.]

Originally Posted by bbfan1991

So far I know that

Spoiler:

Lip

is coming back because pictures of him were tweeted by the Actor who plays them and were RT'd by another cast member, so that will be one former character hopefully there for the series ending.

Good news.... Most of them who have left (minus James McAvoy) could come back really, they haven't gone on to do anything big.

[King Gizzard]

Most of these northern comedies are terrible

[Petershaw1984]

it could of kept going imo....... just introduce another big family onto the estate...... it will be missed