Directors: Jonny Campbell, Mark Mylod, Dearbhla Walsh
Script: Paul Abbott, Daniel Brockelhurst, Carmel Morgan, Julie Rutterford
Created by: Paul Abbott
Photography: Tony Slater-Ling
Editors: Fiona Colbeck, Beverley Mills, Emer Reynolds
Music: Murray Gold
Sound: Paul Davies
Production Design: Adrian Smith
Casting: Beverley Keogh
Principal Cast: James McAvoy, Anne-Marie Duff, Maxine Peake, David Threlfall, Gerald Kearns, Joseph Furnace, Rebecca Atkinson, Chris Bisson, Anthony Flanagan, Dean Lennox Kelly, Jody Latham
Producer: Emma Burge
Executive Producer: Paul Abbott
Production: Company Pictures
Distribution: Channel 4 International
Tel.: +44 207 306 444 4
Fax: +44 207 306 836 4
Selected Filmography Jonny Campbell: Death In Holy Orders, 2003; Spooks, 2002; Judge John Deed, 2001; Phoenix Nights, 2001; Glasgow Kiss, 2000; Peak Practice, 1993; The Bill, 1984.
Meet the Galaghers: six children, housing estate in Manchester, mother’s cleared off, father’s an incontinent alcoholic. A constellation that reeks of gloomy social drama, depression guaranteed. But with "Shameless", nothing could be further from that. With a sure-fire instinct for dialogue and situation and the emotional forcefulness of authenticity, Paul Abbott has created a masterpiece of absurd comedy that never loses affection for its protagonists, even when they’re at their most vulgar.