Next try to watch some episodes of Paul Abbott’s semi-autobiographical Channel 4 drama about a wayward Manchester family, the Gallaghers , in the series Shameless. Very funny and very shocking, in displays a dysfunctional, working-class family running wild on a modern housing estate. It relentlessly and unapologetically depicts depicts them as a ‘horrifying, irredeemable bunch of work – shy, Asbo-inviting chavs,hooked on handouts, the neighbours from hell’