I've been playing catch on Shameless on Catch On Demand on VM, but i want to start watching this series now because i have caught up with it, is there anywhere on the net i cant watch the first few epesods(SP) of this series

You can download 4OD or it's possibly on youtube. I've already seen every episode but I watched last weeks episode again on 4OD which is available on the channel 4 website.