Tuesday 3rd January 22:00 to 23:20

The colourful Gallagher family and friends are back to their outrageous best to kick off series three with a feature-length New Year special. When five-year-old Liam denounces religion at his RC Primary School and risks a home-visit by his teacher and therefore the social services, sister Debbie has to think fast.


Tuesday 10th January 22:00 to 23:05

Lip has a new job as a porter at a hotel, where he meets Jack. They develop a scam nicking towels and soon become firm friends. Jack is exciting and dangerous, and he's got a very good-looking sister, Zoë, who soon catches Lip's roving eye. When Jack meets Ian he turns on the charm and seduces him for real.


Looking good

Dave

awwww cant wait

will the next ep be shown on e4

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Originally posted by dead dog:
will the next ep be shown on e4

Yes - looks like they are doing the "next week's episode is on E4 now" but they start almost before the C4 one has finished.

E4 info has just been updated so Ep 2 info is:-

After being knocked to the ground during a purse robbery at the shop, a heavily pregnant Mandy Maguire gives birth to Lip's daughter. However, the fearsome Maguire family won't let him near the child or Mandy. That is until Lip gets insider information about the robbery and who stole Mimi Maguire's bracelet.

Dave

cant wait im abit confused tho - so channel4 are showin the first epi on the 3rd and then next weeks epi is followed on E4?
which one is new years special???

It's like they did it last year apart from the "Special" to start the series.

Jan 3 - C4 "Special" , E4 Ep 1
Jan 10 - C4 Ep 1 , E4 Ep 2
Jan 17 - C4 Ep 2 , E4 Ep 3 and so on

There's also E4+1 if you need a break inbetween ;-)

Dave

i want to see it tooo

A little bit more info, looks like Monica and Kev's sister will be back!

Special
Paul Abbott's tales of the tumultuous Gallagher family return in typically bawdy fashion, with lots of new year "celebrations" between couples in the cubicles of the ramshackle Jockey pub. Hopeless dad Frank (David Threlfall), nominal head of the Gallagher brood, is his usual charmless, feckless self, leaving the raising of the family to young Debbie, now that eldest daughter Fiona has departed. In the first test of her mettle, Debbie has to think quickly when the school authorities threaten a home visit now that young Liam has turned into a vociferous five-year-old atheist. Even by normal Gallagher standards, her plan to throw them off the scent is as audacious as it is tasteless. But soon her little lie grows into a great big lie when the whole of the estate is taken in. Even the Gallagher brood's useless mother (Annabelle Apsion) comes to call and threatens once more to split them up for good.

Episode 1
Lip has a new job as a hotel porter, where he makes friends with Jack, a charismatic charmer who creates havoc in the lives of Ian and Kash. Meanwhile, Kev's sister Kelly-Marie has started lodging at Frank and Sheila's, and is entertaining an alarming number of gentleman callers.