Series 5 - 16 episodes. is it true? please tell me it's true!!!
There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever; even in dreams , i never saw again his face, and though i longed for it, i came at last to see that it was just as well, lest i live all the rest of my life in dreams - Morgaine Le Fay
************************************ Love isn't brains, children, it's blood... blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.
New home for "soap" stars of Shameless by Paul R Taylor (Manchester Evening News) Friday, 9th February 2007
TOP TV show Shameless is moving to a purpose-built set in Wythenshawe.
The former Umbro building in WythenshaweTOP TV show Shameless is moving to a purpose-built set in Wythenshawe.
The Channel 4 drama, featuring the shambolic Gallagher family, was filmed on location in West Gorton with studio sets inside a Salford warehouse.
But Shameless will now join long-running soaps like Coronation Street and EastEnders in having a permanent home.
Producers Company Pictures have signed a five-year deal worth more than £1.2m to lease the former Umbro building, now known as the Aviator Building, on the Roundthorn industrial estate near Wythenshawe Hospital.
It will provide 48,000 sq ft of warehouse space and 18,000 sq ft of office accommodation.
A Company Pictures spokesman said: "It's a very exciting time for Shameless - getting its very own Shameless village. It is currently under construction and we start filming series five in May. The next series will be 16 episodes so it made complete sense to move the production offices, studio and exterior locations, to one area. It will make filming much easier - and the cast will get proper dressing rooms."
Crew
Residents of West Gorton welcomed the cast and crew when they arrived to film the first series in 2003, holding mass viewings of the show in the Wellington pub, on which fictional local The Jockey is based.
The Bafta award-winning show follows colourful characters living on the fictional Chatsworth Estate in Stretford, with the set on Gorton Villa Walk.
But programme makers also faced difficulties. In 2004, two 16-year-olds were given Asbos after their gang persistently interrupted filming of the show, harassing and intimidating cast and crew, as well as local residents.
Executive producer and writer Paul Abbot based some characters on people from his childhood.
