Jamie's ex-cellmate Mark comes to stay, but Karen doesn't trust him and the battle lines are drawn. Karen's got a fight on her hands if she's to prevent Mark from leading Jamie back into a life of crime. When Carl gets poor grades in his GCSEs, he realises everybody thinks he's a failure. So he sets out to prove them wrong and, with a little bit of help from Paddy, finds his real talent in the boxing ring. Yvonne gets a shock when she hears that her daughter Meena has arranged her own marriage. Meanwhile, Norma finds herself on a date. But is she over Monica yet?

Shameless (UK) Season 5 Episodes...

• s05e01 - The Countdown
• s05e02 - Other Paddy
• s05e03 - Happy Birthday, Ma Maguire
• s05e04 - Frank's Big Win
• s05e05 - Beach Party
• s05e06 - Nowhere to Go
• s05e07 - Brothers and Boyfriends
• s05e08 - I Love Frank
• s05e09 - Absent Parents
• s05e10 - Old Friends, New Enemies
• s05e11 - Twin
• s05e12 - Family at War
• s05e13 - Date a Death
• s05e14 - The Ties That Blind Us
• s05e15 - Assault
• s05e16 - The Ninth Time Around

Shameless (UK) Show Summary

Blisteringly funny, offbeat drama following the rollercoaster lives and loves of an anarchic family from Manchester. Meet the Gallaghers. Mum went AWOL years ago, Dad stayed at home with the six children only to hit the bottle. And sometimes the kids... The real head of the family is big sister Fiona, who looks after Carl, Debbie and baby Liam. She is occasionally helped, more often hindered, by reluctant virgin 'Lip' and the actively gay, but very private, Ian.

Welcome to a hectic world of sexual adventures, triumphs, love, scams and a fair bit of crime on a rough Manchester housing estate, where wheel-less cars are the norm and the moving ones are stolen.