OVER three million viewers are watching the new series of Shameless on Channel 4.
Plus healthy audiences for both the catch-up on C4+1 and the first showing of next week’s episode on E4.
As we await news of whether Channel 4 will change their mind on credit crunch plans to cut the next series from 16 episodes to eight.
Surely both the Chatsworth estate residents and viewers deserve better?
Almost one in five people watching TV at the time are tuning in to this sixth series.
Which should convince C4 to think again.
New characters introduced in the current series include auxiliary nurse Maxine, played by Joanna Higson.
She was seen for the first time in last night’s C4 episode, unless you watched it on E4 last week.
You can read yesterday’s feature interview with Joanna here.

REGULAR readers will know how much I love television.
Also being lucky enough to interview and write about many of those involved in making it.
But it’s not all good.
Just off the top of my head, here are 12 things I hate about TV.
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