Alcoholic and lazy father leads family of six kids. Year 2011 Video Release 2011-12-27 Studio Warner Bros. Genre TV Series MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis Meet Frank Gallagher, a working-class patriarch who loves his six kids almost as much as he loves booze, cigarettes, his monthly disability check and booze. So he leaves it to eldest daughter Fiona to hold the family together and make sure everyone except Frank works to keep the lights on and food on the table. William H. Macy and Emmy Rossum lead a brilliant cast in the complete first season of Shameless, a big-hearted, irreverent, outrageous and outrageously funny series in the tradition of... well, nothing.