Series Ten of Shameless began airing on September 12, 2012. It will have a run of 11 episodes with the first two airing a day apart like the previous series. Series 9 was originally set to have 22 episodes with the run split into two halves with a break in-between just like Series 8. However for an unknown reason it was decided to turn this second half into Series 10 instead. Due to this, much of the events originally planned for Series 9 part 2 became storylines for Series 10. Each time a new episode is shown on Channel 4, the next weeks episode is shown on E4 just after, this 'first look' segment was not done with the previous series but was with many before.