Channel 4 have released the first look at the new drama from Shameless writer Paul Abbott. 

No Offence is an eight-part drama centering around a unit of unorthodox coppers working out of a crumbling police station in Manchester.

The cast is littered with well known faces including Will Mellor and Joanna Scanlan. Paul Abbott says: “No Offence is a precinct cop drama. It’s also one of the funniest things I’ve ever been allowed to put together. It doesn’t look like anything else. No Offence’s cake mix is as bipolar as they get – it lurches from jet black laugh-out-loud, into fragile material on the turn of a sixpence. Writing three strong female leads is one thing. Writing women that men would choose as leaders has been particularly satisfying.”

No Offence will begin later this year on Channel 4