64-397: " Three Boys " is the fifth episode of the first season of the American television comedy drama Shameless , an adaptation of the British series of the same name . The episode was written by consulting producer Alex Borstein , and directed by Mimi Leder . It originally aired on Showtime on February 6, 2011. The series is set on the South Side of Chicago , Illinois , and depicts
128-449: A 0.6/1 in the 18–49 demographics. "Three Boys" received mixed reviews from critics. Eric Goldman of IGN gave the episode a "good" 7.5 out of 10 and wrote, "I didn't feel this episode was quite as strong as the last couple. I've noted in the past that Shameless rides a fine line, clearly not playing things exactly realistically, yet still giving you characters to invest in. However, I felt that Frank not realizing his entire life that it
192-401: A 10-point scale, from 1 to 10, finding that the finer distinction of the 100-point scale was difficult to maintain, whereas a 10-point scale would still be true to its reviews and would be easier to promote. IGN ' s 'Best of' is an end-of-year event to annually honor the year's best games, films, television shows and comics. Winners of each award category are selected by IGN staff from
256-432: A 100-point scale again, but without using decimals, meaning a score of 8.5 would become an 85. Unlike the previous conversion to the 20-point scale, this latest scoring system change was retroactive and all previous IGN review scores were to be updated to follow the new system. However, despite the announcement, the article included a short addition, post-release; it stated that after much discussion, they had decided to retain
320-521: A 100-point scale, where games are scored in increments of 0.1, all future reviews would use a 20-point scale where games are scored in increments of 0.5. Under both systems, the maximum possible score a game can receive is 10.0. The scoring change was not retroactive: all scores on reviews written before the change would remain the same. This change also did not affect the scoring system for reader reviews. On September 13, 2012, IGN revealed that as part of its new review format all future reviews would follow
384-493: A family photo, Lip has sex with Karen in a bathroom stall. Next to them, Marty, having released himself, prepares to burn down toilet paper. The episode was written by consulting producer Alex Borstein , and directed by Mimi Leder . It was Borstein's first writing credit, and Leder's first directing credit. The episode is a loose adaptation of the third episode of the British version. In its original American broadcast, "Three Boys"
448-522: A list of nominees, while readers are able to cast their own votes online to determine the 'People's Choice' award for each category. In 2000, Snowball.com purchased an E-federation called the Internet Wrestling Organization (IWO). Since Snowball owned both IWO and IGN , IWO would go on to become IGN ' s first official E-Fed, even doing a column on the website. The IGN For Men section officially closed down on October 2, 2001, and
512-513: A new review by Brandin Tyrrel, which included an editor's note apologizing again and stating that "this review (and its score) represents solely the opinion of the new reviewer". In a subsequently unlisted video, Miucin responded that while he took "complete ownership over what happened", the similarity was not intentional. Kotaku found similarities between Miucin's other reviews, reviews on Nintendo Life and Engadget and material posted on
576-552: A new strategy to hold off suspicion from Veronica's mother Carol ( Vanessa Bell Calloway ). To help Kevin and Veronica, the Gallagher family and friends continue with the plans for the wedding: Lip ( Jeremy Allen White ), Ian ( Cameron Monaghan ) and Carl ( Ethan Cutkosky ) manage to get a priest to officiate a false ceremony; Fiona ( Emmy Rossum ) organizes an impromptu bachelorette party for Veronica; Steve ( Justin Chatwin ) takes charge of
640-437: A precedent for cancer. Astonished by the possible diagnosis, Frank seeks solace by joining a cancer support group. With his wife Linda ( Marguerite Moreau ) out of town, Kash ( Pej Vahdat ) decides to invite Ian over to his house to have sex. However, Ian feels uncomfortable upon seeing images of Kash's family and decides to leave. Fearing that Marty may cause trouble at the wedding, Veronica and Fiona drug him and handcuff him to
704-456: A professional esports circuit that ran tournaments for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty , ShootMania Storm and League of Legends . On March 6, 2013, only weeks prior to the event, IGN abruptly canceled the finals of IPL 6—which were to be held in Las Vegas from March 28 through 31, and discontinued the league. IGN indicated that it was no longer in a position to commit to compete with
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#1732873365639768-409: A publicly traded company, continuing a string of divestitures for digital properties it had previously acquired (including MySpace and Photobucket ). On February 4, 2013, after a failed attempt to spin off IGN as a separate company, News Corp. announced that it had sold IGN Entertainment to the publishing company Ziff Davis , which was recently acquired by J2 Global . Financial details regarding
832-410: A secret from Fiona, but does notify Steve's real mother about his double life. The subsidiary plot throughout the season involves Ian, who is a closeted homosexual, his sexual orientation only known to Lip and a friend, Mandy. Ian pursues a sexual relationship with his boss Kash, the adult owner of a local convenience store. Kash is unhappily married to his wife, Linda, who discovers the affair through
896-491: A single, alcoholic, and trashy father of six children living in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. With Frank's bipolar wife, Monica, running away from Frank prior to the first season, the family has been run by Frank's eldest daughter Fiona, who raises her five other siblings: the extraordinarily intelligent Lip, goofy and strong-hearted Ian, the mature and grounded Debbie, the troublemaking and unruly child Carl, and Liam, who
960-465: A strained relationship with her estranged father Eddie, who is controlling and belittling towards his family. In an attempt to reconcile with Karen, Eddie invites her to a purity ball , a father/daughter event where girls pledge their chastity. When Karen delves into a detailed list of her sexual history at the ball, as required by the ball's program, Eddie angrily calls her a whore. Sheila furiously kicks Eddie out of her house, overcoming her agoraphobia in
1024-515: A trace. Though Steve tries to convince Fiona to accompany him in Costa Rica, Fiona declines his offer and takes up an office job from a new friend, Jasmine, to further care for her family. Under obligation, Steve is forced to run off without the girl he expected he'd be with. HBO began developing an American version of Shameless after striking a deal with John Wells in January 2009. In October 2009,
1088-486: Is a video games , movies , comics and pop culture convention held in various cities in the Middle East . The event generally includes celebrities, video game tournaments, table top games , card games , movie previews, comic book stalls and a cosplay competition. A number of Middle Eastern artists and game developers also showcase their work at IGN Convention. This convention is owned and operated by IGN Middle East,
1152-480: Is a dark, urban dramedy that overcomes its leaps of faith thanks to fantastic casting, intriguing ambiance, and shock value." December 27, 2011 ( 2011-12-27 ) IGN IGN is an American video game and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc. , a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc . The company's headquarters is located in San Francisco 's SoMa district and
1216-490: Is a high end car thief. Fiona's childhood friend and police officer, Tony Markovich, expresses interest in dating Fiona, though Fiona ultimately turns him down. When Steve leaves town to visit his family in Lake Forest, it is revealed that his real name is Jimmy Lishman; Jimmy, under the alias of Steve, comes from a wealthy family who presumes he is away at medical school. When Debbie discovers Steve's secret, she agrees to keep it
1280-421: Is devoted to not just the staple Marvel and DC titles, but also manga , graphic novels , statues and toys. In 2006, IGN launched its television site. It provides interviews with various television celebrities, in addition to a TV schedule, TV trivia and TV news. Like the film section, IGN ' s TV section has a variety of exclusive clips from upcoming television shows. On May 30, 2006, IGN Dreamcast
1344-540: Is headed by its former editor-in-chief, Peer Schneider. The IGN website was the brainchild of media entrepreneur Chris Anderson and launched on September 29, 1996. It focuses on games , films , anime , television , comics , technology , and other media. Originally a network of desktop websites, IGN is also distributed on mobile platforms, console programs on the Xbox and PlayStation , FireTV , Roku , and via YouTube , Twitch , Hulu , and Snapchat . Originally, IGN
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#17328733656391408-439: Is mysteriously Black (in the second half of the season, a paternity test reveals Frank as Liam's biological father). Often involved in the Gallagher's lives are their neighbors, Kevin and Veronica, who fake a marriage mid-season to obtain a substantial dowry. The season's core story revolves around Steve Wilton, an affluent man whom Fiona and Veronica meet at a dance club. Fiona begins a relationship with Steve and discovers that he
1472-413: Is no longer updated. IGN has sites such as IGN Stars and AskMen.com that fulfil much of the function of the old IGN For Men site. IGN Wrestling met its end in early 2002 when many of the staff departed. Interviews with professional wrestling personalities and coverage of wrestling games have been folded into IGN Sports , headed by Jon Robinson. IGN Sci-Fi : Largely dead since 2002, this section of
1536-533: Is praised for his efforts. In the final episode, Ian comes out to Fiona, who is accepting of his sexuality. Frank's eldest son, Lip, is in an open relationship with the promiscuous Karen Jackson, though Lip wants to pursue their relationship as more than a casual fling. Karen's mother, Sheila, is a nice but kooky housewife diagnosed with severe agoraphobia . Frank becomes romantic with Sheila and moves in with her, though he's mainly there to freeload and cash on Sheila's disability checks, much to Karen's dismay. Karen has
1600-582: The IGN content network was founded by publishing executive Jonathan Simpson-Bint and began as five individual websites within Imagine Media : N64.com (later renamed ign64.com ), PSXPower , Saturnworld , Next-Generation.com and Ultra Game Players Online . Imagine expanded on its owned-and-operated websites by creating an affiliate network that included a number of independent fansites such as PSX Nation.com , Sega-Saturn.com , Game Sages , and GameFAQs . In 1998,
1664-517: The North Lawndale community area of Chicago and Burbank, California at Warner Bros. Studios. A preview of the pilot aired on December 12, 2010, after the Season 5 finale of Dexter . The first season officially began airing on Showtime on Sunday, January 9, 2011. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the first season a rating of 70% based on 37 reviews, with the critical consensus "Shameless
1728-548: The Middle Eastern edition of popular video games website IGN . IGN Convention is the spiritual successor to GameFest, a biannual, smaller scale gaming gallery which was originally hosted by IGN Middle East's parent company T-break Media between 2010 and 2012, before the hosting duties were subsequently taken over by AMD EMEA. The IGN Convention logo was designed by prominent Gulf based artist Ashraf Ghori . Conferences have included: In 2011, IGN launched IGN Pro League,
1792-716: The PlayStation-focused "Podcast Beyond" and the Xbox-oriented "Podcast Unlocked", the Nintendo-oriented "Nintendo Voice Chat", and Game Scoop! , a podcast where a variety of editors discuss news and topics surrounding the video game industry. IGN has 28 editions in 25 languages, as of 2021. The US & Canada , UK & Ireland , and Australia & New Zealand editions are operated by Ziff Davis subsidiaries, with all others being franchised publishers. Since 2006, IGN Entertainment began launching regional versions of
1856-517: The cancellation of affiliation with GameFAQs . In 2004, IGN launched GameStats , which was intended to be a more unbiased rating network, as it takes in scores from every corporate-owned game rating site and averages them all into one score to give a general idea of the quality of a game. IGN also launched Direct2Drive .com in 2004. Its primary focus is selling digital downloads of full PC and Mac video games, as well as anime , comics and game guides. In 2005, IGN launched its comics site, which
1920-513: The decimal point in all upcoming scores. In early 2014, IGN introduced a new policy, in which a game's review score can be re-reviewed and improved, provided that continuous updates form a significant change compared to the game at launch. Examples of games that have been re-reviewed were League of Legends , Heroes of the Storm , Warframe , and the pocket edition of Minecraft . In January 2020, IGN revealed that reviews would be reverted to
1984-449: The end, it was a bungee cord that was too long and a bump on the head of Frank that brought the episode down a few notches." Joshua Alston of The A.V. Club gave the episode a "B–" grade, praising the snappy dialogue but criticizing the central storyline: "The problem with this story is that compared to the schemes we've seen before, there's not a whole lot of urgency to it. [...] The stakes were simply too low here, especially considering
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2048-677: The episode a 3.5 star rating out of 5. Jacob Clifton of Television Without Pity gave the episode an "A+" grade. Shameless season 1 The first season of Shameless , an American comedy-drama television series based on the British series of the same name by Paul Abbott , premiered on January 9, 2011, at Sunday 10:00 p.m. EST on the Showtime television network. Executive producers are John Wells , Paul Abbott and Andrew Stearn, with producer Michael Hissrich. The season concluded after 12 episodes on March 27, 2011. The show's season premiere
2112-516: The episode was seen by an estimated 0.95 million household viewers and gained a 0.4/1 ratings share among adults aged 18–49. The episode received mixed reviews from critics, many of whom criticized Frank's cancer subplot. While preparing for her wedding, Veronica ( Shanola Hampton ) questions why Kevin ( Steve Howey ) is proposing to her. Kevin finally reveals that he is separated but still legally married to his estranged abusive wife. Realizing they will not be able to get legally married, they debate over
2176-451: The game download site FilePlanet into the IGN group; as of 2011 both FilePlanet and the GameSpy website still operate as video game-related web sites. IGN Entertainment acquired the online male lifestyle magazine AskMen in 2005. In 2004, IGN acquired film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and in 2010, sold the website to Flixster . In October 2017, Humble Bundle announced that it
2240-430: The game is recommended. The score is given according to the "individual aspects of a game, like presentation, graphics, sound, gameplay and lasting appeal". Each game is given a score in each of these categories, but the overall score for the game is an independent evaluation, not an average of the scores in each category. On August 3, 2010, IGN announced that the site would be changing to a new scoring scale. Instead of
2304-558: The games discussion forum NeoGAF . On August 14, IGN announced that it would remove all of Miucin's work pending further review. On April 19, 2019, Miucin admitted plagiarism and issued an apology on his YouTube channel. During the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis , the main IGN site posted an article on May 14 urging readers to donate to charities helping Palestinian civilians such as the Palestine Children's Relief Fund and linked to relevant news reporting. A Palestinian flag
2368-649: The increasing number of esports events that were being held. On April 8, 2013, Blizzard Entertainment announced that it had acquired the staff and assets of the IPL from IGN ; its former staff were reassigned to work on in-house esports productions. In November 2017, some IGN employees refused to work to show solidarity with Kallie Plagge, a former editor who alleged that in 2016, another editor, Vince Ingenito, sexually harassed her and another female employee and made inappropriate comments. Human resources allegedly told her that she "needed to have better judgment about who [she]
2432-424: The network launched a new homepage that consolidated the individual sites as system channels under the IGN brand. The homepage exposed content from more than 30 different channels. Websites Next-Generation and Ultra Game Players Online were not part of this consolidation; U.G.P.O. dissolved with the cancellation of the magazine, and Next-Generation was put "on hold" when Imagine decided to concentrate on launching
2496-494: The pilot episode for the original UK version, is credited as an executive producer on the U.S. version. In April 2010, Showtime green-lit the series with a twelve-episode order. In late August, it was announced that Janney would be leaving the show, due to her series commitment on the ABC comedy Mr. Sunshine ; the role of Sheila was re-cast with Joan Cusack . Production for the first season began mid-September, mainly being filmed in
2560-420: The poor, dysfunctional family of Frank Gallagher, a neglectful single father of six: Fiona, Phillip, Ian, Debbie, Carl, and Liam. He spends his days drunk, high, or in search of money, while his children need to learn to take care of themselves. In the episode, the Gallagher's neighbors Kevin and Veronica arrange their wedding plans, while Frank believes he might have cancer. According to Nielsen Media Research ,
2624-448: The process. Eddie's betrayal and lack of affection spirals Karen into a mental breakdown; wanting to get revenge on her father, Karen rapes an incapacitated Frank, showcasing the incident on a video blog that she sends to Eddie and his co-workers. Beaten over the video and past events, Eddie commits suicide by jumping in a frozen lake. Consequently, a guilt-stricken Karen breaks up with Lip. Both Frank and Karen separately apologize to Lip for
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2688-526: The project had been moved to Showtime , and it was reported that William H. Macy would star in the lead role as Frank Gallagher. Later that year, Dragonball Evolution co-stars Emmy Rossum and Justin Chatwin signed on as Fiona and Steve respectively; Allison Janney was also cast for the recurring role of Sheila. John Wells Productions filmed a pilot episode for the cable network in December 2009. Paul Abbott, whose semi-autobiographical telescript became
2752-427: The purchase were not revealed. Prior to its acquisition by UGO, 1UP.com had previously been owned by Ziff Davis. Soon after the acquisition, IGN announced that it would be laying off staff and closing GameSpy , 1UP.com, and UGO in order to focus on its flagship brands, IGN and AskMen. The role-playing video game interest website Vault Network was acquired by IGN in 1999. GameStats, a review aggregation website,
2816-425: The rub of the whole thing—Kevin's existing marriage—was dealt with and put to bed with such little fanfare." Tim Basham of Paste wrote, "In a series replete with colorful characters we've only had glimpses into the slightly psychotic mind of young Carl Gallagher, who, in this episode, attempts to microwave a goldfish. Shameless has more psychoses than an entire day of soap operas." Leigh Raines of TV Fanatic gave
2880-588: The same time, small entertainment website The Den merged into IGN and added non-gaming content to the growing network. Snowball held an IPO in 2000, but shed most of its other properties during the dot-com bubble . IGN prevailed with growing audience numbers and a newly established subscription service called IGN Insider (later IGN Prime), which led to the shedding of the name "Snowball" and adoption of IGN Entertainment on May 10, 2002. In June 2005, IGN reported having 24,000,000 unique visitors per month, with 4.8 million registered users through all departments of
2944-458: The short-lived Daily Radar brand. In February 1999, PC Magazine named IGN one of the hundred-best websites, alongside competitors GameSpot and CNET Gamecenter . That same month, Imagine Media incorporated a spin-off that included IGN and its affiliate channels as Affiliation Networks, while Simpson-Bint remained at the former company. In September, the newly spun-out standalone internet media company, changed its name to Snowball.com. At
3008-455: The site automatically redirects visitors to their localized version using geolocation software , based on their countries' IP addresses. Each version of the site has a modified logo with their country's/region's respective flags near the IGN logo. However, it is still possible to access the original American website using a navigation bar above or below (depending on the regional website) the page's master template. IGN Convention ( IGN Con )
3072-405: The site included movie news, comic book reviews, anime coverage and other associated items. It has since been discontinued. The site, SciFI.ign.com redirects to the recently created SciFiBrain.ign.com , which covers some of the content of the old Sci-Fi site. In 2002, IGN launched a dedicated video game FAQs site specifically designed to host user-submitted guides. This was launched following
3136-926: The site. IGN has been ranked among the top 500 most-visited websites according to Alexa . In September 2005, IGN was acquired by Rupert Murdoch 's multimedia business empire, News Corporation , for $ 650 million. IGN celebrated its 10th anniversary on January 12, 2008. IGN was headquartered in the Marina Point Parkway office park in Brisbane, California , until it relocated to a smaller office building near AT&T Park in San Francisco on March 29, 2010. On May 25, 2011, IGN sold its Direct2Drive division to Gamefly for an undisclosed amount. In 2011, IGN Entertainment acquired its rival UGO Entertainment (owners of 1Up.com ) from Hearst Corporation . Ultimately, News Corp. planned to spin off IGN Entertainment as
3200-434: The store's newly installed security cameras; Linda blackmails Kash into impregnating her. Mandy's thug brother, Mickey Milkovich, openly shoplifts from the store and regularly insults Kash. When Ian confronts Mickey, the two unexpectedly have sex, and they begin a casual sexual relationship. When Kash finds out, he angrily shoots Mickey in the leg when he attempts to shoplift. Mickey is arrested for attempted shoplifting and Kash
3264-456: The toilet. Sheila prepares to attend the wedding with Frank and Karen ( Laura Slade Wiggins ) but is unable to leave the house, experiencing a panic attack before opening the door. The false wedding goes as planned, and Carol surprises her daughter by giving her a $ 500 check. Having learned that he is not diagnosed with cancer, Frank makes a toast to Veronica and Kevin. While the Gallaghers join for
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#17328733656393328-416: The video. In the final episodes, Lip and Ian are arrested after being caught driving one of Steve's stolen cars, straining Fiona and Steve's relationship; though Fiona, conflicted, admits that she may be falling in love with Steve. Meanwhile, Tony discovers the truth about Steve's occupation. He attacks Steve and gives him an ultimatum—to turn himself in and be arrested, or to leave Fiona and disappear without
3392-753: The website for various countries and pan-regions. Initially, IGN began opening new offices outside the United States in order to support those regional websites, but later IGN began franchising its brand as a more cost-effective means of globalization, wherein it licensed various media publishers in many countries to use the IGN brand and manage regional websites on their own. Licensed regional publishers work on their own servers, albeit can link to IGN ' s HQ database, where they can import or translate articles, and use videos uploaded on IGN ' s servers that use IGN ' s own hosted video player. When visiting www.ign.com from an IGN -supported region,
3456-403: The wedding cake; and Sheila ( Joan Cusack ) offers to make Veronica's wedding dress. However, things spiral out of control when Veronica's pyromaniac brother Marty ( Anthony Anderson ) breaks out of prison to attend the wedding. Meanwhile, Frank ( William H. Macy ) attends a clinic, where a doctor is surprised by Frank having three lumps in his scrotum; Frank is forced to get a biopsy as it could be
3520-497: Was 'friends' with" and that she was an "equal participant" in "inappropriate flirtation". This incident was widely circulated across social media. In August 2018, the owner of YouTube channel Boomstick Gaming accused the IGN reviewer Filip Miucin of plagiarizing his video review of the game Dead Cells . On August 7, IGN stated that it had found "substantial similarities" between the reviews, apologized, and announced that it had dismissed Miucin. On August 10, IGN published
3584-415: Was abnormal and perhaps worth investigating that he has three testicles to be pretty ridiculous – Frank is Frank, but he lives in the world and would have basic knowledge on standard anatomy." Jordan Cramer of TV Overmind , who gave the episode a "B" grade, expressed similar sentiments: "With the episode being centered on the big faux wedding, I was expecting more out of the episode than was actually shown. In
3648-470: Was also added besides the IGN logo. Shortly after the article went up IGN Israel made statements on social media condemning the article. The Palestinian flag was soon replaced with a Red Cross . On May 16, the article was deleted and a statement was made on the IGN Twitter account saying that it was wrong to only highlight one side of the conflict. A reposted version on South Africa-based IGN Africa
3712-472: Was being acquired by IGN . IGN Entertainment acquired Gamer Network and its properties in May 2024 for an undisclosed sum. These included Eurogamer , Rock Paper Shotgun , VG247 and others. As a result, some layoffs were made due to redundancies. A member of the IGN staff writes a review for a game and gives it a score between 0.1 and 10.0, which is assigned by increments of 0.1 and determines how much
3776-478: Was founded by IGN in 2004. GameStats includes a "GPM" (Game Popularity Metric) rating system which incorporates an average press score and average gamer score, as well as the number of page hits for the game. However, the site is no longer being updated. The Xbox interest site, TeamXbox , and the PC game website VE3D were acquired in 2003. IGN Entertainment merged with GameSpy Industries in 2005. The merger also brought
3840-630: Was launched to mark IGN ' s 10th anniversary. To coincide with the release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl , IGN created the Super Smash Bros. World site. On the site, people can submit their user-created stages from the game and download ones made by other people. IGN subsequently launched a similar website called GTA 'Hood on April 29, 2008, for Grand Theft Auto IV . Along with its popular website content, IGN also publishes many different podcasts on both its website and on iTunes . Some of its podcasts include console-oriented shows like
3904-524: Was restarted; however, none of the Dreamcast updates were posted on the main IGN webpage. In 2007, IGN launched its anime site. It provided features on anime and manga, including trailers and free episodes. It also included reviews of manga and anime from other sections of IGN , such as IGN Comics and IGN DVD . The anime channel was dropped after IGN redesigned the site. In 2008, the IGN Retro channel
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#17328733656393968-404: Was seen by an estimated 0.95 million household viewers with a 0.4/1 in the 18–49 demographics. This means that 0.4 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode, while 1 percent of all of those watching television at the time of the broadcast watched it. This was a 15% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was seen by an estimated 1.11 million household viewers with
4032-573: Was the flagship website of IGN Entertainment, a website which owned and operated several other websites oriented towards players' interests, games, and entertainment, such as Rotten Tomatoes , GameSpy , GameStats , VE3D , TeamXbox , Vault Network, FilePlanet, and AskMen . IGN was sold to publishing company Ziff Davis in February 2013. Created in September 1996 as the Imagine Games Network ,
4096-413: Was watched by 982,000 viewers, making it the network's biggest turnout for a series premier since Dead Like Me in 2003. The episode airing January 30, "Casey Casden", received 1.45 million total viewers, making Shameless the best performing first-year drama on Showtime. The season finale scored 1.16 million viewers. The first season of Shameless depicts the dysfunctional family of Frank Gallagher,
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