On episode four of Shame, host James McMahon has a conversation with the British broadcaster Gail Porter. He's been watching Gail on the television since he was a teenager. He may even have had a poster of her on his wall during those formative years! And this conversation duly hangs around an incident that took place during the final months of the 20th century, when the now defunct - but once hugely popular - men's magazine FHM beamed Gail's naked rear, without her knowledge or consent, onto the walls of London's Houses Of Parliament.

We also cover the alopecia that arrived in Gail's life half a decade or so later, and her subsequent homelessness and mental illness. But you know what? There's more fun and more joy for existence in the episode than the majority of episodes of Shame that have come prior. Because Gail is brilliant. A hero. It's unlikely you'll think otherwise.

And if you do? She really, sincerely, truly doesn't care!

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Watch the series trailer here: https://tinyurl.com/7r326hhc