HBO to get "Shameless" with a US remake?

Gay inclusive dramedy Shameless is still going strong in the UK and now the series might get an American remake courtesy of HBO and the man behind megahit ER, John Wells.

Shameless follows the follows the dysfunctionally functional Gallagher family, who manage to survive despite an absent mother and an alcoholic father. The family includes a gay son, Ian, who starts out the series closeted and having an affair with his similarly-closeted Muslim boss, Kash. Even though Shameless has a large cast, that hasn't been an excuse to make Ian yet another "barely there gay" and his love life has come up frequently.

I don't envy the casting director for this project. Whoever takes on the Steve role will have to make us Shameless fans forget all about James McAvoy (who originally played the character), for one. Still, I have a few suggestions for some of the series' gay and gay-adjacent characters.

Check out some potential Chatsworth Estate resident recasts after the break!

Shameless' lead gay, Ian Gallagher, tends to keep his emotions to himself, albeit with a lot of nervous energy, and often isn't very good at seeing the bigger picture. That might be a good role for Malcolm in the Middle's Eric Per Sullivan to demonstrate how he's grown up as an actor.

Ian starts out having an affair with married Muslim Kash Karib who runs the only shop in the area with his wife. Perhaps its just the my crush speaking but I keep imagining Kash's American counterpoint as Maulik Pancholy (Weeds, 30 Rock).

Running the local pub is Jez, who has to know when to keep the drinks flowing or when to cut off her deadbeat customers who haven't paid off their tab in ages. We've seen Beth Grant play tough businesswomen in Jericho and Pushing Daisies and I could see her telling Frank Gallagher that he's cut off.

Okay, I can't resist casting one straight character because she's growing to be one of my favorites. Kash's conservative wife Yvonne is a sharp-tongued shopkeeper who constantly has an eye on the bottom line and doesn't take any grief from her customers. (When one customer complained about the cookies she was buying, hoping for a discount, Yvonne smashed the cookies into crumbs and offered them for free.)

She may be busy if HBO picks up another British remake (she's in their remake of the camptastic Suburban Shootout) I can imagine Judy Greer in the role — remember her as the vengeance-minded Kitty Sanchez on Arrested Development?

What do you think, Shameless fans? Do you have much hope for the potential remake? Who would you cast as your favorite Chatsworth Estate resident?