If the cancellation of Skins is any indication, America just isn't ready to see boffing kids. Also today: Julie Taymor wants her money dammit, good/bad news about your favorite future sitcom, William Shatner's got a new gig, and so does Damon Lindelof.
Bravo is reportedly shedding some of their Housewives dead weight, thank god. Also today: two Buffy alums find themselves in comedy pilots, Josh Radnor is the hardest working man in showbiz, FX cancels a critically lauded show, and Skins wins.
Back in January, MTV released several gormless and repellent teenagers onto an unwitting Baltimore suburb in an experiment called Skins. What would happen? Would the teens run rampant? Would they organize? Would they produce a whole generation of dead-eyed youths who do nothing but give each other handjobs while high…
Last night's Skins was centered on Tina, River Mountain High School's resident sociology teacher. Unlike the other adults that surround the teenagers, Tina isn't a total L7. She talks with the kids about dating, doesn't freak out when they do drugs and even has sex with one of them. In sum, she's a great teacher,…
Remember how everyone caught Chlamydia on last week's Skins and we all hoped that it that would kill them off one by one? Well, it didn't. In fact, somehow the Chlamydia mixed with their teen blood and made them stronger.
Aw, snap, y'all. All of that sleeping around has finally caught up with the kids of Skins and everybody, EVERYBODY, has got themselves an STD.
Sup'age, bros! It's Skins time and I know what you're thinking: "Last night's episode was TOPE!" Or maybe that's not what you're thinking. Maybe you don't even know what "tope" is (Google tells me that it's ‘tight + dope').
Today at Gawker.TV, Fox and Friends is up in arms over a British Superman, Adam Scott hates working with attractive people, Katy Perry promotes her appearance on HIMYM, and Justin Bieber says the word "like" like, a lot.
You heard it last night: house music throbbing through your walls, wild shrieks coming from the street, the sound of clothing being shed. "It's the teenagers," you thought to yourself.
Saturday Night Live offers up a solution to MTV's recent problem with advertisers pulling their commercials from the racy (and possibly underage) import SKINS. Includes an introduction with Andy Samberg playing exactly what we imagine their bigshots to be like.
Though ratings dropped 50% in its second week, the much-maligned series Skins, MTV's adaptation of a British series about drugging, sexing kids, will not be canceled. Network execs say they're standing by the show. Standing, awkwardly trying to hide boners.
While MTV is facing the wrath of concerned parents, reluctant advertisers and infuriated fans of the original series, last night's episode demonstrates that the show is unique from the UK version, in that it is comparatively toned-down and less provocative.
If there are two things that reactionary tabloid sexpot Andrea Peyser enjoys, they are moralizing voyeurism of sexxxy teens, and blanket condemnations of Muslims. Can she combine both in one sexxxy, finger-wagging, drool-flecked column? This is America! (Yes.)
Wrigley's gum just pulled its ads from MTV's teen drama Skins because the show is too sexxy. Taco Bell and GM have done the same. From now on, all teens must have sex in Fords while chewing Trident.
The new MTV show Skins aspires to a frank portrayal of very young, very horny teens. This requires lots of sexy material. But some MTV execs started worrying Skins might be a little too sexy, in a child porn way.
Last night was the premiere of MTV's American version of the British teen drama Skins, a frank and graphic depiction of semi-urban youngsters smoking drugs and hopping into bed with one another. Unfortunately, something got lost in translation.
We've already told you what we think of MTV's SKINS, which premiered tonight. The episode may have been entertaining for people who have never seen the original British series, but we're sticking to our guns: this remake sucks really badly.
Rumor has it 10,000 people RSVP'd for last night's MTV's Skins Warehouse Party before they had to close off their list on Wednesday. Gawker.TV was there and this is what happened.
Ever since we heard MTV was taking our favorite British show of all time and watering it down for America, we've had our reservations. Despite being heckled by their Twitter, we were invited to MTV HQ to screen two episodes.
For those who have been following the Anglophilic networks plans for new shows, you'd know that the MTV Skins is the probably the most anticipated remake for 2011. Well, the trailer is out, and it's horrible. Watch the video, inside.
