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2k9david2k10
11-05-2010, 08:04 PM
MTV has reportedly picked up an American version of Skins.

According to Deadline, the network has ordered ten episodes of the teen series.

MTV's senior vice-president of series development Liz Gateley allegedly pursued the rights to the format for nearly two years before ordering a pilot in August.

The co-creator of the UK version Bryan Elsley wrote the pilot and is executive producing the project. The show will largely be penned by teenagers, like the British version.

MTV is thought to be planning a January launch for the show.

Skins finished its fourth run in the UK earlier this year and has been renewed for two more series. A movie version is also in the works.


http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s89/skins/news/a219372/mtv-orders-american-remake-of-skins.html

Hope they show it on E4 here :D
Braden
11-05-2010, 08:05 PM
Isn't it meant to be set in Baltimore, it's been posted here before, I think :p
2k9david2k10
11-05-2010, 08:09 PM
Isn't it meant to be set in Baltimore, it's been posted here before, I think :p

haha yer baltimore proper like country accent imagine it haha
Patrick
11-05-2010, 08:10 PM
Oh for **** sake.

See what I mean though people?

Skins does very well here, and the Americans spot it and take it.
****ing typical.
Stu
11-05-2010, 08:11 PM
An Americanized Skins is bad enough ... but an MTV one? Jaysus.
Ramsay
11-05-2010, 08:11 PM
this is realllly old news
but yea
it will fail
2k9david2k10
11-05-2010, 08:17 PM
this is realllly old news
but yea
it will fail

i no it kinda old news but it was just rumoured before now it looks like it really gunna hapeen :P
Patrick
11-05-2010, 08:18 PM
If Karl says it will fail then it will fail.

So thats good.

All we need now is for XF USA to epicly fall flat on its arse.
Tom4784
11-05-2010, 08:21 PM
It's gonna be awful, the only channels that had a SLIGHTEST chance of doing it correctly were HBO and Showtime. I won't watch it if it's shown over here.
ILoveTRW
11-05-2010, 08:26 PM
I hope it doesn't do more damage to The Real World :(
AndrewLee***
11-05-2010, 08:27 PM
It will be wierd on MTV? Our MTV here in America is just reality TV not written?
ILoveTRW
11-05-2010, 08:30 PM
It will be wierd on MTV? Our MTV here in America is just reality TV not written?

*waits for someone who knows **** all about the real world to call it scripted*
AJ.
11-05-2010, 08:42 PM
You just know they're gunna make it like 90210.
Braden
11-05-2010, 08:45 PM
i no it kinda old news but it was just rumoured before now it looks like it really gunna hapeen :P

No it was confirmed ages ago :)
Fetch The Bolt Cutters
11-05-2010, 08:45 PM
shameless would win skins in a fight any day not that this has anything to do with skins usa, actually are they doing a shameless usa?
Fetch The Bolt Cutters
11-05-2010, 08:46 PM
You just know they're gunna make it like 90210.

wow is that a real place in your sig it looks kwl lol
AndrewLee***
11-05-2010, 08:56 PM
I like 90210 though lol
Firewire
11-05-2010, 08:58 PM
If Karl says it will fail then it will fail.

So thats good.

All we need now is for XF USA to epicly fall flat on its arse.

Which it won't. American Idol gets between 15 and 22m, so X Factor will do a lot better than that.
AJ.
11-05-2010, 10:10 PM
wow is that a real place in your sig it looks kwl lol

Glastonbury :bouncy:
Patrick
11-05-2010, 10:13 PM
shameless would win skins in a fight any day not that this has anything to do with skins usa, actually are they doing a shameless usa?

Yeah because two TV Shows can fight, Okay then yeah.
:rolleyes:
Patrick
11-05-2010, 10:15 PM
Which it won't. American Idol gets between 15 and 22m, so X Factor will do a lot better than that.

They shouldnt even ****ing have our X Factor though anyway.

They have AI really honestly, I mean the only reason they want XF this is the truth, the only reason they want it is because we have it and its very popular here.

Greedy.


If AI Is so successful over there, which as you pointed out it is, then they should just keep that but now they will take XF and claim its their own and say how 'better' it is than the Original XF.
AJ.
11-05-2010, 10:27 PM
Its not America its Simon Cowell.
Ramsay
11-05-2010, 10:29 PM
If Karl says it will fail then it will fail.


hells yea!:dance:
Captain.Remy
12-05-2010, 04:27 AM
The plot will be exactly the same as series 1 and 2, the characters will have the same names (Tony, Michelle, ....), the same stories (a gay, a Muslim, an anorexic...), same drama (Michelle vs Cassie...)

+ they confirmed there will be no swear words, nudity or sex.

It's going to be a lighter version of 90210. :(