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E4's Skins has been voted the most unrealistic student TV show in a recent poll.

According to MyVoucherCodes, 67% of those who voted chose the teen drama ahead of Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks and the New York-based Gossip Girl, which claimed second and third respectively.

Mark Pearson, managing director of the website, said: "The fact that Skins was considered the most unrealistic was no surprise as sixth formers don't take that many drugs and have that much sex, or at least you would hope.

Source: digitalspy.co.uk

After months of behind-the-scenes development, MTV have finally greenlit a ten-part remake of British teen-drama Skins.

The Baltimore-set US version has been developed by Liz Gately (Laguna Beach, The Hills) and will be executive-produced by its British creator, Bryan Elsley, who has also written the new pilot. Like the original, a young team of writers will be hired to give the scripts authenticity and the show will star unknown teenage actors.

Source: obsessedwithfilm.com

Jack Thorne (The Scouting Book For Boys) has been hired to pen the big screen version of E4 show Skins.

According to The Guardian, Thorne will write a movie for Film4 that brings together all the different casts of the popular teen drama. The show helped launch the careers of Nicholas Hoult and Dev Patel, while current lead Kaya Scodelario (Effy) will appear in Clash Of The Titans next month.

Short interview with Jack:

• You mentioned there's a Skins movie in the offing — are you involved in that, Jack? "Yeah, I'm writing it."
• What are you going to do with it? Is it the same characters, new characters? Are you going to have to cast again? Every time I look at it there's new people! "Yeah, yeah, the idea is that it's more centered around generation two, but generation one will be involved, and generation three will be in one scene."
• So Nick Hoult might be involved? "If he's available from doing Mad Max in Australia or wherever he is. You know what I mean? There's currently a campaign to get him to come back and do a few scenes for us."

Sources:
digitalspy.co.uk
popsugar.co.uk

Popular teen drama series Skins has been commissioned for a further two series, E4 has announced.

A new cast will be selected for series five and six. Open auditions will take place in London and Bristol in April, ready for filming in the summer.

Channel 4's head of drama Camilla Campbell said replacing the cast every two years made Skins a "truly distinctive show".

Full story: news.bbc.co.uk

Skins beauty Kaya Scodelario has revealed how she had to change schools after she was tormented by cruel bullies.

The actress, 18, who stars in new Brit flick Shank, said: "I went through a year of hating myself at secondary school.

"I was bullied to the point of having to change schools because it got so bad."

Kaya, originally from Sussex, later got her lucky break on E4.

She explained: "It was at my new school that I got told about the open auditions for Skins and that would never have happened if I hadn't moved.

"I saw one of the girls who bullied me the other day. She was walking down the road with a baby and I thought, 'Glad to see you're well... '"

Source: thesun.co.uk

Skins star Kaya Scodelario has landed the coveted lead role in Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights adaptation.

The 18-year-old actress revealed that she will play Emily Bronte's iconic literary heroine Catherine Earnshaw for the Fish Tank director via her Twitter account.

She wrote: "need to start learning the yorkshire accent... im gonna be in the new Wuthering Heights film! as cathy! should probs read the book... start filming next month, cant wait! Andrea Arnold is directing, she is amazing! cant wait to work with her! (sic)"

Source: digitalspy.co.uk

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