Why Is MTV Skittish About Skins?

Yeah, isn’t Teen Mom much more dangerous, in that it’s (a) real, and (b) teaches young viewers that you can be a sexually irresponsible young dolt, and pawn the consequences off on MTV?

I think the real crime isn’t the fact that it may be child pornography, I think the fact that it’s just a really bad version of a good UK show is.

The thing is television people and movie people should just stop trying to give the argument of ‘thsi is real’ or ‘this is what society’ needs because their shows are neither. I don’t see any ‘unity’ or anything that is really good for society on television. Just empty slogans. You have to do something with your life and this is about doing nothing with your life. It’s garbage.

The bad people in television are usually people who want things to change for the better. If they want the government to spend its money responsibly they are those bad Tea Party people. If they think that they stay sober and not steal or kill people, it’s those nasty religious people. If it’s those ISLAMIC foriegn people blowing everyone up, they’re not the problem it’s us that is the problem. Oh yeah, and Go Green, because it’s an empty slogan that will bury our economy and the air and water will still be polluted. Ofcourse this show is garbage. They don’t care about us. It’s the bad people that are the good guys.

I’ve been wondering this myself. Why do we remake shows instead of airing the successful original version? Doesn’t really make a mountain of sense to me.

Shameless I get, there are a lot of references to each nations government programs that foreign markets wouldn’t understand. But a show like this? Or Being Human? It could probably be imported without any significant problems, for fucking pennies compared to what they’re paying to remake the entire damn thing.

if mtv had any problem with skins they never would have even gone for the remake. but like all networks they need advertiser revenue which the show is losing all due to the characters having sex. as for the episode showing the butt odds are it will air but to placate the censors mtv will have the rear pixeled out or cut completly.

I can understand the issue here if the actors are underage. Just cracks me up that we Brits are stereotyped as ‘uptight’ and a show that barely raised an eyebrow over here causes such a stir across the pond.

Never saw The Wire, but I’m sure that if I had, my mind would no longer exist.

The original show was naff – and the amount of debates I’ve witnessed concerning just how far from the truth Skins was with its representation of teenagers, especially when it stressed its own versimillitude – but this is a bit of a joke, America.

By all means re-make the show, no one is going to miss it, but please tell the more hysterical opponents of the show (such as the PTC) to calm the heck down: you’re embarrassing us.

Hah, this reminds me of the scandal some time ago when a teenage girl was accused of posting child pornography online…for posting naked pictures of HERSELF. Now, I’m not saying that was a good idea, it was in fact pretty stupid, but some people wanted her arrested. Really, throw the C-P term into anything these days and you’ll have a media frenzy, regardless of context.

Except for all the girls trying to get knocked up so that MTV will give them lots of money.