Are you a fan of thoroughly and comprehensively unrealistic teen-dramas that pass themselves off as hard-hitting, issue-heavy dramadies, prone to firing its cast every 5 minutes? You're probably stupid enough to like Skins then… which has just been killed.
No, not killed and prone to return with TV executives realising what a terrible mistake they've made.
Skins has been axed, cancelled, thrown into the bin, rubbished, pooh-poohed, left to rot… CANCELLED CANCELLED CANCELLED by E4 because, basically, no-one likes it anymore and it is obviously far too expensive to make. Besides, everyone's watching Misfits these days.
Of course, Skins is the show that helped to create a path to stardom for the likes of Dev Patel and Nicholas Hoult… but mostly, it hasn't created a path to stardom at all. In fact, for the most part, the biggest cultural impact it has made has been in the form of a variety of memes, shared between various clunkily lusty Tumblrs, designed by young women with their hands down their scads, dreaming of a faraway land where teenagers have the money for a drug-habit and people shag in cupboards.
These girls needn't worry. Skins is about as realistic as their Tumblr dashboards.
And lo, after six series (it feels like there were many more than half-a-dozen in fairness), Skins is being sent out to buy some shirts and ties from Next, get a temping job and stop messing about on its video games all day.
The show will wave goodbye with three special two-hour episodes to be screened next year with the current sixth series the last.
An insider told The Daily Star:
"We think Skins has gone as far as we can take it but we know fans will be disappointed. So we think three episodes to really celebrate the series is a good send-off."
"There will be all the usual drama as we wave goodbye to some top characters."
Bye-bye Skins. We hardly knew ye. Because we never watched ye.
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