Music from Newcastle-based Summer Night Air in episode 2, wooh!

Ambient & chilled, and their album is available as a free download from here

Never watched Skins, the adverts put me off, it made it look as though the stars were the most punchable people in the world.

hahhaha that's how i felt when i watched the adds, but the show is actually quite entertaining and has some decentish music.

Brilliant!
Best new British drama so far this year

DVD is out in September.
Second series has been agreed.
Should be able to find it on torrents

Episodes
1.01 - OBD: 25-Jan-2007 - Tony
1.02 - OBD: 01-Feb-2007 - Cassie
1.03 - OBD: 08-Feb-2007 - Jal
1.04 - OBD: 15-Feb-2007 - Chris
1.05 - OBD: 22-Feb-2007 - Sid
1.06 - OBD: 01-Mar-2007 - Maxxie & Anwar
1.07 - OBD: 08-Mar-2007 - Michelle
1.08 - OBD: 15-Mar-2007 - Effy
1.09 - OBD: 22-Mar-2007 - Abigail

berrrrrrrrr i was just about to start a thread about this

its fucking rad

i agree with devines about being a fucked up OC

basically follows a group of raucous young friends from Bristol as they drop pills, pass exams, have sex and undermine their parents

it's okay. i'd love it if i was a teenager... silly light entertainment.

i think the first episode was the best, but it's been going downhill since then.

that 'about a boy' guy is pretty easy on the eye.

I feel dirty

Sounds like Degrassi... I'm so in.
Downloading starts now.

First episode is a straight "As If" style teen drama
It gets more complex and dark as it goes on.
The Russia episode [co-written by Simon Amstell] was a bit of a mess.
But the revenge on Tony in the sports club was truly harrowing, adult TV.

Teenager: 'I'm Sorry Mam'

Updated: 14:55, Friday April 13, 2007

The teenage girl whose party trashed her parents home has apologised - but is still in hiding and is too scared to face them. Two hundred teenagers from across the country travelled to Rachael Bell's party after it was advertised on the internet. Her distraught mother told Sky News she felt her home has been "raped".

Damage estimated at around £20,000 was caused to the detached house. Every room in the house was ransacked and the girl's mother's wedding dress taken from a wardrobe and urinated on. Rachael had been left in charge of the property, in Woodstone Village, while her parents took a one night caravan holiday. The party had appeared on Rachael's MySpace website labelled Easter Monday Bash Skins Unofficial Party - a reference to the controversial Channel 4 series which featured scenes where a teenage get-together got out of hand. It had been subtitled "Let's trash the average family-sized house disco party". She says someone added the comments without her knowledge.

Rachael is now staying with friends for a "cooling-off" period. "It was just supposed to be a party with a few friends and it turned into a complete nightmare. I'm sorry mam," she said. "It was so surreal - it still seems surreal. You just can't imagine anything like it happening. I still haven't properly slept, I just keep waking up and thinking about what happened," she told the Sunderland Echo.

Her father, Alan, told Sky News: "We're totally traumatised. I only hope she shows some remorse." Mrs Bell said: "It's worse than a burglary, I can't believe it. Whoever has come in here are worse than animals. It's like house rape. They've been sick everywhere, urinated and trashed the house. It will take a month for it to be professionally cleaned. I want people to be prosecuted for what has been done," she told Sky News.

One neighbour, who did not want to be named, said: "There were hundreds of kids piling out of cars and minibuses. This is a quiet street. If there had been 15 or 20 kids, I would have been shocked but when there's that many and you see somebody getting out of a taxi with a suitcase full of alcohol, it sets the alarm bells ringing."

Neighbour Morc Coulson, 45, said today: "I could not believe what I was seeing. I went out with a golf club trying to get them away but they were climbing over fences and scrambling over fields."

A spokesman for Durham Police said the incident would be investigated.

^^ "Sets the alarm bells ringing?" Then why the hell didn't she call the police earlier or something?

Anyway, did anybody watch the season finale of Skins. That whole singing thing was so weird, I didn't get it at all. But the show was pretty farcical.

i just watched the first episode on youtube. Good, not great. It had some laugh out loud moments, but not too many.

Their psychology teacher is booootiful.

Oh geez, I couldn't stand her. She was so timid.

I loved the show, and the finale.
Brave, intelligent and occasionally insightful

Nightly repeats on E4 at the mo

fulton girls club's avatar picture reminds me of Sid:

is this set on the chatsworth estate?

c'mon, sbs, do yr thang and get it on fta in oz.

New episode to be broadcast via MySpace

how do i get this!!?!?!??!?! i cant gets it on youtubez! lame.

See? fulton = sid. Sorta.

I liked the first US episode. Maybe not as good as the English skins but I dont recognise any of the cast in the above pic. who are they? Have effie and cook and all that graduated?

US Skins accused of being child pronography blah blah blah

That made me so angry.

Any thoughts on Series 5 , Ep 1 yet?

Frankie? Frankly...i was bored .

Will keep watching because im a donut.

An infinitely better start than S3
I slogged through the last two years hoping for the spark(le) to return
There seems a far greater liklihood here than with the last lot

Really enjoying this season. Seems to have moved from the kind of 'how shocking can we get?' thing of the last two seasons to being based around strong characters and good fucking storytelling again. Just finished episode 5 and am loving the ambiguity they left subtley hanging there that's unlikely to be resolved.

This is one of the worst shows in existence. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

Does anyone know of a reliable streaming website, aside from Sidereel for Skins US? I'm hanging for ep 7.

Season 3 and 4 were terrible. Season 5 is phenomenal. I love the new cast and it's better than Skins US. I was so disappointed by season 3 and 4 that I liked Skins US better but can't wait for 6 now, great characters, great everything.

Yep, Series 5 was a welcome return to the world of the first two years
The Chris Blood reveal was nicely handled, and despite the hardships and pain, the show regained its feelgood factor
There was some clunkiness, but it helped having a much more sympathetic group of characters

Is it wrong the Rich does silly things to my loins? He's playing a character almost ten years younger than me, after all.

Fuck, I'm missing something. Have loved this series all the way through, but after watching the first five episodes of series 5, I quit. These kids just shit me. What is their problem? Ehh, maybe the age difference has become too much for me?! Shame.

I still haven't seen any more than bits&pieces past season two.

Should have said I've loved this show all the way through, as in, series 1-4. Series 5 is arse.

I guess for me, other than feeling an affinity with Cassie (probs cos we're both nutbags, yeah?) the only thing that really turned this show from average to killer past season 2 was Effie. Without Effie, the show is understandably lame.

Ha, maybe I'm a sucker for Shakespeare but tonight's episode was awesome!

Series 6 is due to air in the next few weeks
Anyone fancy getting their songs some international exposure? The producers are asking for musical submissions for use in the new series. You have until 31 December 2011 to apply

Series 6 begins {on E4 in the UK} on Monday 23 January 2012
Jamie Brittain has now stepped down from the series but his (father and) co-creator Bryan Elsley has returned as showrunner

Re: 6-01
It's a bit of a worry when The Inbetweeners Movie does a better job of a mad summer break O/S

Axed