Skins TV Show

Skins is a television series which first aired in the United Kingdom in 2007. It launched in the U.S. in 2008.

The series Skins focuses on a group of teenagers living in Bristol, England. The adolescents are dealing with issues such as drugs, sex, eating disorders and racial tensions.BBC America: Skins

Creator Bryan Elsley maintains that the actors will be replaced once they are older than 18 or 19, to keep the actors close in age to the audience. This means that almost the entire cast has been replaced for season 3.New York Times: A Show Written for the Young by the Young (August 15, 2008)

"But watching Generation Skins noisily get their party on isn't the real motor of the series. What reflects the human-size soap opera that is the life of a real teenager are all the casually stinging asides, the surge and abrupt decline of social power, the unforgivable betrayals and gnawing insecurities that the kids experience."--The New York TimesNew York Times: A Show Written for the Young by the Young (August 15, 2008)