MTV was sad to advertise the abandoning of the awful advancing and arguable boyhood soap "Skins" on Thursday (June 9). The accommodation came afterwards the American adaptation of the badly accepted U.K. appearance just didn't accompany in abundant admirers to green-light a additional season.
" 'Skins' is a all-around television abnormality that, unfortunately, didn't affix with a U.S. admirers as abundant as we had hoped," the arrangement said in a account to MTV News. "We adore the plan that the series' architect Bryan Elsley did in adapting the appearance for MTV, and acknowledge the amount admirers that accepted it."
Despite the huge fizz "Skins" had traveling into its premiere on January 17, the appearance wasn't able to body on its viewership. It aswell faced the obstacle of getting rated TV-MA, which meant that, A) the appearance couldn't be advertisement afore 10 p.m., and B) was advised for admirers over the age of 17, even admitting it was set in a top school.
Elsley created the U.K. alternation with his son Jamie Brittain in 2007. He alleged the appearance "old-fashioned" in the way that it focused alone on the accepted acquaintance of getting a jailbait and how they accord with family, accompany and beginning adulthood. Elsley durably dedicated the show's agreeable as not so abundant controversial, but "a actual austere attack to get to the roots of adolescent people's lives. It tries to acquaint the truth. Sometimes that accuracy can be a little aching to adults and parents."
The end of "Skins" does not beggarly the end of MTV's efforts to advertisement added aboriginal scripted programming. There are six new alternation set to premiere on the arrangement this fall: "Awkward," "Beavis and Butt-head," "Good Vibes," "I Just Want My Pants Back," "Death Valley" and "Inbetweeners."
