Tuesday, February 22, 2011
MTV's Skins On A Downward Spiral
As I mentioned on Facebook several months ago, you cannot re-boot a show without it's lovely, gay character. Sure they had their lesbian version of Maxxie, but there is no comparison when it comes to the beautiful young man who was on the British version for two seasons. Needless to say, the U.S. Version of Skins is meeting its demise rather quickly. When the show premiered on January 19th, the show garnered 3.2 million viewers. Last week the show couldn't pull through a million.All the major advertisers have refused to run commercials, aside from Clearasil and movie trailers. When have you heard anything about the show? I happen to agree with Ben Mandleker down below, I haven't seen anyone talking about it on Facebook or Twitter.
“Quite frankly—no one I know watches ‘Skins’,” TV critic and editor of bsideblog.com, Ben Mandelker tells FOX411. “Absolutely no one is talking about ‘Skins’ on the Internet. Maybe in some forum, somewhere, but it’s not being talked about on Vulture, Gawker—I’m not seeing links on Facebook, I’m not seeing things on Twitter. I forget the show is even on. I don’t even know when it’s on, to be honest.”
Ryan and I watched 3 seasons of the British version and thoroughly enjoyed it. As for the U.S. Version, I think they got it all wrong. Once again... another show gone bust that I knew wouldn't make it.
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