Here's one of those 'This'll make you feel old' factoids - it's two years since the last ever episode of Skins aired.
E4's groundbreaking hormone-fest wrapped up on August 5, 2013 - with an older Cook (Jack O'Connell) heading off into an uncertain future at the close of 'Rise (Part Two)'.
Cook was but one of 27 major characters featured on Skins across three 'Generations' - in a total of 61 episodes, split into seven series. But where are the teen tearaways of Roundview College now?
Generation One
1. Nicholas Hoult
Hoult played Tony Stonem - the pre-eminent bad boy of Skins - across its first two series. Later badly hurt in a traffic accident and forced to rely on others, Tony had mellowed by his final episodes.
Now aged 25, Hoult has become a bona-fide Hollywood star with roles in this year's Mad Max: Fury Road and the much-anticipated book adaptations Dark Places and Kill Your Friends.
E4's groundbreaking hormone-fest wrapped up on August 5, 2013 - with an older Cook (Jack O'Connell) heading off into an uncertain future at the close of 'Rise (Part Two)'.
Cook was but one of 27 major characters featured on Skins across three 'Generations' - in a total of 61 episodes, split into seven series. But where are the teen tearaways of Roundview College now?
Generation One
1. Nicholas Hoult
Hoult played Tony Stonem - the pre-eminent bad boy of Skins - across its first two series. Later badly hurt in a traffic accident and forced to rely on others, Tony had mellowed by his final episodes.
Now aged 25, Hoult has become a bona-fide Hollywood star with roles in this year's Mad Max: Fury Road and the much-anticipated book adaptations Dark Places and Kill Your Friends.
- 8/4/2015
- Digital Spy
*full disclosure: a DVD screener of this film was provided by producer Paul Tanter. **there are minor spoilers here. Director: Simon Phillips. Writers: James Crow and Simon Phillips. Cast: Nick Nevern, Kellie Shirley, Jenna Harrison, Con O'Neill, Peter Barrett, Roland Manookian, Lorraine Stanley, Mark Harris, Charlie Bond, Steven Berkoff, and Merveille Lukeba. Tagline: "Hooligan first, cop second." GBH is the latest film to come out of the United Kingdom from actor and director Simon Phillips and distributor Revolver Entertainment. The film is set during the London riots of 2011. In this setting, a love story develops between characters Damien (Nick Nevern) and Louise (Kelly Shirley). Violent events split them apart. The film offers an anti-violent message, but that message might be lost amongst all of the chaos occurring onscreen. Overall, GBH is an entertaining film with only a couple film elements hampering the film's full potential. If you did not know.
- 11/30/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Many TV shows struggling to find a following work out different ways to build a connection between its characters and audience which typically comes about by strong personality-driven episodes and the slow unraveling of their pasts. If the audience doesn’t care about the characters, they don’t care about the show. In Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Skins managed to keep us deeply involved in the lives of the troubled teens that populated its world of sex and drugs, but it wasn’t a success they wanted to dwell on. So with the third season they got a new batch of characters (centered on the younger sister of one of the main characters from the original bunch). With those characters established, we move on to the fourth season and unlike the first two, there’s just not enough interest in the characters to keep people coming back.
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- 1/20/2011
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Young Brit actor Merveille Lukeba is 20 years old today. Originally from Kinshasa, in Democratic Republic Of The Congo, but raised in London, Lukeba, since 2008, has co-starred in The UK Teen Drama series Skins. He got his onscreen start in 2007, in the feature-length child soldier abduction film Ezra, which was profiled on this blog (read that post Here). Get to know young Merveille – he just might be the future Idris Elba or Chiwetel Ejiofor
Singer/songwriter Tracy Chapman is 46 years old today! Most will probably remember her for Fast Car, the first track released from her 1988 self-titled debut album, which won 3 Grammys. The song was recently used on the popular TV series Dancing With The Stars. In the 90s, she dated author Alice Walker.
Stanley Kirk Burrell (aka Mc Hammer) is 48 years old today! He of the Parachute “Hammer” Pants, has appeared as himself in numerous TV shows, and even had...
Singer/songwriter Tracy Chapman is 46 years old today! Most will probably remember her for Fast Car, the first track released from her 1988 self-titled debut album, which won 3 Grammys. The song was recently used on the popular TV series Dancing With The Stars. In the 90s, she dated author Alice Walker.
Stanley Kirk Burrell (aka Mc Hammer) is 48 years old today! He of the Parachute “Hammer” Pants, has appeared as himself in numerous TV shows, and even had...
- 3/30/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
In its penultimate episode last week (3.9 "Katie and Emily"), British teen drama Skins brought a satisfying conclusion to its lesbian storyline — a noteworthy event given how few TV shows you can say that about (including The L Word).
The show's development of a romantic relationship between lesbian teenager Emily (Kathryn Prescott) and probably bisexual teenager Naomi (Lily Loveless) was messy, full of missteps and misunderstandings, but it was honest, realistic (for TV), and organic (unlike, say, the finale webisode for South of Nowhere, which felt contrived and tacked on).
If you missed the episode, you can watch a preview of it here:
Trailer for Episode 3.9
The story of Emily is also remarkable for what it isn't: a coming-out story. At least, not primarily.
Emily struggles briefly in the beginning with accepting her sexuality. But everyone besides Emily's parents and her twin sister Katie (Megan Prescott) react with not much more...
The show's development of a romantic relationship between lesbian teenager Emily (Kathryn Prescott) and probably bisexual teenager Naomi (Lily Loveless) was messy, full of missteps and misunderstandings, but it was honest, realistic (for TV), and organic (unlike, say, the finale webisode for South of Nowhere, which felt contrived and tacked on).
If you missed the episode, you can watch a preview of it here:
Trailer for Episode 3.9
The story of Emily is also remarkable for what it isn't: a coming-out story. At least, not primarily.
Emily struggles briefly in the beginning with accepting her sexuality. But everyone besides Emily's parents and her twin sister Katie (Megan Prescott) react with not much more...
- 3/23/2009
- by sarahwarn
- AfterEllen.com
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