We at TV Fiends are … well … fiends for TV. We love us some television at TV Fiends. And it’s not just American television that we love. As many of out loyal readers likely have noticed, we are huge fans of British television as well. Some of us at TV Fiends (admittedly not many) [...]
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We at TV Fiends had an emergency meeting called last night. Employees who could not make it to One TV Fiends Plaza in the Pine Valley section of Northern Virginia were conference-called and video-called in. The tension in the air was thick. Most employees didn’t know why a company-wide meeting had been called so hastily, [...]
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I love the British version of the television show Skins — it changed my life. And for that reason, I now hate MTV. But first: I’m a dude, and I AM NOT GAY. Seriously, I absolutely am NOT gay. I am just not gay. So, we’ve established that I am not gay. However, I will [...]
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Usually we have nothing nice to say about MTV Skins. But today, we’ve changed our tune. We are actually happy MTV Skins is on the air because it gave us this incredibly funny skit from Funny or Die. See Funny or Die’s Skins skit here: Teenagers thank the Parents Television Council – watch more funny [...]
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For weeks we’ve heard about MTV’s new series Skins. It seems like the series is inescapable. Everywhere we turn we hear something about MTV Skins and their depiction of drugs and alcohol, MTV Skins and their nudity, and questions of whether MTV Skins is child pornography. We’ve also read the numerous articles about Skins losing [...]
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Last night while we were watching Skins we received an email from a friend, who we will identify as friend of fiend, who was clearly irritated with the episode and the portrayal of Tea on the show. After watching the episode we realized friend of fiend’s frustrations were justified. Read Friends of Fiends thoughts on [...]
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We can’t seem to escape the controversy surrounding MTV’s Skins this week. Prior to the first episode of MTV’s Skins the series was deemed by the Parents Television Council to be “the most dangerous show for teens.” Since then the Parents Television Council (PTC) has called for a federal investigation of the series saying that [...]
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Welcome to the future. MTV is taking to text messages to promote it’s new series, Skins. MTV is not holding anything back for it’s version of Skins. We’ve been watching this network for a very long time and we have to admit, we’ve never seen the network promote a new series this hard. Mashable is [...]
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We are tired of saying that MTV’s Skins, which will premiere on January 17 at 10/9c, is a complete rip off of the original UK version of Skins. So this time we won’t say it, we will just let you watch another preview for MTV’s Skins, which looks all too familiar. MTV Skins Sneak Peek: [...]
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This week MTV released a preview of their “new” show Skins. MTV’s Skins, is “based” on a groundbreaking teenage drama series that aired in Britain. In the preview, the show’s “writer,” Matt Pelfrey, proudly proclaims while MTV’s Skins “isn’t a reality show” it is “easily the most realistic thing you’ll see on tv.” Pelfrey also said Skins USA on MTV, which [...]
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