What's Leaving Netflix in August
Skins
- Metascore57
- 2011-2011
- 1 season
- MTV
- Comedy, Drama
- TV-MA
The lives of a group of teenagers through their final two years of high school.
- Metascore57
- 2011-2011
- 1 season
- MTV
- Comedy, Drama
- TV-MA
The lives of a group of teenagers through their final two years of high school.
The Most Heartbreaking TV Character Deaths Ever
Here are the TV deaths we still can't quite get over
Supernatural Spin-Off Casts Vampire Diaries, Skins Alums
The upcoming Supernatural spin-off Tribes has cast its first two series regulars, TVGuide.com has learned.
Ask Matt: Major Crimes, Covert Affairs, MTV's Inbetweeners and More
Question: Let's play armchair programmer. While I am enjoying Major Crimes, it does feel a bit like we're just waiting for Brenda Leigh to show. Do you think they could have benefited from holding Major Crimes until the traditional December run of The Closer to let us get a little distance? Or is it purely a creative question? Major Crimes looks just like The Closer. Could the show benefit from some slight visual tweaks? Perhaps a slightly different opening sequence? — Steven
Ask Matt: Teen Wolf and Awkward, Political Animals, Damages, Emmys and More
Send questions and comments to askmatt@tvguidemagazine.com and follow me on Twitter! Question: I was wondering if you have found time to tune in or catch up on MTV's teen supernatural drama Teen Wolf or the comedy Awkward. I have been back watching both again recently and am officially hooked. With Teen Wolf being picked up for a 24-episode season next year [and Awkward for 20] and the laundry list of new scripted dramas on the horizon, what do you think of MTV scripted shows and are they in it for the long haul? — Sharday
MTV's Teen Wolf Back for Second Season
MTV has renewed Teen Wolf for a second season, the network announced Wednesday. The hourlong drama will return with 12 new episodes in 2012. "We're incredibly proud of this show. Executive producer Jeff Davis has brought an exciting, cinematic story to life with a...
MTV Axes Controversial Teen Drama Skins
MTV has canceled racy teen drama series Skins after just one season, Deadline reports. An adaptation of the popular, award-winning British drama — now in its fifth season in the U.K. — Skins stirred up lots of controversy when it premiered in January. Although the series premiered to...
MTV Orders Adaptation of Brit Comedy Inbetweeners, Four New Reality Shows
Just two months after debuting the controversial teen drama Skins, MTV is once again green-lighting an adaptation of another popular British show, The Inbetweeners, along with four other new shows, EW reports. Inbetweeners follows the exploits of four friends as they grow from their late teens into adults. MTV has ordered 12 episodes, which will likely premiere in 2012. Brad Copeland, Aaron Kaplan and original series creators Damon Beesly and Iain Morris will executive produce.
VIDEO: Jesse Eisenberg and Mark Zuckerberg Finally Meet on Saturday Night Live
Days after receiving his first Oscar nomination for his performance as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg finally met the man behind status updates and poking on Saturday Night Live. During the opening monologue, Eisenberg was interrupted by Andy Samberg's impression of Zuckerberg and the two compared tips on how to play the part. "I speak in short-clipped sentences and keep my head very still," Eisenberg said. Samberg said: "I wear this sweatshirt and then I say, 'I'm Mark Zuckerberg.'" The real Zuckerberg soon crashed the party ("awk-berg" as Samberg put it). When Eisenberg asked if he had ever...
Matt's TV Week in Review
Much of the TV landscape is, and has always been, devoted to comfort-food formula. Some of us, though, live for those moments when a show breaks formula and delivers the unexpected. This week gave us some excellent examples of that in the most popular formula of the moment: the crime/police drama. Want more Matt Roush? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! First, TNT's Southland, which really doesn't qualify as a conventional police procedural, its cases often taking a back seat to the personal day-in-the-worklife dramas that unfold with gritty, muted realism. Even so, it was a jolt to witness the death of a major character (Kevin Alejandro's quietly competent Nate Moretta) unfold in the manner of a matter-of-fact nightmare...
Wrigley, H&R Block Pull Ads from Skins
The Wrigley Company and H&R Block dropped Skins on Saturday, becoming the third and fourth sponsors to pull their ads from the controversial MTV show."Wrigley has decided to suspend any advertising during MTV's Skins as it was never our intent to endorse content that could offend consumers," the company told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement. "Any ads that previously ...
General Motors Places MTV's Skins on "Do Not Buy" List
General Motors' has placed MTV's new series Skins on its "do not buy" list, according to a statement released by the Parents Television Council on Friday. "PTC thanks General Motors for swiftly responding to PTC members' concerns about Chevy Volt advertisements" PTC President Tim Winter said in a statement. "MTV admitted placing the Chevy commercial on Skins in error. GM also stated that MTV had...
Harry’s Law Shows Some Appeal in Ratings
The premiere of NBC's Harry's Law showed it has appeal, ruling the last hour of prime time with 11 million viewers.
Watercooler: Only Skins Deep?
Unless you've been living under a rock where pop-up ads, Twitter feeds and word of mouth are forbidden, you know that MTV revealed its Skins last night. And while less frisky than the source material — the scorchingly brazen British series about drug-addled, sex-obsessed teens — the U.S. version wants to shock as much as the kids want to boff.Does it succeed? Well, like the characters in search of hooking up, sort of. Following the template....
Roush Review: Remakes and a Retread
Does no one have an original idea in TV land anymore? Judging from tonight's latest batch of mid-season offerings, it hardly appears so. Programmers have either gone to England for inspiration, rarely improving on the source material, or back to the drawing board of tried-and-true formats like the courtroom drama, resulting in an unhappy epidemic of deja view viewing.Want more Matt Roush? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!The best of tonight's premieres is Syfy's remake of Being Human (9/8c), and even it is a pale imitation of the provocative British original. Given the relatively limited reach of BBC America...
Matt's Picks: January 17-20
How I Met Your Mother (Monday, 8/7c, CBS)Finding humor in tragedy is always a tricky business, and that's the challenge facing Mother as the gang accompanies Marshall back to his Minnesota home for his father's funeral. Ted and Barney task themselves with doing whatever it takes to coax a smile or a laugh from their grieving buddy. But Marshall is distracted by an unexpected meeting with the bully who terrorized him through high school. The joke being that the bully is played by the diminutive Danny Strong (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Elsewhere, Monday is a big night for new shows on TV, with the premieres of two remakes of British series — Being Human on Syfy and Skins on MTV — plus Harry's Law on NBC and the launch of Piers Morgan's talk show (with Oprah as the first guest) on CNN...
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