According to one trailer, Skins is “a smart show about a group of teenagers living in America, breaking all the rules, and living it up,” and “Beyond all the sex and drama, the ultimate message is about friendship.”

Skins extended preview:

According to me, Undressed is soft-core porn with themes of experimentation and acceptance at its core. Beyond all the bad acting and poorly constructed drama, the ultimate message is about sex.

And in case you forgot and/or remember how amazing it was, you can view full episodes of all 6 seasons (Seriously? 6 seasons?!) at UndressedTV.com. Here’s a solid clip about a sexually confused college boy with a lotta homework, and a lotta home to work.

Undressed Homework Schemer:

The Premise: Skins will follow the wily lives of a woven group of High School friends as they dabble deep in drugs, sex, drinking, partying, law run-ins, and I’m sure romance will get tangled in the mix. Undressed displays vignettes of sometimes interwoven lives as they engage in, talk about and scheme sexual encounters.

The Style: The people on Undressed look like people. Some average, some hot, some well dressed (by 1999 standards), some wearing WTF worthy Gap gear. The kids on Skins are less real, smokin’ hot and dressed to the hilt all the time. Played by actual 17-18-year-olds (finally, we won’t have the One Tree Hill effect) they dress like the dapper badasses they play.

The Production: Skins has a 2011 MTV-worthy budget, and so the production standards have jumped up miles from Undressed, but I do miss that raw soap opera footage. Skins takes it off the sound stage, into the town in which they live. Undressed kept it in the bedroom.

The Sex: With Skins, it’s all happening in High School, so the experimentation is going to be wild, but probably not as raunchily explored as Undressed. Undressed had a sharp focus on sex, which brought us right to the down and dirty of it all every time. Skins has a wider array of topics to uncover, with perhaps a touch more innocence. Unlike Undressed, it’s probably not going to be all sex all the time. They’ve got to have time to get wasted and crash cars and all that cute stuff in the middle.

My verdict: My opinions are bound to evolve upon seeing the first episode tonight, especially as I’ve never seen the UK version (sad I know). But I’m picturing Skins as the love child of a mènage á trois between Undressed, The O.C. and Degrassi. That would be a mighty precocious child, indeed.

….and speaking of The O.C. and One Tree Hill, before Adam Brody became Seth Cohen, he sexed it up as Lucas during season three of Undressed. In his first acting gig, Chad Michael Murray got pretty naked in an episode called “Surprize, Surprize: Part 3.”

How do they compare in your book?

Watch the SKINS premiere tonight on MTV at 10 PM EST. One thing I can describe it as, is COMPLETELY REALISTIC. Come back on Fashion Indie every Tuesday for my recap! LETS GET WEIRD!

I really enjoy the imagery of these ads. Nicholas Hoults,  from the show, SKINS is featured.

Nicholas Hoult is an English actor who starred in About A Boy, E4’s cult teen series Skins and, most recently, in Tom Ford’s directorial debut, A Single Man and the upcoming Clash of the Titans, has been made the NSPCC’s first ambassador for children and young people, encouraging young people to get in touch with ChildLine by phone on 0800 1111 or online to talk about their problems. Nicholas has also been nominated for a BAFTA Rising Star Award, the award for an actor or actress set for great things.

“The Naughty Little Sister” of Tony on Skins does grunge chic, not straying far from her character Effy’s late night sneak out sessions full of drugs. But somehow Love Magazine’s styling made the average looking Miley Cyrus look phenomenal  and the naturally gorgeous Kaya Scodelario look average. Somethings wrong there.

SOURCE: Oh No They Didn’t

Skins premiers this Sunday, August 17th, on BBC America at 9pm/8c. Here is a great trailer (above) and the characters bios (below).

Since we don’t have a tv, we will not be fortunate enough to watch the show, but I’m counting on you, indies, to let us know how it was…cuz if you don’t like it, we won’t do anymore posts on it!

Thanks to a loyal FI reader, we have been informed of an upcoming show that might be competition for Gossip Girls called Skins.

“Teenagers grab life by the balls in the series premiere of Skins, BBC AMERICA’s hot new comedy drama, starting Sunday, August 17 at 9pm/8c.”

Let us know your thoughts indies….