Skins: "The Most Dangerous Show on Television"

[chanel]

Skins” is surely one of the most sexually charged programs that MTV has featured. Before it even had its premiere, the Parents Television Council, a TV watchdog group, labeled “Skins” the “most dangerous program that has ever been foisted on your children.” The group objected to the gratuitous scenes of drug and alcohol use, violence and sexual acts.

Of course, those scenes may be what attract young viewers in the first place. Jessica Bennett, a senior writer for Newsweek, wrote last week, “ ‘Skins’ may be the most realistic show on television.”

The show is off to a running start. It attracted 3.3 million to its premiere on Monday night and set a new first-episode record for the channel among viewers ages 12 to 34.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/20/b...p=1&adxnnlx=1295632949-rrIGAAUa2T6US9tiiFlDng

Has anyone seen it? I did. Worse than you can possibly imagine. And I can tell you as someone who spends every day with teenagers (who often give me TMI), this is NOT "the most realistic show on television."

The most disturbing part for me was the end of the first episode. Driving stoned, the kids run their car off a bridge into the water. Amazingly all the passengers emerge completely unscathed and one announces "Oh shit, The weed got wet". And they laugh and laugh and laugh... Scary.

Glorifying sex, drugs, and child prostitution is dangerous. Glorifying teen driving accidents is deadly.

 

[strollingbones]

and this is why....tv's have an on...off button.....

do it with me....hell i bet you can do it with a remote now....


on....off....

most dangerous show on television....bit reactionary arent you

 

[strollingbones]

Skins | Ep. 1 | 'Tony' | MTV

 

[chanel]

No. This is not faux outrage bones. And as much as we'd like to think that parents have control over what their teens are watching on TV and the internet, it's simply not the case. Most kids have TVs and computers in their bedrooms. May not be a great idea, but it's just the way it is.

1.2 million teens watched that show the first night. It's bad.

Several sponsors pulled their ads and the PTC is demanding a federal investigation into kiddie porn charges. All of the actors are under 18.

 

[Douger]

May not be a great idea, but it's just the way it is.

Typical fucking murkin.
That's exactly why that nation is FINISHED.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I read where MTV had an emergency meeting after the FCC warned of possible criminal prosecution after investigating possible child pornography.
In the series, actors as young as 15 took part in sex scenes (no nudity was shown).

MTV should be renamed to TTV (Trash TV).
MTV has not been about music for at least 10 years.

BTW - MTV has been filtered off of every TV in my house...I don't know...7-8 years now.

 

[NYcarbineer]

So? Conservatives are putting boycotts and censorship back on the table? Well, that didn't last long...

 

[strollingbones]

I read where MTV had an emergency meeting after the FCC warned of possible criminal prosecution after investigating possible child pornography.
In the series, actors as young as 15 took part in sex scenes (no nudity was shown).

MTV should be renamed to TTV (Trash TV).
MTV has not been about music for at least 10 years.

BTW - MTV has been filtered off of every TV in my house...I don't know...7-8 years now.

so you havent seen the show? sex scenes with no nudity....o say it aint so?

 

[chanel]

The sex is salacious and may have violated the law. I don't know. I am more concerned about the glorification of drug use. There is one scene where they all sitting in a bathroom stall at school smoking a joint as if this common practice. Remarkably, they all seem to be good students. And a little drug induced car crash never hurt anyone...

 

[RadiomanATL]

silly kids. smoke the joint in your car or a friends car. thats why you get tinted windows.

 

[Mad Scientist]

So? Conservatives are putting boycotts and censorship back on the table? Well, that didn't last long...

Agreed. All sex acts should be shown on tv to include fellatio, lesbian and homosexual sex. Children as young as 8 should be watching too. In fact, the FCC should mandate that all TV shows should have at least one gratuitous sex act per 30 minutes of television as a condition of license.

How else can we push society forward against the oppressive religious right?

 

[chanel]

Hypocrisy Alert!

The cultural Left would like you to think that children should be free to experiment persistently in the Laboratory of Life without soul-stifling rules. They have limits to libertine behavior, to be sure. No high school bake sales (encourages obesity), no bottled water (destroys the environment), and absolutely no uncivil bullying of people who are different than you (unless they belong to the Tea Party, in which case you can blame them for random shootings.)

Now those secular progressives at MTV have opened a new front. They feel one should enjoy a childhood stuffed with sex, drugs, and alcoholism. That would be the message of their new teen drama “Skins.” Adapted from a British series and filmed in Canada, MTV boasts that the actors are actually under 18 – in another intepretation, we call them “children” – and that the show's writers are barely out of high school, so its libertine escapades are authentic, “the real secret lives” of teenagers.

Read more: Bozell Column: MTV's Sordid 'Skins' | NewsBusters.org

 

[California Girl]

I've seen it. I sure as hell would not be allowing my kids to watch such crap.

 

[geauxtohell]

"Dangerous"?

C'mon.

It's not society's problem if parent's are too weak to even enforce what their kids see on television.

If that's the case, you've got bigger problems than the television.

 

[elvis]

"Dangerous"?

C'mon.

It's not society's problem if parent's are too weak to even enforce what their kids see on television.

If that's the case, you've got bigger problems than the television.

They thought this was dangerous.....

 

[Jackson]

Is this what we've come to? That some people would even think that this is alright and all we have to do is turn off the tv or turn the channel? There is no place for this kind of shit on TV. The FCC had better act and fast.

Who are the sponsors?

 

[elvis]

Is this what we've come to? That some people would even think that this is alright and all we have to do is turn off the tv or turn the channel? There is no place for this kind of shit on TV. The FCC had better act and fast.

Who are the sponsors?

Taco Bell and others have pulled their sponsorship, and it's their right to do so. the FCC has no call to play parent to your or anyone else's kids.

 

[G.T.]

I'm not offended by the show at all.

 

[geauxtohell]

"Dangerous"?

C'mon.

It's not society's problem if parent's are too weak to even enforce what their kids see on television.

If that's the case, you've got bigger problems than the television.

They thought this was dangerous.....

Exactly. Nothing new under the Sun.

Of course, it's always refreshing to see that some conservatives actually agree with big government (i.e. The FCC) as long as it's the big government that is regulating things they agree with moral values.

 

[chanel]

You mustn't be a parent or teacher. Or you think it's ok for children to engage in prostitution and illegal drugs - without consequence.

Wouldn't it be refreshing if MTV did an honest "realistic" depiction of high school kids? Fat kids smoking cigarettes, littering, and playing video games until 4 a.m.? Or would that be too offensive?

Parents do not monitor teenagers' media. Unless a parent wants to spend 24/7 with their older children, it is IMPOSSIBLE to prevent them from seeing trash like this. What I'd like to see is all sponsors boycott the show.