http://skins.tv/
Various sites up about it now but yeah basically MTV bought out the broadcasting rights to Skins across the pond and are making a US version. Now I'm not the biggest Skins fan myself, but even I think this is a bad idea. Quite aside from the fact that they quite literally will not be able to cover any of the main things Skins is famous for (sex, drugs, profanity) on American TV there's also the self-crippling decision they've come to of making it the exact same show but with American actors. Yup, same scripts, same stories, same characters, and still there's some guy being all smug about how he's the writer of a new hit show. The huge differences between US and UK teens has apparently somehow escaped everyone involved, so looks like we could be in for a show about teen life that has nothing to do with the lives of the teens it's aimed at, who incidentally won't be able to watch it anyway because if it's made properly it'll carry a 21+ rating in the States.
Oh dear.