Talk:Skins (American TV series)

Request re-move to Skins (North American TV series)

Made in Canada by Canadian and British production companies (E1 and Company Pictures)[1], starring mostly Canadians, this is a Canadian-British show that is merely set in the US. The last show that had this kind of configuration was Queer as Folk (North American TV series). Toronto can stand in for Pittsburgh or Baltimore but that doesn't change the fact British and Canadian companies are making the show in Canada for a bi-national market. I moved it yesterday from Skins (U.S. TV series) to Skins (North American TV series) and someone took great exception to de-Americanising of the show. Yes, i do not dispute that pretty much everything calls it Skins US. It is short, easy to type, needs little explanation to the convey the minimalistic detail needed to draw in an audience. All of that doesn't mean that it is accurate, just common use. And inaccurate common use is what a redirect is for. Despite being made in Toronto by Temple Street Productions with money from Showtime there exists Queer as Folk (US TV series) as a redirect but there is no Queer as Folk (Canadian TV series). By great coïncidence i happen to have the Ontario Media Development Corporation "OMDC MEDIA LIST – August 13, 2010 Productions currently shooting in Ontario." thanks to needing it for another show. Sadly there are no direct links on their website to the archives of the fortnightly updated listings. So here anyway is my copy. On the bottom of page 2 you will find Skins with the Canadian production company, the production office address telephone and fax info, and the shoot time period. Surely there is proof enough that it is made in Canada by a Canadian company and ought to exist here as a North American series due to it's bi-national nature. delirious & lost ☯ ^~hugs~ 21:48, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

It does not matter that the cast, crew and setting are all mostly Canadian. It's network, the one that greenlit and bought the series in the first place, is MTV which is an US network. It was not intended for airing on MTV in Canada, but instead on MTV Canada. That is a totally different network, and should not be considered in the titling of this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Core2012 (talk • contribs) 03:33, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

MTV Canada has not a damn thing to do with this show. Somehow you seem to think that i am saying that it does. I don't know where you are getting that from.
It does matter that the cast, crew, location (not setting), and production companies are mostly Canadian. That is kind of the point. Who is making and who owns the show? E1 & Company Pictures - a Canadian company and a British company. Who is broadcasting it? MTV and The Movie Network & Movie Central. Are they shown simultaneously? Sort of; the Canadian showing has no commercials and so it may start at 10pm et but the Canadian version concludes first. Who gets the censored version? MTV Who gets the un-censored version? The Movie Network & Movie Central. For the general lack of press about tv in Canada relative to that coming from the US it has proven difficult to track down just when Corus and Astral got involved with Skins. E1 might have sold it to Corus before MTV signed on.
Furthermore, please do not remove comments from talk pages. If you made the comment about Baltimore being removed from the article for lack of any specificity in the show proper or the references then you could remove it but that would be associating your IP address to your account and you probably don't want to do that. And if the comment is not from you then even more so please do not remove the comments of others if they are not vandalism. delirious & lost ☯ ^~hugs~ 05:15, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

The point here is that it's not called Skins: Canada or Skins: North America, and whenever talking about the Skins remake, it's always known as the US version due to the producers claiming it was a US show from the beginning! Many US television shows are filmed in Canada as well as films, and are known as US films and television shows. I honestly think this entire argument is completely pointless to be honest. CloudKade11 (talk) 05:12, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

The point here is proper disambiguation of the article. No show is called Being North American Human or Queer As North American Folk. They are called Being Human and Queer As Folk. If the show were formally called Skins US then the title would self-contain disambiguation. But it is called Skins. And it is not an American show; It is a North American show. If this is completely pointless then you won't mind me moving it back to Skins (North American TV series). delirious & lost ☯ ^~hugs~ 05:49, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Baltimore

I removed the part about the setting as Baltimore. No source, and not mentioned at all in the show. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.150.172.40 (talk) 02:51, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Child porn

So the (US) morning shows are saying that people could be arrested for violating (US) child porn laws because of this show? And will such people be extradited from Canada? As the US has a habit of prosecuting minors in child porn (see sexting), I shouldn't wonder if the actors themselves would also be charged and wanted in the US. If this comes to pass... would the British version also be in the targets of prosecutors?

These concerns need to be added to the article. 64.229.103.105 (talk) 13:22, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

They do, look at all the sources: http://www.google.com/search?q=most+dangerous+tv+show+for+chidlren&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GGLL_en 74.137.176.86 (talk) 15:53, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

If noöne else has i should be able to go through that in the next day or so. If all of those google results say what this section heading does then i shall gladly rescind my request that this be recognised as a bi-national show. Blame Canada because outside is America. I am guessing the headlines are crafted to sensationalise and ensure maximum exposure (how ironic) but if there is any truth to it then ... delirious & lost ☯ ^~hugs~ 23:43, 21 January 2011 (UTC)