A big thank you to everyone that voted for our very own Jack in the race for Best Actor in the TVChoice Awards 2010 - it only went and paid off!
Last night Mr. O'Connell walked away with the Best Actor crown and got straight on his Twitter to say thanks himself: "Nowt but love to anyone who voted."
Nice one Jack!
Props to Reeeksie for giving us our first fan photo with a member of the Skins 5 cast. Here he is with Laya. Well done sir.
Got a photo with one of the new Skins cast? Share it with us! Upload your Skins photos here and we'll show them on the homepage.
So, you've met the new cast... and judging by your beautiful (ahem) comments, you obviously love them all to pieces already!
But based on what you've seen of the actors that will play them, what do you reckon'll happen with their characters?
Who looks like they'll play a trouble maker? Whose characters will be getting it on in the first five minutes? Who's going to be a die-hard raver, and who'll be stuck indoors worrying about resits?
We want to know what you think the new characters will be like and what you think is going to happen in series 5 - tell us below. No prizes for getting it right, except the opportunity to show off to some complete strangers, of course.
Freya, Jess, Laya, Will and Alex from the Skins 5 cast were plucked straight out of the open auditions. Were you there too? Do you recognise any of the chosen five?
We want to hear your stories... did you meet them? What were they like? Did they share their last bit of Kit Kat? Or perhaps you saved their spot in the toilet queue.
Maybe you even got a pic of them - if you did, don't forget to upload them in our Skins photo challenge.
Tell us your Skins 5 audition stories below.
So, if you haven't seen them yet, have a peek at the brand new Skins 5 cast.
And guess what? 5 out of the 8 lovely new actors came straight out of the open auditions back in April this year. Freya, Jess, Laya, Will and Alex were chosen from over 7000 of you that turned up in London and Bristol to try out for the show.
Executive Producer John Griffin was certainly impressed with all you auditionees:
"More people than ever turned up this year for the open auditions in London and Bristol and the standard of young talent was as high as ever. It was a huge process but incredibly rewarding and we hope that the auditionees had as much fun as we did. We are really excited about the talent that has come through and we now have brilliant cast of actors helping to create the exciting new characters for Skins Series 5."
Cheers John - we're excited too!
Thom
Alright Skins fans, as you probably know, Series 5 is well on its way… and we’ll be announcing the new cast very soon.
Come back to e4.com/skins at 5pm on Thursday (5th August) to meet the latest bunch of actors appearing in Skins. Excited already? Yep, me too.
Set yourself a reminder now.
PS, I’m Thom btw - the new Layla, if you will - a pleasure to meet you all. Expect loads more from me very soon.
OMG! We've done a Skins audit (which involves looking under the bed) and found 4 videos that haven't been featured on the site yet! Plus a gallery of pics from the set of series 4 you haven't seen!
As series 4 is currently repeated on Channel 4, it seemed the perfect time to share them with you all without it being old news.
Before you ask why these weren't uploaded earlier: the plan was to feature these during series 4 but it soon became apparent that you were much more concerned about what was happening in the show what with all of the twists and turns and it seemed out of sync to add these. I hope you enjoy or at least quite like them.
It's also time for me to say a fond farewell as I'm now Editor of e4.com and a new Editor of e4.com/skins is on the way. This is also why the site's been a little quiet of late. I will still be popping up, so don't say too many bad things. At least for a little while.
Thanks for being the best fans a show could have.
Layla
Skins is up for the TV Choice Award for Best Drama, AND NOT ONLY THAT: Jack O Connell is also nominated in the Best Actor category and Kaya for Best Actress.
Please vote for us by clickety clicking
And remember - use your votes wisely i.e for us
UPDATE: voting closes 9th July at midnight
Looks like the Skins film is GO. Full details in the press release below. Who do you want to see on the big screen?
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COMPANY PICTURES, STORMDOG FILMS, FILM4 AND CINEMANX DEVELOPING MOVIE OF CULT E4 SERIES, SKINS
Producers Company Pictures and Stormdog Films, feature film financiers and distributors CinemaNX, and Film4 have today announced that they are jointly developing a feature film version of the E4 hit television series, SKINS.
Scripted by SKINS writer Jack Thorne, working closely with SKINS creator Bryan Elsley, the film is scheduled to go into production later this year, and follows four hugely successful seasons on E4. The latest of these has just finished its run, with the highest ratings of any series so far.
Director of Company, Charlie Pattinson, believes that bringing a film version to the big screen is the obvious next step for SKINS – “given the huge amount of support from the ever expanding fan base of the series, we feel that we can go much further and produce yet another unique SKINS experience”, remarked Pattinson.
A number of familiar characters from the four series are expected to feature in the film, which will be directed by long time SKINS director Charles Martin and produced by long time SKINS producer Chris Clough. Shooting in Bristol and the Isle of Man later this year, the film is scheduled for a summer 2011 release.
Company Pictures have a long history of working with both Film4 and CinemaNX individually but this project will be the first collaboration between all three parties.
“The sheer depth in quality that SKINS has delivered over the years makes it perfect for the big screen and we are delighted to be back in business with Company,” said chairman of CinemaNX, Steve Christian.
Tessa Ross, Controller of Film4 and Channel 4 Drama, said: "It is very exciting to be migrating across from E4 to Film4, this extraordinarily talented team from SKINS, who have successfully grown such a wonderfully loyal audience over the course of the last four series.