Comments on: Friday Nibbles: Your Weekend Sex News Reader

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:53:26 +0000

Here here! My housemate and I were just talking about how many shows are ripoffs of British TV. I especially like SyFy’s “original” series “Being Human” where they didn’t even change the name from the British actually-original-series.

Grrrr.

The other thing that gets me about the “Skins” business is about how people are all up in arms around teens being sexual beings, but no one seems terribly concerned about violence on TV and in the movies. There was a video game that came out a little while ago where, if you did everything right, you could get a storyline to progress to a gay romance between two of the characters where there was an implied (not even shown) love scene. One poster complained that he didn’t want his 5 year old daughter exposed to such filth. It left me wondering why he was exposing his 5 year old daughter to the literally thousands of decapitations (complete with spurting blood) depicted in the game. Apparently death, murder, and suffering are just dandy thanks… but god forbid we should imply that two dudes might kiss… that would be just awful.

Ok… now I have to go find my happy place.

By: violet

violet — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 05:18:44 +0000

I feel the exact same way – I feel like no one in the US will ever know the true greatness of Green Wing, they will only think the shit-series Scrubs is the ultimate ER LOL series.

I’m so glad you pointed it out – it’s a pet peeve of mine. WaPo’s headline is just SO WaPo.

American remakes should be against the Geneva Convention. I die a little inside just thinking of what Hollywood will do to Let The Right One In and Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

By: SexyNinjaMonkey

SexyNinjaMonkey — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 03:34:35 +0000

Just like to point out that the show should not be referred to as ‘MTV’s Skins’….
Better off by it’s proper name of ‘MTV’s blatant rip off of the amazing Britsh show Skins’.

Sorry i just feel strongly on this issue, i’m sick of American tv execs ripping awesome British shows to make only half decent remakes. In the latest batch they have Skins, Being Human & Shameless. All shows made fairly recently… IN ENGLISH. If they were in a foreign language or really old i could understand, but no.

Ok that’s my rant over.