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The teen-focused cable channel, pleased by 'Skins' premiere audience, gets stung with child inappropriate contentography complaints. Will they profit from the buzz anyway?
NEW YORK A parents group with 1.3 million members has called for child inappropriate contentography charges against the makers of Skins, the new TV comedy-drama ostensibly aimed at a teen audience and realistically depicting teen life.
Whether it is realistic or not is beside the point if it violates child inappropriate contentography laws, said Melissa Henson, communications director for the Parents Television Council.
The shows opening audience on Jan. 17 was 3.3 million, including more than a million school-age children and teenagers.
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NEW YORK A parents group with 1.3 million members has called for child inappropriate contentography charges against the makers of Skins, the new TV comedy-drama ostensibly aimed at a teen audience and realistically depicting teen life.
Whether it is realistic or not is beside the point if it violates child inappropriate contentography laws, said Melissa Henson, communications director for the Parents Television Council.
The shows opening audience on Jan. 17 was 3.3 million, including more than a million school-age children and teenagers.
The Parents Television Council, which has 53 chapters across the U.S., said the show is packed with references to sex, drug and alcohol activity, but short on consequences.
It has asked the Department of Justice and the Senate and House judiciary committees to determine if charges should be brought against Skins producers and distributors under several child sexual exploitation laws.
The producers include MTV, MTV Canada (the filming is in Toronto) and All3Media, the makers of the original, British-based version of Skins, where it has already been running since 2007, without any fuss, say the shows defenders, other than winning awards.
Well, some fuss anyway, since English and Irish police complained of a rash of Skins parties that resulted in the trashing of homes, named after the party that climaxed the opening Skins episode in 2007. Maybe this is why the new series, though it mostly follows the originals plotting, ends its pilot episode not with a destructive party but with the inebriated main characters driving their car into a, fortunately shallow, reservoir.
Continued- http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/has-mtv-gone-too-far/