Chosen TV Drama - overview

Final Chosen TV Drama....Skins

I've chosen Skins: Series 3 as my TV Drama to analyse. Although I considered House, I realised I preferred Skins more and new more about it. The fact that a lot of the producing comes from kids would be a good point of interest to talk about, too, and a good way to relate Skins to its target audience.
Skins is written by the creators, Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain. It's genre is comedic teen drama and it centres around a group of teenagers in Bristol, England, as they grow up. The first series premiered on E4 on 25th January, 2007.

Main Characters in Series 3:

'Effy Stonem', played by Kaya Scodelario.
Effy is ring leader of her group of friends - she's popular, desirable and never makes a point of trying hard at anything.



'Pandora Moon', played by Lisa Backwell
Effy's side-kick, Pandora is sweet, dim-witted and naive to the teenage world of sex and drugs.

'Thomas Tomone', played by Merveille Lukeba
Thomas is a morally good-hearted, upbeat boy recently emigrated from Congo.



'James Cook', played by Jack O'Connell
Cook is a typical larry, boisterous lad, who doesn't care about anything.


'Freddie Mclair', played by Luke Pasqualino
Freddie is easy going and moody, but often gets caught up in trouble. He tries to be sensible and level headed.




'JJ Jones', played by Ollie Barbeiri
JJ is shy and socially unaware - he relies on his interllect and magic tricks, and follows his friends around.




'Emily Fitch' played by Kathryn Prescott
Emily is the cripplingly shy twin, faded into the background and much more down-to-earth than her sister. She is coming to terms with being a lesbian.





'Katie Fitch' played by Megan Prescott
She is the popular, domineering, attention-seeking twin with homephobic views.




'Naomi Campbell' played by Lily Loveless
Is a fiery, passionate woman with feminist ambitions, but an outsider and confused about her sexuality.