Skins (series V)

18 April 2011

Skins

 

Skins continues to follow the lives of eight teenagers in Bristol - they get high, get drunk, get laid and get up in time for college the next day. The new fifth series features eight new friends - four boys and four girls. This time the girls are taking over, taking charge and taking names...

There's Mini(Freya Mavor), the leader whose strong exterior and controlling nature hides a vulnerable young girl.  Liv (Laya Lewis), her second in command, a clumsy but beautiful party animal with a big heart. Grace (Jessica Sula), who seems pure as the driven snow, but even her best friends don't really know her.  And into this group of best mates crashes Franky (Dakota Blue Richards): super-intelligent, strange, androgynous. The universe bends to her difference and weirdness, and so will these girls - eventually.  

Then there's the boys. Rich (Alexander Arnold) - a cynical metalhead who will never compromise. His best mate Alo (Will Merrick) - farmer boy, pot-head, porn connoisseur. These boys both fear and adore the girls. 

Nick (Sean Teale), Mini's boyfriend, is captain of the rugby team.  He's good-looking, popular, arrogant and unhappy. Matty (Sebastian De Souza) , a boy like a bag of drugs that will clean your heart out like bleach and leave you feeling red raw and sore, wishing he would do it again. 

When you're sixteen nothing is more important than your friends, and these kids are going to be friends for life.

'It's an incredibly exciting challenge to create a third Skins cast for series five. We have developed some wonderful fresh and original stories for our new characters and have found eight amazingly talented young actors to portray them.  I'm confident that we have another wonderful series with all the joy and fun and dare that you would expect from our writers and production team.'  - John Griffin, Executive Producer

The eight new episodes are written by a young British writing team. Executive Producers are Bryan Elsley, John Griffin, Charlie Pattinson and George Faber. Producer is Matt Strevens, Creators are Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain. Series directors are Amanda Boyle, Phillippa Langdale, Jack Clough and Dominic Leclerc.