Skin (TV series)
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Jim Leonard |
| Starring |
Ron Silver Kevin Anderson Pamela Gidley Rachel Ticotin Olivia Wilde D.J. Cotrona D. W. Moffett Laura Leighton Ginger Lynn Allen |
| Composer(s) | Ron Jeremy |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Jim Leonard Jonathan Littman Jerry Bruckheimer |
| Running time | approx. 43 min. |
| Production company(s) |
Jerry Bruckheimer Television Hoosier Karma Productions Warner Bros. Television |
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| Original network |
Fox SOAPnet |
| Original release | October 20, 2003 – June 18, 2005 |
Skin is a television serial drama which aired at 9:00 p.m. Monday on Fox in 2003. It followed the tale of two teenagers who came from feuding families on opposite sides of the moral and legal spectrum. Adam (D.J. Cotrona) is the son of the Los Angeles District Attorney, and Jewel (Olivia Wilde) is the daughter of a pornographer. The show is a modern-day take on the Romeo and Juliet story. Even after an incredible amount of advertising, the show was cancelled after only three episodes due to poor ratings and less than favorable reviews. It was reprieved in 2005, when SOAPnet acquired broadcasting rights to all eight episodes and aired the last five episodes for the first time.
Jim Leonard had the idea for the show, and put it forward to Jerry Bruckheimer. It was to be a Romeo and Juliet romance between the daughter of a porn king and the son of a crusading district attorney.Fox was interested as "it was a really character-based drama, and a new world" where pornography would be the background, not the focus. Leonard said "Our goal was to take the soap out of soap opera and to tell a kind of operatic big story where worlds come together," and that he had long wanted to do a show that was about "sex, race and love."
Skin was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Hoosier Karma Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television The executive producers were creator Jim Leonard, Jonathan Littman, Jerry Bruckheimer. During production Bruckheimer had expressed intent to have the DVD release more contain explicit edits of the episodes than what was broadcast. This is the first series produced by Bruckheimer to be canceled.
Larry Goldman is Jewish, a pornography magnate and loving father, who controls the Los Angeles pornography industry. Barbara is his bubbly platinum-blonde wife and Jewel is their 16-year-old daughter. Thomas Roam is a Catholic Los Angeles district attorney running for re-election, at a time when missing children, linked to child pornography, dominate the news. Laura Roam, his wife, is a judge, and Adam is their half-Mexican/half-Irish 16-year-old son.
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