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Alas, poor "Skins," we barely knew ye. Though most of the characters on the show "knew" each other, if ya know what I'm sayin'. MTV has officially cancelled its racy new series "Skins" following a public backlash and a subsequent decline in ratings. The show, which is adapted from the UK version of the same name, follows a group of high school students who engage in an amount of partying and sexual activity that was shocking to some parents and TV watchdog groups.

Back in late January/early February, the entertainment world (and Yidio fans) were up in arms over the controversy surrounding “Skins,” a new MTV teen drama based on a British series that showed a realistic portrayal of the world of teens, drugs, sex and all. The series started off with a bang, scoring ratings success and the scorn of the Parent’s Television Council, while causing advertisers to flee and countless inches of ink to be spilled.

Forget the "Skins" controversy, The Parents Television Council (PTC) is on the primetime attack. After ABC announced the pilot of a sitcom called “Good Christian Bitches,” PTC urged it’s million-strong membership to sign a petition against the title that comes from the Disney-owned network. “ABC’s decision is not only an affront to women, it blatantly attacks the world’s largest faith.

When all else fails, aim for the wallet. That's apparently the strategy of the Parent's Television Council, the family-focused watchdog group that's been on nothing less than a jihad against the MTV show "Skins." While poor ratings may end up doing the show in anyway, the group apparently wants to twist the knife further, after it's last campaign managed to drive a slew of advertisers from the show.

While MTV’s “Skins” has succeeded at generating loads of controversy and plenty of buzz, what it apparently hasn’t been able to do is drive the sustained viewership the network may have expected. According to Fox 411, “not quite a million people tuned in to watch the fifth episode of MTV’s controversial teen drama ‘Skins’ last Monday night, a major drop from the 3.

As we’ve been reporting, the MTV show “Skins” has been at the center of all kinds of controversy after the ominous-sounding Parent’s Television Council called the show the “most dangerous show on TV" for kids. Now the group is escalating things by contacting state attorney generals to allege that both the MTV show and the satellite providers that air it may be violating child pornography laws.

“Skins” creator Bryan Elsley has had enough of critics who have claimed the show’s lurid subject matter and occasional nudity makes it dangerous for children or even perhaps “child pornography.” Advertisers like Taco Bell, Wrigley and now Subway have all pulled ads to the show. The show’s creator today released a lengthy diatribe lashing out at the show’s detractors, who, he says, must realize that sometimes the truth can “be a little painful to adults and parents.

On Thursday Yidio reported on how a recent episode of "Skins" caused an uproar with the conservative Parents’ Television Council, which called the show "the most dangerous program that has ever been foisted on your children." MTV producers agreed to make changes to tone down some of the most explicit content in the realistic teen show. That apparently didn't include the elimination of a hot and heavy girl-on-girl makeout scene featured in an upcoming episode.

When MTV decided to import the racy British series “Skins” across the pond, it did so with the full knowledge that the show could cause a ruckus, and man were they ever right. According to New York Times reporters, “in recent days, executives at the cable channel became concerned that some scenes from the provocative new show ‘Skins’ may violate federal child pornography statutes.