Skin is a television series which aired at 9:00 p.m. Monday on the FOX network in 2003. It followed the tale of two teenagers who came from feuding families. One, Adam (D.J. Cotrona), is the son of Los Angeles District Attorney Tom Roam (Kevin Anderson), and the other is Jewel (Olivia Wilde), whose father, Larry Goldman (Ron Silver), runs a pornography company. The show was a modern-day take on the Romeo and Juliet story. Even after an incredible...
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Skin is a television series which aired at 9:00 p.m. Monday on the FOX network in 2003. It followed the tale of two teenagers who came from feuding families. One, Adam (D.J. Cotrona), is the son of Los Angeles District Attorney Tom Roam (Kevin Anderson), and the other is Jewel (Olivia Wilde), whose father, Larry Goldman (Ron Silver), runs a pornography company. The show was a modern-day take on the Romeo and Juliet story. Even after an incredible amount of advertising, it was cancelled after only three episodes (of a total of nine episodes produced) due to poor ratings and less than favorable reviews. It was reprieved in 2005, when SOAPnet acquired broadcasting to all eight episodes and aired for the first time, the last five episodes.
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 were interested as "it was a really character...
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