Jack O’Connell in new BBC drama

Skins star Jack O’Connell has been cast in a new BBC Two drama, reports The Guardian.

The actor, who played Cook in the E4 teen show, will star in Dominic Savage’s new two-part series Dive, about a young diver selected to compete at the 2012 London Olympics.

O’Connell is cast as Robert, the boyfriend of teen diver Lindsey, who has to rethink her life after falling pregnant. Lindsey’s story will be told in the first part, while the follow-up will be seen from Robert’s point of view.

“This is a story about growing up. A love story,” said Savage. “A story of hope and desire, of ambition and success and the search in all of us for freedom; to be whatever we need to be.”

He continued: “A story that offers a different perspective on teenagers and family life. A film that celebrates young people and has an optimism for their future and what they can achieve.”

Via Digital Spy

Skins: the movie? [open thread]

This got posted earlier on e4.com

Is there a Skins movie on the cards? It’s very early days, but Film4 are in ‘preliminary talks’ about a Skins movie, which basically means that nothing has been agreed and it may or may not happen. But, let’s speculate anyway…

We already have a Hollywood star in the form of Dev, and Skins is already 48 minutes long (without ad breaks); and that simply isn’t long enough, judging by your comments (which we take as THE LAW). We can think of four successful TV spin offs recently: The Simpsons, South Park, In the Loop (from the hilarious In the Thick of It, featuring Sid’s dad as foul mouthed Malcolm Tucker, FACT) and Sex and the City; but two of those have were cartoons. And Sex and the City was rubbish. Hmmm.

What could happen in Skins: the Movie? And who would it feature? Would/should it still be based in Bristol? A mixture of the old gang and the series 3 gang or should it have ‘Hollywood’ faces? If so, who? Scarlet Johansson as Naomi or is the diminutive Miss Lily Loveless the only gal for the job?

Lets discuss

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So yeah, after your fantastic answers to my question asking where you’d like to see Skins go in series 4, I’d love to see what would you want to see in the movie?