MTV has ordered a 10-episode season of Skins from E1 Entertainment and the U.K.’s Company Pictures, looking to air the teen series in the U.S. in January.
The companies teamed up on the Skins pilot late last year, adapting it from the British series with help from co-creator Bryan Elsley. The series will be coproduced by E1, Company and the U.K.’s Storm Dog Films.
It follows a flurry of deals on E1’s distribution front. The company on Tuesday picked up the British and Irish rights for Fair Game and The Runaways.
Fair Game, based on the memoir of outted CIA agent Valerie Plame, is also in the running for the Palme D’Or at Cannes. It will play in the U.K. this summer alongside teen rock bio The Runaways, which E1 released in Canada earlier this year.
The deal was negotiated by E1’s SVP of worldwide acquisitions Lara Thompson and David Garrett, president of Summit International, which held the U.K. rights to both titles.
Meanwhile, Australian distributor Hopscotch has snapped up the rights to Song for Marion. The film about an elderly widow who joins a choir enters preproduction next month.
‘The power of the script has already generated sales in Canada, the U.K. and France as everyone that reads it is instantly convinced that this film will touch a broad audience,’ said E1’s Charlotte Mickie in a statement.