Skins

Tony's a smart kid. So smart he believes that he can get his best mate Sid laid, and make a profit. Inevitably the drugs deal goes wrong. Sid doesn't lose his virginity...again. The stolen car goes into the river with the unpaid for drugs. Now they're in the shit.

We look into the magical world of Cassie and the dance she dances to fool everyone that she's beating her eating disorder. Cassie can trick everyone, except Sid who inadvertently wins a place in her heart by mentioning that it's possible that he cares what happens to her. The taxi driver who takes her to the clinic is the only adult she trusts, and the only person to ever see her eat.

How does a ghetto girl come within an ace of winning the Young Musician of the Year competition in the face of total indifference of all those around her? What's the point when nobody, nobody cares or knows what you can do and you have a father who's just as talented but is so lost he can't offer any support?

Happy-go-lucky party animal Chris wakes one morning to find his mum's gone away for a few days and left him a grand. What do you do after you've thrown a party to end all parties and blown all the money? Well, you sell everything that isn't nailed down and go again! Then you just start hoping everything will make sense. Sometimes though, life can make a little more sense than you want it to and Chris realises his mother's not coming home. Ever.

Sid's in shit. Deep shit. He's failing at everything. His history coursework's not made the grade and he's been granted a week to deliver something decent or he'll fail the year. Until then he's grounded, and as sexually frustrated as ever. Will Sid buckle down and focus on his future or will he continue to be hypnotized by Michelle; his best friend's girlfriend? One thing's for sure, by the end of the episode, he'll be aware of just how manipulative Tony is and the friends will be one step closer to a devastating confrontation…

What happens when two friends; one gay, one Muslim, suddenly run up against the limits of their friendship? Maxxie and Anwar are about to find out. And how do you deal with it when it's all happening on the most disastrous school trip ever misconceived? Thrill as an entire A level history class is deported from Russia.

Time's up for Tony. His girlfriend Michelle just isn't going take it anymore. Nor is she going to take her mum's latest husband Malcolm; Toy Boy, Business Failure and Serial Idiot to boot. But just when things couldn't get any worse, a shining knight appears on the horizon with the promise of a happy ending. Michelle's on the rebound. If only she knew how high she's going to bounce.

Has nobody noticed that Effy, Tony's little sister never utters a word? Has nobody ever noticed that she sneaks out at night? Has nobody noticed that this fourteen year old girl is setting out on a journey straight into the Heart of Darkness? Apart from Tony, that is. And Tony doesn't give a damn about anybody or anything; except his little sister…

It's taken quite a lot of time and effort for everyone to fall out with each other. But they've worked at it and they certainly aren't in the mood for apologies. And Anwar's crazy Birthday Party offers a chance for scores to be settled. And settled they are, until somehow, among the devastation, the flames of Love flicker into life, and burn so brightly we're dazzled.