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Nick (Skins Series 5)
"Nick" is the fifth episode of fifth series of the British teen drama '' Skins'', which first aired on 24 February 2011 on E4. It focuses on Nick (Sean Teale) as he deals with the return of his brother, Matty (Sebastian De Souza) into his life. Synopsis The episode opens with Nick and his rugby team training for a big game coming up. At home, Nick's overbearing father, Leon makes Matty sign a contract, if he hopes to stay, before leaving to take his suicidal friend, Warren, for a game of golf. Tensions soon arise over Matty's relationship with Liv, as Nick is still secretly in love with her. When Liv arrives to have sex with Matty, Nick gets jealous and immediately goes to Mini's house, where they awkwardly have sex. The next day, Nick and Leon accompany Matty to a meeting with David Blood, the Roundview College headmaster, and manage to get him re-enrolled. Nick is ordered by his father to keep an eye on his older brother. Nick then introduces Matty to the gang, and Matty ...
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Skins (British TV Series)
''Skins'' is a 2007 British anthology teen drama television series that follows the lives of a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England, through the two years of sixth form. Its controversial storylines have explored issues such as Dysfunctional family, dysfunctional families, mental illness (such as depression (mood), depression, eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, and bipolar disorder), adolescent sexuality, gender, substance abuse, death, and bullying. Each episode generally focuses on a particular character or subset of characters and the struggles they face in their lives, with the episodes named after the featured characters. The show was created by father-and-son television writers Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain for Company Pictures, and premiered on E4 (TV channel), E4 on 25 January 2007. ''Skins'' went on to be a critical success as well as a ratings winner and has developed a cult following. It has since been considered revolutionary, and conti ...
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Nick Levan (Skins)
Nicholas Laurence "Nick" Levan is a fictional character from the third generation in the British teen drama '' Skins'', played by Sean Teale. Nick was introduced in the fifth series and is a former rugby player who used to play for the school team. He has had relationships with Franky Fitzgerald and Mini McGuinness. Characterisation Series 5 At the start of series 5, Sean Teale Sean Teale (born 18 June 1992) is a British actor, known for his roles as Louis, Prince of Condé (1530–1569), Prince Condé in ''Reign (TV series), Reign'', Nick Levan in ''Skins (British TV series), Skins'', and Ben Larson in the Syfy serie ... described his character as "balls deep in life". Series 6 At the start of series 6, Teale said: "Nick has had a heavy summer, rugby is out of the question as his fitness is in doubt and he starts partying hard; a little too hard, I think. He's a lot more integrated with the group this series. He's a lot friendlier with them, they've warmed to him and the ...
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Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ( , ; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African Internal resistance to apartheid, anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a Universal suffrage, fully representative democratic election. Presidency of Nelson Mandela, His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by fostering racial Conflict resolution, reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialism, socialist, he served as the president of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997. A Xhosa people, Xhosa, Mandela was born into the Thembu people, Thembu royal family in Mvezo, South Africa. He studied law at the University of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand before working as a lawyer in Johannesburg. There he became involved in anti-colonial and Afr ...
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South African People
According to the 2022 census, the population of South Africa is about 62 million people of diverse origins, cultures, Languages of South Africa, languages, and Religion in South Africa, religions, with a majority being Black Africans. The South African National Census of 2022 was the most recent census held; the next will be in 2032. In 2011, Statistics South Africa counted 2.1 million foreigners in total. Reports suggest that is an underestimation. The real figure may be as high as five million, including some three million Demographics of Zimbabwe, Zimbabweans. History The earliest creatures that can be identified as human ancestors in South Africa are Australopithecine, australopithecines. The first evidence of this was a Taung Child, child's skull found in the Taung quarry site. This was in the modern day North West (South African province), North-West province. More Fossil, fossils australopithecines were found in limestone caves Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, and Kromdraai ...
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Franky (Skins)
"Franky" is the first episode of the fifth series of the British teen drama '' Skins''. It first aired on E4 in the UK on 27 January 2011. It introduces the third generation of the series, and focuses on the character of Franky Fitzgerald (Dakota Blue Richards) she attempts to fit in at Roundview College, after moving to Bristol from Oxford with her adoptive gay dads. Plot synopsis The episode opens with Franky Fitzgerald, a timid androgynous teenager who has recently moved to Bristol from Oxford, along with her adoptive fathers, Geoff and Jeff, preparing for school. On her way to school she becomes involved in an accident with a motorized scooter. This is witnessed by Mini (Freya Mavor), an attractive but arrogant and fashion-oriented girl with two best friends, Liv (Laya Lewis) and Grace (Jessica Sula). During sports, Franky accidentally trips Mini, causing her to fall into a patch of mud. Enraged, Mini drags Franky down with her, and their fight is eventually broken up. L ...
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Sebastian De Souza
Sebastian Denis de Souza (born 19 April 1993)''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England and Wales, 1916–2005'' B100D is an English actor. He is best known for playing Matty Levan in the E4 teen drama series '' Skins''. He has since starred in the period television series '' The Borgias'' from 2012 to 2013, '' Medici: Masters of Florence'' (2018), and '' The Great'' (2020). Early life De Souza is the second of the two sons of Elinor Kelly and Chris de Souza, an opera producer of Goan descent. He was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, and has an older brother named Tristan. He grew up in Boxford, Berkshire, and was a boarder at Brockhurst and Marlston House School developing a fascination with theatre, music, and writing. At the age of 11 he decided to dramatise '' The Willows at Christmas'', William Horwood's adaptation of ''The Wind in the Willows'', and performed it in the barn with his classmates. In 2006 when he was 13, he starred in the short film ''Hangman'', premiered ...
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Matty (Skins)
Matthew "Matty" Levan is a fictional character from the third generation of the British teen drama '' Skins'', portrayed by actor Sebastian de Souza. Matty is described as "mysterious and initially unrealistic character, because he's untouchable." Matty is the only lead character in the history of ''Skins'' to never have a centric episode - either solo or shared. It follows that he's mainly known through relationships with some of the other characters. Characterisation Matty seems to appear in the fifth series out of nowhere, in a black trenchcoat and a duffle bag like a vagabond without a home. "As a character within the group, his position is initially very confusing. He has a definite charisma, with a very abstract philosophy on life, but he's just one of those characters that could go either way, and do very bad or very good things." Only after a half of the series his name is revealed, and he turns out to be Nick's older brother. Trapped in a life by a tyrannical father (Leo ...
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Sean Teale
Sean Teale (born 18 June 1992) is a British actor, known for his roles as Louis, Prince of Condé (1530–1569), Prince Condé in ''Reign (TV series), Reign'', Nick Levan in ''Skins (British TV series), Skins'', and Ben Larson in the Syfy series ''Incorporated (TV series), Incorporated.'' He also co-starred in the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox sci-fi/drama series ''The Gifted (U.S. TV series), The Gifted''. Early life Teale grew up in Putney, London. He is of Venezuelan people, Venezuelan, Spanish people, Spanish, and Welsh people, Welsh descent. His father, Noel, is an Information technology consulting, IT consultant and his mother, Fini, works at a design advertising agency. Teale attended Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith where he played Rugby union, rugby and Football in England, football and took drama. His performance in a school play was spotted by an agent in the audience. Teale decided to switch his focus from sports to drama after his agents advised him to renounce ...
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E4 (channel)
E4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. The "E" stands for ''entertainment'' and the channel is primarily aimed at the 16–34 age group (similarly to BBC Three, ITV2, 5Star, Sky One, Universal TV, Comedy Central (British TV channel), Comedy Central and Dave (TV channel), Dave). Programmes currently shown on the channel include ''Hollyoaks'', ''Made in Chelsea'', ''Coach Trip'' (and its Halloween spin-off ''Celebrity Ghost Trip''), The most successful broadcast of the channel to date was on 11 October 2010 when an episode of ''The Inbetweeners'' received over 3.7 million viewers.BARB, vi/ref> History E4 was announced in 1999, when Channel 4 announced a £100 million deal to acquire the first run pay TV rights to popular American series ''Friends'' and ''ER (TV series), ER'' from Sky One; the deal was meant to strengthen the new channel. Rights to both shows were originally owned by Channel 4 up ...
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Chris Addison
Christopher David Addison (born 5 November 1971) is a British comedian, writer, actor, and director. He was a panellist on several editions of TV comedy panel show '' Mock the Week''. He is known for lecture-style comedy shows, two of which he later adapted for BBC Radio 4. In addition to stand-up, Addison played Ollie Reeder in the BBC Two satire series ''The Thick of It'' (2005) and Toby Wright in its spin-off film ''In the Loop'' (2009), starred in the Sky Living comedy-drama '' Trying Again'' (2014) and appeared in three episodes of series 8 of ''Doctor Who''. He co-created and starred in the BBC Two sitcom '' Lab Rats'' (2008). On radio, he previously hosted the weekly comedy news satire show '' 7-Day Sunday'' on BBC Radio 5 Live from 2009 to 2010. In 2020 he co-created the FX parental-comedy series '' Breeders'' starring Martin Freeman. Early life Addison was born in Cardiff, Wales, to English parents and moved with his parents to Worsley, Salford, England, when he was ...
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Skins (series 5)
'' Skins'' is a British teen drama created by father-and-son television writers Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain for Company Pictures. The fifth series began airing on E4 on 27 January 2011 and ended on 17 March 2011. This series sees the introduction of a new cast; it follows the lives of the third generation of sixth form students of Franky Fitzgerald, Rich Hardbeck, Grace Blood, Mini McGuinness, Liv Malone, Alo Creevey, and brothers Nick Nick may refer to: People and fictional characters * Nick (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Désirée Nick, German actress and writer Places * Nick, Hungary, a village * Nick, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland, a ... and Matty Levan. Main cast List of episodes References External links *List of * {{DEFAULTSORT:Skins Episodes Series 05 2011 British television seasons de:Liste der Skins-Episoden ...
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Alo (Skins Series 5)
"Alo" is the sixth episode of fifth series of the British teen drama '' Skins'', which first aired on 3 March 2011 on E4. It focuses on Aloysius "Alo" Creevey ( Will Merrick) as he deals with the consequences of refusing to grow up, and his efforts to stand up to his domineering and tyrannical mother and henpecked father. Synopsis It is Alo's birthday, and his domineering mother and henpecked father seem disinterested. Rather than allowing him to visit his friends in town, they force him to stay and work on the farm. His father and their incoherent farmhand try to teach him how to drive a tractor, but he overheats it. While his father is trying to fix it, he lets Alo run off. His mother, however, discovers what has happened, and reveals that they intend to withdraw him from Roundview College in order to force him to buckle down on the farm. He is lured away by his friends and taken to the local pub, where they demand to know what has happened. After he explains, they encour ...
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