How we made Skins

‘My son had just dropped out of university, so he joined the writing team – along with every member of his student flat’It was 2006, and I was trying to up come up with ideas for shows. My son Jamie, who was at university at the time, read them all and told me that they were all boring, middle-class, middle-aged rubbish. “If you’re so clever, what should I do?” I asked him. Jamie said: “Write a show about teenagers, but one that actually means something.