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1. The official Skins site at http://www.e4.com/skins/ features competitions, mp3 downloads, and a link to a mailing list which delivers “free stuff” to its subscribers every week. Episode guides, trailers, and interviews with the cast are also available, as are links to the show's profile on the social networking site MySpace and a customised forum which allows fans to discuss characters and the events of previous episodes and speculate about what might happen later in the series. MySpace-style profiles for each of the major characters, written from a first person perspective, feature under the site's “Us” section, and offer the dedicated viewer an opportunity to learn more about them. Past episodes are available for live streaming via 4’s On Demand service, while ten-minute “unseen” episodes, never shown on television, can also be watched online, and serve to flesh out and augment the plots of the regular episodes broadcast. Most recently, another short episode, titled “Skins Secret Party Special,” was broadcast via the show's MySpace page, and a Christmas-themed special aired on the official programme website.
2. In addition to Sugar Rush, Skins, As If and Queer as Folk, Channel 4 has since its inception provided an array of groundbreaking queer programmes, including the festive variety show Camp Christmas (1993); the San Francisco-set Tales of the City (1993), the Queer as Folk-esque Metrosexuality (2001) and the Queer Street season (1998), which drew together a variety of disparate films, shorts, and documentaries on a gay/lesbian/bisexual theme.
1. I am thinking about the talks I have heard by Michael Kimmel (2003), Jackson Katz (2006), Don McPherson (2007), and Paul Kivel (2008).
1. Taken from the style guide on the journal's website, http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/ghs/ghs_style_guide.pdf, retrieved November 4, 2008.
2. Interestingly, Angela McRobbie was in the audience. Although she has been recognised elsewhere as the “godmother” or “foremother” of girls' studies (Kearney Citation1998, p. 844; Mazzarella & Pecora Citation2007, p. 106), the panel did not recognise her physical presence, nor acknowledge her by now 30-years long, prominent presence in the body of literature.
3. Website of their book Packaging Girlhood, http://www.packaginggirlhood.com/, retrieved November 4, 2008.