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Pill-popping, bed-hopping Channel 4 drama Skins will end in 2013 after its seventh series, a spokesperson has announced.

The show has been broadcast since 2007, its first series starring Nicholas Holt, who has gone on to star in Hollywood movies such as A Single Man and Clash Of The Titans.

"Skins is a brilliant show which has defined a generation and will go down as a truly iconic, game-changing piece of television but after seven series it is time for E4 to make way for the next generation of the bold, the new and the innovative," said Channel 4.

Rumours suggest there will be a series of special episodes broadcast next year, potentially featuring popular characters from early series in the show.