Hi, this gets more and more beautiful.
I think you are doing a really great job and the switch from orange to blue was definetly a great decision, even if I liked the orange one, too. Maybe there is a chance that someone creates both as different color schemes after your done with the blue one.
However, I just thought about maybe getting this skin up to github or svn so we could get more frequent updates, but that's only an idea and I totally understand if that is too much work or if you want to keep the skin private until you are done far enough for a new alpha release.
I really think that your skin can compare with Alaska or Xperience because it's great in a completely different way.
I'm looking forward for the next release.
Edit:
I maybe would move the updating dialogue into the top bar, because it seems to hide parts of the normal views. Maybe you could also place it in a settings dialogue like in one of your earlier mockups.
I definetly like the idea of this screen because it has all the important information in one place but I don't even know if something like this is possible with the skinning engine.
And I guess this picture should be a movies view instead of tv shows right?
Also, is this view still alive? I personally really love it
Oh and as the last thing, how the heck did you get avatar already?
Sorry for all this questions