“…Surprisingly few studies address the production of youth television, though a substantial body of work exists on the production of children's television (Potter, 2020;Seiter, 1993;Steemers, 2010) and youth media more broadly (boyd, 2014;Davison et al, 2020;Pires et al, 2019;Wee, 2017). Studies of youth television are typically positioned according to a commercial US perspective (Ross and Stein, 2008b) or a European public service one (Andersen, 2019;Davis and Dickinson, 2004;Lury, 2001;Woods, 2016), or they tend to focus on popular youth programmes such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003), Gilmore Girls (2000-2007), Dawson's Creek (1998-2003 and SKAM. According to Sharon Maire Ross and Louisa Ellen Stein, there is a 'significant dearth of work on Teen TV' (2008a: 11) -one perhaps reflecting the abiding industry perception that youths are not watching television but spending time instead online.…”