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‘Youthification’ of drama through real-time storytelling: A production study of blank and the legacy of SKAM

“…Relatedly, one of the key selling points of the SKAM remakes was the original show's ability to transition audiences from linear to online viewing modes (Sundet, 2021). What is more, television executives tend to pay close attention to young people's preferences and behaviours, as mentioned earlier, reflecting a perception of youth behaviour as an indicator of future consumption patterns (Davison et al, 2020;Sandvik et al, 2020). Consequently, studies clearly indicate that youth productions represent a nexus of the challenges facing broadcasters in a changing television landscape (Andersen, 2019;Woods, 2016) -in particular, the quest for innovation and 'newness' often coincides with the need for cost efficiency, cuts and savings (Woods, 2017).…”

“…First, it refers to the strategic focus that television producers, executives and decision-makers bring to the production of youth content in the interest of answering the 'youth challenge' (Andersen and Sundet, 2019: 2) or 'missing audience' problem (Davison et al, 2020: 6). Studies have already demonstrated that the media lives of young people today are largely dominated by media platforms which are at once global and digital (Cunningham and Craig, 2019;Davison et al, 2020;Sandvik et al, 2020), meaning that national mass media and linear-flow television are being left behind. Notions such as the 'lost generations' signal the fact that the legacy media perceive reengagement with youth audiences as core to their future legitimacy and possibly existence (Lowe and Maijanen, 2019).…”