In this book, Faye Woods explores the raucous, cheeky, intimate voice of
British youth television. This is the first study of a complete
television system targeting teens and twenty somethings, chronicling a
period of significant industrial change in the early 21st century.
British Youth Television offers a snapshot of the complexities of
contemporary television from a British standpoint -- youth-focused
programming that blossomed in the commercial expansion of the digital
era, yet indelibly shaped by public service broadcasting, and now
finding its feet on proliferating platforms. Considering BBC Three, My
Mad Fat Diary, The Inbetweeners, Our War and Made in Chelsea,
amongst others; Woods identifies a television that is defiantly British,
yet also has a complex transatlantic relationship with US teen TV. This
book creates a space for British voices in an academic and cultural
landscape dominated by the American teenager.