Drawing Certain Teens Together: About the Serial Development of Teen TV on Network Television

Grampp S (2025)

Publication Type: Authored book

Publication year: 2025

Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media

ISBN: 9783658441630

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-44163-0_2

Abstract

This article explains why and in what way The WB Television Network was able to establish and popularize coming-of-age teen dramedies in the US television landscape at the end of the 1990s. The aim of the paper is on the one hand to illustrate the extent to which creative developments are based on economic exploitation strategies and competition, legal frameworks, but also on specific biographies of individual actors and changes in media technology. On the other hand, it will be shown that WB series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer (USA 1997–2003) or Dawson’s Creek (USA 1998–2003) have been testing and establishing aesthetic, narrative and transmedial forms and strategies that can still be found in many youth series today.

Authors with CRIS profile

Sven Grampp Lehrstuhl für Medienwissenschaft

How to cite

APA:

Grampp, S. (2025). Drawing Certain Teens Together: About the Serial Development of Teen TV on Network Television. Springer Science+Business Media.

MLA:

Grampp, Sven. Drawing Certain Teens Together: About the Serial Development of Teen TV on Network Television. Springer Science+Business Media, 2025.

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