ABSTRACT
Generally limited to short formats and small budgets, the teen genre has been revitalised since the 2020s. Capitalising on its renewed popularity, streaming services are increasingly investing in the production of teen series, adapting a genre traditionally associated with North American television beyond the Anglo-Saxon world. This chapter focuses on the European context and explores the various ways in which teen scripted series are being redefined in the streaming era. It examines international streamers’ investments in teen series, country patterns and production dynamics, the evolution of generic conventions in teen television, and the (new) narrative tropes within the genre. The chapter concludes that the recent revival of the teen genre provides a useful framework to examine how content produced and distributed by streaming services embodies and creates flexible geographies—cutting across genres, (trans)national borders, televisual conventions, and cultural politics.
