Abstract
This book has set out British youth television as an ecosystem, consisting of the niche digital channels of BBC Three, ITV2 and E4 (with some overspill into Channel 4). A voice emerges from its programming that is both defiantly British, shaped by national televisual traditions, but also coloured with perhaps a hint of an American accent. From this analysis emerge different visions of British youth, from superheroes under ASBOs, to soldiers in battle, to Essex girls at play. If this television builds an image of British youth, then this is a shifting identity that contains multitudes, just as no one genre can define British youth television. This study has forced a space for British voices in the academic documentation of youth narratives, a realm previously dominated by the American teenager and their high school stories, their college campuses and their first steps into an adult world. It has marked out the territory, pushed British youth programming to the foreground and argued for its importance.
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