The document discusses the evolution of teen drama television shows over time from 1959 to present. Early shows in the 1950s and 1980s focused more on school and academics, while more recent shows from the 1990s onward contain more dramatic storylines and depict school and academics to a lesser extent. The document also notes that teen drama shows have traditionally targeted audiences who enjoy dramatic television content and have featured relatable high school storylines.

1. Teen Drama Shows
Gowthaman Seevaratnam

2. Teen drama shows have developed
over the years, but still the same.
This presentation will explain how.

3. TIMELINE OF TV DRAMA
SHOWS OVER THE
YEARS.

4. ------------------1959-----------------
 The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
This show is about a teenager wanted the life with money,
being popular, and getting all the girls.

5. ------------------1988-----------------
 The Wonder Years
This show is about a boy and his best friend starting high
school.

6. ------------------1989-----------------
-
 Saved by the Bell
This show is about six individual students and their lives in
high school.

7. ------------------1989-----------------
 Degrassi High
This show is about different students and how each of
them make their way through high school.

8. ------------------1993-----------------
-
 Boy Meets World
This show is about two best friends and how they make it
through high school, and how they face challenges along
the way.

9. ------------------1997-----------------
-
 Breaker High
This show is about high school students that travel the
world on a cruise ship.

10. ------------------1998-----------------
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 Dawson’s Creek
This show is about four friends from a small town. They go
through different types of teenage drama and how they
resolve it.

11. ------------------1999-----------------
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 Popular
This show is about two step sisters that are the same age,
but from different social groups in high school try and
break the walls.

12. ------------------2003-----------------
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 One Tree Hill
This show is about 5 teenagers that live in a small town
and the challenges they face in high school.

13. ------------------2003-----------------
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 The OC
This show is about a street-smart teen that gets involed
with high class society teens and how he copes.

14. -------------------2004----------------
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 Laguna Beach
Unlike the other shows, Laguna beach was a reality show.
This show followed a couple of teens and recorded their
normal and dramatic lives.

15. ------------------2007-----------------
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 Gossip Girl
This show is about high class teenagers that attend a
private school in New York.

16. ------------------2008-----------------
-
 90210
This show is about a group of teenagers and how they
cope through high school life.

17. Basically this presentation shows how teen high school
dramas have grown through the years. It also shows how
they stayed the same. The way they changed is they now
have more drama and less school. The clothing has
changed over the years. The thing that stayed the same is
the group of friends or like the two friends going into high
school.

18.  The trend back then was using school in the shows. It
shows the students in class and doing things in the class
room and not a lot of drama.
 The trend right now is more drama, less school. If you
do see the main character in a class room its probably
only for a couple of seconds.
 I think the trend in the future will be no school at all.
Look back at all the trends, school is starting to fade
away from teen drama.

19. High Culture / Low Culture
 Low culture people would watch these teen dramas and
buy the DVD’s and actually get into the drama in the
show.
 High culture people wouldn’t watch this show, or buy
the DVD’s

20. Audience.
 The target audience for these shows are for people who
like drama and suspense shows. The shows take place in
high school so the teens that watch it might go through
the same thing that why they might keep watching it. I
like this because it puts shows how teens are in high
school and what they go through. I dislike it because
some of the situations are unreal.