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Abstract
This article explores the UK significance of Netflix’s Adolescence in three areas. First is why Adolescence was commissioned for Netflix, a multinational subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) service, rather than for one of the UK’s PSBs and what this conveys about the current position of UK-produced high-end dramas and Netflix’s involvement in them. Second is the creative genesis of Adolescence and what narrative and aesthetic strategies were important to the story it tells. Third are the public outcomes of Adolescence , its connections with the UK’s PSB drama traditions, and the significance of its near-global release.
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Critical Studies in Television publishes articles that draw together divergent disciplines and different ways of thinking, to promote and advance television as a distinct academic discipline. It welcomes contributions on any aspect of television—production studies and institutional histories, audience and reception studies, theoretical approaches, conceptual paradigms and pedagogical questions. It continues to invite analyses of the compositional principles and aesthetics of texts, as well as contextual matters relating to both contemporary and past productions. CST also features book reviews, dossiers and debates. The journal is scholarly but accessible, dedicated to generating new knowledge and fostering a dynamic intellectual platform for television studies.