List Rules Vote up your favorite British shows about teenagers and geared toward a young audience.
Teenagers' lives are full of drama, making them the perfect subjects for entertaining television. The top British teen shows combine elements of humor and pathos to tell engaging stories to fans of all ages. This is a list of the best British teen shows, including everything from Grange HilltoTeenage Health Freak toHarry and Cosh.
What series will you find on this list of the greatest British teen shows? Skinsfollows a group of teens in Bristol as they deal with a variety of issues, including depression, substance abuse, and sexuality. Nicholas Hoult, Hannah Murray, and Mike Bailey starred in the first generation of the series. Hollyoaksis another popular British teen TV show. Young Draculatells the story of a bloodsucking family from Transylvania as they adjust to life in the small town of Stokey following a move. Other good British teen shows featured on this list include British teen dramas such as Sugar Rush and Byker Grove.
Do you have a favorite English teen show? Vote the best series up to the top of this list and get in on the conversation in the comments section.
Skins is a British teen drama that followed the lives of a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England, through the two years of sixth form. Each episode generally focuses on a particular ...more
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jessabear_7 added The InbetweenersBelinda Stewart-Wilson, Greg Davies, Blake Harrison
The Inbetweeners is a British sitcom that originally aired on E4 from 2008 to 2010. Created and written by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, the show followed the life of suburban teenager Will ...more
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My Mad Fat DiarySharon Rooney, Claire Rushbrook, Ian Hart
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MisfitsNathan Stewart-Jarrett, Joseph Gilgun, Iwan Rheon
Misfits is a British science fiction comedy-drama television show, on E4, about a group of young offenders sentenced to work in a community service program, where they obtain supernatural powers ...more
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Grange HillStuart Organ, Gwyneth Powell, Lee Cornes
Grange Hill is a British television drama series originally made by the BBC. The show began in 1978 on BBC1 and was one of the longest-running programmes on British television when it ended its ...more
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jessabear_7 added Fresh MeatKimberley Nixon, Robert Webb, Joe Thomas
Fresh Meat is a British comedy-drama created by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, who also created Peep Show. The first episode, directed by David Kerr, was broadcast on Channel 4 on 21 September ...more
Wolfblood is a British fantasy/supernatural drama television series aimed at teens. It is a co-production between CBBC and ZDF/ZDFE. So far three series have been aired. Series 1 aired from 10 ...more
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Young DraculaKeith-Lee Castle, Clare Thomas, Simon Ludders
Young Dracula is a British teenage horror drama television series which aired on CBBC, loosely based on Young Dracula and Young Monsters, a children's book by Michael Lawrence. The final episode ...more
EastEnders: E20 is a British Internet soap opera, which began airing on 8 January 2010. A spin-off from the established BBC soap EastEnders, it is set in EastEnders '​ regular setting of Albert ...more
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HollyoaksGemma Atkinson, Roxanne McKee, Emma Rigby
Hollyoaks is a British soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who had also devised the Channel 4 soap Brookside. The programme is ...more
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PramfaceScarlett Alice Johnson, Angus Deayton, Anna Chancellor
Pramface is a BBC Three comedy-drama series starring Scarlett Alice Johnson and Sean Michael Verey. Written by Chris Reddy, the first series, comprising six half-hour long episodes, piloted on ...more
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The FadesLily Loveless, Daniel Kaluuya, Iain De Caestecker
The Fades is an award winning British supernatural drama television series created and written by Jack Thorne. The six episodes were first broadcast on BBC Three and BBC HD beginning 21 ...more
House of Anubis is a jointly Nickelodeon British, American, and Belgian mystery television series based on the Dutch-Belgian television series Het Huis Anubis aired in the Netherlands and ...more
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Byker GroveCharlie Hunnam, Jill Halfpenny, Donna Air
Byker Grove is a British television series which aired between 1989 and 2006 and was created by Adele Rose. The show was broadcast at 5.10pm after Newsround on CBBC on BBC One. It was aimed at ...more
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Sugar RushLenora Crichlow, Sara Stewart, Sarah-Jane Potts
Sugar Rush is a British television comedy-drama series developed by Shine Limited and broadcast by Channel 4, based on the Julie Burchill novel of the same name. It is centred on the life of a ...more
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onebert added GlueYasmin Paige, Jordan Stephens, Billy Howle
Press Gang is a British children's television comedy-drama consisting of 43 episodes across five series that were broadcast from 1989 to 1993. It was produced by Richmond Film & Television ...more
Hollyoaks Later is a British television spin-off of the Channel 4 television series Hollyoaks. The series began in 2008 and since then has become an annual event for the soap. The series returns ...more
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Teenage Health FreakTony Robinson, Dominic Keating, Susan Penhaligon
Teenage Health Freak is a British teen comedy-drama about the life and travails of a socially awkward teenager as he goes through life. It is best known for featuring the actress Liza Walker and ...more
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A Bunch Of FivesLesley Manville, Jamie Foreman
A Bunch of Fives is an English children’s television show broadcast in the 1970s on ITV. A precursor of Grange Hill, it starred Lesley Manville and Jamie Foreman as Fifth formers who start a ...more
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Harry And CoshBronson Webb, Lucinda Rhodes-Flaherty
Harry and Cosh was a British children's television series directed by Daniel Peacock shown on Saturday afternoons on Shake! on Channel 5 It starred Harry Capehorn, Coshti Dowden, Lucinda ...more
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Rownd A RowndTom Blumberg, Aled Herbert, Manon Elis
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Help! I'm A Teenage OutlawBrian Hibbard, Steven O'Donnell, Benjamin Smith
Help! I'm A Teenage Outlaw is a British television programme filmed in the Czech Republic and first aired on CITV. The show follows three hapless outlaws during the English Civil War, who are ...more
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