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The typical teenage TV shows that were prominent in the 2000s and 2010s have had an immense shift in production style, content and publicity. Recently, Netflix has taken over the role the CW once had, to make the trendy new popular teen shows. I remember all throughout my childhood and early teen years all the different and new shows to watch that everyone waited for weekly. Now The CW has barely released any new shows in the past two years, everything is from a streaming service and probably will be cancelled after season 1.
The problem with this Netflix take over is that this multi-billion-dollar company has to appease to every demographic in order to succeed and constantly produce new content, unlike the CW which was mainly marketed towards teenager and their projects did not need to constantly be a hit. This shift in marketing styles and priorities has changed the main focus of this part of the industry causing TV to slowly die. As we have seen time again and again, Netflix has a tendency of launching multiple shows at a time (many poorly made) to only continue the ones which attract more popularity. Still, it takes a one to two year timespan for each season to come out when people binge the ten episode show in a single night.
This is a different format than TV networks used previously, before a singular season had around 24 episodes and tended to air once a week, giving the network time to evaluate if the show should get rewed and if so, next season's would start production. This is not to say that the new ways of the industry are good or bad it is just an observation on the shift in distribution and less options.
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