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All it takes to save the world is a sassy teenage girl, in Vision TV’s Teenage Queens series of superb US shows.

“Alias has replaced Buffy the Vampire Slayer as the number-one guilty pleasure for discerning television viewers,” said the Telegraph’s Stephen Saban.

Hollywood A-lister Jennifer Garner is a delight as Alias’s main character, Sydney Bristow, a college student who unexpectedly finds herself recruited as a hit-babe for a top-secret CIA division.

In series two, while seeking mysterious artefacts created by a Renaissance visionary, Sydney begins a romance – but must deal with the discovery that her best friends aren’t all that they seem to be.

When Veronica Mars launched in 2004, the Guardian’s Jonathan Bernstein declared it, “the year’s best teen show.”

Starring Kristen Bell (now of Forgetting Sarah Marshall fame) as a sharp-witted and sardonic student who moonlights as a gorgeous gumshoe, Veronica Mars blends murder and mystery with offbeat humour.

This smart and sassy series drew acclaim not just from fans and critics, but also from horror master Stephen King, who declared, “I can’t take my eyes off the damn thing.”

The third and final series opens with the spunky Veronica starting college in the fictional southern Californian seaside town of Neptune, and investigating the mysterious death of the college dean.

A sharply contrasting dose of teen queen reality comes courtesy of MTV’s The Hills, which follows fashion student Lauren Conrad when she takes up an internship at Teen Vogue magazine.

The mag’s sales reportedly doubled on the strength of the Conrad connection and Entertainment Weekly dubbed the series a “new classic”.

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