History Series / ScreamTheTVSeries

The first season, taking place in the fictional town of Lakewood, opens with a teenage girl named Audrey being outed as a lesbian (though Audrey labels herself as bicurious) by another girl named [[AlphaBitch Nina Patterson]] and her boyfriend Tyler O'Neill, with Nina being found brutally murdered the next day. A series of murders ensues, and amid the dark secrets that start spilling out in the town, one girl named Emma Duvall becomes the center of it all. The massacre is also seemingly connected to the town's past as the site of a horrifying massacre by a deformed boy named Brandon James twenty years earlier -- and the killer is wearing a mask very similar to James'.

A month after its premiere, the series was picked up for a second season, which debuted on May 30, 2016. This season picks up three months after the events of the first, and focuses on the survivors of the first murders coping with the real world and psychological effects of their ordeal as a new killer surfaces, with the intent on making one of them come clean about their part in the last murder spree.

On April 26, 2017, it was confirmed that, along with new showrunners, the six-episode third season would be a creative reboot, with a new location and a new cast. It was filmed in late 2017 for a spring 2018 release, but the season was delayed indefinitely following the mass public disgrace of producer Harvey Weinstein. The long-delayed season, titled ''Series/ScreamResurrection'', was finally announced in June 2019, airing six episodes over three nights the following month on Creator/VH1. Aside from being a {{retool}} of the first two seasons with an entirely new cast and plot, ''Resurrection'' features the return of the classic Ghostface mask from the movies[[note]]the series previously couldn't use its likeness for [[ScrewedByTheLawyers copyright reasons]][[/note]] as well as the voice of Creator/RogerLJackson as Ghostface, who was last heard in 2011's ''Film/{{Scream 4}}''.

''Scream'' (also known as ''Scream: The TV Series'') is an Creator/{{MTV}} series that premiered on June 30, 2015. It is based on [[Film/{{Scream}} the film series of the same name]] and has many stylistic elements, including its {{postmodern|ism}} take on the {{slasher|Movie}} genre, but it otherwise takes place in its own universe.

->''"You can't do a slasher movie as a TV series. Think about it: Girl and her friend arrive at the dance, the camp, deserted town, whatever. Killer takes them out one-by-one. Ninety minutes later, the sun comes up and survivor girl sits in the ambulance watching her friends' bodies being wheeled past. Slasher movies burn bright and fast, TV needs to stretch things out. Y'know, by the time the first body is found, it's only a matter of time before the bloodbath commences."''

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->''"You gotta remember that the whodunit may not be as important in our story...you need to forget that it's a horror story, that someone might die at every turn. You see, you have to care if the smokin' hot lit teacher seems a little too interested in his female students. You have to care if the team wins the big game. You have to care if the smart, pretty girl forgives the dumb jock...You root for them, you love them, so when they ''are'' brutally murdered...it hurts."''

--->'''Stavo''': Next time, I'll destroy something ''you'' love.

-->'''Noah''': I mean, how does [[Series/PrettyLittleLiars A]] get ahold of four Victorian dolls that look exactly like the main characters? Where do you shop for that?

-->'''Noah:''' "Some say he was born a monster, I think he was beaten and bullied into one."

--> '''Piper''': For twenty years, you have let everyone think that my dad was the monster, but you were the monster.

* DeathBySex: Noah calls this trope an outdated genre reference in "The Vanishing." [[TemptingFate That being said]], [[spoiler:it isn't until ''after'' he and Zoe have sex when the killer targets both of them, and succeeds in murdering Zoe]].