NEW YORK – Maybe even more than other media bosses, David Janollari has to keep a moving target in his sights.

Of course, wherever you look, the media landscape is in flux these days.

But for Janollari, MTV’s head of programming, the task is further complicated by the audience his network is aiming for: Young viewers who expect to get what they want when they want it, and whose tastes are constantly changing.

To keep this crowd happy with MTV, Janollari is pushing to make it a full-service entertainment source by supplementing its popular reality fare with a slate of scripted dramas and comedies.

So far, so good.

•This month, the supernatural drama “Teen Wolf” returned for its second season of troubling transformations, forbidden love and monster attacks.

Airing Mondays at 10 p.m., “Teen Wolf” attracted more than 1.7 million viewers in its debut in that regular time slot while ranking as the day’s top original cable series among the 12-to-34 demographic – up 31 percent from last year – with robust social activity from Facebook, Twitter and Get Glue to boot (more than 205,000 mentions logged).

•On June 28, the second season of the comedy “Awkward” continues the tale of an endearing but misunderstood 15-year-old girl who experiences high school as a social outcast.

•“The Inbetweeners” is an upcoming comedy that, based on the hit British original, will follow four high-school boys as they navigate the tricky transition from adolescence into adulthood. It’s expected to premiere later this summer.

•And this fall, MTV plans to introduce “Underemployed,” which tracks five kids graduating into post-collegiate life who find the outside world much different from the one they imagined from the comfort of campus.

MTV had aired scripted programming in the past, including the controversial “Skins,” whose so-so ratings and advertiser defections over its depiction of teen sexuality led to its cancellation last year after just one season.

“For a number of reasons, ‘Skins’ didn’t completely connect with our audience,” Janollari says. “But what it did for us was plant our stake firmly in the scripted ground: It got people’s attention on many different levels.”

The network’s full-scale leap into scripted series has taken hold since Janollari joined the network two years ago as head of scripted programming. It’s an ongoing commitment, he declares.

“We know they watch scripted shows everywhere else,” he says. “They go to the movies. They see it on other channels and online. We asked ourselves, how do we keep the audience that is watching our network here? The answer is: By offering them other genres of programming they are already watching all around the universe.

“And,” he adds, “while we will never run away from our bread-and-butter, which is reality programming, you can’t dabble in the scripted business. You have to be very focused and strategic.”