Carina Louise Stephenson's body was found in woods near her home in Branton, near Doncaster, on Saturday, two days after she went missing. An inquest is expected to be opened tomorrow, but police say there are no suspicious circumstances.
The produc
ers of the six-part series Colony last night told the Yorkshire Post the family was adamant it should still be screened, but it will be delayed for three months.
Her death devastated her family, who described 17-year-old Carina as "happy and normal" in the days before her disappearance.
It was also a huge shock for sixth formers at Armthorpe School, where she was a pupil until last year.
Yesterday her former classmates bravely faced the first of their AS level exams.
Headteacher Nigel Pattinson said all pupils were sitting the General Studies paper, although special arrangements were made for Miss Stephenson's close friends.
"The youngsters are clearly very shaken by this and her very close friends have not found today very easy at all," he said.
"They have managed to sit their AS exams, and I know that is something Carina would have wanted – for them to get on with the job in hand."
Miss Stephenson and her mother Liz Taylor, a learning support assistant, both left Armthorpe School last year to take part in a History Channel reality television programme in Australia with father John and 13-year-old brother Tyler.
The fly-on-the wall series, which aimed to show how early settlers lived at the turn of the 19th century, was due to be aired on June 6, but producers yesterday announced they would delay screening until September.
A History Channel spokeswoman said: "We told them we would be quite happy with whatever decision they made. We were sitting on the fence, but they want it to go on.
"I spoke to Liz and she told me it was a very happy time for them, they enjoyed it very much and they would prefer to see the programme go on.
"We thought that with the inquest and the funeral it would be best if there was a bit of a gap before we show it so it will now be screened in September."
Headteacher Mr Pattinson paid tribute to the relationship between mother and daughter.
He said: "Carina left school last summer with her mum Liz to pursue the project in Australia. There were discussions just opening up in school with her to return after the summer holidays into the sixth form.
"It was always so clear to everybody who knew Carina and Liz they were a very close family and very much friends as well as mum and daughter. They had a very mature relationship, very much admired by folk in the school for the warmth of their personalities and their generous natures.
"Carina was at the centre of things, she was always involved in school events. She was a very remarkable young woman, highly intelligent with a string of As and Bs at GCSE.
"She won a prize for attitude and service in Year Eight and a prize for her work in RE in Year 10. Not many pupils have a record like that.
Mr Pattinson said his last memory of Carina was at the Danum Hotel in Doncaster last summer.
He said: "At the year 11 ball they always dress in their Sunday best with some of the boys in dickie bows and suits and the girls in long gowns.
"Carina dressed up as a Goth, and it was really entertaining. She was not in any way against the event, she was going with the flow but just being different, being good humoured and cheeky.
"I remember telling her she looked lovely and she laughed. She just giggled back at me. She was touched I should have noticed what she was wearing. She was a lovely girl, a credit to both of her parents."
Mr Pattinson added: "We will want at some point in the future to talk to the year group about a permanent memorial to Carina in the school grounds because it was such an important part of her life."
