My Generation (TV series)
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| Also known as | Generation Y |
| Genre |
Mockumentary Seriocomedy |
| Based on | Blomstertid aka On God's Highway by Peter Magnusson & Martin Persson |
| Developed by | Noah Hawley |
| Starring |
Daniella Alonso Mehcad Brooks Kelli Garner Jaime King Julian Morris Keir O'Donnell Michael Stahl-David Anne Son Sebastian Sozzi |
| Composer(s) | Jeff Russo |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 (6 unaired) (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Noah Hawley Warren Littlefield Henrik Bastin Peter Magnusson Martin Persson |
| Cinematography | Todd McMullen |
| Running time | 42-45 minutes |
| Production company(s) | The Littlefield Company Stockholm-Copenhagen Productions 26 Keys Productions ABC Studios |
| Distributor | Disney–ABC Domestic Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | September 23 – September 30, 2010 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
My Generation is an American mockumentary television series that aired on the ABC network in the fall of 2010. The one-hour comedy-drama, produced by ABC Studios, follows a group of high school classmates in Austin, Texas in 2000, then revisits them ten years after graduation. The series premiered on September 23, 2010, and was canceled by ABC on October 1 due to the first two episodes' poor ratings.
The series follows a group of young adults whose lives were being filmed for a documentary just before their graduation from fictional Greenbelt High School in Austin, Texas in 2000. The group includes the Overachiever, the Beauty Queen, the Nerd, the Punk, the Jock, the Brain, the Rich Kid, the Rock Star, and the Wallflower. Their hopes and dreams for the future were recorded, and as they meet up ten years later, they find that things do not always go as planned. Several of the characters' lives after high school are affected by or tied to real-world events such as the September 11 attacks, the Enron scandal, and the War in Afghanistan. The series is set in the present with flashbacks to the past.
My Generation is based on the Swedish series God's Highway (Blomstertid). The pilot script, originally titled Generation Y, was written by Noah Hawley. ABC gave a production order for the pilot in January 2010.
In early February, Keir O'Donnell and Michael Stahl-David became the first actors cast in the pilot. Julian Morris, Daniella Alonso, and Kelli Garner then joined the ensemble cast in late February, followed by Anne Son. Jaime King and Mehcad Brooks came on board in early March, followed quickly by Sebastian Sozzi, who booked the final principal role a few days later.
Filming began in mid-March.Craig Gillespie directed the pilot. In May 2010, ABC announced it had added the series to the 2010-11 schedule with a fall 2010 premiere planned.
Amid low ratings, ABC canceled the show on October 1 after airing only two episodes. In early November, ABC made the remaining 6 unaired episodes available online.
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