ABC Cancels My Generation

thank you for speaking on behalf of the tastes of all American viewers... you're so right... Americans like Jersey Shore and DWTS... so hip.

Screw all the interesting non-normative shows that get cancelled every year...

My Generation wasn't fantastic... but it was better than a two episode cancellations.

Jname96, you make a very good point. I live in L.A. and those billboards are everywhere, and so obnoxious.

ABC has really outdone themselves by setting a new low bar these past few years with Eli Stone, Dirty Sexy Money, Cavemen, Hot Shots, and now My Generation.

Most of those are either highly derivative (based on a 20+ year old song, based on a car insurance commercial, named after song from The Who that is so prevalent that a Wiki search of My Generation goes directly to the song and not even a disambiguation list), just a cheap shot trying to be scandalous to get ratings (Dirty Sexy Money), or not even a remotely valid concept for a TV show.

NBC is even worse. Not that their shows are, but that they thought they could punk out the entire working industry by replacing five hours of prime time per week---which is 100% of the time that any decent serious drama can show in---with five hours of a show that arguably isn't deserving of the later hour it had been in for 35+ years (where people had essentially been using it as a highly non-addictive sleeping pill after the news). They came out with two of the worst shows I've seen in a lifetime back to back on the same day (The Event---barf, and Chase), it felt like being kicked in the gut. Their other shows, like Law and Order and Outlaw, are semi-solid (if they suit your taste), but so bare-bones it is ridiculous. I swear to god, I have no idea how they got the great TV actor Jimmy Smits to do a show that looks as if the pilot was filmed for $500 and 2/3rds of that went to the caterer. There was not one scene---or even pickup shot---in the entire pilot that could not have been filmed in a windowless 500 square foot warehouse.

Fox is not even a real network, but to count them in, they make shows by the truckload and cancel them about twenty minutes into the pilot, so it doesn't matter if you like them or not.

Aside from solid comedies that CBS has built up, they have turned into a wall-to-wall franchised cop show network. They should call it The Bruckheimer Channel. You either like it or you don't. I like cop shows more than anything, but even when they come out with a really, really strong one with solid actors like Without A Trace or Cold Case, they just settle down into an airtight formula, and by the third year, every episode is exactly the same as the last 30, and without even the slightest edge or twist to it, ever.

Thank GOD the show that I NEVER watched got cancelled! In my expert opinion based on BILLBOARDS it must have been TERRIBLE!

Why the fu*k are you trolling boards for a show you never watch you fu*king retard

I watched 10 minutes of this show thinking it was going to be really good but with all the flashbacks to present day it got hard to watch.

Glad the show is gone. Pretentious is the word I'm thinking of when I think about the show. I had no interest in any of the characters.

Post office sucks! My native American name is, "he who smokes biittches."

I agree. I was really starting to like the show, or least what it had to offer. It just goes to prove that shows that are interesting and unique get canceled. Now, if one of the classmates had been a forensic scientist and/or detective solving the murders of the other classmates, then it would have lasted without a second thought.

Anyway, the very least ABC could do is show a little class and air the remaining episodes. Don't just give us reruns of shows that aired the week before.

Thank you!!!, ferrisb1-1!!!

You put it beautifully. YES, this show had limited appeal cuz most ppl who are past High School, DON'T CARE about high school (and the ppl from there) anymore lol....

It's a very limited audience that would care. I'm actually 10 years out of high school just like the characters in this show, but I've had such amazing experiences as an adult, that high school seems QUAINT and DULL in comparison... and trust me--I thought High School was the whole universe, when I was 18.

And yea--it's pretentious and just cheesy to do a show like this, in a "Serious" way at least.

**as a side note, "Teen stories" can work if they don't take themselves so seriously--like John Hughes movies. The humor is great, and the characters are realistic.

Now, if one of the classmates had been a forensic scientist and/or detective solving the murders of the other classmates, then it would have lasted without a second thought.


Remember that show Reunion? We never found out who murdered the character on that show. lol


The appeal of this show is (was) very limited from the start. It appeals mostly to kids still in high school, or those just graduated who are still in love with the romantic ideal of life-long friendships FROM HIGH SCHOOL lasting all of their lives. This is another reason this show is pretentious, too.

You can see the major flaw in this premise, right?

Most people form lasting friendships and relationships AFTER high school (college, work world).


I am 28 years old and still very close with almost all of my high school friends. I also have wonderful friendships with people from college and my job, but my high school friends are still a big part of my life. Who knows what will happen 10+ years from now, but these people are very important to me, so I don't foresee much changing as we get older. So at least to me, the premise is not that far-fetched.