"Young Americans" (2000) TV series

User Rating:

7.9/10   

Directors:

Mel Damski
Perry Lang

Writers:

Steve Antin (writer)
Greg Berlanti (writer)

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

12 July 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

This series portrays life at Rawley Summer Academy, an elite school in Connecticut where boys with a...

Plot Keywords:

Series | Director | Coming Of Age | Wood | Baltimore Maryland

Cast

Mark Famiglietti	...	Scout Calhoun (8 episodes, 2000)
Katherine Moennig	...	Jacqueline 'Jake' Pratt (8 episodes, 2000)
Kate Bosworth	...	Bella Banks (8 episodes, 2000)
Rodney Scott	...	William 'Will' Krudski (8 episodes, 2000)
Ian Somerhalder	...	Hamilton Fleming (8 episodes, 2000)
John Driscoll	...	Brandon (8 episodes, 2000)
Ed Quinn	...	Finn (8 episodes, 2000)
Matt Czuchry	...	Sean McGrail (5 episodes, 2000)
Deborah Hazlett	...	Susan Krudski (4 episodes, 2000)

Also Known As:

"Monkey Writer from Goonies" (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Agnes Scott College - 141 E. College Avenue, Decatur, Georgia, USA

Company:

Columbia TriStar Television

Movie Connections:

Spin off from "Dawson's Creek" (1998)

Soundtrack:

The Way You Look Tonight

My favorite TV mini series of all time was not given a chance by The WB

"Young Americans" was my favorite TV show mini series of all time. Each of the characters were interesting and developed very natural and I became a fan within the first fifteen minutes of the first episode.

Each episode of the series, which was set at a boy's college, contained some very positive lessons that were thoughtfully presented by the Professor Finn so as not to 'preach'.

Over the course of the 8 episodes that aired we became intimately involved in the lives of these people and became involved with them.

The WB Network really did not thoughtfully give this series a fighting chance, there were weeks when the show did not air in it's set time slot, which I believe is a must, if you want to develop an audience, and it was almost impossible to find out when it was going to be on, unless you watched The WB 24 hours a day and were lucky enough to catch the one or two promos for the next airing.

Unfortunately we will never know what happened in the interwoven lives of these characters because it was cancelled after only 8 sporadic episodes.

It would be nice if WB would put it out on DVD, as far as the music rights, the music was promoted on each episode, and if any of it is still available today, I would think the artists and labels (much of which was WB Records) should welcome the new publicity.