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Wow. That was fast. Two episodes into the new fall season, and ABC’s new fall TV show, My Generation, has been canceled.

The show failed to connect with the targeted audience despite an extensive marketing campaign and a cast of extremely good looking people.

The ensemble drama was set in Texas and was formatted as a documentary following up on the adult lives of teens who had been interviewed and filmed while still in high school. Landmark events of the past 10 years, ranging from 9/11 to the Enron scandal, were featured prominently as key elements driving the personal stories.

Critics had trashed the show before it premiered and viewers failed to tune in. The show’s first outing garnered 5.2 million viewers, while last night’s second installment dropped to just four million.

My Generation, one of the new fall TV shows I have been looking forward to watching, premieres tonight on ABC. The show’s concept intrigues me: A film crew which made an unreleased documentary about nine members of an Austin high school Class of 2000 returns to see what happened to them after a tumultuous decade that included 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Enron and more. The film crew follows the personal stories of these nine friends and the promises they thought their futures held, all told through the camera of a documentary film crew.

My Generation stars Michael Stahl David as Steven, Jaime King as Jacqueline, Kelli Garner as Dawn, Keir O’Donnell as Kenneth, Mehcad Brooks as Rolly, Julian Morris as Anders, Daniella Alonso as Brenda, Anne Son as Caroline, Sebastian Sozzi as Falcon and Elizabeth Keener as the filmmaker.

Based on a Swedish format entitled On God’s Highway, My Generation was created and written by Noah Hawley (The Unusuals, Bones), who is also an executive producer along with Warren Littlefield, Henrik Bastin, Peter Magnusson and Martin Persson. Craig Gillespie directed the pilot.

I recently met up with the cast of My Generation at the 2010 ABC Red Carpet Premiere Event.

JAIME KING (ALSO PEARL HARBOR and GARY UNMARRIED)