Young Americans


Young Americans is an American television drama created by Steven Antin. The show debuted on July 12, 2000 on The WB network as a summer replacement for, and spin-off from, another Columbia TriStar Television production, Dawson's Creek. The series was originally ordered for the fall 1999-2000 season but was delayed due to unresolved matters between the ColumbiaTriStar and The WB.
This series portrays life at Rawley Summer Academy, an elite school in Connecticut where boys with a bright Ivy League future spend the summer industriously in classes and rowing training on the lake. It's mainly told from the viewpoint of Will Krudski, a gifted, genuinely inquisitive student and future writer, who feels guilty having cheated at the entry exams. His roommate, Scout Calhoun, is a school legacy who makes an effort to become friendly with some underprivileged local kids and falls in love with the daughter of a garage owner who turns out to be family. Most of his classmates are golden spoon boys, but still have their problems, among each-other, at home and sometimes with the locals. Actually Jacqueline 'Jake' Pratt is a girl pretending to be a boy as the only way to get in, causing great confusion for Hamilton, the school dean's son, who begins to fall for her.

   Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPVknFEj8Us

   Theme:
The Getaway People - Six Pacs

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   Starring:    
Rodney Scott, Mark Famiglietti, Katherine Moennig, Ian Somerhalder, Kate Bosworth, Ed Quinn


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220178/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_%28TV_series%29

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2 comments:

  1. I share your fondness for Antin's "Young Americans." There's more to it than meets the eye -- astonishingly deep for a WB teen TV show. I've made it available in HD in English on my "IckyGrub" channel at YouTube by re-dubbing in English an HD recording of "Young Americans" as broadcast in French. For my take on it, see my IMDB review at http://imdb.com/title/tt0220178/usercomments-36

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  2. darn. Now you may make me re-download them from you. lol

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