"We've been given the greenlight by ABC Studio to complete the 8 episodes we've shot, which means we have to finish editing, complete VFX, score, mix and master the shows," explains Hawley. "It's odd being back in the now mostly empty office. It's odd revisiting this great television experiment — which is how I always saw the show — and fine tuning these raw, funny, moving episodes, for what?"
"Before we made the pilot of My Generation I joked to then ABC president Steve McPherson that I had a modest goal. I just wanted to reinvent television. To this end I was taking a classic television soap and deconstructing it."
"My plan was to use the documentary format to unravel my characters, to follow them through their lives, investigate their secrets, to strip them bare for both dramatic and comedic purposes. And because none of us live in a vacuum, I also wanted to tie these fictional characters and their television world to the real world — real events, real history — in order to blur the line between fact and fiction."
"My goal was to make a TV show for the internet era — to create a mash up of scripted material, real news and cultural footage, to repurpose existing content. I wanted to create something progressive, something modern. While, at the same time, telling fun, relatable, heartfelt stories about the lives we live today. And this was just the start."
"The day the show was cancelled we were close to finalizing a deal with the NFL and the Houston Texans to have a character try out for the team. In early November, we would have gone to Houston, and put Rolly through the combines, the speed trials, the drills, the scrimmage games. We would have shot his journey, as we had the band's material, with some scripted scenes, but also with a large degree of improvisation, using real personnel from the team."
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