My So-called Life sounds very like an Australian production called
Heartbreak High based on a movie called The Heartbreak Kid.  It has
been a disaster in the ratings as well.  It seems that viewers the
same age as the characters prefer something like Beverley Hills (zip
code escapes me) which was a huge hit here.
 
G-Day from WA
 
Maggie Exon
 
Dr Maggie Exon, Senior Lecturer, School of Information and Library
Studies, Curtin University of Technology, PO Box U1987, Perth, 6001,
Western Australia.  Phone (09) 351 7215; Fax (09) 351 3152
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