Asian American filmmaker Eric Byler has made a television pilot called "My Life Disoriented" that airs on December 26th on PBS stations around the country. Please, please, please, watch the pilot! And tell your friends and family to watch it. Apparently, if enough people watch the show, it has a chance of being greenlit as the first Asian American television series since Margaret Cho's "All American Girl." Here's the good word from Byler's blog:

if enough people find out about the show, and enough people watch it on Tuesday -- we might post the kind of Nielson ratings that could earn us a seat on that bus for 2007, and earn the next band of insurgent TV pilot trouble-makers a spot on the bus with us.

What else can you do, you ask? Byler encourages folks to "write to your local affiliate... to thank them for programming "My Life Disoriented" on Independent Lens, or to ask them to program it if they have not yet done so, or to ask them to program it at a better time slot if it's playing at 3 AM where you live."

Additionally, please watch the YouTube clips -- presumably, the more they're viewed, the better in terms of getting the show picked up for a full season:

High School Clip (with Karin Anna Cheung, Di Quon, Autumn Reeser, Amanda Fuller)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qk57L6LBPY

Family Clip (with Tamlyn Tomita, Dennis Dunn, Di Quon, Phil Young, and Karin Anna Cheung)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jftiJIqIOL8

And here's more from Byler himself:

"My Life Disoriented" may become the first Asian American television series since Magaret Cho's "All American Girl" over ten years ago. We need the APA community to make their voice heard, and get the kind of ratings that would earn us a full season of episodes either on PBS, or MTV or ABC Family all of whom have expressed interest.

"My Life Disoriented" has been gaining momentum in the last few days before the premiere, with MySpace and YouTube hits exploding (see below), and The Boston Globe, Washington Post, O.C. Register, and L.A. Times all doing stories. But if I could have picked one city we really need to reach it would have been yours.

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