I'm thinking that "American" was in the name of the series.

It was done by a partner or friend of David Lynch...

I've searched imdb.com for everything that David Lynch has been involved in and it's not there... so it must have been a partner of his that did it.

I'm pretty sure that David Lynch was involved in the series in some way or another...

It did not run very long.

I came out shortly after David Lynch's series "Twin Peaks".

Can anyone out there remind me the name of the series?

Sorry: I found it!

It was "American Chronicles":
American Chronicles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Chronicles)