Quarterlife

The MWG offering on Joost includes the popular web series "My Two Fans," starring Barret Swatek ("Quarterlife"), which follows the life of an average single ... and more »

Earthtimes (press release), UK The MWG offering on Joost includes the popular web series "My Two Fans," starring Barret Swatek ("Quarterlife"), which follows the life of an average single woman as she rebounds from a broken heart with the help of her two biggest fans, ...

 NY Then again, NBC did pick up "Quarterlife" and ABC had "Dot Comedy," which I don't recall but is described (by a familiar name) as "a prime time series profiling the best humor created for the Internet." (If that description wasn't a red flag, ...

 NY Then again, NBC did pick up "Quarterlife" and ABC had "Dot Comedy," which I don't recall but is described (by a familiar name) as "a prime time series profiling the best humor created for the Internet." (If that description wasn't a red flag, ...

 CA Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, of "thirtysomething" fame, took a swing at it (and missed) with their online drama “Quarterlife,” which came with its own social networking site. And now Josh Schwartz, the much younger creator of "The OC" and the ...

 CA Graboff agreed, citing the web series "Quarterlife" created by Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick in 2007. When it migrated to NBC, "there was massive rejection," he said. Braun said that the very definition of a hit needs to be revised for the Internet. ...

 CA Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, of "thirtysomething" fame, took a swing at it (and missed) with their online drama “Quarterlife,” which came with its own social networking site. And now Josh Schwartz, the much younger creator of "The OC" and the ...

I've never seen something like this happen before besides ‘Quarterlife'; NBC has already been putting episodes up each week on NBC.com. So the broadcast showings will be reruns of online material. Cool I absolutely meant Merlin, its terrible. ... Released by NBC The Futon Critic

 UK MySpace's original productions have met with varying degrees of success. Quarterlife entered the history books as the first web-to-TV crossover, but subsequently bombed on NBC. Beyond the Rave (below), a revival of the Hammer Horror brand in the UK, ...

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 NY - Anne Polsky In the web series My Two Fans, what Liz Lemon lacks, Kate Maxwell has on her side. Barret Swatek (Quarterlife, 7th Heaven) stars as Kate, a Los Angeleno rebounding from yet another breakup and still not grasping the basic principles of “He's Just Not ...

 CA Remember that web series Quarterlife? Someone thought they knew the “Y Generation” well enough to figure out that somehow audiences on the web would be interested in these whiny young people. Turns out, no one was. Funny thing about the online world ...

 NY But isn't mainstream web television - just television? Quarterlife, anyone? So mission accomplished and they're out of business? This is Felicia Day on the red carpet before the show. Everything Day was in this past year was nominated. ...

 CA Last year, NBC pulled "Quarterlife," a Web serial shepherded by "thirtysomething" creators Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, midway through its run after it recorded the worst ratings for a Tuesday night in years. But some active in the online sector ...

Shawn stands by as the arrogant Rick (David Walton, TV’s “Quarterlife”) smooches and abuses his darling “Carly-fry.” While the performance put on by both Walton and D’Agosto is hardly realistic, it manages still to pull a few heartstrings as the ...

Adding to Shawn’s angst is the fact that Carly has a boyfriend, a jerky medical student (David Walton from TV’s “Quarterlife”). First-time director Will Gluck and novice writer Freedom Jones attempt to punch up the clichéd plot with cheeky dialogue, ...

The Obama campaign, in particular, has capitalized on the use of mediums like Facebook and MySpace, and has even set up its own social networking site (MyBarackObama.com). But the McCain campaign is not far behind. ...

By Peter Ames Carlin, The Oregonian Quarterlife" Dylan Krieger, the post-collegiate blogger meant to personify the seething, searching, creative ambitions of her entire generation, has a problem. "It's my curse that I can see what people are thinking," she frets into her webcam. "What they want... "Quarterlife" Dylan Krie...

Quarterlife, the Internet television show about loathsome 20-somethings that aired on MySpace, garnered a lot of buzz when it was picked up by NBC. The network proceeded to cancel it after one episode after Quarterlife drew the lowest ...

 NY - Yes NBC did put on said show and it did receive said ratings. The difference between this show and Quarterlife is that this show doesn't revolve around a ...

By Michael Learmonth Yet! NBC Entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman says his biggest disappointment in his first year on the job was--who knew?--the fate of Quarterlife, which was pulled after one episode and then sent Bravo as a Sunday morning fill-in. Silverman tells TV Week that his attempt to repurpo...

Ben Silverman joined NBC a year ago this month, teaming up with Marc Graboff to tackle the dual role of chairmen, NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios. It’s been an eventful year, dominated by the disruption of the writers strike and the Big Five networks’ continuing struggle ag...

 - Can we please have a moment of silence in remembrance of NBC stinker Quarterlife? The Internet-to-TV drama most likely got network time only because of the ...

By Michael Learmonth The first 9 episodes of the show, which started airing May 27, have drawn fewer than 10,000 views. YouTube has recently given the series a push, showcasing it as a "featured" video, but it's still not burning up the charts: On Sunday, it racked up 43,000 views, but then fell back to 20,000 on M...

Nickelodeon is tackling one of the great questions of the digital video age in a special episode of its hit show “iCarly” that deals with whether a program that’s popular online will break through if it moves to traditional TV. The special, “iCarly Saves TV,” airs June 13 at 8 p.m. In it, the sho...

Industry News  Canada - A former MySpace TV series, Quarterlife, was picked up by NBC, but yanked after one episode due to poor ratings. Kelly Preston has been cast in a new HBO ...

By Michael Learmonth This one is a lot safer bet than Quarterlife for a bunch of reasons: first, unlike Quarterlife, which targeted 20-somethings, "In The Motherhood" is targeted at a demographic that still watches plenty of television: 30-something moms. Second, it has a bona-fide star with a TV following...

By Vasanth Sridharan While its attempts to port the MySpace show "Quarterlife" to network and cable TV were failures, NBC is ready to try it again. NBC has signed a deal with Electric Farm Entertainment for the rights to their next two scripted online series. The network will distribute them on their slate of Web...

By BuzzSugar This is NBC's second try at proving Internet TV is where it's at — the first being the less-than-successful Quarterlife. This time, though, only the first few episodes are expected to air on TV. The main goal is to get people to watch the show online. So, will you? And do you think that the presen...

Mediapost.com NBC To Retry Web Series Development  CA - NBC recently attempted to turn a MySpace TV show, QUARTERLIFE, into a prime time show but pulled it after only one episode. "If there were to be a TV show, ... Omnicom Hooks Up With New NBCU Digital Studio Mediapost.com all 129 news articles

By Andrew G.R. The film was written by a guy who wrote several episodes of The King of Queens. Let’s be honest, while blogging can be a thrilling experience to the writer, can that excitement translate to the silver screen? Heck, Quarterlife tanked on ...

By Michael Learmonth MySpace owns "Roommates," but doesn't own "Quarterlife," so presumably MySpace negotiated those rights from creators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick. Regardless, international Web and TV might actually be a viable aftermarket for Web shows. Michael Eisner just sold "Prom Quee...

By Michael Learmonth It was something that got a lot of play during the writers strike," says Brent Weinstein, CEO of Web video production house 60 Frames. Now that the strike's over, though, there's a lot less talk about Web hits graduating to the mass market, he says. "It's not that you won't see something leap t...

By IMTA Mark Matkevich is starring as Josh in the online drama Quarterlife. The story revolves around a website blog that is written by a character named Dylan. Everyone gets involved when they realize her blog posts closely resemble their ...

By Noel Sheppard Let the smack talking begin: NBC ran a special one hour Countdown with Keith Olbermann and it pulled Quarterlife style numbers (3.37 million) and did even worse in the demo with a 0.5/2. I’d blame that on the basketball overrun except ...

Scott Michael Foster Talks Greek  - Mar 20, 2008 With your involvement with Quarterlife, which was really kind of an Internet show that became a network TV show and then with ABC Family, which spawned the ...

Elisabeth Caren / Quarterlife  FL - Mar 18, 2008 The one that was so unpopular, NBC canceled it after just one episode? The show focuses on a cadre of beautiful 20-somethings who whine, complain and ...

By Wayne Friedman It's the TV programming version of a whiplash:  NBC's "Quarterlife." Share This t's the TV programming version of a whiplash: NBC's "Quarterlife." First it was on MySpace, then MTV, then NBC, and now onto Bravo --all in the space of what seems like a week. That's the quick life of an Internet d...

By BuzzSugar We'll never know whether the premiere got such poor ratings was because the show, from My So-Called Life creators Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, had already aired on multiple online platforms and MTV, had a boatload of obnoxious and ...

By The Judge The show "Quarterlife," which was originally an internet-based series by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz (producers of "thirtysomething" and the teen drama "My So-Called Life") is an online drama about a group of 20-something artists coming of age in the digital generation. The...

By Duncan Riley Quarterlife, the made for MySpace TV show that became the first internet show picked up by a TV network has bombed. According to Nielsen Ratings for Tuesday night, Quarterlife managed only 3.86 million viewers for its 10pm debut on NBC, ...

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By Media Maven As a young man in my twenties, a fan of NBC, and an avid blogger, I felt it only appropriate that I check out NBC’s newest drama, quarterlife.  The series, created by Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz  (the brains behind My So-Called Life and thirtysomething), is the first of its kind for a number of reasons, and is the epitome of the modern day series.  The show originally began as 30 8-minute webisodes, produced independently by Zwick and Herskovitz.  Needing only a few hours to fill their post-strike schedule, NBC bought the entire 240 minute series as a finished product and will air it in 6 40-min installments over the next 6 weeks.  Two big firsts here: quarterlife is the first ever series based on original webisodes, and its also the first t...   [read the full post]

By Paul Goebel First of all, the title and premise of the show is insulting to me. I assume since Zwick and Herskovitz already did thirtysomething, they were hesitant to call this show twentysomething. Unfortunately, that's all the show is, ...

By Tom Lewis A few months ago LAist interviewed writer/creator/director Marshall Herskovitz about his web series Quarterlife, and lo and behold, the series debuts on NBC tonight! MySpace, which showcased Quarterlife has a new show of the hidden-camera comedy variety debuting this week as well,...

By BuzzSugar Quarterlife, the drama about a 20-something magazine editor who seeks freedom by documenting her life online, came together through a series of unlikely coincidences. The show — which is from Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, the team behind My So-Called Life— started its life as a reje...

By Wendy Davis Revver also lured some well-known video creators to the site. The most famous include the creators of LonelyGirl15 — a serialized show that purported to be about the life of home-schooled 15-year-old Bree, but was actually scripted by three California residents. After building a cult fo...

The television industry should consider March 2 at 9 p.m. as appointment viewing for all. That’s when the biggest test so far in Web-to-TV convergence will occur, as NBC premieres “Quarterlife,” a six-week midseason replacement that started on the Internet. The Emmy Award-winning team of...

• NBC is quickly picking up “quarterlife,” the online webisode drama series from acclaimed producers Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick (“My So-Called Life,” “thirtysomething”). It’ll debut Monday, Feb. 18 at 9 p.m., filling the old “Heroes” time slot. This continuing saga of “six creative...

By Duncan Riley Quarterlife is produced by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, creators of the TV shows My So-Called Life and Thirtysomething. NBC will air the show from its first episode and will tap into pre-recorded (but yet unaired) episodes, ...

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By Mark · The writers strike could result in a windfall for Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, who are reportedly in talks with NBC for the acquisition of blogtastic new online series Quarterlife, which is scheduled to premiere on the MySpaces on Sunday. If the alleged deal should fall throug...

By Mark · My So-Called Life and thirtysomething creators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick are resurrecting Quarterlife, a pilot once killed by ABC, on MySpace, where it will hopefully be watched by millions of "creative twentysomethings" similar to its "constantly blogging" main char...