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 CA - So here we have a network jumping into the online drama fray - remember when LAist profiled "Quarterlife" and interviewed show creator Marshall Herskovitz ...

I know what you are thinking "Hey didn't NBC put on a webseries called Quarterlife? and didn't it get crap ratings? Yes NBC did put on said show and it did receive said ratings. The difference between this show and Quarterlife is that ...

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 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 ...

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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...

By Rafat Ali Online Show Quarterlife Gets Picked Up By NBC For Network Debut; Strike Workaround With WGA Possible; Quarterlife Doesn't Make The Broadcast Grade; NBC Pulls After One Episode; Going To Bravo; Ben Silverman & Marc Graboff Named ...

By indie mom Toad gives Beck's latest a grudgingly good review and gets a little melancholy thinking about the past. Quarterlife Party reviews two tracks from the upcoming Fields album, their second. Popdose reviews a Fleet Foxes show and resurrects ...

 CA - When the Web drama Quarterlife earned a whole lot of press, it was ported to NBC as a prime-time series. Actual interest in the series hadn't lived up to ...

 CA - One show I watched more avidly was the emotion-heavy US web show Quarterlife, which made a disastrous transfer to US TV for one episode before being ...

 - 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 Michael Learmonth Had we been the MTV audience, that show might have worked." No word, then on why it also bombed on Bravo, but no matter. The notion of jumping from the Web to TV is alive and well at NBC. What types of Web concepts are likely to next ...

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...

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 Arnold Zafra Despite the challenges facing the Web TV market brought about by the prolonged US writers strike and the lackluster performance of MySpaceTV’s previous take on Web TV broadcasting via its “Quarterlife” show, Shine Group still believes ...

By Sarah Perez Just because MySpace's web show "Quarterlife" was a big flop on NBC here in the US, that doesn't mean that MySpace is going to stop shopping their web shows for TV syndication. While the US market for web-to-TV programming may be dead, ...

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By Michael Learmonth Indeed, it's hard to find a serious producer of Web content who will admit to harboring hope that TV will come calling. Michael Eisner sold Prom Queen into international TV syndication, but that's considered an outlier, not the core of a Web business model. So what is that model? Create a mod...

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 ...

By Julieanne Smolinski The last month or so haven’t been terribly kind to “Quarterlife.” The original Web series from thirtysomething” creators Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick made waves when it was picked up for broadcast by NBC during the writers strike, ...

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 Michael Learmonth What NBC's "Quarterlife" experience proved, he said, is that a show about whiny 20-somethings didn't work out on NBC, whose average viewer is in their late 40s. HBO digital distribution VP Rishi Malhotra agreed. ...

The MySpace TV show "Quarterlife" is a perfect example. It’s produced by the team behind successes like "Thirtysomething," "My So-Called Life" and "Once And Again," so you know there’s actual talent back there. ...

The show launched originally as part of an ambitious project by Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, the successful TV producers behind hits such as “thirtysomething.” “Quarterlife” was distributed on MySpace and Quarterlife.com, ...

“Quarterlife” followed the lives of six young people between the ages of 20 and 30. It was originally developed and produced for the Internet, but NBC execs figured it could be a good space-filler while most shows went on hiatus during the writers strike. Now that the ‘experiment’ didn’t wo...

The dramedy that went from Myspace to NBC has been canceled after one episode, after it received the network's worst rating for its time slot in 20 years.

By Wayne Friedman The lesson learned here is that niche, small-ish TV projects should stay that way.  Marshall Herskovitz, co-creator of the show, put it simply: "It's too specific… from the first three minutes, I knew it wasn't right." Herskovitz, speaking to a group at a Harvard Business School conferen...

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 Gillian Reagan Co-creator Marshall Herskovitz told an audience at the Harvard Business School yesterday that the leap to broadcast television should never have been attempted. "It never should have been a network show. It's too specific," Mr. ...

By Brian Stelter “Quarterlife,” the Internet series whose debut on NBC Tuesday night got poor ratings, does not belong on a broadcast network, a co-creator of the show said Wednesday. Marshall Herskovitz, an executive producer of the series about ...

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, ...

By Russ T.C. Fox continues to roll over the competition, with another strong performance by American Idol, which gave a good boost to returning comedy Back to You. Back to You grew by 5.02 million or 69% among viewers and 80% among adults 18-49 from its last newly aired episode back in November of last yea...

By Josh Catone Last night, Quarterlife debuted on NBC in the 10pm time slot, and the results were disappointing by television standards. The web-turned-TV show pulled a 1.6 share among 18-34 year olds, and averaged just under 3.9 million viewers for ...

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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, ...

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By Michael Learmonth MySpace and producer Marshall Herskovitz say that "Quarterlife", the TV-like Web show, is a hit. But when the show jumped to an actual TV network last night, it flopped. NBC drew 3.9 million viewers for the show's national TV debut ...

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By administrator Quarterlife not sure if they will change it around or keep it as it was on online- guess I will find out tonight.   Quarterlife a made for MySpace TV show that “follows the lives of six twenty-somethings and charts the sometimes excruciating, sometimes comic, often emotional experiences t...

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, ...

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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 canadiantv@gmail.com (Diane Wild) MySpace/NBC’s “Quarterlife” “The series was created by twenty-somethings from all walks of life who came together because we felt our generation was constantly being misrepresented on television” say the show’s creators Dan Speerin and Wes McClintock.

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, ...

Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, creators of Thirtysomething and executive producers of My So-Called Life, are making news again with a new series. It's called Quarterlife, and it's airing not on TV, but in short, six-to-an-hour episodes on the Web. Some pundits are touting it as an alte...