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Quarterlife Already Canned by NBC, Moving to Bravo
Well, now we can put Quarterlife in the vault previously reserved for shows like Anchorwoman and Emily's Reasons Why Not. After just a single episode, NBC has yanked Quarterlife from the schedule after its premiere got the network its lowest ratings for a 10 p.m. time slot in 17 years.
Marshall Herskovitz and Bitsie Tulloch Talk Quarterlife
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 rejected pilot for ABC. Years after that attempt, it surfaced online with a new focus, a new lead character (Dylan) and actress (Bitsie Tulloch, whom Herskovitz met at random in jury duty), and a new social network to support it.
Buzz News Roundup, 12/17
- Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien will return to the air Jan. 2. The Futon Critic has Conan's full statement along with Jay's take.
- Meanwhile, David Letterman is working on a plan to bring his show back — writers and all, writes The Hollywood Reporter.
- The release date for the Bryan Singer/Tom Cruise film Valkyrie has been pushed back from July 4 to October 2, Variety reports.
- Jon Favreau and country music stars Tim McGraw and Dwight Yoakam are joining the cast of Four Christmases, which stars Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon, writes ComingSoon.
- Billboard has new details on Alanis Morissette's new album, which will bring together folk, world, and experimental pop music.
- The American Film Institute has named its top movies and TV shows of 2007, USA Today reports, including No Country for Old Men and Friday Night Lights.
- NBC has set a February premiere date for Quarterlife, the online series it's re-purposing for TV, Zap2it reports.
- According to Variety, Emmy Rossum will star in Dragonball, the movie based on the Japanese manga.
Soapbox: Is Quarterlife a Synonym for Selling Out?
For most of my TV-watching life, I've defined myself as a fan of Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the producing team behind Relativity, Once and Again, and, of course, My So-Called Life. I remember reading about their latest project, Quarterlife, several years ago, back when it was still an ABC pilot awkwardly titled 1/4life. I was bummed when it didn't make the network's schedule, and I was happy to hear the show was finally surfacing online.
Buzz News Roundup, 11/19
- Whenever the TV season picks up again, Dirty Sexy Money will be around for all of it, writes Zap2it.
- Hollywood Reporter has news that Kathy Bates will join Ashton Kutcher and Michelle Pfeiffer in the dramatic love story Personal Effects.
- Couldn't get tickets for this weekend's Saturday Night Live show? The New York Times writes about the event.
- ComingSoon reports that production on the sequel to The Da Vinci Code will be pushed back due to the writers strike.
- Olympians and Omarosa are among the contestants for Celebrity Apprentice, which will premiere in January; details are at The Futon Critic.
- NBC is bringing the Web series Quarterlife to TV, Broadcasting & Cable reports.
- According to Reuters, Gus Van Sant's biopic about gay San Francisco city councilman Harvey Milk (which will star Sean Penn) will be made before Bryan Singer's version.
- Hey, you 10 people who watched On the Lot: Variety has a story about what winner Will Bigham is up to.
Link Time! 11/13
- Funny man Michael Showalter is guest blogging on Popwatch as we speak. Er, as we type/read.
- Glowy Box explains why many TV blogs went on strike today in solidarity with striking Hollywood writers.
- Speaking of which, Deadline Hollywood Daily points us to a mixtape for the picket lines.
- According to Frank Darabont's interview with the MTV Movies Blog, Tom Hanks wants to star in Fahrenheit 451.
- FabSugar tells me that Marc Jacobs wants his own reality show.
- Cinematical is saying there has now been a new Bond girl cast for Bond 22 and she's um, you know, mildly good-looking.
- Give Me My Remote has some thoughts on the transformation of Jim Halpert.
- Stereogum has the new video for Duran Duran's song "Falling Down," featuring a mental institute for... models and starlets, I think.
- TV Squad really, really hated the new Web series Quarterlife.
TV Today: Quarterlife
Quarterlife, the Web series from My So-Called Life producers Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick that premieres on MySpace TV today, is being hailed as the series that could help bring Web-only programming into its own. The show was originally written as a pilot for ABC, but when the network turned it down, they decided to take it to the Web — while sticking as close to network-caliber production as possible.
In interviews, the two have sounded almost evangelistic about their choice to leave traditional TV for the Internet; Herskovitz even wrote an op-ed for the LA Times about how the current television environment is poisonous to creativity.
"MSCL" Producers Go Online with New Series
What if Angela Chase were a 20-something video blogger? She might look a lot like Dylan, the main character of "Quarterlife," a new online TV series from "My So-Called Life" producers Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick that focuses on the trials and tribulations of the quarterlife crisis generation. "A sad truth about my generation is that we were all geniuses in high school," Dylan says in one voiceover, "but apparently the people who deal with us never got our transcripts."
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