Jun 27, 2008 -
The series finale of British online show KateModern will be uploaded on Saturday, in fact there will be a new video made available every hour from 12 noon to build up tension for those who have been following it for the past year.
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 cancelled.
It's a format that takes some getting used to, but I really think they are a great way to showcase new talent in a smaller arena than a half hour TV show and existing talent in a way fans love (see Joss Whedon's Doctor Horrible – which I can't wait for).
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Feb 28, 2008 -
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.
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Feb 27, 2008 -
Last night Quarterlife made its TV premiere, and while several aspects of the show were sort of hard to swallow (the cheesy mayonnaise fight Debra had with her guy's best friend, Dylan's controversial video blogging, etc.) there was some great content relating to handling work life.
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Feb 27, 2008 -
Look, I'm great at suspending my disbelief for TV shows — I am an avid Lost viewer, after all. But the portrayal of the Internet and blogging in new show Quarterlife is just too much.
I was so excited when I heard that this show (which I'd never watched on MySpaceTV before) would feature the main character as a blogger — a lot of people have personal blogs nowadays, and I was hoping the show could explore the impact of a female blogger who blogs about her friends and personal life.
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Feb 27, 2008 -
The new NBC show Quarterlife debuted last night and I have a funny feeling people are going to be hooked. We've all heard of midlife crises, but lucky for us, we have to go through a quarterlife crisis first! It's that wavering period of uncertainty where you don't quite know who you are, what you want to do with your life, who your true friends are, or what your purpose is.
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Feb 27, 2008 -
Buzz reported yesterday that Quarterlife is making its TV debut (it first premiered on MySpaceTV) on NBC. Quarterlife, whose own life started as an ABC pilot but was dropped and then run by its producers online, is a show about a group of struggling young people fronted by a twenty-something female blogger. To promote the new NBC show, a Quarterlife social networking site has launched.
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Feb 26, 2008 -
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.
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Dec 17, 2007 -
- 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.
Photos courtesy of NBC
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Nov 21, 2007 -
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.
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Nov 19, 2007 -
- 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.
Photo copyright 2007 ABC, Inc.
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