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quarterlife
quarterlife is the Internet series from Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the creative team behind “My So-Called Life,” “thirtysomething,” “Legends of the Fall,” and “Blood Diamond.”
NBC aired one episode of quarterlife as an hour-long drama series on Tuesday, February 26, which marked the first time a major TV network broadcast an Internet series. After disappointing ratings, NBC decided to move the show to its BRAVO network. BRAVO will air a marathon of quarterlife on Sunday 9th, March starting at 8am/7am central
quarterlife also marks the first time that an independent project of this kind has been owned and controlled by its creators – as well as the first occasion that an Internet series has been created alongside a social network, quarterlife.com.
quarterlife initially launched on MyspaceTV.com and on quarterlife.com in November 2007. The Internet series includes 36 eight minute webisodes, with two new episodes airing each week. The show is also available on other sites such as YouTube, Facebook, and Imeem, as well as NBC.com.
Known for their incisive portrayals of relationships and experience during life’s key passages, quarterlife takes on the crucial years between 20 and 30, when so many of life’s important decisions are made. quarterlife tells the ongoing stories of six creative people in their twenties. As with Herskovitz and Zwick’s earlier series, at the center of quarterlife is a commitment to realism, and the recognition of universal human themes through the truthful depiction of the way young people speak, work, think, love, argue, and just have fun.
The Cast
The cast stars Bitsie Tulloch as Dylan (“Lonelygirl15,” “LOST,” “West Wing”), Maite Schwartz as Lisa (“Medium,” “Dexter,” “House of Grimm”), Scott Michael Foster as Jed (“Greek,” “The Horrible Flowers”), David Walton as Danny (“Heist,” “Cracking Up”), Michelle Lombardo as Debra (“Click,” “Entourage,” “October Road”), Kevin Christy as Andy (“Love Don’t Cost a Thing”), and Barret Swatek as Brittany (“Seventh Heaven,” “40-Year-Old Virgin”).
Starting with Dylan (Tulloch), a young woman whose overly truthful video blog (on quarterlife.com of course) spills the closest secrets of her friends, the show’s characters – filmmakers Danny (Walton) and Jed (Foster), actress-bartender Lisa (Schwartz), geek-extraordinaire Andy (Christy), and still-tied-to-her-parents Debra (Lombardo) – chart the sometimes excruciating, sometimes comic, often emotional experiences that comprise coming of age in the 21st Century.
Directors/Writers
quarterlife series co-creator Marshall Herskovitz is directing various episodes, as is Eric Stoltz, John Sacret Young, and Catherine Jelski. In addition to Herskovitz, Devon Gummersall and Lucy Teitler are also writing for the series.
Production
As the first network-quality Internet series, Herskovitz/Zwick produced quarterlife the way they have always done their work on traditional television, with sophisticated storytelling, high-level production values, and the most talented writers, directors, cast, and technical people available.
quarterlife is created and executive produced by Herskovitz and Zwick. The series is produced by longtime Herskovitz and Zwick associate, Josh Gummersall.
quarterlife.com
quarterlife.com is home to an accompanying social network devoted to facilitating that same coming of age as the series. This generation of twentysomethings defines itself more than any in history by its creativity, and within its first few weeks quarterlife.com established itself as a community of creators, thinkers, and doers. In keeping with the authentic nature of the series, the members of the quarterlife community – by their willingness to share their feelings, creative passions, and deepest concerns – are redefining what a social network can be.
Melanie Hall is Chief Operating Officer of quarterlife.com.
History
The quarterlife concept was originally conceived three years ago as an ABC pilot, entitled “1/4 life,” which followed a group of young adults – friends and roommates – in their mid-20s living in Chicago. For a number of reasons the pilot did not get picked up. Given a successful twenty-year relationship, ABC/Touchstone was gracious enough to give the material back so that Herskovitz and Zwick could develop it in their own way. It was during this period that they conceived of the idea of not only doing the quarterlife series for the Internet, but marrying it with a social network called quarterlife.com.
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