It’s official: Quarterlife comes to NBC
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- November
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Just a handful of episodes in, Quarterlife has made the leap from online to broadcast, according to The New York Times.
As previously reported here, Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, the brains behind such classic series as thirtysomething and My So-Called Life, decided to eschew the regular television route (and creative interference) and create a show for the Internet.
The episodes are eight minutes apiece, and 36 were set for the initial run. On broadcast television, that’d be 13 half-hours or seven one-hour shows. For as long as the show runs, in this deal with NBC, episodes will be aired online (on both the MySpace television site and on its own site) before they show on television.
Basically, NBC doesn’t have to pay as much as a traditional license fee, The Times explains, and NBC will be allowed to replay the episodes on its website, too.
If this writer’s strike isn’t settled soon, Quarterlife could become the model of the future of television.
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