Sometimes experiments work, sometimes they don't. The latter most certainly applies to quarterlife, the Web-based short-program that recently made the great leap from online to prime-time programming on NBC's schedule. The show has been yanked from the peacock after just one episode, according to Reuters.
The show pulled in a paltry average of 3.1 million viewers on Tuesday night, and drew the lowest ratings for the time slot for NBC in nearly two decades.
However, even with those dismal numbers the show is not dead...yet. Reuters cites "people close to the show" as saying that quarterlife will move over to NBC-owned cable channel Bravo. It's unclear when the series, which has six one-hour episodes, will return to the air.
quarterlife began as a series of shorts for MySpace, and follows 20-somethings through their lives. The move from the Internet to prime-time was highly touted by NBC as a forward-thinking move.
The show was made by Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, the same creative team behind My So-Called Life.
Comments (17)
had funny feeling it would BOMB lol
Too bad this didn't work out; I had high hopes for Herskovitz and Zwick.
Myspace...pfft. Aren't we all on Facebook and Bebo and some other daft named 'social' networking site now?
TV is like waaaaay behind, dude...and so on, with other such 90's sloganeering.
NBC didn't promote the show enough, no wonder no one tuned in. And why tune in to an NBC show knowing when you get hooked they will only axe it anyways.
they either rush things or make things crazy for tv shows.
I was never really interested in this show, but this is just another case of NBC being well NBC.... there's a reason they're in last place in ratings all the time. Canceling Las Vegas after a cliffhanger, not being fair to Scrubs, canceling Surface after a cliffhanger, canceling The Black Donnellys. I really hate NBC.
The NBC what wants to make? To cancel all the programs? It compliments.
This is a perfect example of NBC under programmer Ben Silverman; if a series doen't get "good" ratings the first night it's shown, he drops it through a "trap door" and tries something else {in this case, the "trap door" is Bravo}. He did something similar to "THE SINGING BEE", pulling it at the end of last October in favor of TWO hours of "THE BIGGEST LOSER" on Tuesdays {BLEAH!}, then "burning off" the remaining shows in December.
Perhaps "quarterlife" will find the audience who really want to see it on Bravo...but what does this tell you about NBC's future?
I really liked the show and in the following episodes more becuase it was not centered on the blog thing...
I enjoyed it a little but it needs work! I hope that it will do ok on Bravo.
Yeah, I've been watching it online, so there was no real need to watch the premiere...
i watched and did not fenjoy it so not sorry to see it go
I don't think I'm going to watch it but I hope it does well on Bravo. I think that might be a better place for it. I think it went a little overboard with the advertising and that made me not want to see it.
What a shame. I didn't bother watching it. I hope the show has more sucess on Bravo.
Most websavy people would have watched it online during the strike... Thats what I did, so I din't bother to watch the premiere on tv since I had already seen it. Idiots. Let a few episodes air then yank it!
Hah, that's kind of funny. All that advertising and it bombs. Good luck at Bravo though.
I watched it and enjoyed it somewhat. Too bad though, i'd love to continue to watch.