The creators of “Quarterlife,” a about tech-savvy twentysomethings haven’t hid their television ambitions.
“We have consistently said that we welcome the opportunity for the series to be broadcast on a network,” the show’s creators. Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick said in a statement last week.
The first eight-minute episode premiered on MySpace com last week. (Ginia Bellafante for Thursday’s Times.) Yesterday. NBC confirmed that it had acquired the television rights to the drama which it will broadcast early next year in one-hour blocks.
The show “will not be affected by the current writers’ strike because of its ownership structure,” Bill Carter in today’s Times. Episodes will always appear online before being broadcast on television.
“Quarterlife” represents the first time that an Internet series will be distributed on television. “Mr. Herskovitz described ‘Quarterlife’ as a regular television series made by network-caliber writers directors and production crews,” Michael Cieply.
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