Travelblog (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Time for a life changeA few months ago I celebrated a birthday. Not just any birthday my 25th birthday. While I'd always joked around with my parents about oncoming midlife crisis symptoms in the past all of a sudden I was experiencing my own quarterlife crisis and it just didn't seem so funny anymore. Where did the time go When people ask me how old I am 21 still rolls off the tip of m
Radar (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Quarterlife, the Internet television show about loathsome 20-somethings that aired on MySpace, garnered a lot of buzz when it was picked up by NBC. The network proceeded to cancel it after one episode after Quarterlife drew the lowest ratings and smallest
NewTeeVee (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
With the demise of SuperDeluxe earlier this year, there was one less video company vying to be the king of online comedy. The Independent Comedy Network (ICN.tv), a small outfit that had a minor hit last year with the quarterlife spoof 2/8 Life, is hoping it can survive where SuperDeluxe failed. Funny thing about 2/8 Life [...]
Queercents (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
A few years ago while in the throes of poverty that often come with graduate school, employment at Starbucks and a quarterlife crisis, I cooked up an idea to expand my wardrobe. Many of my friends also worked for Starbucks, other worked at bookstores or other less-than-lucrative positions. It was somewhere in between resale-shopping and [...]
Bricks and Stones (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Nicole Richie and Joel Madden have posted an internship on Quarterlife’s website. They are looking for an intern to get their charity website together. It is called, “The Richie-Madden Children’s Foundation,” (appropriately titled) the foundation will focus on bringing meaningful opportunities to children in all corners of the globe, while also striving to bring [...]
Women's Voices for Change (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Debra Winger and Diane Keaton spoke this week of being tossed aside as they got older, and now they got a boost this week from one of the talented young'uns supplanting them. Scarlett Johansson, perhaps anticipating her own "quarterlife crisis," gave reporters reason to brood yet again on the issue: Scarlett Johansson has criticised Hollywood's treatment of older women. The 23-year-old actress... [This...
Reel Pop (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
"Quarterlife" has gone from Webisode to TV series to...internship program? No joke, according to the property's mastermind himself, Marshall Herskovitz, who can now be seen in a taped introduction at Quarterlife.com introducing the "Intern Queen" Lauren Berger, overseer of a...
Digital Podcast (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
I spent yesterday at NATPE's LATV Festival enjoying some interesting discussions and presentations from the Digital Day. This report is a synopsis of one of those sessions. This session focused on how audiences and content are interacting like never before. The COO of Quarterlife, a founder of Metacafe, the CEO of Watercooler and the Chief Innovation officer of Passenger got together on this panel...
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
With every passing birthday, trepidations of old age and mortality skirt 20-year-old Pitt student Justin Lamorella's thoughts.
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
NBC is in fourth-place in the ratings. The network is praying series like " Heroes " return well in the fall after a nine-month hiatus imposed by the writers strike. Talks with the actors are at an impasse over digital revenues, and another strike is certainly possible. Yet! NBC Entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman says his biggest disappointment in his first year on the job was--who knew?--the...
NewTeeVee (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Ben Silverman: quarterlife a “Disappointment;” co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and NBC Universal Television Studio says the show didn’t even do half of what he expected it to do. (TVWeek) Raindance.TV Secures $1 Million; first round for the UK new media film distributor. (Variety) TurnHere Releases Real Estate Video Product; for its Deluxe Snapshot Video, company will assemble [...]
Gawker (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
We all know quarterlife didn't work. The series, about brooding twentysomethings, was a modest hit on the the internet then completely tanked when NBC picked it up for national broadcast. Something...
NewTeeVee (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Quarterlife creator Marshall Herskovitz and I haven’t always seen eye-to-eye, so when I introduced myself to him at the Digital Media Summit in Hollywood, I wasn’t sure if he’d shake my hand or pop me in the face. Turns out Herskovitz was a nice guy and has been very thoughtful — almost meditative — about [...]
Beet.TV (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
LOS ANGELES -- It was a little depressing listening to Quarterlife producer Marshall Herskowitz give the keynote address at iHollywood today over at the Roosevelt Hotel. He is clearly still bitter about NBC's decision to remove his show from its...
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Chastened by NBC's failed experiment with "Quarterlife," the networks have understandably been gun-shy about bringing Web fare to television. But ABC is giving it another shot with " In The Motherhood ," which is produced by Mindshare Entertainment (the branded entertainment unit of WPP) for MSN. ABC says it will air the sitcom, starring Leah Remini (former "King of Queens" star), and Jenny McCarthy...
