The LA Times has published an article by thirtysomething creator Marshall Herskovitz that responds to criticism of his show quarterlife, which was hyped beforehand as the first television-quality production for the Web.
The show bombed on YouTube and went on to bomb on network television.
Despite the show’s poor performance, Herskovitz thinks quarterlife is not just successful, [...]

NBC’s Quarterlife - a heavily-hyped serialized drama from the creators of thirtysomething and My So-Called Life - was supposed to be a bold new direction for television. The show was hyped as “the first television-quality production for the Web.”
Unfortunately, it was a pretty awful television-quality production for the Web.
In December, we told you that Quarterlife [...]

Quarterlife, the heavily-hyped serialized drama from the creators of thirtysomething and My So-Called Life, is a bomb.
Views for the show have plummeted, going from nearly 800,000 YouTube views for the first episode to just a few thousand for some recent episodes. That’s fewer than sleeping kitties, graffiti videos and even a video of Sims in [...]

NBC on Friday said that Quarterlife, a serial Internet video that began its life on MySpace, will be aired on its television network next year, making the show the first to originate online and then move to a mainstream U.S. broadcaster. The move is a sign that the Internet may be becoming a “field team” [...]