Only three short episodes of the new web-based series Quarterlife have “aired” online and overall, the buzz has been pretty positive. Now it looks as though the series is going to expand to one-hour episodes, which, if all goes well, will begin airing on NBC sometime next year.
The Hollywood Reporter posted the news on Friday evening, stating that NBC struck a deal with executive producers Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick to turn the web-based series, which recently aired “Part 3” of the show on MySpace and the series’ social networking website, quarterlife.com.
The episodes that are airing now are each about ten minutes long and center on a twenty-something girl named Dylan. She blogs about her job, her friends and many of the other challenges that adulthood has to offer.
Quarterlife was originally meant to be a pilot for a series on ABC three years ago and as Herskovitz and Zwick are no strangers to developing great dramas (both exec produced Thirty Something and My So Called Life), there’s a good chance Quarterlife could be the next must-watch series (for girls anyway). Based on the first few episodes, I’m guessing that this drama series will appeal mainly to women between the ages of mid-teen to mid-thirties.
Though NBC will be the distribution partner, not only for the series’ network broadcasts, but also for the online broadcasts and DVDs, Zwick and Herskovitz will have complete ownership and creative control over the series.
This is the trailer for the online episodes:
