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Jul
24
Continuing on somewhat of the theme of yesterday’s post - KateModern is Dead - we have another situation where professionals are playing in the vlog world - or at least taking it up as their subject.
MySpace seems to have struck a deal to air an online series called QuarterLife from Hollywood heavy-hitters Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz (Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Thirtysomething, My So-Called Life, Relativity).
Although not much is known about it at this point, from the basic appearance of things, QuarterLife will not be another Lonelygirl15 type endeavor. Rather, it looks to be more like a regular TV show - but with a few twists.
The first twist, of course, is that it will be seen on MySpace, which has launched something they call MySpace TV for original programming. MySpace has already been working with the pros in this arena.
Earlier this year they worked out a deal with former Disney CEO Michael Eisner and his new online production company called Vuguru. The deal had Vuguru posting their teen drama series “Prom Queen” on Myspace twelve hours before it would show up anywhere else (such as on YouTube, or even the series’ home page - promqueen.tv).
But TV shows, even if they are cut into short episodes and put onto the web, don’t really qualify as vlogs in my book. What makes the QuarterLife series of interest is that the main storyline revolves around vlogging and what can happen when a vlogger takes to the web to talk about her friends.
According to the Internet Movie Database, the plotline is as follows:
Magazine editor and writer DYLAN KRIEGER (Tulloch) sends her friends into fits when they discover that she keeps a rather insightful video blog about them on a website called “quarterlife.”
It’s interesting to note that Zwick and Herskovitz had a short-lived TV show in 2005 called 1/4life. The term “quarterlife” comes from “quarterlife crisis” and is something analogous to a midlife crisis, only for twentysomethings. Zwick and Herskovitz, of course, made the very popular “Thirtysomething” in the late 80s.
The stars of Quarterlife, which is in post-prodction, are Bitsie Tulloch, Scott M. Foster, David Walton, Michelle Lombardo, Maite Schwartz, Barret Swatek, Kevin Christy, and Barbara Williams.
As of this writing, the website quarterlife.com is password protected, and so it seems there are things going on behind the scenes.
LINKS:
Info about QuarterLife at the Internet Movie Database