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Quarterlife is no more

By fred | February 28, 2008

Well, sure it was intended to be a drama, but since it failed at that maybe it’ll get a couple of laugh from the latest development : the show has already been canceled !

That’s right, only one episode aired on NBC, at 10.00 this Tuesday, but it did horribly ! With not even 4 million viewers it was not only bad, but according to Reuters it was Peacock’s “worst time-period performance in at least 17 years“, no less! In fact, more recent update numbers announce only 3.1 million viewers for the show !

Now, I knew it was bad and wouldn’t do well, although I didn’t expect it to do so terrible, but I gotta say I’m a little surprised NBC decided to yank it already. I mean, we’re talking about NBC here, don’t you remember for how long they let Bionic Woman on the air ??

Anyways, what’s funny about this if the explanation that creator Herskovitz gave for the failure of the show. Yes, he did blame NBC, but not because they didn’t promote it enough, not because they gave it a bad/dead time slot or anything like what you usually hear in such circumstances. No, instead he basically blamed NBC because, listen to this : they aired the show ! (How dared they!?)

Really, isn’t that funny ? I mean no one put a gun to his head and had him sold the show to NBC, and he could totally have called some cable networks if he believed, as if he said, that “it probably should have been [on a cable network]“.

I find it funny that he now says that he knew that show shouldn’t have aired on a big network, because when NBC bought the show he thought it was a great move, and he was even already thinking of how he’ll write more episodes if they got picked up for more, with the then-coming writers’ strike.

But now he said that within three minutes of the show, he knew it wouldn’t work. It would not, because of “the tight shots and intimate stories” on the show, and how the were inappropriate for a broadcast network show. Yeah, right. Only it doesn’t have anything to do with “tight shots” or “intimate stories”, but more with the fact that the show was everything but original, interesting, or good.

And I too knew that about 3 minutes in, or one webisodes. Oh yeah, no need to actually see it on NBC to know that, all it really took was to watch the show…

PS: If somehow you watched the pilot on NBC, and want to see more of it, remember that the whole thing was already available, 100% free, on quarterlife.com

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Shows: Quarterlife