Following on from the success of Prom Queen, another show exclusively created for MySpace will debut in November.
Called Quarterlife, the show will feature young people and their struggles finding their way in life after college.
The show is being created by Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, the men behind Thirtysomething and My So Called Life, two shows which enjoiyed huge success on mainstream TV Networks.
Why have they switched to MySpace then? Well the show started as a pilot for ABC in 2005, but the US Network decided not to commission a full series. So the pair changed their sights to the Internet.
Herskovitz told Variety: “Ed and I have a great interest in being independent, and for several years, we’ve realised the internet offers that possibility“.
MySpace will now have exclusive rights all of Quarterlife’s 36 episodes for 24 hours, after which the video will appear on the show’s own specially created website.
MySpace claims Quarterlife will be the first internet programme to have “network quality” production values. If this is true, this could be the start of a new phase of Internet based shows, with mainstream TV having less of a monopoly.
