There was a lot of Internet buzz when Quarterlife, a show about twenty-somethings, was moved from web to NBC during the Writer’s Strike. Unfortunately, online buzz does not always translate into offline success - just inquire Snakes on a Plane. Quarterlife turned out the lowest ratings for its time slot in over twenty years for NBC reports Reuters.

The highly touted online series about a group of young artists bombed in its NBC debut on Tuesday night, drawing the network’s lowest ratings and smallest audience for that time slot in at minimum 20 years, according to Nielsen Media Research.



The show ranked a distant third place for the 10 p.m. hour, averaging just 3.1 million viewers and a meager 1.3 rating among advertisers’ favorite demographic, adults aged 18 to 49, the precise audience for whom the series was designed.



The program had been scheduled to move to Sundays on NBC starting March 2.



But two sources close to the program, though not authorized to speak publicly about its scheduling, said

“quarterlife” has been removed from the NBC lineup.

Reuters also says NBC may move the show to Bravo - a network best known for its reality tv programs. The show’s protagonist Dylan Krieger blogs in the show as Jeremy Axelrod explains in this post. The show was originally meant to be shown on MySpace.com - the MySpace page is here. As an Internet show it was a hit and it will always be known as the first web show to make the jump to network television. But as a regular tv show it was a big dud. If the WGA Writer’s Strike had continued maybe people would have eventually tuned in.



More on Quarterlife’s brief tv life here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.



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