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Media Credit: Michael Cieply from www.nytimes.com Herskovitz on set with actors Scott M. Foster and Michelle Lombardo

If someone was to ask you what your favorite TV show was, a television on which you watch it would probably be part of the picture, right? Well get ready for something completely different.

Most of us, especially because we are young and social, use MySpace. Whether it is to keep in touch with friends, meet new people, listen to music, or post pictures, we have joined the MySpace world.

However, most of us would never think to log onto MySpace to watch our weekly TV series. Contrary to this common thought are two seasoned producers who are about to take the plunge and produce a show that we can all watch online every week just like you would on television (www.nytimes.com).

These two producers are Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, who have produced famous movies such as Blood Diamond and The Last Samurai are about to embark upon their new idea . They have made a deal with MySpace to have a Web series. This Web series is called Quarterlife, and will be about college students who have recently graduated. It originally started as a pilot for ABC and was produced by the Bedford Falls Co. and Touchstone Television (www.adweek.com).

It was not picked up by ABC, and has been reworked by the Producers over the last few years.

It will be air every Sunday and Thursday and it will be split up from its original hour long segment into 36 eight-minute segments. The actors and actresses are not people who are famous, but have appeared on some TV shows that we would recognize such as The West Wing, and Teenage Dirtbag, in which Bitsie Tulloch and Scott M. Foster appeared in.

After Quarterlife is aired on MySpace, people will be able to log onto Quarterlife.com, which is a website that Kerskovitz and Zwick have started, and be able to watch it the day after.

Herskovitz said that "I realized that because of the nature of the story, this was the perfect vehicle for us to go to the Net." (www.adweek.com).

The show will not air until Nov. 11, but in the meantime, if you are curious about what this show is going to be like, you can go online and watch the trailer. It will give you a little sneak preview into what's in store for the series.

Similarly, other shows like South Park will begin to be aired on the Web, but became popular on television.

Because it is about recent college students, it might end up being more successful than most of us would think since many college students use MySpace. On the other hand, people might not be attracted to the idea, and might just forget about it. Either way we will have to wait for Nov. 11 to air, and in the meantime we can continue using MySpace for our 100 other reasons.

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