quarterlife or 1/4life

I watched quarterlife on NBC the other night (actually, I downloaded it to my iPod and watched it at the gym... but now that the writers are getting paid for that, I figure it's pretty much the same thing).

I didn't hate it, and I didn't love it either. It was fine, I guess. I think it has some potential.

I was stumbling through IMDB this morning, and I came across this. It's a listing for a show called ¼life. Same writers, director, producers, creators. Just a different show, that apparently didn't air. The cast is different, but the general plot is the same (and the names of some of the characters are the same).

One difference: the show took place in Chicago. The new version of quarterlife now takes place in LA. I don't have a problem with shows being set in LA. I live in LA, I was born in LA, I grew up in LA. I like recognizing places I know (like in the pilot of quarterlife, when the characters filmed a TV commercial at the Toyota/Scion dealership where I took Dan to buy his car). At the same time, I think people are kind of sick of shows about the lives of 20-somethings in Los Angeles. Chicago would have made the show a lot more interesting.Joel Grishaver