I am – Hercules!!


It appears the writers went back to work just in time.

“quarterlife,” the terrible new Internet-spawned show from the creators of “thirtysomething,” is expected to get booted from NBC’s airwaves after airing only a single episode.

Another writers-strike stopgap, CBS’ Sunday-night broadcasts of Showtime’s “Dexter,” have been having a tough go of it as well. According to Zap2it, the Oscars pushed the serial-killer series down 19 percent from its third-place CBS premiere opposite ABC's “Brothers and Sisters” and NBC's widely reviled “Knight Rider” retread the week before.

Conversely, the Tina Fey-hosted episode of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” – its first live installment since the end of the writers’ strike – scored that show’s best ratings since a new Steve Martin-hosted edition that aired two years ago. The Fey episode, if I recall correctly, drew better numbers than any primetime Saturday show on any of the networks over the last six weeks.

Read all of James Hibberd's Hollywood Reporter story on the “quarterlife” matter here.

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