A night with the guys ...
and who comes home with a stiff one?
Hey I can't help it. Who knew?Did you know that Austin worked with Ed Zwick?
Between TDAT and Glory Road, Austin Austin did a pilot for "1/4 life". It was about – friends and roommates – in their mid-20s living in Chicago.
Created by Ed with his partner Marshall Herskovitz, who directed the pilot, was something they have been thinking for about doing, a series about the time that comes after graduation and has to coming to grips with life in the real world.
"I think in some fundamental way, everyone is 25," Zwick said. "It's a moment when you've stopped being the person you were and are not yet the person you're going to become."
Ed thought "1/4life" would probably become a "spiritual cousin" to "thirtysomething," but they stressed that it would have a distinct look and feel from its forerunner.
Austin played Charlie, and one of the other actors in the show Shiri Appleby follows him on The CW Tuesday nights in Life Unexpected.
ABC did not pick up the pilot. There was word that there were 3 additional episodes shot. Zwick and Herskovitz were able to retain the rights from ABC, and reformatted the concept to create a network quality webseries, called "quarterlife". They also create a companion social network called quarterlife.com.
So with Ed already knowing Austin, seems like the Sasquatch was already welcomed.
Happy Austin Friday.
