The Beautiful Life lives again – on web
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
The Beautiful Life – dumped after just two episodes – has been revived on the web.
A TV ratings failure, it will now be seen on YouTube from Thursday. Six episodes were produced before it was cancelled in September.
Executive producer Ashton Kutcher made the announcement on YouTube, along with a woman named “iJustine”.
He said: “Nobody knew it was on and so the rating on the TV wasn’t happening. I was like listen, there’s no way, if you put this thing on the web more than half a million people will watch it on the web. So my feeling is, I want this to be the first show ever that gets more viewers on the web than what it got on terrestrial television.”
He also tweeted:”thanks to HP (@hpnews) & @youtube The Beautiful Life is back http://bit.ly/8CtA7O watch TBL at www.youtube.com/tbl – 13 minutes ago from web.”
The show, which centred on the lives of a group of male and female models sharing a home in NYC, drew most attention for its inclusion of Mischa Barton, the troubled starlet whose summer saw her briefly in a hospital under a psychiatric order.







