Fox has canceled DRIVE
POSTED BY: Sister
UPDATED: Friday, June 8, 2007 15:09
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This sucks bigtime. Enough said.
-She's in Congress?-
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Guys you all need to calm down. How could you possibly be this invested in 4 hours of television? The show was not even that good. There were far too many characters to ever even get past their 1 dimensional sides. I can understand being Nathan and Tim fans, but seriously step back and take a look at the show for what it was. Then take another step back and look at this from a realistic standpoint. The show was not going to do well. If the ratings were bad and dropping there's just about no chance that they're going to improve to a point that it would be kept around. It's a serialized show. If you tuned in monday and hadn't seen any other episodes would you have any clue what was going on? Heck no. I mean not even the basics. You'd be totally lost. So, the only way this show was going anywhere was if Fox re-aired the whole thing sometime and got a TON of new viewership. Very unlikely. Fox did what they had to do. They even promoted this one heavily before it came out. This is just a case of a show that never found its legs or its audience.
Deep breaths. Hope for better things for Tim and Nathan in the future. The end.
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Originally posted by Storymark:
I know it's real popular to blame Fox for everything around here, but when a new show is actually bringing down the ratings of one of their best-rated shows, it's a good business dicision to axe it.
Yeah, because Heroes running at the same time had nothing to do with it.
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Don't tell me to calm down you pansy. Do not go quietly into that good night. Rage, Rage against the dying of the light. Make a noise, bang a pan, do not accept mediocrity.
Should have kept to my own counsel. This group dynamic think is getting to me.
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Someone should email this topic to FOX maybe they would get the point - and bring back Drive
All of their other shows are just 
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This is a horrible day for Nathan and Tim. I agree that FOX should have given the show some time and at least moved it around a bit before axing it. "Smallville" on the CW or the WB or whatever they're calling it this week has been moved several times and has been with us for what, 5 or 6 seasons now? And as gorgeous as Tom Welling is, he's not as hot as Nathan, nor is his show as good as Firefly was or even what little of Drive we were shown. CW has several sci-fi series that have stuck around. Joss and Tim might want to check on working with that network if they're going to go with network tv at all. As for ratings, well, let's face it. Nielsen families make up only a VERY small percentage of tv viewership, and unfortunately they're watching the reality tv crap, and crass crap like Adult Swim. I apologize to any fans of the adult cartoon genre, truly I do, but for me, I can actually feel my brain cells dying when that stuff is on. Networks cater to whatever the Nielsen families watch, and until we all have Nielsen boxes in our homes, we are at their mercy. It's sad, but true. Apparently the Nielsen families LIVE for crap television. Me, I have enough reality in my life. When I watch tv, it's to get AWAY from reality. And I thoroughly agree with whoever said there isn't much good on tv anymore. There isn't. When a show succeeds, within a week there are three copycat series. Sadly, very little of what's on is worth watching, especially coming out of the US. There is more interesting tv coming out of the UK, it seems like. If there is good tv here at all, it's cancelled almost immediately, because Nielsen doesn't like what's actually good!
Burn the land and boil the sea; you can't take the sky from me
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GodDAMNIT!!
I was really liking this show and I can't understand what happned. Yes F*X did hype it like nuts before it came on but what happened to the commercials after it aired? And would it have killed them to do an encore airing of the first episode at some point. And someone mentione4d that they could have put it on after one of their already successful shows. I think that sounds like a good idea. Why didn't they do that?
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Op: You're fighting a war you've already lost.
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Hey RevDeadCorpse - what's that animation in your siggy?
I believe that's the climactic "Hall of Mirrors" sequence from Equilibrium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equilibrium_%282002_film%29
Apparently, it's been turned into a Mod for the game Max Payne 2!
http://hom.paynereactor.com/
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*twitches nose and sniffs in an irritated manner*
Well, I saw that one coming seeing as it was on the network-from-the-Special-Hell, but I'm still ticked.
And since the show is canceled, Alex's car should be put into the hands of someone who is going to love it and take care of it. Someone who isn't just going to--oh, say--dump it in the middle of the desert and leave it to rust! What I'm saying is, is the car for sale and how much is it? And, can Nathan and Tim sign it?
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BrownCoat1
Of course there is also direct to dvd movies to continue the story as Stargate SG1 and Babylon 5 are both doing.
Pre-orders are being accepted for B5 at amazon. Like all things these days making of the second one depends on the profitability of the first one.
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