Fox has canceled DRIVE
POSTED BY: Sister
UPDATED: Friday, June 8, 2007 15:09
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...what the crap?
This is just like Firefly all over again! And while Drive isn't as good (not even near it) as Firefly, it was still really enjoyable. I liked seeing Nathan again, and Tim Minear is great.
.... DANGIT!
Why won't they just let them finish the story? I mean, this is the kind of show that you want to know how it ends, and there is a definite ending to it.
This really stinks.
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It hasn't evem gotten to Australia yet and Now probably never will, except for DVD if sales are good everywhere else.
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Originally posted by Legolas813:
The Big 4 networks would be out of their mind to keep a show with only 4-6 million viewers (and dropping each episode).
Networks air what the majority of the American TV audience wants to see. Can you blame them?
I agree. I know it's easy to say screw Fox and be angry with them, but to be more honest you should be angry with all the folks you know in ordinary walks of life who don't ever watch this stuff we love. They would rather watch crap reality shows.
That's what sells.
All of that is fine, if broadcast TV as a medium weren't part of the issue. But the fact is, 4-6 million users isn't such a small number when you look at non-broadcast media. It may be a smaller market, but it's a very specific demographic (usually) that makes advertisers salivate because they know who their audience is.
I think the point that broadcast TV IS at issue here is the most important thing. Fox, and the other Big-4 (plus, plus), just like the music companies, will have to adapt, find ways to get their shows relevant in ways that still get them advertisers. Finding creative ways to use the Internet (ways that really work, which is the hard part), to get DVR users like me to actually stick through a commercial or three (I'm amazed at how often I actually do watch them on my TiVo) and getting statisticians to actually use real numbers, like the DVR users (15% of the market use them and don't watch TV live) who don't get included in the Nielsen (sp?) ratings returns).
Sure, you can't blame Fox for dropping a show because of bad ratings. But you can and should laugh your ass off when they do this because their decisions aren't based on a model that reflects reality. Broadcast TV will suffer big time if they don't start getting with the plan.
VSmirk
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In absolute honesty, I really didn't like the show, inmy opinion it was just another retelling of the same old story that's been told over and over again. But I do understand WHY people would like it, it had potential, it had good dialogue. And another point in mycase, I only watched it for Nathan, but yeah, fox is a bunch f
king morons, four episodes is not enough time to see where a show is going. I think there are enough Browncoats and Whedon fans out there so that if we ALL decided to stop watching fox, there would be noticable dip in there ratings, maybe not a huge one, but a noticable one.
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Originally posted by VSmirk:
Sure, you can't blame Fox for dropping a show because of bad ratings. But you can and should laugh your ass off when they do this because their decisions aren't based on a model that reflects reality. Broadcast TV will suffer big time if they don't start getting with the plan.
VSmirk
In a discussion with my son in law regarding this very same subject we talked about how pay channels often keep shows and let them flourish with lower ratings than Drive had.
You're right about the major networks suffering a loss of viewers if they don't get with it. My 70ish year old Mom declared that she'll never watch F*X again after this. She wants to see how the story ends and as she watches shows on her computer now and likes the ease with which she can do that, she said she'd be more than willing to pay to see shows on her computer where she could pick and choose and avoid commercials.
Innovation is coming. It's just a matter of time. Things are changing and after some hard times where good tv and good movies are hard to come by, I think we'll have a sea change in the way things are done.
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Cheers for that link!
Just watched the first episode, it was pretty damn good. Was Bred, the guy who bailed out the new mother, the paranoia shop owner from Angel S4 'The Magic Bullet?' They looked pretty similar.
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THIS IS SO STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Again they CANCEL another pretty good show... if they make so many tv shows, don't they know that shows take a while to pick up? I mean heroes didn't have that big of a number viewage, it just kept getting higher as word spread. The best way for fox to do well is to go global! cause i've been watching drive on the internet over youtube. i mean a lot of shows i've picked up are stilling trying to draw in the numbers like tudors, painkiller jane. Never fight with other shows if they're popular like drive vs. heroes? sorry for the rant. I just wanted the show to keep going, i mean SHORT LIVED doesn't even define how short it lived.
Drive got F*xed...
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