Fox has canceled DRIVE
POSTED BY: Sister
UPDATED: Friday, June 8, 2007 15:09
VIEWED: 56176
PAGE 15 of 17
I LOVED Drive, and am pissed off every year at the long list of cancelled shows that I watch, but if I was a Fox executive, I would have cancelled Drive myself. Let's be realistic here. Out of all the new series this year, Drive was one of the lowest rated on TV. And considering the type of show it was, the ratings were NOT going to improve. It would have been a very poor choice to keep it going, as sad as that is to say. You just don't recover from those numbers.
Yes, it makes thousands of fans mad and you lose trust in the network. But what other option is there? May sweeps are very important. The ratings have to be top notch, or your whole network could be in a world of trouble.
You can't say Fox didn't try. The viewers just didn't respond.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I really wished I was surprised. Now I'm kind of glad I didn't see anything past the first two hours (which I loved - but I was on vacation and not watching much tv).
I also found the marketing campaign kind of odd for the show. I saw a lot of ads saying it was coming to television etc and when the premiere was, but not when the series was regularly airing.
Edit: After re-reading the post above I'm kind of wondering why Fox premiered the show when it did - it was too early for May sweeps, but just late enough in April that most shows were coming back with new episodes after the post February sweeps repeat extravaganza. Fox has been the broadcast network shaking up the traditional tv schedule the most, so I'm wondering why they didn't go with a summer debut after May sweeps when there is little new non-reality programming.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by Penguin:
From Variety...
Fox has impounded "Drive," steering the show off the network highway after four episodes.
Despite decent reviews, "Drive" quickly stalled, averaging just a 2.3 rating and 6 share among adults 18-49, and 5.6 million viewers overall.
Oh, for frak's sake! Peeps were just ready to see Nathan in "Drive," and now they cancelled that, too?? Gotta hand it to you, Fox, your talent for alienating folks is near miraculous!
--
"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I'm sure they're very proud
Why is the rum always gone?
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I love Nathan but the show was just bad. So thin and the wong cast. Bad-ass latino guy looks like a abercrombie fitch model? The only storyline worth following (imho) was Nathans character.
"..it is my very favorite gun."
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Drive wasn't given a chance to be great. Tim Minear is excellent at the slow developement of deep characters and challenging plots. I'm not taking this from FOX anymore.
myspace.com/burnedbyfox
'Nuf said.
"No power in the 'verse can stop me."
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Well they did it again.......
It's worse than you think.
It usually is.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
It figures. I watch 3 episodes, and just when I'm starting to like it.......
We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm the hero.
NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
THE DECISION TO KILL DRIVE WAS MADE BEFORE THE FIRST SHOW, JUST LIKE FIREFLY
Ratings don't matter. Especially to Fox, that can't even tell the truth about presidential election results.
Quote:
"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
-Communist dictator Joseph Stalin
Odd to cancel it a couple weeks into the first season, jumping from Sunday premier to Monday nights. 2 pilot epps on Sunday night, then Epp 3 one day later on Monday night. Epp 5 replaced by an old rerun of House... Whoever markets these things is nuts. Or crafty at sabotage.
Confusing viewers about the schedule is a guaranteed way to reduce the number of viewers, on purpose. I produce a weekly TV news show on cable access. After 14 months, I finally got listed on TV Guide Channel. Two months later, TV Guide Channel stopped listing ALL shows on our cable access station, which had been listed by TVG since its beginning. That same week, my CTV station general manager sent me a letter threatening to sue me for $150,000, for my report on corporate Robocops from Australia replacing police and city court, and stealing million$ of taxdollars from bogus red-light tickets. Coincidence? Of course not. The Robocop Mafia forced the GM to "scare" me. Can't cancel me, because I own my own show.
www.piratenews.org/video-archive.html
www.piratenews.org/kill-robocops.html
But they did temporarily kill my show during the Republican primary, when my brother was running for judge, against the incumbent who had his own TV show on cable access. The Powers That Be didn't want me reporting on the divorce court judge's 4 marriages, or the fact he's a convicted deadbeat dad.
I don't work for Fox. But Rupert Murdoch Knight of the British Empire does own TV Guide Channel, along with his Communist Chinese wife, who both live in Bejing in Communist China. Both Redflex Robocops and Sir Rupert are from Australia. Redflex is a foreign military contractor that specializes in turning public highways into GPS toll roads. Now I have to sue Sir Rupert for breach of contract, to get back on TV Guide Channel. My show reported on the Top Secret class action against Redflex and our corrupt city municipal corporation. Our corporate Media Mafia, city council and police chief refuse to tell the sheeple that Australia is a foregn nation, pretending that Oz is located in "Arizona".
www.redflex.co.au
Quote:
On September 4, 1985, Murdoch became a naturalized citizen, to satisfy the legal requirement that only US citizens could own American television stations. Seventeen days after the divorce, on June 25, 1999, Murdoch, then 68, married Chinese born Deng Wen Di, later changed to Wendi Deng.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch
Wendi Deng was born 1969 in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China. Deng’s father was [Communist Party] president of a Chinese factory. Deng and Rupert Murdoch have since had 2 daughters. Since their births, Deng has aggressively been strategizing (through Rupert) to give her children voting rights in a trust which has an interest in News Corp. that alone is valued at USD$6.1 billion. Until Deng's 2 daughters reach the age of 30, Deng would exercise those rights, which would give her 30% control over the trust.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendi_Deng
So Fox is now owned by the Communist Party in China, that Joss was warning us about in Firefly...
The point being, TV producers and writers have to play this game of hardball censorship. If you're Rusty "Rush" Limbaugh, you get a $300-million contract to buy all the dope you can eat. If you're Nathan or Joss, watch your back.
DRIVE was heavy in mindcontrol by "situational ethics". That's what happens when you get Tim Minear's homcidal maniacs, sans Joss Whedon's humor. Perhaps it's against the law of the Police State to show speeders disregarding speed limits, with nary a cop to be seen?
Too bad it didn't sell the Constitutionally guaranteed God-given Natural right to t
NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
