Admit it. We all knew it was coming, but did you all think it would happen so soon?
According to sources at TV Guide, FOX’s new drama, “Drive,” has been prematurely cancelled after airing only four of its thirteen season one episodes. Centered around an illegal, cross-country car race, the show got off to a great start during its two-hour premiere and hasn’t slowed down yet. The premise alone is promising enough for anyone who enjoyed the first season of “Prison Break,” so its surprising to see that not as many people tuned in. Of course, rumor is that many were turned off by the fact that they knew FOX would cancel it, and so they didn’t want to engulf themselves in yet another television history where they would never see the conclusion.
The future of the show didn’t look good as soon as word got out that “Firefly” star Nathan Fillion was teaming up with show’s co-creator Tim Minear for a new series, but we all figured that FOX had learned its lesson the first time around. Both Minear and Fillion are very talented people, so it sucks to see yet another collaboration between the two flushed away so quickly. Is two weeks (three episodes aired in the first week alone) literally all the time a network can afford for a new show to find an audience, because if so, they aren’t going to have enough shows to fill the voids come pilot season.
With “Family Guy” not quite as great as it used to be and “24” experiencing the worst season of its six-year history, what else does FOX have to compete with the other networks? Not much, which makes the cancellation of “Drive” all that more disappointing. And to think I was debating blogging this show…
Oh well, I guess we have the DVD to look forward to, and if we’re lucky, maybe Universal will buy the rights and make a movie like they did with “Serenity.” Wishful thinking? Probably, but it could happen.
