Fox pulls 'Drive' final episodes off schedule..

Basq

Can't say i'm surpised... it is Fox after all!

The final filmed episodes of Tim Minear’s “Drive” will not be airing this Friday the 13th after all.

A repeat of “Bones” and a new episode of “Standoff” will air on Fox that night.

Fox currently has no plans to air the final episodes. Some have speculated that these might turn up on a DVD release, but Fox has yet to announce DVD plans for Minear’s 2005 FBI series, “The Inside,” which completed a lot more episodes.

One hears Nathon Fillion has already moved on to “Desperate Housewives,” which is so funny it beat “The Office” for the “best comedy series” Golden Globe a few years ago.

Source: Ain't It Cool News

And Nathan Fillion moving to 'Desperate Housewives'? I think i've lost every ounce of respect for him with that decision. But the bloke's gotta work somewhere i suppose. He just deserves better in my opinion!

PS - this probably should have been appended to the existing 'Drive' thread but with the search failing to filter by forum for me, i had no choice. The term 'Drive' in all forums is (obviously) returning a lot of results.

Mr E

What a shocker.

ixoy

Well I'm glad I didn't bother watching beyond the pilot - lessens the pain and the frustration. Seriously though Mr Minear - escape!! Different network please!

As to Fillion's casting in DH - I kinda like the series. I think his trademark fast wit won't be entirely lost in the series, especially if he adds a bit more of his Southern accent. Not the worst move and it suits his talents more than this awful appearance in 'Lost'!

Basq

Yeah.. i'm at a loss to fathom why he's stuck there. Maybe now he'll move onto greener pastures (i.e ABC, NBC, Showtime - any other networks that may give him a chance to develop a series).

Just found this cartoon.. gave me a giggle:

Mr E

Lol

lostexpectation

why not show the last ep, I mean thats just unbelievably cruel?

cmoney

from reading some of the american forums sounds like fox might be making the last 2 episodes available online to watch in the next coimg week or so

dont see why they cant just air it on fox anyway

S.M.B.

I didn't really enjoy the few episodes that aired anyway.

I'm a big Minear/Fillion fan but I thought the series was average at best! There were glimpses of quality throughout the few episodes but not enough IMO.

AdMMM

cmoney wrote:

from reading some of the american forums sounds like fox might be making the last 2 episodes available online to watch in the next coimg week or so

dont see why they cant just air it on fox anyway

They're probably able to demand more for advertising blocks from showing repeats of the Simpsons than showing the final episodes of an already canned series which fared poorly in the ratings war. It's a shame really.

Basq

Great interview with Tim Minear over at DriveFans.com on what would have happened if the show wasn't so prematurely cancelled.

(summary from AintItCoolNews.com)

* Alex Tully’s wife, Kathryn (Amy Acker), was probably working with race organizers before she ever met Alex.

* Eliza Dushku, who worked with Minear on “Angel,” might have been cast as a “Duel”-esque truck-driving sociopathic serial killer.

* In Ohio, Wendy Patrakas (Melanie Lynsky) would have rescued her baby from her husband, only to be captured herself.

* With the unexpected help of Ivy (Taryn Manning), Wendy and her baby would have escaped. Ivy would have bonded with Wendy’s baby on the road, and sacrificed herself to save him.

* Ellie (Mircea Monroe), the soldier’s wife, was secretly having an affair with Bill, the blue-eyed “race monitor.”

* Iraq vet Rob (Riley Smith) would have been court martialed and put in a military brig.

* Bill would have forced Ellie to break Rob out.

* Rob has a “special skill” useful to a race contestant.

* Rob would have hooked up with Leigh (Rochelle Aytes) in more ways than one.

* Rob might have found himself back soldiering in the Iraq desert, where he gets another race clue and is sent back into the race by a high-ranking officer.

* John Trimble (Dylan Baker) wasn’t really dying; race organizers gave him meds to make him feel sick so he would take more risks.

* As soon as John discovered he’s not dying, he would have gotten hit by a truck.

* Wendy was sponsored by an older couple who adopted Wendy’s first child, which Wendy believed dead.

* Wendy would have reunited with her long-lost first kid.

* John Trimble (Dylan Baker) was his own sponsor.

* Winston Salazar (Kevin Alejandro) was sponsored by his father’s trusted advisor, who was seeking to destroy the Salazar family and take control of their business.

* Ivy, Leigh and Susan (Michael Hyatt) were actually sponsorless, “selected by the race company to liven up the competition. Sort of like non-player ‘bots’ in a multiplayer videogame," according to Silverstein.

* Minear says “somebody” would have won the race.

* One episode might have centered on a brutal storm. Another on a 30-car pileup.

* Though Susan was revealed to have a penis in an early “Drive” pilot script, that appendage apparently dropped away somewhere in the development process.

* Had the show been renewed for a second season, a new race would have commenced utilizing old players and new.

Shame.. some potentially great TV there!

ElNino

Episode 5 and 6 - the final two episodes - are available now from the usual sources.

I will watch them tonight hopefully.

R.I.P. Drive :mad: