Will follow.

ETA: I'm sorry if I caused a problem with what is obviously my own personal issues.

The current promo, I am not sure if the voiceover announcement guy was written in-house. I don't think so.

I doubt it was, given that it was the Voice of the Network: "Fox brings you a revolutionary new series," etc.

The rest of the promos were written in-house. They're monologues.

Okay, awesome. I look forward to those.

So criticism of the promo is criticism of the show and the work of the show's creative team.

All right, I think I get what you're saying.

As if Tim + Great Show + Fox = early cancellation.

Ah, see, I've been taking that as a joke. Like Lucy and the football.

Lots of well written intelligent shows have long runs. Well a few... M*A*S*H at least.

eta: but M*A*S*H wasn't on Fox.

But Cereously. I have a positive outlook on the possible success of TV's Hit Drive. Most shows get cancelled. Some good shows do not. This feels like one of the ones that will go on. My toes are crossed.

seriously. if people do not like anything, they can say so as long as they don't make personal attacks. if that stops being cool, it sucks.

what about a kerfauxfle?

bring it ON! I faux with the best of the imaginary people in the box.

I don't get offended by much in terms of this place. Honest, I read the "meh" promo comment and it didn't bother me a tick. Not one tick. I'm so old and cynical that it's really water off an old cynical duck's back. I'm at the stage that if I feel like I did what I set out to do, chances are I'll like it even if you don't, and still like it even when you don't. And if something didn't really work for me, I'll probably still think I know better than you when you tell me it was good. The promo that they ran was put together by the network. The network made the promos. Because they wanted to get out ahead of the debut and intro the show, we did an unusual thing -- we don't have a finished episode yet and we did a whole bunch of recasting. The network had different campaigns they wanted to do: one of them is the warehouse thing with cameras where the characters come in and "sell" themselves to the race. That doesn't happen in the show, but we thought it would work in terms of giving a sense of who the characters were. We ended up doing a full-on shoot of just material made for promos. We wrote the stuff the actors said because, if this was going to be the first time America was introduced to my characters for my hit TV show, I didn't want what they said to be written by people who weren't actually doing the show. So we took over the scripting for the promo people's concepts. Now what we have are finished promos, made from material that we wrote and oversaw, but put together by the network. They are using some material from the show itself (as it becomes available to them) and intercutting it with the shot-for-promo stuff. The finished products are not us. It's all worked out very handily. The Fox promo people love the show and really want to sell it.

The Fox promo people love the show and really want to sell it.

This is super exciting and the best thing to hear... errr, read.