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.

That is good news.

So far the only promo I've seen was the one that ran during the 24 premiere. And I was just very excited to see it.

So far the only promo I've seen was the one that ran during the 24 premiere.

I am sumi in that. It was so fun to be surprised by it.

Also, every time I saw a car commercial during 24, I waited for it to turn into a promo for TV's Hit Drive, which... none of them did. More's the pity.

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.

I'm glad to hear that. It's a good idea for a promo, but I wouldn't have liked it in the show. I was surprised to see so much "behind the scenes"-type scenes in the promo because I thought a lot of the strength of the pilot (that I read, I don't know how much has changed) was that you don't get to see behind the scenes, you're just as in the dark as the characters. That's why I preferred the first hyperkinetic one.

Also, I really love the final scene with the woman aiming a gun in the mirror. I can't tell who it is, but I love the way she moves. It's way cool.

They are using some material from the show itself (as it becomes available to them) and intercutting it with the shot-for-promo stuff.

Did you see that they added more footage to the promo between Tuesday's airing and Wednesday's airing?

Today, on TV's hit Drive, was an exciting day. We had macaroni and cheese at lunch. It was awesome.

oooohhh! macaroni and cheese! was it yellow in hue or white?

I ask only because one color would be HUGELY distressing for folks like Polgara.

Oh! Do you think maybe tomorrow there'll be grilled cheese?

I heard there was going to be tomato soup AND cupcakes.

Kat, it was a pale yellow. And it was yummy.

Tomorrow, I think we're ordering in. Which makes it more difficult to have happy surprises, like unexpected mac n' cheese.