Damn it, in this age of reality TV ( The Amazing Race ) and serial drama ( 24 ) and weird mysterious setups ( Lost ), you'd think this would have "Viewers Tune In Here!" written all over it.
Mal: You know, you ain't quite right. River: It's the popular theory.
'Objects In Space'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Theodosia - Apr 17, 2007 5:11:24 am PDT #5710 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Sue - Apr 17, 2007 5:12:05 am PDT #5711 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Megan, was the sound craxy for last night's ep for you? The sound on Fox, and only Fox was so bad that I gave up trying to watch last night, figuring I'd see it on Friday.
Kevin - Apr 17, 2007 5:12:38 am PDT #5712 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
You have no idea how much I agree, Theo. And I don't think we can really blame FOX, either, as that's the most amount of promo I've seen in a good while. I think car racing just didn't stick as a selling point, ultimately.
Tom Scola - Apr 17, 2007 5:16:18 am PDT #5713 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Overnight Ratings for Monday, April 16th
Metered Market Ratings
ABC Dances to Victory; Fox’s “Drive” Stalled at the Gate
Household Rating/Share
ABC: 9.8/15
CBS: 8.1/12
NBC: 5.7/ 9
Fox: 5.5/ 8
CW: 1.7/ 2
Fox drama Drive debuted in the time period with a mere (and fourth-place) 3.7/ 6, which was a decline of 35 percent from former occupant Prison Break on the year-ago Monday (5.7/ 9 on April 17, 2006). One week earlier, a repeat of Fox’s House scored a considerably heftier 5.6/ 9 in the overnights.
Jesse - Apr 17, 2007 5:17:32 am PDT #5714 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I do feel like the ads I saw were more duhnduhnDUHN! than WOO HOO!, and the show is really a lot of both.
If that makes any sense at all.
Allyson - Apr 17, 2007 5:18:35 am PDT #5715 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I wonder if they'll show next week's episode, or if it'll be a House repeat.
Kevin - Apr 17, 2007 5:23:18 am PDT #5716 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
A House repeat would probably pull more audience. But they've spend a lot on Drive, so they might as well gamble a little bit more on Drive, I figure.
CTV have the international rights regardless, so whatever gets produced will air. My real concern is remaining ordered episodes are filmed, to give them time to wrap something up.
Jackal - Apr 17, 2007 5:23:39 am PDT #5717 of 10001
It's not that I'm the only one, it's that I'm the honest one.
The fact that it retained its audience from Sunday and there was no drop off is actually the best case scenario. (We'll ignore the fact that it getting a 5.0 or higher is the actual best case scenario).
It's kinda good news.
Kevin - Apr 17, 2007 5:25:19 am PDT #5718 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
There is that, Jackal. It does look like the people who comitted to the first two hours returned to the third. We just need more people for the 4th.
Edit: or, to be clear, we need FOX to KEEP AIRING IT for now to see if it builds.
lisah - Apr 17, 2007 5:28:15 am PDT #5719 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
not reading ratings talk...
I'm a bit bored by the GI and his wife, though: neither of them are particularly intriguing or compelling to me. Although she's definitely the worse of them: I don't care how much you love your husband, you don't put him at risk of court-martial for going AWOL because you don't like what he does for a living.
Considering how multi-layered the characters we've gotten to know are, I'm thinking (and really hoping) that there is more going on with Army wife than just loving her husband. Because she was bugging me too.