USA Today's ratings page lists - for the week of Monday, April 9 to Sunday, April 15 - Drive as the number 5 show among boys 12 to 17. Is that demographic important at all?
Riley: Maybe I should just let you rest. Buffy: You sure? I bet if you just lay down with me- Riley: Nothing you are about to say will lead to rest.
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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.
Invisible Green - Apr 18, 2007 8:47:46 pm PDT #5816 of 10001
Kevin - Apr 18, 2007 10:30:43 pm PDT #5817 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Not entirely, but that has levels of humour I suspect.
I've been keeping an eye on the schedule and at the minute it's still listed for Monday. Personally, I think they will keep it for now as they've got to be nervous of a viewer backlash over Yet Another Cancelled Serial Show. But if the ratings fall, it'll get replaced with House, as then they blame people for not watching each week.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 19, 2007 12:35:47 am PDT #5818 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I don't think Fox is at all fazed by their reputation for being quick to cancel quality entertainment, since they keep doing it again and again. Hopefully internal support of the show will remain strong and keep it airing until it can build its audience a bit.
Kevin - Apr 19, 2007 12:51:07 am PDT #5819 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Yeah, but it's different this season as basically every new FOX show failed, bar "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader" (which launched with American Idol...). Virtually all the serial drama shows on other networks failed, too. FOX risk pissing off their viewers and damaging future shows -- they must be smart enough to know that.
Drive's fate is sealed. It's dead on arrival. Personally I think they will air the remaining episodes (except maybe the finale) so they don't look like they immediately cancel things.
§ ita § - Apr 19, 2007 4:48:02 am PDT #5820 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don'think Fox is at much risk of pissing off many of their viewers. I mean, if not many are watching Drive, who cares?
§ ita § - Apr 19, 2007 4:48:09 am PDT #5821 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don'think Fox is at much risk of pissing off many of their viewers. I mean, if not many are watching Drive, who cares?
Sean K - Apr 19, 2007 4:50:15 am PDT #5822 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
FOX risk pissing off their viewers and damaging future shows -- they must be smart enough to know that.
Yeah, FOX doesn't give a rat's ass. Nor does any network.
Their customers, the people who pay them, are the sponsors -- the people who pay a lot of money for commercial time.
We're what they're selling to the sponsors. And if we don't line up in droves to put our eyeballs on the screen in big enough numbers, the networks need to find something that will. That's all that matters to them.
Jesse - Apr 19, 2007 4:52:37 am PDT #5823 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, somehow I don't think the number of people who swore off ever watching Fox again after Firefly got cancelled are really making a dent in the American Idol audience.
Sean K - Apr 19, 2007 4:53:55 am PDT #5824 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
and damaging future shows
Also, while you personally may have the fortitude to never watch another FOX show again, your loss will be offset by the three hundred and seventy five people who talk about never watching another FOX show again but who chicken out, and FOX knows it.
They not afraid of you, and they never will be.
The history of shows that have been saved by fan intervention consists of about three shows, and pretty much every last one of them that got a reprieve was cancelled a season or two later anyway.
Jessica - Apr 19, 2007 4:54:11 am PDT #5825 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Yeah, somehow I don't think the number of people who swore off ever watching Fox again after Firefly got cancelled are really making a dent in the American Idol audience.
Jesse and I are sharing a brain this morning. Except hers is working faster.