'Serenity'
[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.
Me and Jackal spoke to FOX execs as part of Drive Fans. They thought it was going to be big also. It just goes to show it's not always possible for a network to launch anything with big numbers from the beginning.
The risky scheduling (3 hour, 2 day premiere) helped accelerate quick cancellation, in this posters opinion. The scheduling is the only thing I'd be negative on FOX for. Mostly, it's joe public's fault.
Driveby to join the pouting crowd.
I really liked the show, more than I though I would, cause I´m normally not big about car stuff. I wish I could understand why so few people watched, but I havent understood this for Wonderfalls or The Inside either. As some of the others here I thought it would be more accessible to a broader viewership cause there wasn´t any fantasy elements etc.
It really sucks sitting at the other end of the world without one of these Nielsen boxes.
So I´m sending a virtual hug to Tim and Kristen and everyone else involved.
I know it doesnt count much but for me and my sis Corinna you made really good TV.
If the success of shows were remotely (A) predictable or (B) ensurable, television schedulers would have much longer careers. It's not deterministic. There isn't a "right" thing you can do to ensure that a show that "deserves" success receives it.
Yes, those are sneer quotes. If there were any way, any way at all, to reliably, based on current information as opposed to hindsight, promote shows successfully, there would be no failures on the networks. If you could do it by sacrificing a golden-haired toddler hugging a retriever? No problem. Yet there much-promoted shows continue to fail, which is why toddlers and retrievers can continue to roam unmolested in Beverly Hills.
It isn't a matter of intelligence or will alone. You can be as clever as you like and still guess wrong.
I think that what I find most frustrating is the lack of chance. Used to be that a show got 13 eps or so to prove its mettle. Drive's being yanked after two lousy weeks.
Is whedonesque getting slammed over this? Is that why I can't pull up the site?
Tamara, I can get to Whedonesque just fine. There's no delay.
As for the news, it sucks. We barely got a taste of the show. Tim and Kristen, I'm so sorry. I was looking forward to more.
I am Vortex on this. You've got to have enough time for word of mouth to spread at the water cooler and for people to not forget about it being on for a few weeks in a row. Yanking something after two weeks is pure insanity.
I'm sorry, Tim and Kristen. It sucks that we don't get to see more of your work.
Why are networks so surprised when people don't tune into their shows when they constantly do this? Of course people don't want to get invested in something that's going to be gone in a week.
Crap! But at least it looks like we'll get 2 more, either on TV or online. I'm assuming they're shutting down production now, right? Is it episode 7 that they're filming now?
I'd love for an actor to one day turn around and go 'You know what? Yeah. I wanted more money'. They'd never get hired again, of course, but I'd respect them.
What about the cast of Friends?