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?

In fairness to FOX, the ratings were going down episode on episode, not up. With The Inside, they were going up week to week.

I'm not saying there's a formula for predicting a show always being successful, by the way. 'course there ain't. I just thought Drive had all the right elements, so had a really good chance.

Invisible Green, production shut down a while ago.

I don't really understand why, with the episodes filmed, they won't be shown ... but then, the workings of TV minds are beyond me.

Can we hope for a combined Drive/The Inside DVD set? or just one DVD? (yes, hope springs eternal). sigh

Thanks, Kevin. That's too bad. And I suppose it's too much to hope for a dual release of The Inside and Drive on DVD. Though Drive might be cult-y enough to get a DVD release.

ETA: Heh. Toddson and I think alike.

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I'm mostly pissed that we won't get to see Kristen's ep!

Amen. Well, see it on broadcast TV anyway - I'm hoping we'll collectively get to watch by the grace of some DVD fairy who shall remain nameless.

Condolences on the bad news, Tim and Kristen.

I say we dig out Fox's phone number and get a Drive DVD petition up. And prep the flowers. It's culty enough to get a DVD in my opinion, but I don't wanna chance it.

With only four (or, if you count the premiere as a single episode, three) episodes aired and only six shot, I can't even pretend to hope for a (non-bootleg) DVD release. Though possibly I'm just a horrible pessimist.

Ugh. I remember a couple of weeks ago the SF Chronicle's reviewer came on our local radio morning show to talk up the new mid-season shows. In between raving about The Riches and capping on some godforsaken ugly show that sounded so awful I can't even remember its name, he briefly mentioned Drive and said (more or less; I'm paraphrasing, obviously), "The premise is outlandish but the show itself isn't bad and is really kind of fun. But I'd hold off on watching it for a few weeks. It's Fox, after all; they'll probably cancel it after three episodes." And if I didn't know from experience that it's miserably hard to actually get through to the morning show (plus, cell phone plus driving=BAD etc. etc.), I would've called to yell at him for just about guaranteeing that none of that morning's listeners would bother to watch it now.

I should've called. Not that it would have done much good, but at least I wouldn't have this resentful lump in my gut.