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.

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 don't necessarily agree that FOX deserves the fairness, though. Several shows that wound up running for very long periods of time and were very popular required multiple seasons to find their audiences.

I know, there's certain business "realities" with TV, and those have even changed in recent years in such ways as to make network programing executive less inclined to give shows time to find an audience. But I also this that's crap business practice, and that just because networks can behave a certain way doesn't mean they should.

Whatever. The networks have decided that the only thing that matters is the bottom line, and screw everything else. It's a mentality that seems to have invaded every single aspect of our lives, and I'm tired of it. It's like a mental cancer.

With only four (or, if you count the premiere as a single episode, three)

Nope, the premiere was two episodes smushed together.

And, yeah, with only six episodes total, I don't see why they would bother with a DVD release, especially if they didn't give The Inside one. And they had all thirteen for that.

Well, it's sad news. Tim and Kristen -- my condolences.

Oh, man. I hadn't even watched any of the episodes yet (they're taped; I'm a big slacker), and now this.

Tim, Kristen, I'm so sorry about this.

The networks have decided that the only thing that matters is the bottom line

I don't understand how the networks can be confident that the bottom line is going to suck, when a show has only aired for 2 weeks. Don't they need more data to go on? Well, obviously they don't, but it just *seems* as though they would.

I don't understand how the networks can be confident that the bottom line is going to suck, when a show has only aired for 2 weeks.

Yeah, I know. All four hours of this show aired while I was on vacation. Watched it all in two big gulps on the DVR when I got home.

I don't think they understand how their fan base watches TV.

Well, in previous days, networks would wait on a show. Example: X-Files. With FOX today, it'd be canceled a few episodes in. It became one of FOX's biggest money earners. To me, that seems messed up. But I don't work in network TV, and don't have to be concerned with the environment, whatever it may be.

Well,damn. Condolences to everyone who had fun making it.

I just skipped to the end to give my condolences to Tim, Kristen and the rest of the people working on Drive. I'm so sorry. For whatever it's worth, I really loved the episodes I saw and am dying to know the rest of the story.

Excuse me while I type irritated, but couldn't they just sell the show to F/X and make a lot more $$ on it?

I could see this show (dark humor and all) fitting much better on TNT or F/X than Fox.