‘Drive’ gets parked
April 30th, 2007If you look at my Tivo season pass schedule, you’ll most likely find that it’s filled with about 50% of programming shown on FOX. Between ‘House’, ‘24′ (as bad as it is this season), ‘Prison Break’, and yes, even ‘American Idol’, I get my weekly fix of non-premium channel television.
About 3 weeks ago, I was excited to find that I had found another action-packed series that would fill the void of ‘Prison Break’ until the next season, and make ‘24′ seem even more pathetic than it’s already been this season. When ‘Drive’ premiered with a double-episode and showed the promise of fast cars, reckless driving, and booty, I figured I’d be in for exactly what the May sweeps call for — me glued to the TV and cursing at FOX for making me digest the latest cliffhanger for an entire week.
Instead, I’m cursing at the FOX guys for another reason. How the hell can you pull ‘Driven’ off the air after 3 weeks? So yeah, it may have gotten less than stellar ratings so far, but it’s called building an audience! So the last two episodes produced will be shown online this summer. Yet two episodes is not enough to answer all the questions posed by the first episode — heck, we don’t even know the people behind the race! You already f’ed up ‘24′ this season, why are you ruining my Monday nights?!? Oh well, I can never get enough ‘House’ so bring on the repeats.