3 thoughts on “”

1. Maybe they’re finally realizing that a show can be too contrived. Maybe.

2. Oh, the whole premise of Drive was ridiculous and probably couldn’t have been sustained beyond a single season. But Fillion was great — as an actor, he slides so easily between goofiness and brutality — and the show, overall, was genuinely fun. It looked terrific. Contrived, sure, but I think it would have been better as a summer mini-series, than to be consigned to a quick death because it (not surprisingly) didn’t get immediate ratings.

3. There has to be something more indicative of Fox as a whole to explain this. It happens too often to just shout, “It wasn’t getting the ratings so we’re canning it!”

   I’m not even sure I could count the number of series that Fox has aired for less than 6 episodes and then canceled.

   Is there, maybe some sort of internal power struggle between the people who decide what shows to produce, and the people who decide what shows to keep? Otherwise why spend so much money getting a series off the ground just to cancel it three weeks later?

   And, lest we forget, Tim Minear was Joss’s co-writer and producer for “Firefly”, so that makes two canceled Fox shows in less than a decade for him…

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