Here's a bit of good news. Fox has ordered 12 episodes of Tim Minear's new show, Drive. That's a little surprising because it looked like the show was dead up until the announcement. In September, the network made Minear a Consulting Producer on Standoff, which implied that there wouldn't be any need for him to be off making his new show. Now they are saying that Minear will remain with Standoff until they finish their 13 episode production order, which doesn't really bode well for that show. Drive tells the story of an underground race across America and stars Alan Ruck (Spin City), Kristin Lehman (Tilt), and Melanie Lynskey (Two and a Half Men). That's a pretty good start to a cast, but really, if it is made by Minear, it could star the finger puppet troupe from Mrs. Jablonski's first grade class and I would still watch it. The show is set to launch in the spring, hopefully not on Friday night at 9.
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10-31-2006 @ 3:16PM
Toby OB said...
Here's hoping his "The Inside" gets released on DVD as a boxed set, so that we can see the episodes never aired (like the one with the William Mapother as the 900 lb. cannibal).
But I have this fear that it will remain in limbo, along with Tim Daly's "Eyes".....
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10-31-2006 @ 1:34PM
erroneous_nick said...
Is this the place to insert some sarcastic comment about Fox & Tim Minear, or Fox & SciFi, or Fox & Tim Minear & SciFi regarding how fast it'll get axed?
Sorry...couldn't help myself.
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10-31-2006 @ 1:36PM
rolando said...
Good news but i hope we get all 12 eps. instead of the 5 or 6 eps. like we did on Tim Minear's other FOX show the really great "The Inside"
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