It seems Minear didn't wise up, but got lucky when Fox got outbid.
I recall Minear commenting (after The Inside was pulled) that he'd be fine with just pumping out BBC-esque runs of eight episode shows. Guess he's more concerned with just creating something.
I'll pay a million dollars for Nathan Fillion to be the televangelist. I'll pay a zillion dollars for Tim Minear to be joking when he says, "It's a love letter to the religious."
Minear resides on the conservative side of the political spectrum, but he's always struck me as leaning more towards the libertarian fork, not the religious right.
Fillion's on Desperate Housewives this year, so I think the odds of him doing another pilot are slim.
Is he actually making it, or is it yet another show where he's brought in to fix it? Because aside from Firefly, that's been true of every show he's done since Angel.
I love Tim, but honestly? The Insider and Drive weren't actually very good TV shows. And in the case of the latter, it's hard to blame FOX for cancelling a show that they promoted up the ass and which still got beat by two sitcom reruns on CBS.....
Is he actually making it, or is it yet another show where he's brought in to fix it? Because aside from Firefly, that's been true of every show he's done since Angel.
Really? I knew that was the case for The Inside, as there's a palpable rise in quality about three eps in. But I thought that Wonderfalls and Drive were his from the get go?
As far as Drive's cancellation goes, we've been around this one before, but I don't consider eight days a long enough period to consider a show a failure (especially when it gets two different time slots during that run). I'm more than willing to let Fox off the hook on some shows -- I adored Arrested Development, but it's not like America didn't have the chance to discover it -- but Drive (like Wonderfalls) wasn't given a proper chance.
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Date: 2007-08-28 08:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-28 10:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-28 08:19 pm (UTC)And I really could be less interested in that show.
I still lament that he was not able to get the director's chair for Fantastic Four, as that would have kept him in good projects for a long time.
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Date: 2007-08-28 10:35 pm (UTC)I recall Minear commenting (after The Inside was pulled) that he'd be fine with just pumping out BBC-esque runs of eight episode shows. Guess he's more concerned with just creating something.
I hadn't realized he was up for FF.
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Date: 2007-08-28 11:45 pm (UTC)I always wondered if Tim Story got the job by accident when the producers hit the wrong Tim in their speed dial.
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Date: 2007-08-28 08:37 pm (UTC)I'll pay a zillion dollars for Tim Minear to be joking when he says, "It's a love letter to the religious."
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Date: 2007-08-28 10:33 pm (UTC)Fillion's on Desperate Housewives this year, so I think the odds of him doing another pilot are slim.
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Date: 2007-08-28 09:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-28 10:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-28 10:02 pm (UTC)I love Tim, but honestly? The Insider and Drive weren't actually very good TV shows. And in the case of the latter, it's hard to blame FOX for cancelling a show that they promoted up the ass and which still got beat by two sitcom reruns on CBS.....
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Date: 2007-08-28 10:31 pm (UTC)Really? I knew that was the case for The Inside, as there's a palpable rise in quality about three eps in. But I thought that Wonderfalls and Drive were his from the get go?
As far as Drive's cancellation goes, we've been around this one before, but I don't consider eight days a long enough period to consider a show a failure (especially when it gets two different time slots during that run). I'm more than willing to let Fox off the hook on some shows -- I adored Arrested Development, but it's not like America didn't have the chance to discover it -- but Drive (like Wonderfalls) wasn't given a proper chance.
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Date: 2007-08-28 10:44 pm (UTC)Great. Because they need more pandering. Well, I guess you gotta go where the money is, right?
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Date: 2007-08-29 12:37 pm (UTC)