My good friend, Interplanet Sarah, got me hooked on Firefly and Wonderfalls (all one season of them) and as a result, I can't wait for Drive to start. It's the latest Tim Minear show, yet like Firefly and Wonderfalls it seems destined for hardship before it even starts! According to TV Squad, Fox announced that Drive will begin March 1st in the 9 PM Thursday time slot recently vacated (thank God) by The OC.

Brett Love at TV Squad offers this analysis with which I completely agree:

"I continue to be baffled about the whole Minear/Fox relationship. It's a very Lucy with the football kind of thing. Here you go Tim, make another new show. This time we promise to support it, and give it a real shot. Really we do. Honest. And then right before the kickoff of the show.... whooops. Here's Tim on his back again.

"It would actually be a better idea for a sit-com than either of the two on their last
legs comedies that will be leading in to Drive. A vengeful programming executive is bent on tormenting a producer/writer so he hires him, and locks him into an exclusive deal, only to thwart his attempts at success at every turn. The big mystery is just what did our hapless producer/writer do to bring about such hatred. "

Seriously, folks, with the amount of crap on TV, can't you bump one of the mindless reality TV shows and schedule Drive in a timeslot other than the one currently occupied by Grey's Anatomy and CSI?