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'''Drive''' is an Emmy nominated American television series created by Tim Minear and Ben Queen and produced by Minear, Queen, and Greg Yaitanes. It aired on the FOX network in the United States, and on CTV in Canada.
The series is set across the backdrop of an illegal automobile road race with the central focus being on the competitors and eventually on the puppet masters behind the race. Regarding the tone of the show, Minear has described it as "a secret, illegal, underground road race can be anything from ''Cannonball Run'' to ''The Game'' to ''North by Northwest'' to ''Magnolia''-on-wheels. Ours is all those things."^[1]
Fox greenlit series production on ''Drive'' in October 2006. In addition to the series pilot, another twelve episodes were ordered as a midseason replacement for spring 2007.^[2] ''Firefly'' and ''Serenity'' star Nathan Fillion, a longtime friend of ''Drive'' creator Tim Minear, plays the lead role of Alex Tully in the series. Ivan Sergei played Tully in the unaired pilot. ^[3]
The show premiered on April 13, 2007 on CTV in Canada.^[4] It debuted in the United States on April 15, 2007 on FOX, and moved into its regular time slot on Mondays the next day; in that slot it faced stiff competition from NBC's ''Deal or No Deal'' and ABC's ''Dancing with the Stars''. On April 25, FOX cancelled ''Drive'' after four episodes had aired.^[5]
FOX initially announced that the final two episodes would air on July 4, 2007. The network rescheduled them for July 13 and later pulled them entirely.^[6] The two remaining episodes were posted online on July 15, 2007[1]. Executive producers Tim Minear and Craig Silverstein subsequently gave an interview that described what might have happened if the series had continued.^[7]

Contents

Cast and characters

Route

Episodes

Production notes

Filming locations

Music

Notes

Cancellation

References

External links

Cast and characters

Main articles: List of Drive characters

Actor	Role	Car/Partner/Other Notes
Nathan Fillion	Alex Tully	1972 Ford F-100 (tan), 1970 Dodge Challenger ★ (black)
Kristin Lehman	Corinna Wiles	Partners with Alex Tully
Kevin Alejandro	Winston Salazar	1964 Chevrolet Impala lowrider (gold)
J.D. Pardo	Sean Salazar	Winston Salazar's half-brother
Dylan Baker	John Trimble	1999 Ford Taurus (silver-blue)
Emma Stone	Violet Trimble	John Trimble's daughter
Michael Hyatt	Susan Chamblee	Land Rover LR3 (light blue), Ford Focus (red) (deceased)
Rochelle Aytes	Leigh Barnthouse	Pontiac Solstice (black) (was originally partners with Susan Chamblee and Ivy Chitty)
Melanie Lynskey	Wendy Patrakas	Dodge Grand Caravan SXT (silver)
Taryn Manning	Ivy Chitty	Originally partners with Susan Chamblee and Leigh Barnthouse, then partners with Wendy Patrakas, then steals the Trimbles' Ford Taurus
Riley Smith	Rob Laird	1979 Pontiac Trans Am (white)
Mircea Monroe	Ellie Laird	Rob Laird's wife
Wayne Grace	Jimmy Cousins	Touring Motorcycle (black)
K Callan	Ceal Cousins	Jimmy Cousins's wife
Brian Bloom	Allan James	2007 Dodge Charger (black), 2002 Chevrolet Impala (red) (not a race participant)
Richard Brooks	Detective Ehrle	Not a race participant
Charles Martin Smith	Mr. Bright	One of the race organizers (not a race participant)
Katie Finneran	Becca Freeman	Alex Tully's sister (not a race participant)
Amy Acker	Kathryn Tully	Alex Tully's wife (not a race participant)

★ Note: While referred to in the show as a 1972 model, the vehicle's distinctive front and rear mark it as a 1970 model, markedly different from the 1972-1974 models.

Route

The following are the checkpoints passed, clues and/or instructions before arrival, and the specifics regarding them.

Checkpoint	Clue/Instructions	Specifics
Key West, Florida	Text message: "Mainland Go" (announced the start of the race, not a destination)	The starting line of the race.
Jupiter, Florida	Text message: "Fly to Jupiter and find the red eye."	The Jupiter Inlet lighthouse.
Cape Canaveral, Florida	Text message: "Kennedy killed in '73." The message is accompanied by a countdown clock.	In 1973, Cape Kennedy was renamed to Cape Canaveral, thus "killing" the name "Kennedy." Drivers met at the Kennedy Space Center, where the countdown corresponded with a shuttle launch.
Rome, Georgia	Each driver was given a red ticket stub with instructions to go to Rome, "After sunset, before dark."	After Sunset drive-in movie theater.
Appomattox Court House, Virginia	Text message: "Surrender, America"	Appomattox Court House was where Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union general Ulysses S. Grant, thus ending the Civil War.
Cleveland, Ohio	Most of the racers received two hot candies, while Alex, Corinna, Sean and Winston, who had taken advantage of their head start, received a note reading "Great Balls of Fire: The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame - Cleveland"	The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.

Episodes

A total of six episodes of ''Drive'' were produced prior to its cancellation. The series premiered on April 13, 2007 in Canada and on April 16, 2007 in the United States.

#	Title	Original airdate

Production notes

Filming locations

''Drive'' was shot in the Los Angeles area, using road footage and green-screen technology. According to Tim Minear, "because of technology, we can actually create a cross-country road race and shoot it all in Santa Clarita."^[8] This led to geographic inconsistencies in the series, including mountains and desert settings visible during highway scenes set near Gainesville, Florida, when there are no actual mountain ranges or deserts in that area.
Highway scenes were shot on Interstate 210 in Rialto, California on the finished but unopened portion between Alder Ave. and Linden Ave.^[9] The exit for Alder Ave can be seen as the exit in most of the freeway scenes. In the first episode, the Alder Ave. sign for the exit is clearly legible. Scenes at the "Kennedy Space Center" were filmed at the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, California.

Music

★ Cant stop the world - Gavin Rossdale

★ Roadhouse Blues - The Doors/Crystal Method Remix

★ Kreuzberg - Bloc Party

★ Radar Love - Nine Pound Hammer

★ The Hungry Wolf - X

★ Leave You Far Behind - Lunatic Calm

★ King of my World - Ghost in the Machine (GITM) - USA

Notes

★ In the September 2007 issue of Marvel Comics' ''Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man'', Peter Parker comments that "ever since FOX cancelled ''Drive'', it's been one piece of bad luck after another."^[10]

Cancellation

The two-hour premiere of ''Drive'' in the United States, broadcast on April 15, 2007 at 8:00 pm, was watched by six million viewers.^[11] The program did not deliver the ratings FOX desired, and on April 25, 2007, the network announced that it had cancelled ''Drive''.⁵ The final two remaining unaired episodes of ''Drive'' were made available for online streaming on FOX ON DEMAND beginning Sunday, July 15, in addition to the previously aired episodes.^[12] The first four, but not the final two, episodes of the show have been made available for purchase and download on Apple's iTunes^[13] and Amazon's Unbox^[14].

References

1. The Drive News Blog - Interview with Tim Minear
2. Fox springs into 'Drive'
3. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i0123c6f82e9d75a960daf0920816a410
4. "DRIVE: About the show
5. 'Drive' runs out of gas
6. ''TVSeriesFinale.com''
7. ''TVSeriesFinale.com''
8. Movieweb: "Drive Races Into High Gear on Fox"
9. ETOnline: "'Drive' Takes Viewers on a Bumpy Ride"
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11. Ratings: NBC Sinks; Fox's 'Drive' Stalls
12. Drive
13. Drive, Season 1
14. Drive: Unbox Video

External links

★ Official FOX Site

★ Drive on CTV

★ Official MySpace Profile

★ FOX On Demand Watch episodes 1-6 online.

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