Drive (2007 TV series)
Drive is an American action drama television series created by Tim Minear and Ben Queen, produced by Minear, Queen, and Greg Yaitanes, and starring Nathan Fillion. Four episodes aired on the Fox Network in April 2007. Two unaired episodes were later released directly to digital distribution.
| Drive | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama Action |
| Created by | Tim Minear Ben Queen |
| Starring | Nathan Fillion Kristin Lehman Mircea Monroe Riley Smith Kevin Alejandro J. D. Pardo Dylan Baker Emma Stone Rochelle Aytes Taryn Manning Melanie Lynskey |
| Opening theme | "Can't Stop the World" by Gavin Rossdale |
| Composer | Keith Power |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 (plus unaired pilot) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Tim Minear Ben Queen Greg Yaitanes |
| Running time | 42 minutes |
| Production companies | 20th Century Fox Television Reamworks |
| Original release | |
| Network | Fox |
| Release | April 13 – July 15, 2007 |
The series is set against the backdrop of an illegal cross-country automobile road race, focusing on the willing and unwilling competitors and, as the plot develops, the unseen puppet masters who sponsor the race. Minear has described the show's thematic tone by saying "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."
Drive was the first TV show in history which had a live Twitter session during an episode. The account @foxdrive still exists.
The show premiered on April 13, 2007, on CTV in Canada. 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 only four episodes had aired. The series has not yet been released to international markets (with the exception of Canada) or on DVD.