Drive Exec Producer to Live Twitter During Sunday's Premiere
The more I make use of Twitter, the more it fits into the gaps and obsessions that might be called my work, er, lifestyle.
I’m a big TV fan – I’m far more excited about the spring and summer television season, for instance, than anything that might be coming out in theaters. (Show me movies that can contend with The Sopranos and The Shield and Rescue Me!) Now that my wi-fi troubles seem to be in the rear view mirror (note brilliant foreshadow), I’m partial to having the laptop on my, well, lap as I kick back on the couch and watch TV of an evening.
Twitter plays very nicely into this as I can “mini-blog” away about the shows I’m watching (my Twitter profile can be found here. 140 character maximum messages force you to be short and snappy – it’s a nice welcome challenge as compared to the universal blank page I’m faced with in blog world. For example, right after this week’s episode of The Shield I wrote:
Brilliant ep of The Shield, Damn if CCH Pounder isn’t one of the best actresses on TV. Surprised to see Vic v. Kavanaugh resolved this early
And from Sunday’s Sopranos premiere:
Great sopranos as always. A “small” ep that reintroduces the themes surrounding Tony, post-shooting. Slightly slower, thinking about future
Much as I would love to, I can’t cover the entire galaxy of things I’m interested in as a blogger. Twitter is a great tool to mind the gap, as the London tube tells us.
Because of my great affection for both Twitter and TV, I was very interested to see – thanks to BloggersBlog I believe (a great resource for all things Twitter) – that Drive executive producer Greg Yaitanes not only is on Twitter, but will be posting live Twitter updates during Sunday night’s two-hour series premiere on Fox.
Twittering from live events is a surface that is just getting scratched, and getting the live reaction and (short!) thoughts from the exec producer of a TV show is an absolutely fabulous idea.
I’m interested in Drive, by the way, for two reasons and two reasons only: Nathan Fillion and Tim Minear.
Fillion is best known as Mal Reynolds of Joss Whedon’s brutally short-lived Firefly and later in the film, Serenity. He can play super serious and downright menacing one moment, and playful and nearly goofy the next. He absolutely anchored Whedon’s cowboys-in-space realm, and brought a quirky charm to the role of a lifetime.
Minear also comes out of the House of Whedon, having written and produced on Angel and later exec produced Firefly. Minear is a brilliant and tragic figure of sorts in my view as he exec produced three screamingly and outrageously promising shows that were axed light years ahead of their time: Firefly, The Inside, and perhaps most heartbreaking of all: Wonderfalls.
Let’s hope that Drive is half as good as those shows, and lasts twice as long. Meanwhile, Twitter on!
