Drive Scripts, Loaded With Spoilers

Tim Minear is currently giving away, for free, the scripts to the first four episodes of Drive. Quite amazingly, these scripts contain scenes not yet seen on TV - due to some very big changes made in editing that lead to extremely drastic rejigging. As a result, there are major spoilers within.

For me, here in the UK, every single line is spoiler material. I'm still eagerly anticipating the series, just the good Firefly fan I am.

[EDIT: Drive is no more. Here's Warren Ellis on the show's sudden, untimely cancellation:

DRIVE got cancelled, it seems. I'm told they were in post-production on ep 6 when the hammer came down. Poor bloody Tim. He didn't even get his 13 eps for a DVD this time. I've only seen the first ep, and I read the pilot script a while back. I thought it was a solid start. Goddamn shame.

I dare say ITV4 will air the handful of completed episodes in some graveyard slot or another]

Synergistic Marketing Ploy Starts A Chain Reaction That May End Up Brining The Time Bandits 2 Mini-Series To The Sci-Fi Channel

How was that for a lumpen headline?
The Sci-Fi Channel and Virgin comics have announced a partnership at NYerdcon. The plan is that they will create a series of comic book properties already primed for TV and cinema continuation, then if the printed-page roadtest works out, get cameras rolling.

There will be at least five titles, and from what we've already learnt about Virgin comics, there's a very good chance Terry Gilliam will be involved; and almost as good a chance that Time Bandits 2 will be one of his projects; and every chance it will end up as a mini-series on Sci-Fi.

It was originally designed as a mini-series for Hallmark, you see. They dropped that ball, the fools.

This is an interesting coupling, and it shouldn't take too much luck for this initiative to birth the next Buffy or Firefly, or at the very least Alias or Lost.