As ITV axes The Drive,we spy back at a squad of shows that also ran out of juice, from Tumble to The GamesThe wheels have fallen off ITV’s Drive, and the celebrity driving game in which Angus Deayton,Mariella Frostrup and Louis Walsh put the pedal to the metal in the name of small-screen entertainment.
The proper news for ITV was that it proved as popular as BBC2’s Top Gear. The bad news was the Top Gear we’re talking approximately is the extinct one, pre-2002, and before Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman turned it into something worth watching.
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Source: theguardian.com