Heroes vs. is 24!

If somebody else has already written about this, I couldn't find it. Not because it's not out there but because since Heroes ran head-to-head vs. 24 in the Monday 9pm slot, there are a lot of documents of the "Heroes vs. 24" ilk.

Typing a Google search on the phrase "Heroes is 24" produces a few results, but so far as I can tell not related to what I am about to write.

The shows are the same show. One takes a fantastical approach and one uses terrorists.

Both shows work from the premise that a particular disaster, scheduled to happen by X time must be averted at all costs.

Both shows use the same basic formula: ensemble cast, plot-lines-o-plenty (some way more interesting than others), good people vs. the evil people, with simply preposterous twists and turns along the way.

Both shows have people with special powers. Heroes takes the superhero powers approach, whereas on 24 it's mostly fists, guns and guile. But when Jack Bauer says, "I'm not CTU, I'll go after Walt Cummings myself" with a look of contempt on his face, he IS pulling off a power most of us wish we could pull off: the power to say f-u, I'm going to do what I want anyway.

I like both shows largely for the same reason. Heroes is the more moving tale, but Heroes is also a tad more fictional.

Why isn't NASCAR on FOX?

Let me say straight away: I'm not in NASCAR nation. I like DRIVING REALLY FAST. Watching other people drive really fast doesn't do much for me.

But we're in a world that does not need much of an excuse to DRINK BEER! Capitalism LOVES anything that gets people excited about having an excuse to drink. NASCAR seems to accomplish this in spades. My friend Bill G. (the OTHER Bill G.) says that NASCAR trumps all other sports besides the NFL. Better than baseball, better than the NBA, and certainly better than the NHL.

My question is this: why doesn't FOX milk NASCAR for all the beer consumption it possibly can? I ask this because this past Saturday there was some kind of NASCAR event running on the SPEED channel. With a gun pointed at my skull, I couldn't tell you what channel the SPEED channel is. But still, it pulled over 3 rating and at it's peak had well over 3 million homes tuned in according to this story.

That crushed ANYTHING on Fox that night, according to these ratings so you figure if the things was on FOX it would have likely done much better than the 3 on speed plus the 1.x rating on FOX.

Why wasn't it on Fox?