ABC Network on how Lost will air next season.

[mzkhadir]

?Losties? want any and all scoop about their favorite show, and are always conscious of the show?s flow being interrupted by reruns and other breaks. ?Lost? is going to run this year in two uninterrupted blocks ? six weeks in October, then a 13 week break, then ?Lost? will return in the spring of 2007 to finish out the season uninterrupted. (New Taye Diggs? show ?Day Break? will fill in the gaps.)

That sounded weird to a lot of folks, but McPherson later defended it, saying his other choice was to run the entire season of ?Lost? in one giant 22-week block, with new shows every week. That may sound great, but it would mean that the show wouldn?t start airing until March ? so there?d have been no new ?Lost? episodes from the finale last May until January 2007. ABC wasn?t willing to let their billion-dollar baby sit on the shelf that long.

And because the show takes so long to shoot, McPherson said he couldn?t run all the episodes starting in fall and ending earlier (as if they?d miss May sweeps, anyway). The January return of ?Lost? means it will go right up against the juggernaut that is ?American Idol,? but McPherson?s not worried, saying ?when there are two good shows in a time period, they can both do business.?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13934620/

 

[JS80]

Katharine McPhee got McPhucked

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

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[Shawn]

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[aswedc]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
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And we've known this since season two ended.

 

[TwiceOver]

I would bet it would start out with the ABC execs begging on their hands and knees for the American public to watch this show in order to keep ABC alive. Of course the 5 people that watch Lost will get annoyed by the actual show not being on so they will change the channel. Thus ending the ridiculous station that is ABC.

EDIT: Pretty sad when "The" WB has better shows than an OTA cable Channel.

EDTI: Pretty sad when "The" WB has better shows than ANY channel for that matter.