Lost Without 'Lost'
From the "don't shoot the messenger" department...
Lost will be returning for its third season on Wednesday, October 4, and will run for six straight weeks without a break.
That's the good news. And now, the bad news:
After the sixth week, ABC will pull Lost from its schedule for 13 weeks.
Yes, 13 weeks. Lost will not return to the ABC schedule until Wednesday, February 14. The "glass-half-full" way to look at this situation is that there won't be any Lost repeats all season long. Hey, that's good news, right? We all hate when Lost is in repeats. And when Lost returns on February 14, it will run for 16 straight weeks (or possibly even 18 weeks, if ABC increases the episode order) without a repeat or a preemption. Imagine not having to worry about repeats or schedule interruptions for four months. For a Lost fan, that's pretty close to heaven.
If you ask me, though, bringing the show back for only six episodes, only to then make it disappear for three months, is a potentially-disasterous mistake. ABC runs the risk of alienating loyal Lost viewers... and these viewers may not bother to return at the end of the three-month hiatus, as by mid-February the country will once again be engulfed in American Idol-mania. Here's a suggestion: how about Lost returning on October 4 for a six-week run... then the show can take late-November and all of December off... to then return to the schedule in early-January for an eight-week run... followed by a month-long hiatus in March... which would then lead into the season's final eight-week run from the early-April through the end of May.
Now, with both the "glass-half-full" persepctive and my personal opinion out of the way, please allow me to now repeat my opening statement: don't shoot the messenger.
Lost will be returning for its third season on Wednesday, October 4, and will run for six straight weeks without a break.
That's the good news. And now, the bad news:
After the sixth week, ABC will pull Lost from its schedule for 13 weeks.
Yes, 13 weeks. Lost will not return to the ABC schedule until Wednesday, February 14. The "glass-half-full" way to look at this situation is that there won't be any Lost repeats all season long. Hey, that's good news, right? We all hate when Lost is in repeats. And when Lost returns on February 14, it will run for 16 straight weeks (or possibly even 18 weeks, if ABC increases the episode order) without a repeat or a preemption. Imagine not having to worry about repeats or schedule interruptions for four months. For a Lost fan, that's pretty close to heaven.If you ask me, though, bringing the show back for only six episodes, only to then make it disappear for three months, is a potentially-disasterous mistake. ABC runs the risk of alienating loyal Lost viewers... and these viewers may not bother to return at the end of the three-month hiatus, as by mid-February the country will once again be engulfed in American Idol-mania. Here's a suggestion: how about Lost returning on October 4 for a six-week run... then the show can take late-November and all of December off... to then return to the schedule in early-January for an eight-week run... followed by a month-long hiatus in March... which would then lead into the season's final eight-week run from the early-April through the end of May.
Now, with both the "glass-half-full" persepctive and my personal opinion out of the way, please allow me to now repeat my opening statement: don't shoot the messenger.
posted by TV Boy at 9:35 PM
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