Repeat problem solved?
This is from CBS...
It’s a plight that “Lost” fans know all too well – you tune in on a Wednesday night praying for a new episode only to find a random repeat from nearly a season earlier, or else a lengthy and unexpected clip show. ABC is hoping to eliminate that experience.
Following a format somewhat resembling Fox’s successful treatment of “24,” ABC revealed its new fall schedule on Tuesday, vowing to dramatically reduce “Lost” repeats. The plan calls for “Lost” to begin the season in its standard Wednesday 9 p.m. ET time slot, but just when the show would typically move into a rerun cycle in the winter, ABC has an alternative up its sleeve.
“We really wanted to just say to the audience, ‘Listen, it’s going to be on for this block here and then we’ll bring it back and it will run straight through,’” explains ABC Entertainment President Stephen McPherson. “So yes, the plan is that ‘Lost’ will come on in the fall in the first or second week of the season, run for seven episodes and then ‘Day Break’ will launch into that period and ‘Lost’ will come back in January or early February and run straight through for the remainder for the season.”
That way, instead of wondering why Shannon and Boone suddenly seem to be alive again and why the castaways are still scratching their heads over the contents of the mysterious hatch, viewers can follow Taye Diggs as he relives the same day over and over again trying to avoid being framed for murder.
It’s a plight that “Lost” fans know all too well – you tune in on a Wednesday night praying for a new episode only to find a random repeat from nearly a season earlier, or else a lengthy and unexpected clip show. ABC is hoping to eliminate that experience.
Following a format somewhat resembling Fox’s successful treatment of “24,” ABC revealed its new fall schedule on Tuesday, vowing to dramatically reduce “Lost” repeats. The plan calls for “Lost” to begin the season in its standard Wednesday 9 p.m. ET time slot, but just when the show would typically move into a rerun cycle in the winter, ABC has an alternative up its sleeve.
“We really wanted to just say to the audience, ‘Listen, it’s going to be on for this block here and then we’ll bring it back and it will run straight through,’” explains ABC Entertainment President Stephen McPherson. “So yes, the plan is that ‘Lost’ will come on in the fall in the first or second week of the season, run for seven episodes and then ‘Day Break’ will launch into that period and ‘Lost’ will come back in January or early February and run straight through for the remainder for the season.”
That way, instead of wondering why Shannon and Boone suddenly seem to be alive again and why the castaways are still scratching their heads over the contents of the mysterious hatch, viewers can follow Taye Diggs as he relives the same day over and over again trying to avoid being framed for murder.
posted by Germain at 3:26 PM
4 Comments:
Think that was a good call.
Taye Diggs is also a nice distraction. Am I right? AM I RIGHT?!
Whoops. Forgot I'm the only girl who posts for a second there.
Am I the only one who thinks its a good idea to run the first 7 episodes of LOST, then re-run them IN ORDER for 7 weeks, and then we get 14 new episodes right in a row?!
Seriously, as a new LOST fan, this season has tried my patience more than the "Patience" episode of Wonder Showzen.
GOod call Jason. Then, if one wanted to, they could just start the whole season late and watch it straight through.
I'm very glad they're experimenting with this change, but I'll be the first to predict that this whole December-February thing is going to be just as frustrating.
I do like that it gives them an opportunity to frame season 3 around this big break, as G put it, setting up for a major mid-season cliffhanger. Is it as good as 24's bust it out from January season? No, but it beats the random reruns / 1-new-episode-per-month sked.
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