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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.
