Television is the new movies
Lost & Day Break News
Posted Tuesday, December 5, 2006
In the game of TV chicken, ABC blinked.
The network has announced it is moving Lost from Wednesdays at 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. when the show returns February 7, in order to avoid Fox's returning reality show American Idol. Last season's top-rated series, Idol returns January 16.
Last January, Lost suffered a 20 percent ratings drop once the singing competition got under way, and the show is already having a rocky time this season. The third-season premiere was off 25 percent from the season-two start, and CBS's Criminal Minds has slowly turned up the heat, coming within striking distance of Lost's crown in the 18-49 demo and on one occasion exceeding Lost in total viewers.
Beginning January 3, ABC will slot the oft-delayed Knights of Prosperity in the Wednesday 8 p.m. spot. The sitcom stars Donal Logue as the leader of a bumbling gang of crooks who hatch a plan to rob Mick Jagger. Another new sitcom, In Case of Emergency, will air at 8:30 p.m. The network calls the David Arquette show "a unique laugh out loud comedy."
The serial Day Break was scheduled to finish its Wednesday night arc until Lost returned. Now, the future of that series is unknown.
On January 24 George Lopez returns with new episodes at 7:00 p.m., followed by According to Jim at 7:30 p.m.
Source: TV.com
I am pleased with this Lost news. It will be a good thing for it to be at 9 p.m. I don't know how leading in with comedies will work. I've seen the pilot of In Case Of Emergency, and it's not that funny.
The good things about Lost moving to 9 are: 1) I go with Tana to her mom's on Wednesday night and we don't get back until after 8 sometime, so we won't have to tape it unless we want to. The last few episodes we haven't sat down to watch until 9 p.m. anyways. 2) It will avoid that stupid American Idol show. There will be less competition for ratings at that time slot too. Fox and CW don't air their primetime shows in their 9 o'clock hour, so ABC can dominate. 3) I work for an ABC affiliate, and having Lost as a lead in to our 10 p.m. news cast will be fantastic for our ratings. (hopefully)
I am upset that they are pulling the plug. And when the do it will only be 5 episodes left! ABC needs to adjust their expectations of things. They expected Day Break to be the next Lost, and it's not. It can't be. The only thing that comes close is Heroes. But fear not faithful readers I will continue to watch and theorize about what's going on, on Day Break right up until the end, and hopefully they will put the last 5 episodes online, or a different time slot or something. So until tomorrow for the new episode,
Namaste
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