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No Repeats for ‘Lost’
ABC responds to fan complaints and will air next season’s “Lost” episodes consecutively, without repeats.
NEW YORK — Did you feel the earth moving as Steve McPherson announced to the television world this morning that Dr. McDreamy and company are moving to Thursday nights next fall? Then, as if that bit of news for “Grey’s Anatomy” die-hards wasn’t enough, McPherson, ABC’s president of prime-time entertainment, laid one out for the “Lost” legion: No more repeats.
“Lost” will return in the fall with seven original episodes, and then go on hiatus until January or February, when it will return to the Wednesday night schedule with original episodes until May.
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When it comes to “Lost,” it’s all about listening to the fans, McPherson said. “Lost” will stay in its current Wednesday time slot and run for seven episodes in the fall. Then ABC will launch “Day Break,” starring Taye Diggs as a detective who literally lives the same day over and over — and it’s a bad one — for 13 weeks.
“‘Lost’ is a show people really love. They make an appointment for [it],” McPherson said. “They absolutely just get furious when it’s in repeat. So we want to be able to say to the audience, it’s going to be on for this block here — then bring it back and it will run straight through.”
The show’s executive producers, Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, said today that they’re excited about the new schedule and will design the third season around the new airtime order.
“Our audience was incredibly frustrated with repeats,” Cuse wrote in an e-mail. “Now when ‘Lost’ is on, it’s on. And, the audience doesn’t have to wait all the way until the spring for the show to return, which given the cliffhanger nature of our finale would be too long.”
The new non-repeat schedule “allows us to really keep the momentum of our particular type of storytelling,” he added.