We reported earlier how TV Guide found out that “Lost” would no longer be on Wednesday night, so as to not have to compete with that mega ratings hog “American Idol.” At the time ABC hadn’t announced what night or time viewers could find “Lost.”
Now we can report that the show about island-stranded airline passengers will find new life on Thursday at 9PM EST.
With the writer’s strike cutting back on the number of new episodes for old shows and a lack of new programming, “Lost,” now sitting in the coveted “Grey’s Anatomy” time slot, should have no problem gaining back much of the audience it ‘lost’ last season competing with Fox’s music talent show.
It’s biggest competitors will now be repeats of C.S.I. and ER, until the NBC hospital show goes on its winter hiatus. The only problem looming for the ABC hit show will be the number of episodes available. J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof and crew were only able to get out 8 new episodes before writers hit the picket lines, so ABC, like all other networks, will be hurting if the strike lingers much longer.
“Lost” returns on January 31, 2008. It will be followed by another new SF drama on the alphabet network called “Eli Stone,” a legal drama centered on a lawyer, played by Jonny Lee Miller, who just might be a modern day prophet, at least he thinks he is.
