Swedish viewers robbed of Lost Season finale

[Sydney]

Translated from Swedish newspaper article about Lost

Swedish Tv4's "Lost" goes on summer hiatus with seven episodes left of the season!

Yesterday the last episode of Tv4's success series "Lost" before the summer aired.
You might think the season is over?
Nope. There are seven more episodes - that tv4 are holding on to.
The reason to why TV4 has its own hiatus in the series is simply that the ratings/viewer numbers are lower during the summertime.

There are poll results about tv4/Lost included in the article.

Taken from Swedish newspaper article about Lost

It says this:

The viewers: Show all the episodes!
Tv4's "Lost" goes on summer hiatus with seven episodes left of the season!

Yesterday the last episode of Tv4's success series "Lost" before the summer aired.
You might think the season is over?
Nope. There are seven more episodes - that tv4 are holding on to.
The reason to why TV4 has its own hiatus in the series is simply that the ratings/viewer numbers are lower during the summertime.

- We're doing this because we want everybody who watched the series to get a chance to se all the episodes. During the summer, many people go on vacations and won't have the possibility to watch the tv-series the same way the did during the season, says Tv4's purchasing manager Clara Scherman.

Don't you think that many people who have followed the series will be angry?
- I'm sure there'll be reactions, but I think we would have gotten reactions if we had continued the series over the summer as well, says Scherman.

The success "Lost" is unique, no other commercial tv-channel has any series like it. The average viewer count is 980000 viewers [note: Sweden is a small country with only 9 million people] and Tv4's previous audience favourites have never been as popular as "Lost" is.

Tv4 has already bought the rights to show season 2, but it's still unknown when it will air. It will most likely air in the US in October, and we won't get it before that, says Clara Scherman.

They also have two polls attached to this article;

Is it right of Tv4 to do like this?
Yes 16,8 %
No 83,2 %

35479 votes

Locke is the viewers' favourite:
Locke 22,4 %
Sawyer 16,9 %
Hurley 14,2%
Kate 11,8%
Jack 10,9%
Charlie 6,4%
Sayid 6,3%
Boone 3,3%
Claire 2,4%
Shannon 1,4%
Sun 1,2%
Michael 1,1%
Jin 1,1%
Walter 0,7%

At 11pm wednesday June 1st, 19404 people had voted.