No Reruns For Season Three

[sleepwalker]

Taken straight from HERE:

If you haven't heard yet, Season Three of LOST will have NO RERUNS! Yes, I said NO RERUNS! <s>Reruns.</s> No repeats.

Now, after you get done cheering, bite on this: The new schedule features the first third of the series starting in its regular timeslot for seven consecutive episodes, then there is a THIRTEEN WEEK HIATUS! After that, the series marches to the end of the season with NO RERUNS!

[Red Matrix]

Okay, so what will they show during that 13 weeks? RERUNS.

[sleepwalker]

Okay, so what will they show during that 13 weeks? RERUNS.

Actually, no! :D

Originally posted by LA Times
When it comes to "Lost," it's all about listening to the fans, McPherson said. The drama series about marooned passengers on a mysterious island will return in the fall in its current Wednesday time slot 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.

During "Lost's" hiatus, 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.

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[Lost in 80s music]

Daggone--talk about be careful what you wish for. Some people like the reruns so they can catch up on one's they missed. I realize they have the epi's online now, but some people have dial-up which is impossible to watch video with. I seriously hope they don't go through with it. <_<

[mystwoman]

I think the fans are going to be so far ahead of the writers by that time people will freak if they don;t get some quality stuff.

is it going to be like moonlighting where the writers are in charge of a show so hot they can;t handle it?

[Lost in 80s music]

Well, at least we know that they have an idea where the show is going before it gets there. They knew AL and Libby would be shot by Michael when they cast them (at least Ana), so they're not changing things just to appease the audience. That's when things don't always work. The audience is too fickle and too diverse in what they want to be appeased. I just hope from what I've heard of Season 3 that is doesn't become a night-time soap.

[sleepwalker]

Oh god. I just hope they don't make everything explode in their face. I think they're doing pretty good at the moment, particularly with extending Lost's boundaries to include Bad Twin and The Lost Experience.

I just hope not too many viewers will be turned off by the answers provided. The show's something like 90% mystery, 10% secrets

[Red Matrix]

..and 100% inbetween seasons. :(