What to do when Lost goes missing for 13 weeks next season?
The light you see at the end of that dark hatch is Day Break, the new detective drama ABC will air in Lost‘s place until the island mystery returns sometime in February for an uninterrupted run of fresh spring episodes.
Inquiring critics wanted to know why ABC decided to bring Lost back in the fall for six weeks (starting Oct. 4) and then erase it from the winter schedule, rather than air reruns (like chewing gum–you’re still hungry but it provides a quick fix), and then dump the new 2007 installments right into American Idols‘ lap.
It’s all about the sweeps – that’s just the way it goes.
I still have yet to understand how a show like American Idol could take away ratings from a show like Lost, but I guess that’s just me.