Those are solid numbers for 'Lost' Good move by ABC... it could bring in some additional viewers tonight.
Speaking of which - what are your guesses on tonight?
My predictions:
Lost recap - 10 million/4.0 Lost premiere - 15 million/6.0 Eli Stone - 10 million/3.5 (with considerable drop at 10:30...)
I'm going to watch Eli Stone, but I don't think this is going to be an exception to the post-Lost curse at all (or post-Grey's curse, for that matter...) I hope I'm wrong.
Originally posted by vlis: Christine off to a weak start.
It did a smidge better than Power of 10 in the slot, but it was not "Missed" as much as LOST ws missed.
It will be interesting to see how BBT Does when it airs on a Wednesday within a couple of weeks. I don't expect anything great, but will it hit 6 million? Or at least average above 5 mill?
Lost was flat throughout, but showed considereable demo strength vs. the repeats on other networks.
I just noticed... if Lost can keep those repeat numbers up when it airs repeats Thursdays at 8pm, leading into originals at 9pm... it'll be doing better in the demo than Ugly Betty!
I think initially, the 8pm LOST Repeat will do OK, but once Survivor Hits, and people realize that 8pm is a repeat, it will fall to the 5 mill range, at best.
Originally posted by robert: AI is bleeding. 22.5 million is still excelent but the decline is quick. MOT held good but it doesn't look to be a huge hit now. LOST's repeat didn't do amazing, but that number will be double today. 16-17 million i guess tonight.
You are correct AI is down a bit, but where are you getting 22.5 million from? I suspect that Lost will open at around 16 million and then fall of to around 14 million for the remaining episodes.
Originally posted by robert: AI is bleeding. 22.5 million is still excelent but the decline is quick. MOT held good but it doesn't look to be a huge hit now. LOST's repeat didn't do amazing, but that number will be double today. 16-17 million i guess tonight.
You are correct AI is down a bit, but where are you getting 22.5 million from? I suspect that Lost will open at around 16 million and then fall of to around 14 million for the remaining episodes.
Lost was flat throughout, but showed considereable demo strength vs. the repeats on other networks.
I just noticed... if Lost can keep those repeat numbers up when it airs repeats Thursdays at 8pm, leading into originals at 9pm... it'll be doing better in the demo than Ugly Betty!
I think initially, the 8pm LOST Repeat will do OK, but once Survivor Hits, and people realize that 8pm is a repeat, it will fall to the 5 mill range, at best.
I *think* that's a good result for the Lost rerun (it's certainly a stable one throughout two hours of varying competition). But I'm not sure, given it's a battle of last-minute scheduling versus 8 months of being off the air and hype. Clearly tonight's clip show and original episode will be higher rated.
Are you kidding me, Travis? A LOSTrerun gets over a 3.0 in the demo opposite CBS' procedurals (Criminal Minds (R) and CSI:NY (R)) and another post-Idol-fueled Fox show -- that's great news, awesome news in fact for LOST. When was the last time a rerun of LOST managed to beat a CSI:NY rerun or come so close to a Criminal Minds rerun in viewers, or beat them both in the demo? These high numbers for its little advertised "enhanced" rerun of last season's finale is an indication to expect very solid numbers for tonight's 9pm premiere. As I mentioned last week, I expect 14 - 18 million for the premiere. The LOST recap is probably going to get around 10 million, and Eli Stone around 10-12 million.
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Originally posted by bored striker: I haven't seen the pilot, but from the commercials I think Eli Stone will have a broad appeal to a fairly neglected portion of the viewing public. I think it is going to be very popular overall
Yes, I agree -- Eli Stone is very appealing, and should be a lighter show that LOST viewers can stick around without the intensity required by previous post-LOST shows such as Invasion. It will be a success, and ABC will be thanking its lucky stars for having a 13 episode stockpile. They can finally start shoring up their losses and slowly reverse those downward season trends.
I *think* that's a good result for the Lost rerun (it's certainly a stable one throughout two hours of varying competition). But I'm not sure, given it's a battle of last-minute scheduling versus 8 months of being off the air and hype. Clearly tonight's clip show and original episode will be higher rated.
Count me in as VERY impressed with how the "enhanced" Lost encore did last night. Initially, I wasn't going to watch it, but I DVR'd it at the last moment, and what a thorough joy it was to watch. Those text-crawls were witty, informative and a bit teasing too. Best of all were those provocative commercials focusing on various LOST characters that were threaded throughout the two hours...especially so the one-minuter on Locke that was scored to "Crazy" by Miss Patsy Cline.
By the end of the two hours, when Dr. Jack Shepherd tremulously-then-forcefully beckoned to the retreating Kate, “We have to go back, Kate…we have to go back!”, I was transported back to the emotional cliff I was pushed over when the episode originally aired last May.
I am finding it very hard to work today, so distracted am I awaiting tonights season premiere.
Encoring "Through the Looking Glass" last night was a brilliant scheduling strategem from ABC!
I *think* that's a good result for the Lost rerun (it's certainly a stable one throughout two hours of varying competition). But I'm not sure, given it's a battle of last-minute scheduling versus 8 months of being off the air and hype. Clearly tonight's clip show and original episode will be higher rated.
Are you kidding me, Travis? A LOSTrerun gets over a 3.0 in the demo opposite CBS' procedurals (Criminal Minds (R) and CSI:NY (R)) and another post-Idol-fueled Fox show -- that's great news, awesome news in fact for LOST. When was the last time a rerun of LOST managed to beat a CSI:NY rerun or come so close to a Criminal Minds rerun in viewers, or beat them both in the demo? These high numbers for its little advertised "enhanced" rerun of last season's finale is an indication to expect very solid numbers for tonight's 9pm premiere. As I mentioned last week, I expect 14 - 18 million for the premiere. The LOST recap is probably going to get around 10 million, and Eli Stone around 10-12 million.
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Originally posted by bored striker: I haven't seen the pilot, but from the commercials I think Eli Stone will have a broad appeal to a fairly neglected portion of the viewing public. I think it is going to be very popular overall
Yes, I agree -- Eli Stone is very appealing, and should be a lighter show that LOST viewers can stick around without the intensity required by previous post-LOST shows such as Invasion. It will be a success, and ABC will be thanking its lucky stars for having a 13 episode stockpile. They can finally start shoring up their losses and slowly reverse those downward season trends.
LoST gets so much buzz than my head spins. Those numbers for yesterday's repeat are, at best, good. Nothing more.
