Comments on: LOST Series Finale Event Set For Sunday, May 23 from 9p-11p

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:43:28 +0000

Does this mean the Lost finale has been pushed back 5 days, or brought forward by 2 days?

ie Will the penultimate episode air the tuesday before that sunday, or two tuesdays before?

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:22:39 +0000

This seems like a logical move.
DH will have aired the finale on May 16, or even May 9. I’m not sure that it’ll be a 2-parter, they only have 23 episodes this season, not 24. If I were ABC I’d finish B&S in late April, like they did PP last year. No sense in stretching the last 8 episodes for 3+ months.

By: ABCFanatic2009

ABCFanatic2009 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:15:54 +0000

Can’t wait for this

A Television Event for sure…

By: Rob R

Rob R — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:59:56 +0000

This is also great news for “GLEE”, which will now enjoy the huge lead-in of American Idol’s final one-hour performance show on May 25, without having to compete with the series finale of the greatest show of the past decade.

By: Rob R

Rob R — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:55:36 +0000

The other networks will stay out of the way of LOST on May 23. CBS will figure out a way not to have Amazing Race or Survivor airing that night. FOX will air cartoons and CBS will probably air one of those Tom Selleck TV movies……NBC will probably air a Saturday Night Live compilation show.

By: Buen comienzo de la sexta temporada de Perdidos que acaba el 23 de mayo

Buen comienzo de la sexta temporada de Perdidos que acaba el 23 de mayo — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:00:57 +0000

[...] Vía | The Futon Critic Más información | TV by the Numbers [...]

By: mcw117

mcw117 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:36:16 +0000

I’m sure they’re airing it that Sunday because of the date. May “23″rd. 23 is one of the infamous numbers on Lost.

By: FringeFan

FringeFan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:48:24 +0000

Hell yeah!! I work in the afternoon so I was planning on taking a sick day for the Lost finale, not that it’s going to be on Sunday, I won’t have to. Thank you ABC!

By: zee

zee — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:17:12 +0000

Desperate Housewives 2 hour finale will air on May 16th so LOST will fill the slot the sunday after (May 23rd).
I hope LOST finale does over 20 Million viewers, everyone should watch it just to be a part of history and to see how it all finally ends!!!

By: Acey

Acey — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:33:07 +0000

Yeah the 18th will be the Idol final performances and then DWTS is the week after… so Sunday is the logical choice to avoid June.

By: vsaint

vsaint — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:06:00 +0000

Yeah, Sunday has become a Live events night.
Football, Grammys, Oscars, Superbowl, Survivor Finale.
LOVE it.

By: DenverDean

DenverDean — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:05:08 +0000

It’s a bit surprising that LOST will only produce 121 hours. Kind of sad that ABC crashed and burned it’s three hotest properties from that year. I’d be surprised if either GA or DH make it to 200. Hope they have something in the pipeline because next year will be really bad for them.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:49:12 +0000

Dont woory, the Survior finale is scheduled for May 16, american idol for may 19, and dwts for may 25

By: Ben Thompson

Ben Thompson — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:33:25 +0000

What about Desperate Housewives?

By: ABCHasProblems

ABCHasProblems — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:27:56 +0000

ABC should split up this year’s AFV season finale into two parts–the first part airing on May 16th and the second part airing on May 23th leading into the LOST Recap special at 8pm. It’s not like the LOST Recap special needs a good lead-in after getting above a 4 demo last night, but wouldn’t it be best for ABC to keep this very special night repeat-free?

LOST fans shouldn’t worry about the possibility of CBS scheduling the Survivor finale against the LOST finale. In May 2005, CBS scheduled the Survivor finale against Desperate Housewives and Grey’s Anatomy and got crushed as a result. There’s no doubt that they would get crushed going up against the series finale of a highly-rated TV show.

By: Altair

Altair — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:17:23 +0000

Poor competition on Sunday, The Event could do really big Ratings there.

By: BG

BG — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:13:41 +0000

The Series Finale will kill anything in the competition. All the other networks know that the series finale for LOST could end-up bringing huge numbers for ABC.

It could become the highest rated scripted show on tv for this season. Even if CBS decides to air Survivor, it knows that it will lose big time against the Series finale of LOST

By: Anil

Anil — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:51:13 +0000

OMG May 23 is my birthday. The BEST present to get. *gets hyped*

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:48:23 +0000

The idol final performance is always an hour so no clash there. It’s probably to make room for the Dancing with the Stars 2hr finale.

By: Q

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:39:40 +0000

THE HELL? WHAT ABOUT DH?

By: AZTop

AZTop — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:23:07 +0000

When will Survivor’s finale be? They are usually on Sunday.

By: P@

P@ — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:07:40 +0000

I *reeealy* hope that the Survivor finale isn’t on the same day. I mean, that would be just cruel. But if that were the case, I’d definitely have to watch LOST.

By: J.G.

J.G. — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:51:12 +0000

So I suppose DH’s finale will be May 16th and Brothers and Sisters will be on May 9th (unless DH isn’t a two-hour finale like it usually is)

By: cool

cool — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:34:24 +0000

because Sunday has 1 more hour of primetime.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:23:40 +0000

Not too shocking, given that Lost’s finale would have run up against the last AI performance episode, I believe. I’d get out of their way too!

Given that everything should be into repeats by then, just what kind of ratings numbers are we looking at? The Season 2 premiere + 10%?

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:20:23 +0000

Why Sunday?