ABC Slate Offers All-new Wednesday, Earlier Lost

ABC's 2007-08 prime-time schedule, detailed in TVGuide.com's First Look: Hottest Fall TV blog, features a Wednesday lineup chock-a-block with new programming — a big gamble, some may say. ABC entertainment president Stephen McPherson, however, explained during a Tuesday-morning press conference that Private Practice — the Grey's Anatomy spin-off fronted by Kate Walsh's Addison and sandwiched between Pushing Daisies and Dirty Sexy Money — offers "a known character" who will "anchor that night for us." (Click here for more on Private Practice needing "some work" before its fall debut.)Speaking of Wednesday, when Lost resurfaces mid-season for the first of its three 16-episode runs, McPherson all but ruled out a return to its 10 pm berth. "I'd like to get in there at an earlier hour," he said. "It's better as a 9 or 8 o'clock show."For a look at ABC's complete plans, including where Men in Trees has been replanted and which show has claimed the plum after-Grey's time slo...