Smoke Monster Blinks: Lost Moved Out of Idol's Way
As you may have read last night in the Ausiello Report, ABC's just-revealed mid-season schedule finds Lost airing an hour later — Wednesdays at 10 pm/ET — so as to save the fan fave from being crushed by the return of Simon, Paula and Randy, as well as to stave off further ratings slippage at the hands of the surging Criminal Minds. Playing the role of sacrificial lambs in this scenario are the new comedies Knights of Prosperity and In Case of Emergency, which will fill the 9 o'clock hour starting Jan. 3 — a month before Day Break was scheduled to end its run. Per Variety, Taye Diggs' thriller will either be dropped after its Dec. 27 airing or shuttled to a new night. ABC News programming will run at 10, until Lost's Feb. 7 return.
As you may have read last night in the Ausiello Report, ABC's just-revealed mid-season schedule finds
Lost airing an hour later - Wednesdays at 10 pm/ET - so as to save the fan fave from being crushed by the return of Simon, Paula and Randy, as well as to stave off further ratings slippage at the hands of the surging
Criminal Minds.
Playing the role of sacrificial lambs in this scenario are the new comedies
Knights of Prosperity and
In Case of Emergency, which will fill the 9 o'clock hour starting Jan. 3 - a month before
Day Break was scheduled to end its run. Per
Variety, Taye Diggs' thriller will either be dropped after its Dec. 27 airing or shuttled to a new night. ABC News programming will run at 10, until
Lost's Feb. 7 return.