3 month break?...grrr

Yakuza

From TV.com:

Lost Airing dates (changed to European order):
53

The Cost of Living

1/11/2006 305
54

I Do

8/11/2006 306
55

Not In Portland

7/2/2007 307

Ep names spoilered.

3 months is too long, imho, especially with less than 1/3 of the season shown.

MeTV

Indeed, but you can thank Sky for that, trying to get the jump on RTÉ by announcing a mid-November start for the show which in turn caused RTÉ to bump it up their schedule from January to the end of October for fear of losing viewers to Sky One. Or, alternatively, you can blame the yanks for the crazy scheduling in the first place!

Basq

Yakuza.. this was done due to the frequent breaks during episodes in previous seasons.

Typically: new episode --> 2 week break --> new episode --> 3 week break!

So when it comes back, it'll be new episodes every week straight til the end of the season!

SoSueMe

I think the three month break is a great idea. For viewers who watch it it legally it is a reward having back as soon as possible. The momentum is better. The writers have planned the first 6 episodes as an arc or a prequel for the rest of season 3. Whan the UK and Ireland show Lost a few days after Lost in Febuary it will be easier to avoid spoilers either intentionally or uninetentionally.

For season 4 it is suggested it might start in January like 24 in the US. ABC had to spend millions advertising season 3 in September/October and now will have to make an even bigger campaign for the shows return in Febuary. It would make more sense to do it that way but they need Lost to launch their schedule also.

radiospan

SoSueMe wrote:

Whan the UK and Ireland show Lost a few days after Lost in Febuary

Will they? Or will there be the same 3 or 4 week gap between episodes as there is now?

ixoy

This is a much better scheduling pattern than before - why are people so down on it? The season, in the US, will still finish at the same time (roughly) as the previous two years but this time all the newness will be nice and concentrated instead of spread out in irritating mini-installments.

If anything it's a good approach to the problems of U.S. scheduling that plagues nearly all programs ('American Dad' is back after took a six-week break there for example). '24' took a good step in rectifying this, but it'd be nice if they could adopt a HBO/ShowTime/FX model where their seasons (admittedly shorter) continue pretty-much interrupted bar perhaps one break for a national holiday.

jor el

I take it that he RTE and Sky airings will also take a (somewhat shorter) break after episode 6 until sometime in February too. Anyone know why Sky pushed it up so early in the schedule? It's very unlike Sky to have a mid-season break in any show but they'll have to now.

This single long break will be a good thing if it means that last years fiasco of one episode on, two weeks off, two episodes on, three weeks off, one episode on, four weeks off, etc, bullsiht isn't going to be repeated. That really ruined the series for me.

MeTV

Far's I now, one of the reasons was to try and nab a chunk of RTÉ's audience and RTÉ had previously mentioned a January start for S3 which would explain why RTÉ rushed it into their schedule with nowhere near the amount of publicity we would have expected.

thelas

In February Sky will be showing the episodes 4 nights after they aired in America. RTE will probably struggle to do the same.

Basq

thelas wrote:

In February Sky will be showing the episodes 4 nights after they aired in America. RTE will probably struggle to do the same.

Link to confirm this?

steveland?

It'd make a lot more sense to show it a few nights after it's been on in America.

It's difficult to stay away from spoilers for a month or two after it's been shown in America for the people that watch it on RTE, a few days would lessen the amount of people that have surprises ruined and, possibly, have less people downloading it

MeTV

Squill wrote:

Link to confirm this?

Don't have linkage to back it up, but I've heard the same rumours.

Lost currently airs on a Wednesday(?) night stateside and RTÉ have already stated they'll be resuming the second part of S3 a week after ABC do (i.e., the following Tuesday, or Monday if they revert back to the normal timeslot). If Sky did the same while keeping Lost in it's current Sunday timeslot, that would mean they'd be airing new episodes at least 24 hours before RTÉ, giving them the headstart they tried to get when the announced their start date for S3.

BA2703

Squill wrote:

Link to confirm this?

If you check out SoSueMe's post (#38) it contains schedule details from Sky - I presume they're kosher

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055005281&page=2