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I gotta say at first i was upset with the long hiatus, but now i kinda like it.. I think its a whole lot better then the rerun-crapfest they put us through last year, and i actuly like Day Break! And also i like that we are gonna get 16(?) episodes straight when they come back, and the way i see it the this season is just cut up into two "seasons"

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They should have had a second season of Invasion during the break!!!!

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How can you say that the new Lost schedule isn't working already? The second part of season 3 hasn't even started to air yet and you're saying the strategy was a bad decision.

People will LOVE having a new episode of Lost on every week when the show comes back in February. Have some patience, the new schedule is a great idea.

Since it is impossible to produce episodes fast enough to air them uninterrupted starting in October, and the choice was between either running repeats every second week, not launching Season 3 until February or splitting the season, the decision they made was the best alternative.

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I never understood why the break had to be so long. Sure, the seemingly constant rerun fest last season was annoying, but this 13-week break is just as bad.

Why couldn't they just do smaller breaks, like 6 episodes on, 4 off, 6 on, 4 off or whatever. That beats last season when we'd get one new ep then 2-3 repeats before another new one. (Note, I just pulled those numbers out of my ass without bothering to actually check. It sure felt that way, though.) Couple that with holding off the season premiere a few weeks and they easily could have filled the whole season on a steady schedule.

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When I was stationed in England 1987-1990, the four channels that they had at that time were great. They got America TV shows a few months after they were over with here. They should every episode every week in a row. I THOUGHT THIS WAS GREAT.

After watching "24" last year(my 1st time watching it), THIS IS THE ONLY WAY SHOWS SHOULD BE SHOWN. FX does it with NIP/TUCK, The Shield, and the Fireman Show. Sci-fi has done it with both StarGates and Battlestar.

I'm liking Daybreak.

So sitback and RELAX!

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The big broadcast networks are finally learning a lesson or two from the cable stations. Running a series without repeats keeps us all interested -- and tuned to that station during that time period all season long.

Shows like Nip/Tuck, The Shield, The Closer, etc. don't run reruns during their regular season. Why take the chance that regular viewers might get interested in another show in that time slot during repeats?

I don't know why they can't produce enough shows to run the entire season without repeats when other networks can.

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I feel just the opposite. Running a season without repeats makes my interest wane. At least that way there's always something fairly recent to discuss from the last episode - I don't know about you, but come January, I'm not going to still feel like rehashing what happened in the first six episodes. Besides - I watch repeats. On the other hand, when I know a show isn't going to be on for ages - THAT'S when I let myself get invested in another show for the timeslot. And I might end up liking it better, and not want to come back.

Plus slamming all those episodes in a row - I start to burn out after about 8. Sometimes I just want a week off. A week where I can make plans on Wednesday without having to set tapes or have to watch it online later. I will inevitably end up missing at least three of them for various reasons.

Frankly, I didn't mind how it went last year at all, and I don't know why people complained so much.

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Your question about The Nine is a good one to consider. I think it's a great show and want to see it have multiple seasons. I think that while Lost is on hiatus, ABC should move The Nine to Thursdays after Grey's. For whatever reason, they have put Six Degrees on hold until January, so why waste the Grey's lead-in on Primetime or 20/20?

I think that 13 weeks is awfully long for a mid-season break and I think it will ultimately hurt this already-weak third season of Lost.

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They had damn well better let Day Break run its course. I don't understand why nobody is watching this, it's fantastic. What, people can't watch a show with a black protagonist or something?

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I had a similar formula for this break a while back. I'd change it slightly, though, and include all shows on a given network. Run an entire season of Lost, House, whatever. After that season is over, stop airing the show and put something new on. When the new show's season is over, bring back Lost. Repeat year round. This way network TV *never* has repeats. We work 51 weeks a year, why can't the actors? The daytime Soaps don't repeat on their origional network, do they? Why can't primetime be the same?

Repeats can be aired on one of the many cable networks owned by the parent companies.

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The long hiatus for Lost has MISTAKE written all over it. Did ABC learn nothing from Commander in Chief?

It's not as if Lost were that interesting this year anyway. Lots of my friends were losing interest. Couple that with being off the air for months, and I don't think people will return. If they don't put lost back on the air in a few weeks, I'm not certain I'll be interested by next February

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I enjoy Day Break too, so I'm surprised that the numbers are not higher. Maybe they should re-air the 1st episode on a weekend like they did with the LOST pilot episode. It is my kind of show and I recognized Skinner and Rohrer from the X-Files.

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Ok, first of all, I'm really glad we'll get a straight set of Lost after the break. I have no problem with that. But did I just read that right? Daybreak doesn't even TOUCH Invasion? Now I want to get some ABC programming execs alone in a room even more. That's ridiculous! Invasion was an excellent show all the way around, and the network never even gave it a fair chance.

On the other hand, you get Groundhog Day with the guy from Rent and it's an "appropriate" filler for the huge Lost hiatus somehow? These people need to get their heads re-screwed on.

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Why not just call it a new season, it would be far less confusing for dim people that way.

Think yourselves lucky, in the UK (on BBC or ITV at least) a season is generally considered to be between 6 & 10 episodes then have to wait anywhere between 1-2 years for the next series (or 4 years in the case of Red Dwarf's last series & that was not worth the wait)

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Day Break is perfectly fine with me. they should dump that idiotic game show that shouldn't have been produced to begin with. "show me the money" dropped more viewers than day break anyway.

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Yes! You guys are right!

Lost, or any other show, going on hiatus in the middle of a season is a fantastic idea!

I simply love the fact that it's impossible to get through most any season of any major TV show without lots of repeats or this innovative 'hiatus' strategy.

Brilliant !!

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I really was MAD about Lost going away for 13 weeks. I haven't watched Daybreak because #1)The powers that be think they know what people want; #2)I hated the movie "Groundhog Day" the premise of doing the day over and over; and #3) I watched Lost no matter what. Bring Lost back and the heck with Daybreak.

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Here's what they should do. Reair the first 6 episodes in the third season of Lost at 9 o clock for the 6 weeks before it comes back on-- that way veiwers can be refreshed. Move Daybread to 10 o' clock for those 6 weeks, and put the Nine on hiatus for those 6 weeks, and let it put on new episodes once Lost comes back.

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There are millions of people who are travelling during Thanksgiving week, or who have visitors, and thus have better things to do than watch TV. Ratings on Thanksgiving eve are normally lower than the average Wednesday.

Perhaps TV Squad writers (whose job it is to be obessed with television) should watch some DVDs or something from the end of sweeps until January, so as to avoid too many complaints about the lack of interesting programming in December weeks as well.

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Personally i love Day Break so i'm happy with this schedule. Because when you look at it this way, we're getting a full season of ORIGINAL content. ZERO repeats of anything. That's pretty sweet!

I think Lost fans would still whine over the schedule, no matter what the Lost fans will never be happy unless they get 80 new episodes per season(which would be kinda cool :P)

I just hope they don't yank Day Break off. I mean it's only 13 weeks! Just give it a shot ABC.

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