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'Lost' losing audience
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By VIRGINIA ROHAN
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Who are the Others? Where are Michael and Walt? And what about crazy Rousseau?
And now, the really big riddle: Why has "Lost" lost a fifth of its audience since last season?
That question has been generating lots of buzz lately. Not only is average viewership for "Lost" down more than 20 percent since last season, but this past week, CBS' "Criminal Minds" beat "Lost" in total viewers. While the ABC drama is still in first place among 18- to 49-year-olds -- it still reels in a little over 16 million viewers -- it has shed 5 million viewers from a year ago (nearly 3 million since the third-season premiere on Oct. 4).
But even as television critics, avid "Lost" fans and disillusioned dropouts debate that baffling offscreen mystery -- a very good subject for another day -- "Lost" arguably remains the most influential television drama in many a moon. And this is not so surprising, actually. Throughout TV history, many groundbreaking dramas, including "Hill Street Blues" and "Twin Peaks," have had a far bigger impact on the medium than their ratings would suggest.
Almost everywhere you zap nowadays, you'll find a show, new or old, that in one or more ways owes a debt to "Lost."
'Lost' losing audience
Click on the link to rerad the entire article
By VIRGINIA ROHAN
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Who are the Others? Where are Michael and Walt? And what about crazy Rousseau?
And now, the really big riddle: Why has "Lost" lost a fifth of its audience since last season?
That question has been generating lots of buzz lately. Not only is average viewership for "Lost" down more than 20 percent since last season, but this past week, CBS' "Criminal Minds" beat "Lost" in total viewers. While the ABC drama is still in first place among 18- to 49-year-olds -- it still reels in a little over 16 million viewers -- it has shed 5 million viewers from a year ago (nearly 3 million since the third-season premiere on Oct. 4).
But even as television critics, avid "Lost" fans and disillusioned dropouts debate that baffling offscreen mystery -- a very good subject for another day -- "Lost" arguably remains the most influential television drama in many a moon. And this is not so surprising, actually. Throughout TV history, many groundbreaking dramas, including "Hill Street Blues" and "Twin Peaks," have had a far bigger impact on the medium than their ratings would suggest.
Almost everywhere you zap nowadays, you'll find a show, new or old, that in one or more ways owes a debt to "Lost."
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