This is a story which almost mimics the very show it is about.
It all starts with the disastrous failure of ABC's Eastwick to find a consistent audience on Wednesday nights. After its initial run of 13 episodes, it looks like it isn't coming back.
The prevailing thought was that Lost would soon come in after that and take the 10PM Wednesday slot in January... but there is a rumor going around that another ABC show may end up taking that time slot instead.
Ugly Betty.
Why would the network be considering such a move? Well, the prevailing wisdom seems to be that their successes with their other comedy series on that night might prove to be a great lead in to a show which, despite the network's previous death sentence time slot, they still apparently believe in the series.
It is my hope that if they do indeed end up with that time slot that the show brings back some of its gay elements that were stripped over the past year and a half, like Marc in a relationship, and perhaps Justin's first forays into the world of dating in the open, because I think that would strengthen the whole package. And with Eastwick's cancellation, I guess Alex Meade is back in play too.
I know that this time slot would likely reinvigorate my love for the series, and I would choose it over the other show which I've been watching on cable for years now.
If it comes to pass, I know there will likely be a lot of Lost fans who are disappointed, though a solution that I've heard bandied about in comment sections is that perhaps Lost and Flash Forward would also be put into a block so that they strengthen each other as a unit.
But somehow I think Lost is getting the Wednesday slot no matter what because it still has the juice at the moment.
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