The good news

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Originally Posted by fantastytv

The good news, according to World Screen, is that ABC’s online expansion has so far been a success. Last month nine out of the ten most commonly downloaded television series online were furnished by ABC.com. Dancing with the Stars was March’s top earner, garnering twice the numbers of any other series with three million unique viewers. But Lost finished second in the country with 1.4 million. That may not sound like a lot when compared with Nielson rating figures in the tens of millions, but it’s more than you think.
Lost was the country’s most digitally beloved program overall with 35.8 million downloads for the month of March. That’s more views than the series got on television (with the three new episodes combined for 29 million viewers.) So while less than a seventh as many people watched Lost online as watched the March 4 episode “LaFleur” on television those same people watched more often. Unless one believes that downloading TV off the Internet is going to become less common it’s reasonable to speculate that those numbers may grow increasingly on the downloads side.

Now the bad news. Lost’s television numbers are down overall and falling. Last season the series averaged 17.1 million viewers a week over the abbreviated 13 episode run. This season that number is down to 10.2 million viewers an episode. For the past four weeks in a row Lost has failed to hit 10 million. How scary is that for Lost’s producers? Not even one new episode of the series (not counting clip shows) had ever failed to hit ten million before.

Digitally beloved? You work for ABC or something?

As per the show.. the plot this year has gotten so complex that I think a lot of people, especially if they happen to miss an episode, have been tuning out with the intention of simply getting it on DVD when it comes out in December to watch it all at once. If you happen to miss an episode and don't do the online stuff you are basically screwed. Easier to just wait for the whole set.

-TH

[queenqueen]

I though it was a good way.
I will not wait in front of mt tv set...
I prefer to buy dvds.



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HEROES DVD and LOST DVD are relly amazing~!