'Lost' Finds ABC in Win Column for Wednesday
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NEW YORK  - ABC won a repeat-laden  primetime Wednesday with two hours of its rookie castaway hit  "Lost."
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-Yesterday's Losers: Wickedly Perfect (CBS), life as we know it (ABC), Movie: Summer Catch (WB), North Shore
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As promised, &quot;Lost&quot; viewers were left with plenty to ponder but juicy answers to savor as well, thanks to Wednesday&#039;s season finale of the ABC mystical adventure series.
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"Lost" will return next month after an absence of eight months, but fans of the TV drama may still feel deprived because of the Hollywood writers strike.
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NBC's Emmy Awards telecast  was the No. 1 show last week, beating back a cheeky challenge  by Jack Sparrow and the 2003 movie "Pirates of the Caribbean:  The Curse of the Black Pearl" on ABC.
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ABC packed 'em in once again on Wednesday with "Lost," and Barbara Walters did pretty well herself with her year-end "10 Most Fascinating People of 2004" special.
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After strong ratings in its first  two weeks, ABC's new castaway thriller "Lost" appears to have  given the network something it has struggled for years to find  -- a hit drama.
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-Yesterday's Winners: Survivor: Micronesia (CBS), Deal or No Deal (NBC), Lost (ABC), CSI R (CBS), Without a Trace R
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So what&#039;s the deal with that number sequence &amp;#151; 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 &amp;#151; on ABC&#039;s serial drama &quot;Lost&quot;? The truth is, it indicates the points during each episode&#039;s hour when the network takes a commercial break. No, that&#039;s not right.
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Reaffirming the strength  of TV-DVD, the season 2 set of "Lost" debuted at No. 1 on the  national DVD sales chart for the week ending September 10,  while the acclaimed docudrama "United 93" came in at No. 2.
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The ABC television network, adrift  in the ratings doldrums, found a hit in new castaway thriller  "Lost" while CBS turned up evidence its "CSI" crime drama  franchise could dominate three nights of the week as the fall  season took off.
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While &quot;Desperate Housewives&quot; and &quot;Lost&quot; sought to repeat their Emmy Awards dominance, changes to nominations rules gave lower-profile series a new shot at recognition.
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LOS ANGELES - "Without a Trace" scored an unprecedented win over "ER," becoming the first drama to beat an original episode of the long-running NBC medical drama in total viewers.    In the Thursday night showdown, the CBS crime drama drew 21.5 million viewers, compared with 19.7 million for "ER" in the 10 p.m...
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By Mrs. C. Dunlop  THANK goodness they repeated the last few episodes of Lost on Sky One before showing the rest of the third series. I love the show but it's confusing enough without having to cope with a gap of months between shows. Why do TV companies do this? - Mrs. C.Dunlop, Stirling.
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"Without a Trace" scored an unprecedented win over "ER," becoming the first drama to beat an original episode of the long-running NBC medical drama in total viewers.
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By AMY AMATANGELO, WASHINGTON POST NEWS SERVICE  * Monday in The Mix: Executive producer Damon Lindelof of "Lost" talks about the new episodes.  Some of network television's biggest hits took a long winter's nap this season and disappeared from the schedule  for a while.
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NEW YORK  - ABC edged CBS for a second consecutive weekly win in the coveted adults 18-49 demographic, though the Tiffany network again won the gold in viewership.