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.

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.

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 !!

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.

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)

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.

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.

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

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.

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?