L O S T - will start a few minutes late

[question everything]

that is, if you are setting your VCR, it will start 10:02 Eastern. Why? Because ABC loves to screw with the viewing habits of its audience and it thinks that it screws the competition. Thus, Gray's Anatomy is from 9:00 to 10:02 Eastern.

[Tripper11]

1. It's because of TIVO's/DVR's, I think anyway

Because these machines download schedules and you can record 2 at once on some. What I think networks are trying to do is by moving a show ahead 2 minutes or running one long 2 minutes, or whatever, it will stop people from recording or watching other programs on other networks because it creates an slight time overlap and the software can't reconcile unless you cut one or the other off.

[question everything]

2. That's why I still use the good old VCR where I can program it as long

as I want to. Works especially well when, say Bush talks to the nation and I don't know when the program will start, so I can just give myself, say, 15 min. extra.