While the rest of the world watched the spectacular Lost finale together on Sunday, frustrated South African viewers are left in the cold by M-Net Series (DStv 110) who's completely lost it with Lost.
M-Net Series will only manage to get to the Lost finale by 23 August (see my story HERE) by which time the hype will be passe, the secret and the ending spoiled and known and the shared TV moment be long over and done with. In TV land, having to wait three months for what the world is collectively sharing in a Susan Boyle/YouTube world, is an eternity. Already I've heard from extremely disappointed and frustrated South African viewers of Lost and readers who are struggling and finding it very hard to stay clear of Lost finale conversations, spoilers and even the internet. ''The New York Times had a story about the Lost finale and people who don't want it spoiled and they almost spoiled it themselves for me today,'' a frustrated Lost viewer tells me.
''If M-Net can show the Emmys and Oscars and American Idol finale live, why can't their sister channel M-Net Series work in something special in their schedule to also show the finale - even if its out of sequence so that it don't get spoiled for us?'' another reader asked me. The Lost finale went out in 8 countries at the same time on Sunday (America, Canada, Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Israel, and Turkey) and several more over the past 48 hours.
