Come ogni settimana Lost si posiziona dietro a "Senza traccia" (9.6/16; 18-49: 3.6/10) e davanti a "ER" (che trasmetteva il finale di stagione; 5.5/9; 18-49: 3.3/9), ma scalza tutti nella categoria dei telespettatori fra i 18 e i 49 anni - che, ricordiamo, è la più importante dal punto di vista pubblicitario.

Riepilogando...

“The Beginning of the End” - 16,07 milioni
“Confirmed Dead” - 15.06 milioni
“The Economist” - 13.62 milioni
“Eggtown” - 13.53 milioni
“The Constant” - 12.9 milioni
“The Other Woman” - 13.0 milioni
“Ji Yeon” - 11.87 milioni
“Meet Kevin Johnson” - 11.28 milioni
“The Shape of Things to Come” - 12.4 milioni
“Something Nice Back Home” - 11.14 milioni
“Cabin Fever” - 11.3 milioni
"There's No Place Like Home, Part 1" - 11.4 milioni

"Cabin Fever," l'episodio di Lost trasmesso l'8 aprile 2008, ha avuto una media di 11.3 milioni di telespettatori, il 4% in più rispetto all'episodio della scorsa settimana (che aveva stabilito un record in negativo).

Rating 18-49: 4.9

Share 18-49: 13

Nella stessa fascia oraria, vince in termini di spettatori totali la serie della CBS "Senza traccia" (14.6 milioni), mentre sulla NBC "ER" ottiene 7.6 milioni di spettatori.

Come sottolinea il comunicato stampa della ABC, Lost rimane comunque il telefilm più visto nella sua collocazione oraria nella categoria chiave degli adulti fra i 18 e i 49 anni, i telespettatori più appetibili dal punto di vista pubblicitario.Ecco gli ascolti di tutti gli undici episodi della quarta stagione.

“The Beginning of the End” - 16,07 milioni
“Confirmed Dead” - 15.06 milioni
“The Economist” - 13.62 milioni
“Eggtown” - 13.53 milioni
“The Constant” - 12.9 milioni
“The Other Woman” - 13.0 milioni
“Ji Yeon” - 11.87 milioni
“Meet Kevin Johnson” - 11.28 milioni
“The Shape of Things to Come” - 12.4 milioni
“Something Nice Back Home” - 11.14 milioni
“Cabin Fever” - 11.3 milioni

Dal sito SL-LOST diamo uno sguardo agli ascolti dell'ultimo episodio di Lost, andato in onda il 1 maggio.

Sembra che ancora una volta gli ascolti siano calati; infatti si è registrato un totale di 11,14 milioni di telespettatori, un record negativo assoluto.

Come ogni volta bisogna però ricordare che questi sono i dati relativi solo alla visione "in diretta" dell'episodio, e sappiamo che negli ascolti statunitensi contano anche i dati relativi alla visione "entro 7 giorni" su DVR e Internet - e Lost è al momento la serie più vista e scaricata attraverso questi sistemi.

Altro elemento da tenere in considerazione prima di passare ad azzardate analisi è che, in seguito allo stop imposto dallo sciopero degli sceneggiatori, anche altri telefilm notoriamente più popolari di Lost (come Grey's Anatomy, House, Desperate Housewives) stanno registrando ascolti mediamente bassi rispetto agli standard di stagione.

Riepilogando:

“The Beginning of the End” - 16,07 milioni
“Confirmed Dead” - 15.06 milioni
“The Economist” - 13.62 milioni
“Eggtown” - 13.53 milioni
“The Constant” - 12.9 milioni
“The Other Woman” - 13.0 milioni
“Ji Yeon” - 11.87 milioni
“Meet Kevin Johnson” - 11.28 milioni
“The Shape of Things to Come” - 12.4 milioni
"Something Nice Back Home" - 11.14 milioni

Il ritorno di Lost ha fato risalire gli ascolti, il numero di telespettatori americani che ha guardato l’ultimo episodio è risalito, dopo gli 11,28 milioni di telespettatori per “Meet Kevin Johnson”.

“The Shape of Things to Come” ha ottenuto 12,4 milioni di telespettatori nel nuovo orario, risultando l’unica serie ABC a migliorare gli ascolti e inoltre migliorando gli ascolti per le 22, che erano del 30% inferiori con October Road.

Ricapitolando:

“The Beginning of the End” - 16,07 milioni
“Confirmed Dead” - 15.06 milioni
“The Economist” - 13.62 milioni
“Eggtown” - 13.53 milioni
“The Constant” - 12.9 milioni
“The Other Woman” - 13.0 milioni
“Ji Yeon” - 11.87 milioni
“Meet Kevin Johnson” - 11.28 milioni
“The Shape of Things to Come” - 12.4 milioni

Per chi fosse interessato, ecco una tabella riassuntiva degli ascolti della quarta stagione negli Stati Uniti comparati con quelli delle tre stagioni precedenti.

"The Beginning of the End" - 16.07 milioni

"Confirmed Dead" - 15.06 milioni 

"The Economist" - 13.62 milioni 

"Eggtown" - 13.53 milioni

"The Constant" - 12.9 milioni

"The Other Woman" - 13.0 milioni

"Ji Yeon" - 11.87 milioni

"Meet Kevin Johnson" - 11.28 milioni (puntata meno vista di sempre)

Dopo una buona partenza, il numero di telespettatori è calato quasi costantemente, raggiungendo il gradino più basso con l'ultimo episodio trasmesso, "Mett Kevin Johnson".

È però probabile che, con la ripresa delle trasmissioni il 24 Aprile, gli ascolti possano subire un sostanziale aumento, visto anche il traino di Grey's Anatomy (in pratica Lost verrà trasmesso dalle 22 alle 23 dopo il famoso telefilm ospedaliero, di cui aveva preso il posto da gennaio in poi).

• Rating: 8.8 (6.4 nella fascia 18-49)
• Share: 13 (16 nella fascia 18-49)

Rispetto alla scorsa settimana, Lost perde un milione di spettatori ma si conferma come il programma più visto nella sua fascia oraria e nell'intera serata.

Sulla CBS una replica di CSI ha raggiunto 11.9 milioni di telespettatori (7.9 di rating/12 di share). Sulla NBC il reality "Celebrity Apprentice" è stato seguito da 8.7 milioni di spettatori (5.7/9) e su Fox il quiz musicale "Don't Forget the Lyrics" da 8.6 milioni (5.1/8).  A seguire la CW, con "Supernatural."

 Fonte: [Zap2it, Hollywood Reporter]

By ROB STEIN Washington Post January 29, 2008

Physically active people have cells that look younger on a molecular level than those of couch potatoes, according to new research that offers a fundamental new clue into how exercise may help stave off aging.

The study, involving more than 2,400 British twins, found for the first time that exercise appears to slow the shriveling of the protective tips on bundles of genes inside cells, perhaps keeping frailty at bay. "These data suggest that the act of exercising may actually protect the body against the aging process," said Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College in London who led the study, published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Previous research has shown that being physically active reduces the risk of heart disease, cancer and other diseases, potentially extending longevity.

In the hopes of helping explain how, Spector and his colleagues examined structures known as telomeres inside cells. Telomeres cap the ends of chromosomes, the structures that carry genes. Every time a cell divides, the telomeres get shorter. When the telomeres get too short, the cell can no longer divide.

Scientists believe that aging occurs as more and more cells reach the end of their telomeres and die — muscles weaken, skin wrinkles, eyesight and hearing fade, organs fail, and thinking clouds. Spector and his colleagues analyzed the telomeres from white blood cells collected from 2,401 twins in a long-term health study, examining whether there was a relationship between the subjects' telomere length and how much exercise they got in their spare time in a 10-year period.

"We're using telomere length as a marker of our rate of biological aging," Spector said. The length of the twins' telomeres was directly related to their activity levels, the researchers found. People who did a moderate amount of exercise — about 100 minutes a week of activity such as tennis, swimming or running — had telomeres that, on average, looked like those of someone about five or six years younger than those who did the least — about 16 minutes a week.

Those who did the most — doing about three hours a week of moderate to vigorous activity — had telomeres that appeared to be about nine years younger than those who did the least. "There was a gradient," Spector said. "As the amount of exercise increased, the telomere length increased."

Other researchers said the findings are intriguing. "It's another jigsaw piece in trying to understand why exercise is important in longevity," said Stephen Coles, who studies aging at the University of California at Los Angeles. But Coles and others said much more research is needed to definitively establish a causal relationship between exercise and aging. "It's a fairly strong association, and a very interesting association," said Jack Guralnik of the National Institute on Aging, who wrote an editorial accompanying the research. "But we have to interpret this with caution. People who choose to exercise are different in many ways from people who don't exercise.

It's always difficult from these observational studies to determine whether it's the exercise that's having the effects."

By ROB STEIN Washington Post January 29, 2008

Physically active people have cells that look younger on a molecular level than those of couch potatoes, according to new research that offers a fundamental new clue into how exercise may help stave off aging.

The study, involving more than 2,400 British twins, found for the first time that exercise appears to slow the shriveling of the protective tips on bundles of genes inside cells, perhaps keeping frailty at bay. "These data suggest that the act of exercising may actually protect the body against the aging process," said Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College in London who led the study, published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Previous research has shown that being physically active reduces the risk of heart disease, cancer and other diseases, potentially extending longevity.

In the hopes of helping explain how, Spector and his colleagues examined structures known as telomeres inside cells. Telomeres cap the ends of chromosomes, the structures that carry genes. Every time a cell divides, the telomeres get shorter. When the telomeres get too short, the cell can no longer divide.

Scientists believe that aging occurs as more and more cells reach the end of their telomeres and die — muscles weaken, skin wrinkles, eyesight and hearing fade, organs fail, and thinking clouds. Spector and his colleagues analyzed the telomeres from white blood cells collected from 2,401 twins in a long-term health study, examining whether there was a relationship between the subjects' telomere length and how much exercise they got in their spare time in a 10-year period.

"We're using telomere length as a marker of our rate of biological aging," Spector said. The length of the twins' telomeres was directly related to their activity levels, the researchers found. People who did a moderate amount of exercise — about 100 minutes a week of activity such as tennis, swimming or running — had telomeres that, on average, looked like those of someone about five or six years younger than those who did the least — about 16 minutes a week.

Those who did the most — doing about three hours a week of moderate to vigorous activity — had telomeres that appeared to be about nine years younger than those who did the least. "There was a gradient," Spector said. "As the amount of exercise increased, the telomere length increased."

Other researchers said the findings are intriguing. "It's another jigsaw piece in trying to understand why exercise is important in longevity," said Stephen Coles, who studies aging at the University of California at Los Angeles. But Coles and others said much more research is needed to definitively establish a causal relationship between exercise and aging. "It's a fairly strong association, and a very interesting association," said Jack Guralnik of the National Institute on Aging, who wrote an editorial accompanying the research. "But we have to interpret this with caution. People who choose to exercise are different in many ways from people who don't exercise.

It's always difficult from these observational studies to determine whether it's the exercise that's having the effects."

• Ratings: 9.5 (6.7 nella fascia 18-49)
• Share: 14 (17 nella fascia 18-49)

Un ottimo risultato rispetto all'ultimo episodio della terza stagione "Attraverso lo Specchio" (13.7 milioni, 5.8 di rating/15 di share) ma un po' giù rispetto alla season premiere del 2006, "Storia di due città" (18.8 milioni, 7.7/19).

Per quanto riguarda i ratings, Lost non raggiungeva un risultato così alto dall'episodio "Lo voglio," l'ultima puntata della miniserie di sei episodi andata in onda nell'autunno 2006.

Ma la concorrenza non era agguerrita: se a quest'ora l'anno scorso Lost si sarebbe dovuto confrontare con il sempre popolare "American Idol" (rimasto al mercoledì), stavolta Lost ha trovato sulla NBC il reality "Celebrity Apprentice" (7.8 milioni di spettatori, 3.2/8) e su Fox il quiz musicale "Don't Forget the Lyrics" (10.1 milioni, 3.3/8). 

 Fonte: [Zap2it, Hollywood Reporter]