It may have been massively hyped, but Lost's finale may not have been the ratings juggernaut you might have expected: Entertainment Weekly has preliminary data that gives the show a 9 rating, which puts it, as they explain, "about even with what the Desperate Housewives season-ender did on the same Sunday in ’09." Assuming that the final numbers don't show a massive uptick, then... ouch.
Lost's Finale: As Popular As Desperate Housewives
Lost may have been the show everyone was talking about last night, but it wasn't necessarily the show everyone was watching. Initial ratings analysis looks surprisingly disappointing.