I've not seen "Lost", but this is the kind of decision-making that prevents burnout, in the long term, so I'm happy that you made this call.

That said... don't you have a video recording thingie of some sort? If the show's any good, it's best not to schedule one's life around television's schedules.

I've made the sacrifice of not having cable, though, and never got around to getting a converter box to play broadcast TV, because I use Netflix. It's about 1/5th of the price of cable. The major sacrifice is being a season behind on most things, but I'm okay with that.