BB, it's time for you to eat them words. It took me no longer than 3 minutes to quickly scan Wikipedia and some other references to find this, but I think the point is made:
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LOST: The Most Popular TV-Show on BitTorrent | TorrentFreak
An average episode of the hit series LOST is downloaded more than 500,000 times on BitTorrent, making it by far the most popular TV-show shared over the Internet, and one with approximately 5% of all its viewers watching via BitTorrent.
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Lost (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lost has been at the forefront of new television distribution methods. It was one of the first series issued through Apple's iTunes Store service for playback on an iPod or within the iTunes software.
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In 2009, Lost was named the most watched show on the Internet based on viewers of episodes on ABC's website. The Nielsen Company reported that 1.425 million unique viewers have watched at least one episode on ABC's website.[39]
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A survey of twenty countries by Informa Telecoms and Media in 2006 concluded that Lost was the second most popular TV show in those countries, after CSI: Miami show in those countries
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Lost also came 5th on Empire Magazine 's list of the Top 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time