Fall 2009 TV preview

Flash Forward

If “Eastwick” is ABC’s hopeful replacement for “Desperate Housewives,” then “Flash Forward" is most certainly its answer to “Lost”—which starts its final season in 2010. The show follows what happens to a group of characters after the entire world blacks out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds, and everyone presumably gets a glimpse at what their lives look like in six months' time. There’s fancy casting, too—Joseph Fiennes plays the lead role!

Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC