Article: We love telly; Two-minute SILENCE.(News)

Byline: JANE SIMON

FLASHFORWARD FIVE, 9pm

SAY hello to your brand new TV addiction...

The pilot episode of this US import makes the hairs on the back of your neck spring to attention in the same spooky and thrilling way that our first sight of Lost and Heroes did back in the days before they went nuts.

Like Lost, it begins with a spectacular mega-budgetdisaster effect as the entire population of the world blacks out for two minutes - with all the catastrophic carnage and loss of life that would entail.

But it's what else happens ...

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