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| Lost Writers Eye The End Producers of ABC's Lost told SCI FI Wire they know how the show will end, though the series finale won't happen until 2010. The producers even know what the final shot will look like, they said in interviews. Co-creator and executive producer Damon Lindelof said that the writers will be working toward the end of the series over the next two years. "We always knew the ending," he said. "We just didn't know how much time to take before we got there. So, yes, it still completely fits with where we're at in the storytelling right now." Lost will become more focused because the end is in sight, the producers added. "With 48 episodes to go, it's exciting to be working towards an endpoint we're already familiar with," Lindelof said. During a press conference for the release of the Lost season-three DVD set on Dec. 11, executive producer Carlton Cuse said that the show will be using flash-forward scenes, but warned cryptically that "it would be wrong to think that the flash-forward you saw is the end of the series." Viewers got their first glimpse at a possible future in the third-season finale last spring. Cuse added that he already has the final image of the series in mind. "Yes, we do know what the last image of the show is," Cuse said. "And it won't be a black screen!" he added, alluding to the controversial cut that ended HBO's The Sopranos. The fourth season of Lost starts Feb. 6, 2008. |
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| You have a choice - given that there are 16 episodes in the season, you can start in September and then have to interrupt the series every so often with reruns and the like (thus alienating viewers who can't be arsed to play 'hunt the new episode'), or you can delay the series, promote the hell out of it and then play it all in one long run, thus ensuring the public will know there's a new episode guaranteed each week. It worked for Season 3 of Lost (although the 6/18-ish episode split was a failed experiment), it's worked for 24 and other series. I don't see any problem with them holding it back. Plus, from an international perspective, it means that people outside of the US/Canada can see the episodes sooner as well (uninterrupted, to boot), since there's no delay to ensure they don't run out of episodes (something which I suspect is going to bite Sky in the backside with regard to Prison Break). |
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| Carlton Cuse, executive producer of ABC's Lost, told Entertainment Weekly that ABC will soon have eight episodes in the can that it can begin airing after the first of the year, despite the current writers' strike, but added that If the strike is prolonged, fans will be stuck with a shortened season. |
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| TV Guide columnist Michael Ausiello reported that ABC is expected to shift Lost from its usual Wednesday timeslot and begin the fourth season in February. Ausiello didn't say which night would inherit Lost but added that an announcement is coming soon. Eight episodes of the show were completed before the writers' strike began. It's unclear when or if new episodes will be produced if and when the strike ends. |
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| Marvel Comics Get Lost ABC has worked with Marvel Comics to insert images and references to the hit series Lost in upcoming comic books, including Uncanny X-Men, Incredible Hercules, Thunderbolts and Wolverine Origins, the TV network announced. For example, a Lost poster, the number 6 and the slogan "Find Yourself" all appear in the latest editions of several Marvel comics that hit newsstands through Jan. 30. Season four of Lost premieres Jan. 31 |
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| Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, co-executive producers of ABC's Lost, told SCI FI Wire that the current season's final batch of new episodes will unspool a story arc based on a plan devised in anticipation of the writers' strike. "The last two weeks before the strike, we actually sat down and said, 'Here is what we want to tell for the rest of the season,'" Kitsis said in an interview. "We all sat down, and the entire staff came up with a battle plan in place." When Lost returns in late April, it will wrap up the fourth season with five episodes, three fewer than planned before the strike took place. "We got to tell a little more story this season than we anticipated," Kitsis said. "It's really worked out well. We came back from the strike, and everyone is just really excited, and I have to say, creatively, every day has been a pleasure. Everything we're doing right now is exciting, and every script that is going out, you're jealous if you didn't write it." As for the missing episodes? "I feel that the three missing episodes will be made up over the course of the next two seasons," Horowitz said. "Seasons four, five and six are meant to encompass 48 episodes." Kitsis added: "I have a feeling it will mean more, like, two-hour shows as opposed to more episodes, but those are decisions above our pay grade." Season four has so far been marked with a continuation of the "flash-forward" storytelling technique introduced in the finale of season three. "This just seemed like the most interesting way to tell the rest of the story of the show," Kitsis said. "When we realized that we were only going to do three more seasons, it enabled us to starting thinking a little more out of the box in how we want to tell the remaining story that was left. The flash-forwards are, I think, just a great way to keep the show energized and tell the story in an interesting way. It was a brilliant idea by [executive producer] Damon [Lindelof]." |
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| Additional Lost Due This Year? TV Guide Online columnist Michael Ausiello reported a rumor that ABC may order an additional hour of Lost this season, which would bring the total number of hours produced to 14. Citing an anonymous source, Ausiello reported that the additional hour has not been sealed with the network. As it stands, Lost is slated to return with the first of five new episodes on April 24. The strike-truncated fourth season was slated to end with a season finale on May 22; it's unclear where an additional hour of the SF series would air. |
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| ABC confirmed that it has ordered an additional hour of Lost and that the SF hit's two-hour season-four finale will air May 29 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The additional hour brings to 14 the number of hours in Lost's strike-truncated fourth season. ABC noted that Lost will be pre-empted on May 22 due to a special two-hour Grey's Anatomy season finale. Lost returns with the first of five new episodes on April 24 |
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| Daniel Dae Kim, who plays castaway Jin-Soo Kwon on ABC's Lost, told SCI FI Wire that he is OK with his character's fate, whatever it may be. And, no, he wouldn't say what that is. "You know, if he doesn't make it, it's been a great ride," Daniel Dae Kim said in an interview at the Hollywood premiere on May 7 of his upcoming A&E miniseries The Andromeda Strain. "It's been an incredible opportunity. If he does make it, it means the roller-coaster ride continues. Either way, it's a win-win." Kim added that the producers have told him some of what's coming up. "A few things," he said. "But very broad, general strokes." Kim just wrapped shooting of season four, which resumed with new episodes in late April after an interruption because of the Hollywood writers' strike. Season four wraps up May 29. Is Kim ready to say goodbye to the island for good? "The writers--regardless of whether we're ready to say goodbye to it or not--the writers have such a way of continuing to delve into the characters," he said. "So there's always seem to be more story to tell." That sounds like no. |
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| ABC has added more hours to the final two seasons of its SF drama Lost, whose current season was cut short by the writers' strike, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The 2009 and 2010 editions of the hit drama will be 17 hours each, not 16 as previously planned. The strike knocked three hours out of the current season. To partly compensate, the network recently added an additional hour to part two of the season finale that airs May 29. For the upcoming season finale, show co-creator Damon Lindelof promised a more action-driven cliffhanger instead of the mind-bending flash-forward time shift that stunned fans last season. Lindelof declined to say whether the flash-forwards will continue, but did leave open the possibility of the show's main story line on the island catching up with the flash forwards that have taken place on the mainland this season. As for the series finale in 2010, Lindelof told the trade paper that he and executive producer Carlton Cuse plan to "go into hiding for many, many months" at an "undisclosed location." |
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| Lost Rush Confused Audience ABC entertainment president Stephen McPherson admitted to SCI FI Wire that the rush to complete episodes of last season's Lost before a writers' strike may have led to audience confusion. "There's no question there was a lot jammed in," McPherson said in an interview on July 16 at the Television Critics Association's summer press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif. "One of the advantages of giving them an end date has been that they didn't have to fill some undetermined middle of the show." Lost missed out on three episodes last season because of the strike. "People always say, 'Do they know where the show is going?'" McPherson said. "Absolutely. But if you have an undetermined middle, then it's like, 'What is that middle? Is it 100 episodes?'" McPherson said that the plan to end the series in two more seasons helped the creators and writers fill in the middle sections of the show's mythology. "They wanted to get to certain places at the end of this season," McPherson said. "Then, when the strike happened, they retrofitted a bit to get all that stuff in. They did actually push some storylines into next year and adjust, but there were certain things that they felt like they wanted to end this year, and even if it meant accelerating it a little bit and maybe making it a little bit abbreviated in ... the exposition of it, they wanted to get it done." McPherson said that he is sad to see Lost go, but added that it's better to have a clear end in sight. "I really like being able to know when shows are going out," he said. "I think it's a big decision, as a Lost decision a couple years out, to know. ... Let's let them end it with dignity and integrity and, to me, compelling content, and we can market it as such." |
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| ABC Makes Up Lost Episodes ABC Entertainment President Stephen McPherson told reporters that Lost will make up for the three episodes that didn't make it to air last season because of the writers' strike. "They were supposed to do 17 this year, actually," McPherson said in a news conference at the Television Critics Association's summer press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., on July 16. "They aired 14." The upcoming fifth season will feature 17 episodes when it kicks off in January 2009. McPherson said that the show has 48 episodes left before the series ends in 2010. "They're kind of still doing the story arcs and figuring that out," McPherson said, referring to Lost's producers. "But we will do the full 48 that we all set out when we said, 'Let's set an end of the show. How many episodes do you need to tell that story and where you're going?'" McPherson was upstaged at last year's press tour when Lost executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse saved some news for Comic-Con International in San Diego, which took place a week later. This year, McPherson said that the producers will screen a promotional video at Comic-Con for the upcoming season of Lost, but added that it will also be made available immediately on ABC.com. McPherson acknowledged that Lost suffered more from last year's writers strike than other ABC shows. "Lost, unfortunately, was one of the shows that had to actually go down for a little bit and go off the air," he said. "We were hoping to be able to run it straight through." Instead, the decision was made to pull Lost down completely until early next year. |