***OFFICIAL LOST thread 11/08/06***

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Ok, so, when will they show the previews to the next half of the season during day break???

[Vikings4ever 496]

Ok, so, when will they show the previews to the next half of the season during day break???

Probably a month or two before Lost starts back up.

[CantTouchThis 23]

Probably a month or two before Lost starts back up.

 

No, there was one little tidbit like right in the middle of the show, like maybe 20 seconds long just a scene where Desmond tackles Charlie.

 

WOW, daybreak is actually a really good show, maybe a good filler until Lost returns???

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Just a thought. Didn't Jack saw Ben let Michael/Walt go? At this point it wouldn't shock me if he trusts Ben more than the chick who's trying to get him to kill Ben.

 

I think Kate will get Jack's attention and tell him that they're on an island and there's no where to go (even with an hour head start) and they'll change their plan.

 

Overall I've enjoyed this season, the finale was actually one of my LEAST favorite epi's this season.

[IN$TANT REPAY 8]

 

I think Kate will get Jack's attention and tell him that they're on an island and there's no where to go (even with an hour head start) and they'll change their plan.

 

Jack will die.

[kutulu 1,562]

Will ABC's 'Lost' Ever Find Its Ending?

 

By Lisa Moraes, The Post

ABC will fairly soon announce an end date to its Wednesday drama “Lost” — which, in turn, will cure viewers of the extreme anxiety from which they are suffering because none of the important questions ever get answered on this weedy tangle of a series. The idea is to bring back viewers who have abandoned the show out of frustration, and everybody lives happily ever after, “Lost” producers told The Reporters Who Cover Television at Winter TV Press Tour 2007.

This was big news, not just for reporters but also for ABC Entertainment President Steve McPherson, who conveyed a “no news here folks” quality when asked about it afterward, saying he'd had no such discussions about announcing an endgame with the show's creators.

 

During the “Lost” Q&A session, the producers noted that the endgame announcement thing had worked really well for “Harry Potter” creator J.K. Rowling, who's said she will wrap up that franchise with book No. 7. But while talking up the endgame notion, the exec producers got all coy, like nice girls on a first date, when reporters asked them how many seasons they thought the show should last. That would be “disrespectful” to the process, Carlton Cuse said, while adding that “The X Files” was “a bit of a cautionary tale ... a great show that probably ran two seasons too long.” That one ran nine seasons.

 

“The most honest answer we can give: 'as long as it's good,'” creator Damon Lindelof said. Yeah, we gagged a bit too.

 

The intrepid reporters hounded Lindelof afterward outside the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel. They surrounded him and tortured him with questions such as, “Did you know both your show and 'Grey's Anatomy' have characters on them named Dr. Burke?”

 

“Yes, but they spell Burke with an 'e,' ” Lindelof said, panic setting in.

 

Finally, he could take no more. He told the mob that because, way back when “Lost” was new, he had said in interviews that he saw this show running 100 episodes, he felt he had to stick with that number. Because, you see, if he now says it should run 140 episodes, he'd look like a weenie. Yes, this is how things are done in Hollywood — the weenie test.

 

One reporter asked Lindelof what “Lost” was about — a reasonable question but not one you usually hear a reporter who's been watching faithfully ask about a show in its third season. “This is a show about people who are metaphorically lost in their lives, who get on an airplane and crash on an island and become physically lost on planet Earth, and once they are able to metaphorically find themselves in their lives again, then they will be able to physically find themselves in the world again,” Lindelof responded. Yup, sounds like 46 more episodes.

 

Of course, ABC can announce “Lost” will end at the close of season No. 6, but there's no knowing whether that actually will happen. Isn't “The Sopranos” heading into its third “final” season?

 

“Dancing With the Stars” is moving to Monday nights when it returns on March 19, to get it out of the way of Fox's “American Idol,” ABC announced.

 

The performance episodes will air every Monday from 8 to 9:30, and the results shows will run Tuesdays from 9 to 10 p.m.

 

ABC has already announced that when “Lost” returns to the landscape, it's moving from 9 to 10 p.m. on Wednesdays to get it out of the path of “American Idol.”

“We wanted people to not have to choose between 'Idol' and 'Dancing,' ” McPherson said. “Our fans would have been upset; 'Idol' fans would have been upset if we just put them head-to-head. We spend a lot of time in this business — broadcast networks — beating up on each other. We think that both shows are good shows and there's room for them on the schedule.”

 

Meanwhile, serialized dramas are out, thank goodness, as new ones have not done well this season because — hang on to your seats — there were too many of them, McPherson said.

 

ABC will develop more dramas that are “procedural or close-ended” for next season.

 

And next season's big TV trend? Escapism.

 

This season's freshman successes are escapist, he said, naming “Ugly Betty” and “Brothers & Sisters” — both on ABC. We'll add NBC's “Heroes.”

 

“I think there is a kind of escapism going on out there. I think you may see a little bit of an adjustment towards that,” he promised. ABC's failed freshman series “The Nine” was a “great show, well cast, well written, well produced, but there is a dour nature to it.”

 

 

 

TV CRITIC
End is near for 'Lost'Fans of ABC's 'Lost' won't have to wait forever to learn the mysteries of the island: Producers say they're working toward a date to end the series.
BY GLENN GARVIN
ggarving@MiamiHerald.com
The producers of the mysterious castaway drama Lost, one of television's biggest hits, are getting ready to pull the plug on the show, they told a gathering of North American television critics here Sunday.

''It's time for us now to find an end point for this show,'' said Carlton Cuse, one of Lost's executive producers. ``It's always been discussed that the show would have a beginning, middle and end.''

Cuse wouldn't say when, precisely, that end will come. But he said Lost's producers are already negotiating with ABC about wrapping up the show.

''We're in the process of figuring that out right now,'' he said.

``It would be disrespectful to the process of those discussions to say this is exactly where it should end right here.''

Another producer, Damon Lindelof, promised a public announcement when the two sides agree on a date.

Because both the producers and ABC executives talked about their packaging plans for the show next season -- they said they want to run episodes for 22 consecutive weeks, instead of splitting the program into fall and winter mini-seasons, as they did this year -- it seems reasonable to assume that Lost (which returns to the air Feb. 7 after a layoff of two months) is safe through the 2007-08 season.

But nobody said a word about a future beyond that.

A ratings powerhouse that helped pull ABC out of the television basement when it debuted in 2004, Lost averages around 18 million viewers a week and is ranked No. 6 in the Nielsen ratings. The thought of losing it probably makes ABC executives swallow bottles of Prozac whole.

But better to end the show too soon than too late, Cuse said.

''The worst thing is when a show ends and nobody cares,'' he said.

``I mean, is anybody really going to care about the end of The O.C.? Because it really ended last season. . . . [The X-Files] was a great show that probably ran two seasons too long.''

At some point, the producers said, they have to explain the various mysteries behind Lost, which is about a group of passengers who survive the crash of their off-course airliner on an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean -- only to discover that it has other, sinister inhabitants, many of whom regard them as tasty snacks.

Answering questions about where the island is, how the airliner got there and what the others are up to -- ''those are sort of series-ending questions,'' said Cuse. ``I think once the mythology of those is made explicit, I think the mystery goes out of the show.''

The producers did offer a clue about the possible resolution of the show's central romantic dilemma: Whether the lovely ex-con Kate will choose the burned-out doctor Jack or the grifter-drifter Sawyer.

''I think the real question,'' said Lindelof, ``is will Kate wind up with zombie-Jack or zombie-Sawyer.''

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Here are some previews for the next half.....

 

 

Preview

 

the first one is WTF is going on, but, the others are intresting. It looks like Kate and Sawyer do end up finding a boat and returning to their island.