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Confirmed! More Lost to be Found by Viewers | Today's News: Our Take | 5/9/2008
Confirming what was previously reported here on TV Guide.com, the next two seasons of Lost will contain 17 new episodes apiece — not 16 as was the previous plan.Simple math tells the whole story. The show's producers planned 16 episodes this season, but only 14 hours will air due to the writers' strike."We were supposed to do 16-16-16," Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof said. "So we owe two."He emphasized the show will not extend beyond its planned finale, scheduled for the climax of the... read more
Jimmy Kimmel Grills the Lost Bosses (Part 2) | TV Show Previews | 4/24/2008
This is part two of funnyman Jimmy Kimmel's interview with Lost producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof. TV Guide sat in on the Q&A as the talk-show host grilled the show's masterminds with his burning questions about how the season — and series — will end.Jimmy Kimmel: Will Walt continue to grow until he's 9, 10, 11 feet tall?Carlton Cuse: That's one of our favorite lines of the whole show: "Who told you that, Taller Ghost Walt?" You know, we had lunch at Arnie Morton's with... read more
More Scoop!! | Lost | 4/23/2008
When do you know that your over-the-top obsession with Lost has reached new heights of madness? When you turn to Jimmy Kimmel for answers, that's when! Click here for Jimmy's interview with Lost executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. Need even more? Check out the Mitovich Mega Minute for some video scoop.See you tomorrow night to chat about the return! read more
Jimmy Kimmel Grills the Lost Bosses (Part 1 of 2) | TV Show Previews | 4/22/2008
When it comes to Lost, Jimmy Kimmel's not f--king around.On a Monday morning earlier this month, the late-night talk-show host arrived on the Disney Studio lot in Burbank tasked with a mission: Grill Lost's executive producers, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, about their massively dissected drama, which returns April 24 to round out its critically hailed fourth season. (We were lucky enough to tag along!) Kimmel, a diehard fan since the pilot, has frequently championed the series on Jimmy... read more
Lost: The Cast's Burning Questions Answered! | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 3/4/2008
"It's no shock to say that Season 4 ends with the Oceanic 6 getting off the island," Lost executive producer Damon Lindelof shares with TV Guide. "The real mystery is how, and what they have to sacrifice, and what happens to the people who didn't leave. You get all that this year." Sounds good, we'll take it. But what other intel are producers willing to spill? To find out, we turned to no, not viewers but to Lost cast members themselves for their own burning questions. Warning! The producers'... read more
Tripping with Lost | Roush Dispatch | 2/29/2008
Lost has been blowing my mind all season with those crazy flash-forwards: Kate's baby is who? Sayid's working for who? But the time-tripping went into overdrive with this week's brilliant episode, concocted by Lost's A-team: Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof on script, Jack Bender directing. Well done, blokes. There hasn't been an off episode yet, and each one feels more amazing than the last.If you've got complaints about time spent away from Ben, Locke, Kate, Sawyer and most of the rest of the... read more
Lost's Damon Lindelof: "Things Have Gotten Ugly" | WGA Post-Strike Watch: News About Returning Shows | 11/12/2007
In a 1,095-word op-ed piece for the New York Times, Lost cocreator/head writer Damon Lindelof weighs in on the WGA strike and "the guild's desire for a portion of revenues derived from the Internet." Lost, for example, "has been streamed hundreds of millions of times [on ABC.com], yet the writers get 'nothing' from the sale of surrounding ad content. We're also a hit on iTunes. Again, we get nothing."Lindelof warns, "If this strike lasts longer than three months, an entire season of television... read more
Ask Matt | 8/17/2007
I respectfully disagree with Craig W.'s suggestion that the Lost reveal "ruin[ed] what was sure to be a shocker of a season," largely because I don't think that Michael's reappearance would have been "one of the biggest surprises on television." For one, anyone who saw the Season 2 finale thought Desmond was gone, but boy has he sure come back! Who was naive enough to believe that we were never going to see Michael again? The only "surprise" is that he is returning as a "regular," but if there... read more
Comic-Con Gives the Fans What They Want | TV Guide News Report | 7/30/2007
At the 38th Annual Comic-Con International, fans of the sci-fi and fantasy genres proved they're no longer on the fringe. The mammoth convention, held this past weekend at the San Diego Convention Center, attracted more than 125,000 people, and in a nod to the fact that the event has gone far beyond comic books, it has billed itself as "celebrating the popular arts." Movie studios and TV networks packed huge rooms with rabid fans eager for exclusive scoop and swag.On the first day it was... read more
ABC at TCA: Lost in Translation | Roush Dispatch | 7/25/2007
Get lost, ABC. That was the hostile undercurrent behind much of the questioning for ABC's entertainment president Stephen McPherson Wednesday morning. We critics can be a surly group, especially this late in the TCA press tour. (ABC has the bad luck to be up to bat on the final two days of the three-week hype-a-thon.) But give us something legitimate to gripe about — in this case, the decision by Lost's producers to skip the TCA and instead address the game-changing events behind Lost's... read more
Heroes Scoop: Cheerleader Exits, D.L. MIA and More! | Ausiello Report | 7/24/2007
Just back from the TCA-sponsored press event on the Heroes set with scoop galore. Let's get right to it.• Lyndsy Fonseca is out as Claire's gay cheerleader pal. No, not out like that. She's out as in, off the show. According to Heroes creator Tim Kring, Fonseca's role had to be cut short after she landed that series-regular gig on Desperate Housewives. "She wasn't a pivotal character," Kring says of Claire's pal, who will now appear in just one episode. "The idea was that that part would... read more
Ask Matt | 6/18/2007
After hearing and reading all of the backlash over the Sopranos finale, it got me thinking: Can a show ever win? It seem read more
Lost Bosses: No Sopranos-style Blackout for Us | Today's News: Our Take | 6/13/2007
OK, you can stop being afraid (let alone being very afraid). Though they both went on record as raving about David Chase's ending for The Sopranos, Lost executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof say the ABC drama won't leave its own fans hanging in any similarly confounding manner come May 2010. "We will not be ending with a blackout," Cuse said Wednesday at the Promax/BDA conference. The duo said they and their writing staff recently fleshed out the final three seasons, including the... read more
Lost Going Cellular | Roush Dispatch | 6/13/2007
I had the good fortune of spending an hour of quality time on stage Wednesday morning with those charming Lost boys, exec producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, moderating a session at the big Promax conference of TV marketers and promoters. (We were on the Grand Ballroom stage of the New York Hilton immediately before the rousing keynote speech delivered by Bill Clinton, but I’d like to think all of those seats — several thousand, it looked to me — were filled for us.)The... read more
TV's Top Writers Assess The Sopranos' Swan Song | Today's News: Our Take | 6/12/2007
Great piece in the New York Times, inviting the writers of other television programs to weigh in on David Chase's bold conclusion to The Sopranos. Among the takes:Damon Lindelof, Lost: "The ending was letter-perfect.... Afterward I went to bed and lay next to my wife, awake, thinking about it for the next two hours. I just thought it was great."Doug Ellin, Entourage: "I'm just speechless. I'm sure there is going to be a lot of heated discussion, but that's David Chase's genius."Chuck Lorre, Two... read more
Ask Matt | 6/1/2007
I seem to recall a certain TV critic saying that Lost would essentially be over the moment they got off the island. Afte read more
Lost in Finite Space | Roush Dispatch | 5/7/2007
Good for Lost, good for ABC, and good for Lost fans, to get the official and long-awaited word of the ultimate endgame for TV's most adventurous and singularly unconventional modern classic of epic escapism.Three more seasons. Not full seasons, mind you. (In other words, no more fall "pods" that leave us unsatisfied and hanging.) Three three-quarter seasons of 16 episodes each, running roughly as Lost did in 2007: uninterrupted, February to May, taking us to a grand finale in May 2010.Three... read more
Lost Finds End Date; Final Seasons to Air Uninterrupted | Today's News: Our Take | 5/7/2007
The spaced-out odyssey will end in 2010. Monday's Hollywood trades are reporting that ABC's Lost will run for 48 more episodes over three seasons, each of which will consist of 16 episodes and air uninterrupted. Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse months ago expressed their desire to set an end date around the 100-episode mark — though this actual plan racks up 119 (a third of which will have only seemed to be Jack flashbacks). They've now signed on to stay on until the... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 4/2/2007
Even in death, Lost's most reviled castaways can't get any peace. In the ABC series' March 28th episode, Nikki (Kiele Sa read more
Lost Boss Explains Last Night's Double Demise | Today's News: Our Take | 3/29/2007
SPOILER ALERT for those who DVR/"videotape" Lost for later playback.... That the producers decided to kill off much-maligned castaways Nikki and Paulo on this week's episode may not have been a shock to fans. But how the greedy, murderous pair died provided one of the biggest twists — and thrills — of the season. (After being paralyzed by spider bites, the not-so-dynamic duo were buried alive — albeit unwittingly — by Sawyer and Hurley.) "People hated them before they even... read more