Lost (TV series)
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| Genre | Drama Thriller Science fiction Adventure Mystery |
| Created by | Damon Lindelof J.J. Abrams Jeffrey Lieber |
| Composer(s) | Michael Giacchino |
| Country of origin |  |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 79 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Damon Lindelof Carlton Cuse Bryan Burk Jack Bender J. J. Abrams |
| Location(s) | Oahu, Hawaii |
| Running time | approx. 43 min. |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV), 720p (HDTV) ABC HD, 1080i (HDTV) Sky HD, Premiere HD |
| Original run | September 22, 2004 – present |
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| Official website | |
| Production website | |
| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
Lost is an American television series that follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a tropical island, somewhere in the South Pacific. Each episode has a story from a character's past or future. The show was created by J. J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, and Jeffrey Lieber. It is mostly filmed in Oahu, Hawaii.[1] The first episode was shown on September 22, 2004.[2] Since then, three seasons have aired. The show is produced by ABC Studios, Bad Robot Productions and Grass Skirt Productions and airs on the ABC Network in the United States. Because of its large cast and the cost of filming in Hawaii, the series is one of the most expensive on television.[3]
Lost had an average of 15.5 million viewers per episode on ABC during its first year, and won many awards including the Emmy Award for outstanding drama series in 2005[4] and best American import at the British Academy Television Awards also in 2005.[5]
In May 2007 it was announced that Lost will continue for a fourth, fifth, and sixth year, with the final episode showing in May 2010. The announcement said that three final seasons will each have 16 episodes, running weekly in the spring without repeats.[6][7] Season 4 began airing January 31, 2008. When the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike began, only 8 of the planned 16 episodes had been filmed. After the writer's strike was resolved, it was announced that only 5 of the remaining 8 episodes in season 4 will be filmed. It is expected that the 3 missing episodes will be added to seasons 5 and 6.[8]
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[change] Story
[change] Season 1
Season 1 began in the United States on September 22, 2004 and had 24 episodes[9] that aired Wednesdays at 8:00 pm. After a plane crash on an island that seems empty, the surviving passengers of Oceanic Flight 815 must work together to stay alive. They are threatened by mysterious beings including polar bears, an unseen creature, and the other people living on the island, known as the "Others." They meet a Frenchwoman who has been on the island for 16 years and find a mysterious metal hatch (door) buried in the ground. They try to leave the island on a raft.
[change] Season 2
Season 2 had 23 episodes and aired in the United States and Canada on Wednesdays at 9:00 pm starting September 21, 2005. Most of the story, which continues 45 days after the crash, focuses on the growing conflict between the survivors and the Others. New characters are introduced, including the tail-section survivors and other island inhabitants. The hatch is explored and The DHARMA Initiative and the Hanso Foundation are introduced. One of the crash survivors betrays the other castaways, and the cause of the plane crash is revealed.
[change] Season 3
Season 3 had 22 episodes that began airing in the United States and Canada on October 4, 2006 on Wednesdays at 9:00 pm. After a break, the show returned on February 7, 2007 and aired at 10:00 pm.[10] The story continues 67 days after the crash. New crash survivors and Others are introduced. The crash survivors learn about the Others and their history on the island. A war between The Others and the survivors begins, and the survivors make contact with a rescue team.
[change] Season 4
Season 4 was planned to have 16 episodes, but because of the Writers Guild of America strike it only had 14. It began airing in the United States on January 31, 2008 and concluded on May 29, 2008. The story continues 93 days after the crash.
[change] Cast
[change] Current
These characters have regular appearances on the show.
- Naveen Andrews – Sayid Jarrah
- Henry Ian Cusick – Desmond Hume
- Emilie de Ravin – Claire Littleton
- Michael Emerson – Ben Linus
- Matthew Fox – Jack Shephard
- Jorge Garcia – Hugo "Hurley" Reyes
- Josh Holloway – James "Sawyer" Ford
- Daniel Dae Kim – Jin-Soo Kwon
- Yunjin Kim – Sun-Hwa Kwon
- Evangeline Lilly – Kate Austen
- Elizabeth Mitchell – Juliet Burke
- Terry O’Quinn – John Locke
- Tania Raymonde - Alexandra "Alex" Rousseau or Linus
[change] Former
These characters were main characters at one point of the show and are now no longer shown or shown only in flashbacks.
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje - Mr. Eko
- Andrew Divoff - Mikhail Bakunin
- M. C. Gainey - Tom
- Maggie Grace - Shannon Rutherford
- Malcolm David Kelley - Walt Lloyd
- William Mapother - Ethan Rom
- Dominic Monaghan - Charlie Pace
- Harold Perrineau - Michael Dawson
- Michelle Rodriguez - Ana Lucia Cortez
- Ian Somerhalder - Boone Carlyle
- Cynthia Watros - Libby
[change] References
- ↑ ABC's 'Lost', about the show
- ↑ Pilot: Part 1
- ↑ Ryan, Tim. "High filming costs force ABC network executives to consider relocating", Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 26-1-2005.
- ↑ Emmys.tv
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ "Lost" set for three more years, Variety.com, May 6, 2007
- ↑ A Map for 'Lost', Entertainment Weekly
- ↑ Dos Santos, Kristin, (February 12, 2008) "The Return of Mother, Life and, Oh Yeah, Lost", E!.
- ↑ ABC.com: Lost Episode Guide. ABC.com. Retrieved on 10 October 2006.
- ↑ Lost website
[change] Other websites
- ABC - Lost Official Wiki
- ABC - Lost Official Podcast
- Official Lost Season 1 website
- Official ABC streaming video site - Lost Season 3 to-date Episodes available
- Network sites
- CTV - Lost (Canada)
- Channel 7 - Lost (Australia)
- Lost (UK Series 1 and 2) at Channel4.com
- Sky One - Lost (UK Series 3 and 4) at sky.com
- RTÉ Two - Lost (Ireland)
- Lost (Germany)
- Sponsored forum
- The Fuselage: forum sponsored by J.J. Abrams
- Official tie-in sites
- The Hanso Foundation: fictional foundation behind the DHARMA Initiative
- Oceanic Airlines: fictional airline whose crashed Flight 815 is the subject of the series
