Lost (TV series)

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Lost

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
Production
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
Other websites
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]

1 Story
2 Cast
- 2.1 Current
- 2.2 Former
3 References
4 Other websites

[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

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Lost

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

Category: Drama television series