From tvguide.com: The extended
trailer from Lost's
forthcoming fifth season is upon us — and those crafty folks over at ABC
have created yet another mystery to add to the laundry list by flashing
a subliminal message twice (at the 1:34 and 2:25 mark) within the video set
to The Fray's new video for "You Found Me."
The split second image flashed is a logo for
Ajira Airways which consists of a roaring tiger atop a flaming sun (and
as with Oceanic, a teaser site has been created).
The trailer consists of footage for last season as well as a few select
snippets from the upcoming Season 5 including Sawyer and Juliet holding
hands and Desmond and Penny in bed. See the video
here.
Lost returns on Jan 31st at 9 pm ET/PT. ABC will air a recap special at 8 pm
ET/PT on Jan 31st and will also air the two hour third season finale on Wed Jan
30th at 9 pm ET/PT.
ABC has announced that the airing of the third season finale next
Wednesday night will be an "enhanced" airing, with the bottom third
of the screen being filled with factoids, trivia, and back story
to "enhance" the experience of watching a repeat. It airs at 9 pm
ET/PT on Wednesday, Jan 30th. ABC will also have a recap special at 8 pm
Thursday leading into the new season of Lost at 9 pm ET/PT.
Lost Online Promotion
With Lost returning on Jan 31st (Thursdays at 9 pm ET/PT), ABC
has been making available online Lost: Missing Pieces and has now
put together "Lost in 8:15" and 8 minute, 15 second recap of the
first three seasons. All are available to view at
http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost
From tvweek.com: Where 'Lost' Is Found: Thursdays
Network scheduling decisions normally are routine affairs, but plenty of
media suspense has built up for this announcement: ABC's serialized hit
"Lost" will return Jan. 31 at 9 p.m. That's Thursday night in the slot
currently held by "Grey's Anatomy" (which has only one original episode
left).
"Lost," which has shut down production due to the writers strike, has
eight
completed episodes that reportedly conclude in a cliffhanger.
Lost's night at the Emmys was not supposed to be much. The
nominations were few and fans were already upset that the show wasn't
nominated in the Best Drama category. However, the Lost universe
got a pleasant surprise on Sunday when Terry O'Quinn received the Emmy for
Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of enigmatic John Locke. It was a
well-deserved award, despite the surprise of it all. Plus, we have even more
casting rumors for season 4.
Lost is still months away from returning to our screens, but
there's beginning to be some news trickling in. And, by news, we mean
rumors. The Lost rumors are far more abundant these days than the
actual news, but what can you expect? Things need to be kept secret. Also,
we have some info about the upcoming Lost Season 3 DVD.
Is Lost moving to Mondays? The rumor mill is churning, and that’s the way the winds seem to be blowing, if ABC has the cojones to pull off a big night switch for one of its marquee shows.
Also, every Lost fan has pondered the question over and over in his or her head: How exactly will Lost end? It's a loaded query and the Internet is filled with speculation about how the beloved series will bow out in 2010. We take a look at that question this week on BuddyTV with some speculation of our own. Also, who's suffering from Lost withdrawal this month? We reflect on how long the five months between now and Lost's season 4 premiere are going to seem.
The casting revelations for the fourth season of Lost have quieted down, but the producers have once again lifted their self-imposed "radio silence" to discuss some of the show's recent announcements. Among the topics of discussion were the producers' thought on the new cast members that have been hired, and also what they think of the upcoming Lost video game.
Entertainment Weekly says these five people will be new faces on the
show: Jeremy Davies, Ken Leung, Rebecca Mader, Lance Reddick, and Jeff
Fahey.
According to TV Guide, Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars) is being considered
for a role on "Lost".
DISNEY-ABC TELEVISION GROUP AND SPRINT ANNOUNCE
UNPRECEDENTED MULTI-YEAR AGREEMENT TO OFFER
ENTERTAINMENT, KIDS AND NEWS PROGRAMMING
Sprint Is First Mobile Carrier to Offer On-demand, Full-length Episodes of
Hit Series from ABC Entertainment, including “Desperate Housewives,”
“Grey's Anatomy,” “Lost” and “Ugly Betty,” Beginning with this Week’s
Season Finales --
Sprint Is Also First Carrier to Provide Disney Channel Content
and Debut ABC Mobile, as Two of Its Three New Channels
that Stream Continuous Programming.
The following content is now available for the first time ever on mobile:
* On-demand, full-length episodes of ABC programs, including the hit shows
“Desperate Housewives,” “Grey's Anatomy,” “Lost” and “Ugly Betty”
* A linear channel with content from Disney Channel, the top-rated kids
network
From Yahoo News:
ABC details final three "Lost" seasons By Nellie Andreeva Mon May 7, 6:25
AM ET LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC has set an end date for "Lost."
The Emmy-winning adventure series will run for 48 more episodes over three
seasons. Each season will consist of 16 episodes, which will air
uninterrupted.
"Lost" executive producers/showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, who
have been vocal about setting up an endgame for the show, have signed on to
stay for the remainder of the series' run. Their separate new eight-figure
deals with "Lost" producer ABC TV Studio include their services on the show
as well as multiyear development pacts set to kick in when "Lost" bows out
during the 2009-10 season.
"Due to the unique nature of 'Lost,' we knew it would require an end date to
keep the integrity and strength of the show consistent throughout and to
give the audience the payoff they deserve," ABC Entertainment president
Stephen McPherson said.
Lindelof said having the end point in sight was "incredibly liberating. Like
we've been running a marathon and we actually know where the finish line is
for the first time."
Lindelof and Cuse said they've had "a road map for the series with all the
major mythological milestones and the ending in place" for a while.
"What we didn't know was how long we had to play the story out," Cuse said.
"By defining the endpoint we can now really map out the rest of the series
in confidence."
There will be some puzzle play, too.
"We sort of view "Lost" as a mosaic," Cuse said. "Now there are only 48 more
tiles that go into that mosaic, and we're figuring out, along with all the
other writers, exactly where they all go."
In January, Lindelof and Cuse said that they envisioned the endpoint for
"Lost" around episode 100. The agreement with ABC will bring the total
number of episodes to 120.
Lindelof wrote the pilot for "Lost" with fellow executive producer J.J.
Abrams, and Cuse joined the series in October 2004 shortly after the show
debuted to big numbers.
In addition to its instant commercial success and large following, "Lost"
has enjoyed strong critical acclaim, capped by a best drama series Emmy in
2005 and best drama series Golden Globe in 2006.
While the show's ratings have softened this season -- it is averaging 15.1
million viewers to date -- it is the most recorded show on TV, gaining 18%
more viewers through DVR viewing. It is also a popular draw for streaming
replays on ABC.com, iTunes downloads and DVDs.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
LOST's Season Three Cliff Hanger Will
Center Around...
At the end of
LOST's first season, young Walt was kidnapped at sea
while Jack (Matthew
Fox), Locke (Terry
O'Quinn), Kate (Evangeline
Lilly), and Hurley (Jorge
Garcia) peered into the mysterious depths of the newly blasted-open
hatch. Season two of LOST took the excitement to a whole
new level as Sawyer (Josh
Holloway), Jack, and Kate were abducted by the mysterious 'Others',
while the hatch went into melt down mode, and who can forget the kicker with
those mysterious dudes shivering in some arctic tundra somewhere, waiting
for, and receiving, a signal that apparently gave away the location of the
island. With season three's finale merely a couple of months away,
speculation over what the LOST producers might have in
store to top all of this is already become the buzz of discussion boards
from coast to coast. One detail recently slipped out in the official
LOST magazine that is sure to narrow down that speculation
considerably.
The recent issue of LOST magazine has actually revealed who the big twist
will be centered on. The LOST creative staff has an age old tradition of
naming their big end of season twists. For the past two seasons, they have
gone with the name of Jewish bread products to name the twists, this year
they broke that tradition nick-naming the big secret 'The Snake in the
Mailbox'. This revelation came from co-show runners Damon Lindelof and
Carlton Cuse in a podcast released through ABC earlier this season.
In the magazine, co-executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, are
discussing an unprecedented third Jack flashback. Whether or not the entire
flashback belongs to Jack or not, is unknown, but in discussing it they let
slip that Jack is at the center of 'The Snake in the Mailbox'.
"...we haven't been this excited since we decided at the end of season
one that Walt would be taken. This is Top Secret. It's so secret that
there's a codename -- 'The Snake in the Mailbox'."
And so, what started as a discussion about a particular character's
flashback inadvertently becomes confirmation that this season's major twist
will, in fact, center around that character in particular. Now the big
question is, after having spent some quality time with the others, having
tattoos that say 'he walks among them but isn't one of them', and the
looming revelation that he is Claire's brother, is there enough information
to begin to infer what this mega twist might be about? Oh and don't forget
the many time travel hits.
- Jon Lachonis, BuddyTV Senior Writer
From: tvguide.com
Lost Fans React
Unexpectedly to a Double Death
by Shawna Malcom
Even in death,
Lost's most
reviled castaways can't get any peace. In the March 28th episode, Nikki (Kiele
Sanchez) and Paolo (Rodrigo
Santoro) — who were clumsily introduced at the beginning of season three
and never forgiven for it — were revealed to be diamond-grubbing murderers
who, in one of the series' darkest twists to date, were paralyzed by spider
bites and unwittingly buried alive by show heroes Sawyer and Hurley.
Response to the episode proved bitterly divided, with viewers and online
bloggers falling into two distinctly polarized camps: Those who felt the
episode was an unwelcome disruption to the show's main storyline; and those
who felt it was a clever acknowledgment of fan frustration that amounted to,
as Hurley said, "one of the most awesome hours of television ever." (Among
the episode's many inside jokes: Sawyer's "Who the hell's Nikki?" crack, and
Nikki's plea to Paolo upon seeing dead step-siblings Shannon and Boone:
"Promise me we'll never end up like them.)
For their part, producers say they expected the episode to be "good
watercooler" fodder. "People hated the characters before they even opened
their mouths because it felt like they were crashing the party," says
executive producer
Damon
Lindelof. "The easiest thing would've been to forget they ever happened,
like the cougar on [the second season of] 24. But that's not
Lost."
Instead, he and fellow show-runner Carlton Cuse decided to craft an episode
that would serve as a rejoinder to the character criticism. "The audience
rebelled against Nikki and Paolo [because] we introduced them in a way that
they were supposed to believe they had been there all along," Lindelof says.
"So our response was, 'Well, let's show the audience that they have
been there all along.'" The producers also felt that Sanchez and Santoro
deserved a shot at redeeming themselves. "Rodrigo and Kiele are talented
actors who were being underutilized," Lindelof says. "They deserved their
chance at bat."
While viewers have questioned whether the duo is actually done for,
producers insist Nikki and Paolo won't dig their way out of this one. In
fact, Santoro is already busy with film commitments in his native Brazil,
and Sanchez is shooting an ABC pilot, Football Wives, which is
under consideration for the network's fall schedule.
As for naysayers' claim that the episode was "filler," Cuse hints that Nikki
and Paolo's fates may be a sign of what's to come: "In the progression that
started with Eko's death [earlier this season], there's a sense that the
island ultimately is collecting the souls of people who may not be
redeemable."
Chappie Naveen
Andrews thought TV to film a class jump till he found himself knee-deep in
pulp.
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 3/29/07 – Though his parents are from India,
Naveen Andrews grew up in England and admits his countrymen can be rather
snobby when it comes to films. In fact, the first time Quentin Tarantino and
Robert Rodriguez showed him some films in the Grindhouse genre, Andrews
couldn’t believe what he was seeing.
“I had to be sent to Quentin’s house for this education and was forced to
watch these awful and, I thought, abysmal films,” Andrews told Hollywood
Today. “They were terribly acted and really cheaply made with scenes
missing. There was an English actor who was kind of a doctor scientist chap
and you could see the poor chap was struggling to get through the film. You
could imagine him taking nips from a whiskey bottle between takes and you
felt sorry for him.”
While the films appalled him, Andrews said both Tarantino and Rodriguez
found them “incredibly amusing and were laughing like maniacs”. Taking their
lead, no doubt, Andrews managed to get off his cinematic high horse and get
into his role of Abby in the “Planet Terror” portion of “Grindhouse.”
The highlight of working on the film? Shooting zombies. of course. Andrews
said, “I remember the zombies were covered in sort of special liquid that
when you fired at them they would explode in front of you but continue to
burn. That was a bit of a thrill.”And Andrews even remembered to keep a
couple of keepsakes from the set. “My character
collects body parts and displays them in glass jars. The only thing I kept
was the balls and I gave them to my 15 year-old son,” Andrews
said.“Grindhouse” opens April 6. Andrews can also be seen in “The Brave One”
alongside Terrence Howard and Jodie Foster. “Brave One” centers on a woman
who tries to recover from a brutal attack by seeking vengeance. It hits
theaters September 14.
Lily hated being flight attendant
Malaysia Sun
Thursday 29th March, 2007
(IANS)
'Lost' actress Evangeline Lily
hated being a flight attendant even though it was for a very short time and
says it was the 'worst job' she ever had.
Lily says she hated the job
many women envy and left it after just a month.
Contactmusic.com quoted her as
saying: 'That job has no redeeming qualities. I didn't like the people. I
didn't like the destinations. I didn't like the recycled air, the crappy
food. (Or) the fact that they tell you, before you start your job, to buy
your shoes two sizes too big because your feet swell.'
'Lost' star Daniel Dae Kim to be at Red Cross event
Advertiser Staff
The American Red Cross (Hawaii State Chapter) will hold "Tea at Halekulani"
from 1 to 4 p.m. April 22. All proceeds will go directly to the Hawaii State
Chapter to meet crisis needs of the community and to perpetuate emergency
preparedness education and awareness.
Celebrity buzz: "Lost" actor Daniel Dae Kim will be among the event's
special guests.
A sweet and savory afternoon
tea will be accompanied by a fashion show of the Yves Saint Laurent
spring/summer 2007 collections, with accessories supplied by Tiffany & Co.
There will also be a silent auction.
"Many people do not realize
that the Red Cross is not a government agency. We rely on the generosity of
Hawai'i's people to provide critical services to our community including
compassionate assistance to disaster victims, teaching people how to save
lives, and providing emergency communication between deployed soldiers and
their loved ones. We are very excited about our tea and would like to thank
all of our sponsors and guests for their wonderful contribution to the cause
of humanity," stated Coralie Chun Matayoshi, CEO if the American Red Cross,
Hawaii State Chapter.
Seats for the American Red
Cross Tea at Halekulani can be purchased through the American Red Cross
office, Jaylene Chee at 739-8130 or email cheej@hawaiiredcross.org. Sponsor
tables are also available for $2,500 and $5,000 with individual tickets
available at $250.
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