With only two episodes of “Sons of Anarchy” remaining, “Mad Men” in mothballs until August, and “Friday Night Lights” relegated to DirecTV until next summer, we’re running dangerously low on quality dramas right now (Sorry, I don’t watch “Dexter.” File your complaint here). But at least something closer on the horizon: ABC has finally set a premiere date for the sixth and final season of “Lost.”
ABC confirmed that Lost will kick off its sixth and final season with a two-hour premiere on Tuesday, Feb. 2 from 9-11 pm. The requisite recap special will start things off at 8 pm. The following week, Lost will settle into its regular Tuesday-9 pm perch. [EW]
Below the jump I’ve got the updated cast list and the super-sized season 6 poster, but that’s stuff that not everybody cares about, and I didn’t want to lose anyone’s attention before I made it clear that I’m still available if Evangeline Lilly is looking. Good Lord, there isn’t another woman on television who looks that so covered in dirt and wearing torn clothes. She’d be right at home in my basement.
J.J. Abrams is obviously a creative force in Hollywood right now. He created “Lost” and directed Star Trek, both of which are excellent. He’s responsible for “Fringe,” which isn’t really my style but a lot of people like it. And he produced The Blair Godzilla Project Cloverfield, for which he deserves to be punched in the genitals. All of these projects have appealed to more genre-savvy fans (read: geekwads), but Abrams is bucking that label by developing a medical comedy for Fox.
Fox has given a presentation order to a half-hour project from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Prods. and Warner Bros. TV. Bad Robot is keeping mum on the details of the untitled show, which is described only as a “medical comedy.” Mike Markowitz ["Becker"] is penning the script and will exec produce along with Abrams and Bad Robot’s Bryan Burk. [Variety]
The medical drama field is crowded with stalwarts “Grey’s Anatomy” and “House” as well as “Private Practice” and newcomers “Trauma,” “Miami Trauma,” “Mercy,” “Three Rivers” and “Hawthorne.” But there is room for medical comedies, with ABC’s veteran “Scrubs” and Showtime’s freshman dramedy “Nurse Jackie” the only players. [THR]
I don’t know… I guess I should be hopeful that Abrams takes this tired-ass genre in a new direction. But I swear to God, if there’s a sassy nurse who knows better than the doctors I’m going to break J.J.’s stylish spectacle and ram ‘em up his ass. My suggestion: Matthew Fox reprises his role as Dr. Jack Shephard. It’s funny because he has a drinking problem!
I don’t think I’ve said a word yet about ABC’s “Flash Forward,” which is a shame, because it’s one of the fall’s most promising new series. Starring Joseph Fiennes as a recovering alcoholic FBI agent who tries to piece together a mysterious worldwide catastrophe, and featuring all sorts of well known faces (like Dominic Monaghan, Courtney B. Vance, Rachel Roberts, and Jane from “Mad Men”), “Flash Forward” is everything that “NCIS: Los Angeles” is not. Condensed from Wikipedia:
A global event causes most people to simultaneously experience, for two minutes and seventeen seconds, his or her life six months in the future. When it is over, many are dead in accidents involving vehicles, aircraft, and any other device needing human control. Everyone who survived is left wondering if what they saw will actually happen.
Apart from the various catastrophic visions, people also see themselves relapsing into various former vices, such as Benford seeing himself drinking again, and his wife Olivia has a vision of herself with another man.
I just got done watching the first 18 minutes on Hulu (sorry Canadians), and I have to say, it looks pretty cool. ABC’s definitely trying to catch the “Lost” crowd, as the first scene echoes the opening scene from the “Lost” pilot — and there’s even a billboard for Oceanic Airlines in the background in a later scene.
It’s pretty intriguing to see what kind of pandemonium would ensue if everyone just passed out for two minutes. Hard to comprehend for someone like me. “What… what happened? I must have lost consciousness. Oh no, I missed the rest of that YouTube video!” **clicks on ‘replay video’, puts hand down pants**
ABC.com will roll out a fake documentary about the Dharma Initiative, the mysterious research program that settled the island decades before the characters on the show crash-landed there.
Mysteries of the Universe: The Dharma Initiative is a five-part short-form series that debuts on ABC.com on August 4 in the build up to the sixth and final season of Lost later this year.
The online ‘documentary’ is set in the early 1980s and attempts to “uncover the truth about the shadowy organisation” through interviews, research and eyewitness accounts.
Really, “Lost” fans? You guys aren’t actually going to watch this, are you? I mean, I’m cool with you watching the show — it’s a good show — but does fandom really run that deep? An online fake documentary. Before you watch it, I want you to do one thing: think back to when you were a kid and try to remember what you wanted to be when you grew up. If “Comic Book Guy” from the Simpsons is your answer, then go ahead and watch it.
Holy crap. “Lost” had a dozen people working for four months to come up with the show’s 1-hour presentation at Comic-Con this weekend. I’ve never worked on anything for four months. Except for one particularly difficult word search. From the New York Times:
That hourlong show, complete with scripted comedy routines and 13 glossy original videos, took a dozen people four months to produce. The budget for song rights, props and actor travel alone was $25,000.
Planning for the “Lost” presentation at Comic-Con, which concluded on Sunday, started in early April with meetings about what kind of Easter eggs, or hidden clues, to include about the program’s sixth and final season. Then came the writing and taping of videos, some of them starring cast members, that would deliver those hints. Producers worked to obtain song rights. Travel logistics needed to be arranged for five actors and their entourages. “We really want the fans to leave feeling satisfied,” Damon Lindelof, a “Lost” executive producer, said last Tuesday during a final planning session.
I don’t want to take away from all their hard work and slick execution, but let’s be honest: You can shoot a 45-minute video of Evangeline Lilly and Josh Holloway making out in the span of an afternoon, and that crowd would have been equally satisfied. “Hey guys! Do you want clues to what happens in the final season, or do you want… KATE IN A BIKINI?!?!?!?”
Video highlights after the jump. Not recommended unless you’re a big fan of the show. Read the rest of this entry »
Just as “Battlestar Galactica” auctioned off Tricia Helfer’s red dress and a full-size Raptor spacecraft, so too will “Lost” auction off its famous props to men prone to bouts of profuse sweating and heavy breathing when they climb a flight of stairs.
Want to buy Hurley’s winning Lotto ticket? How about Charlie’s guitar, or Locke’s hunting knife, or young Sawyer’s letter to the man who destroyed his family?
With the final season of “Lost” coming next year, ABC is auctioning off these and other iconic props, set pieces, costumes and collectors’ artifacts from the show to the highest bidder. There will be a special sneak preview of the items at the San Diego Comic-Con convention, which gets underway Thursday. Mr. Eko’s club and Kate’s obsessively chased toy plane are also up for grabs. [The Live Feed]
Oh, c’mon. Don’t be coy, ABC. Is it too much to ask for Kate’s underwear? What about Jack’s sweat-stained shirt? Ooh! Or Sawyer’s beard trimmings?!?! I’ve heard those have healing properties.
