Get Lost a little longer
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Fans of Lost will be pleased to see the series return to Seven this week (with Grant Bowler guest starring), but even happier to hear the show has been granted an extra hour in its fourth season.
That means instead of a two hour finale in the US, it will be three hours, divided across two screenings (60 + 120). Bonus!
Following the Writers’ Strike, Lost producers wanted to deliver an extra hour feeling anything less than a full three-hour finale would have cheated fans. Word is the draft for the second half of the finale was 80 pages long, which led all parties involved to realise these stories had to be told now!
Significantly, creatives Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse were able to convince the ABC network that the final two hours of this season had to be shown together.
But will Seven grace Aussie fans with a two hour finale? Some finales have been split by Seven across two weeks while American viewers enjoy double-ep closers.
The extra 60 minutes of Lost means Aussie viewers have 8 more hours of the drama this season.
Source: E!Online
4 Responses
Awesome news! A two part finale lasting 3 hours in total is fantastic? I wonder if this will affect episode orders for seasons 5 and 6?
And David, Channel Seven aired the season 3 finale “Through the Looking Glass” as a double episode. The season 2 finale was aired as 2 separate episdoes.
Ryllercoaster, that’s astonishingly bad reviewing if the end of the episode was revealed – but then, that’s why I and many thousands of other Lost fans *always* download the show. It’s not just press spoilers, either – Seven’s own promos regularly either include spoilers or make up plot developments that don’t actually exist. That also goes for their spoiler-central trailers for Dirty Sexy Money throughout Desperate Housewives. Thank goodness for PVRs 🙂
(Speaking of which, I was amused to see Seven advertising this week’s episode as “STARRING BORDER SECURITY’S GRANT BOWLER” as though any of the brain-dead million that watch BS either know or care who narrates the thing!)
As for the finale, it’s a no-brainer what Seven will do. Of *course* they’ll split it into two parts, because they’ve demonstrated quite comprehensively that they have zero respect for the intentions of the creators of the shows they buy.
Josh, what’s the point of an “extra week of Lost” when the extra week is the second half of an episode that’s NOT meant to be split in two with a week in between?
gee thats smart….
i think it would be better to shoow it over two weeks. coz then we get an extra week of lost which is always good
Awesome News!
Just a warning to anybody else who has this week’s Sunday Telegraph “TV Guide” – do NOT read their “review” of this week’s episode of LOST.
The reviewer (who i wont name here) was confused by the show, and figured other people might be, so decided to reveal the final twist of the episode so “you can follow it a little easier”
clap clap.