Flash forward programming for Lost

More news on the shifting season/s of Lost.

The final instalment of the fourth season is due to air as 2 hours in the US on Thursday May 29 (roughly midday AEST Friday May 30). By skipping the week of May 22 in the US, production has thwarted Seven’s clear run to the end of the season. It means there will be a week off on May 22 in Oz, replaced by one hour of Family Guy.

And that’s without knowing if Seven will cut the 2 hours across 2 weeks.

“The finale this year will not be as tricky as last year,” co-creator Damon Lindelof said. “Hopefully, this year it’s a little bit more of a straightforward action-adventure narrative. But the ending of the episode will hopefully engage and intrigue people looking forward to the next season of the show.”

Lindelof declined to say whether the flash forwards will continue, but did leave open the possibility of the show’s main story line on the island catching up with the flash forwards that have taken place on the mainland this season.

“It’s very exciting that the audience is going to be wondering when is the present going to be (next season),” he said. “We’ve moved backward in time, now we’ve moved forward in time. The present of the show has always been on the island — that may not necessarily be the case in the future.”

And finally producers have added an extra hour to the fifth and sixth series, to make up for the strike disruption.

“We were supposed to do 16-16-16,” Lindelof said. “But we ended up doing 14 this season, so we owe two.”

Source: Hollywood Reporter