…because, according to TVGuide.com’s calculations, Lost will start shooting in Hawaii at the end of August, and V - the new show she is part of - will begin shooting in Vancouver earlier in that month. Add that with the extra hour Lost’s final season is getting, and you can expect her to show up somewhere towards the end of the series.
Lost’s sixth and final season will get 17 episodes, all right, but ABC reps just confirmed to Zap2it the season in question will run for 18 hours, rather than 17. So, sure, a two-hour series finale is very much a given, but in season 5, that two-hour finale was technically two episodes. Just a thought…
The Lost panel at this year’s Comic-Con would be more than just writers and actors answering questions. “We’ve been working on the Lost panel for literally months,” ABC’s marketing executive veep Mike Benson told The Hollywood Reporter. “We want the audience to experience Lost in a fully entertaining way.” That’d mean specially-shot footage and guests popping up on July 25 from 11am-12nn.
OK, that headline might be a bit misleading. I and many others speculated at the end of season 5 that Jacob, played by Mark Pellegrino was God, but now it turns out Pellegrino is the Devil.
The actor who made a huge impact on Lost was just cast as Lucifer….on the CW’s Supernatural. EW.com’s Michael Ausiello confirmed this fact, though it’s unclear if this means Jacob is dead for real on the Island, or if he’s dead like Christian Shephard, who keeps coming back.
On the bright side, this means if you can’t wait until January for the final season of Lost, the CW’s Thursday nights feature Ian Somerhalder at 8pm in The Vampire Diaries and now Pellegrino as 9pm on Supernatural, so it’s double the Lost star action.
E! Online reports that Dominic Monaghan’s been spotted having breakfast with Lost showrunner Damon Lindelof somewhere in Los Angeles. No big deal, at first glance, but surely most of you will think of this as further proof that Charlie Pace is returning for the final season, so… what gives?
A Bolivian television station and a Dutch radio station thought they had exclusive footage from within the ill-fated Air France Flight 447, which crashed on the Atlantic Ocean - but not before, at least some speculate, it broke up in mid-air - early this month. The Dutch said the photos, given to them by a tipster, were “reliable”. The Bolivians took the photos and made an entire segment on a news program thinking they got a world exclusive.
Too bad they don’t watch Lost.
After all that speculation over the past weeks…
Well, at least from Variety, who highlighted the performances of Alan Dale and Michael Emerson, as part of their coverage of Emmy season.
On Alan: “On a show as captivating as Lost, you need someone who represents pure evil, and Dale’s take on Charles Widmore seems to be filling that role nicely.”
On Michael: “There’s never been any confusion or complaints about Emerson’s masterful work as the calculating Ben … Can’t wait to see how he plans to wrest control of the island castaways in the upcoming final season.”
Because he didn’t submit his name. That was easy.
On Friday the official ballot for this year’s Emmy Awards was sent out to voters, and one name conspicuyously absent is that of former Emmy winner Terry O’Quinn, aka John Locke. It’s unclear whether he purposefully withdrew his name like Katherine Heigl famously did on Grey’s Anatomy or if he just forgot to submit the required paperwork, but either way, Terry O’Quinn will definitely not have to wake up early when the Emmy nominations are announced.
This is actually great news for the otherwise crowded Supporting Actor contenders, especially on Lost. Michael Emerson, Jeremy Davies and even Josh Holloway have all been spectacular and without O’Quinn, there might be one more spot to bgrab a nomination.
As for other potential Emmy nominees, the rest of the cast is submitted, with Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly as the only two leads despite the fact that Josh Holloway was more of a leading man this season than Fox as far as I’m concerned.
For the guest acting categories, the only actors from Lost submitted are Sterling Beaumon (aka Young Ben), Alan Dale (aka Charles Widmore) and Lance Redddick (aka Matthew Abaddon). Interestingly enough, that means the fantastic Fionnula Flanagan didn’t submit herself as Mrs. Hawking and Mark Pellegrino’s wonderful performance as Jacob isn’t eligible either.
A strong, buzzed about season and the fact that the main categories are all expanded to six nominees this year means that Lost is a strong contender for another Drama Series nomination, and the Supporting Actor race is also likely to see one or two Lost men nominated. Currently, I’d say Emerson and Davies are strong contenders for nominations given how important their characters were.
Fans will certainly remember this True Blood and Deadwood star as Oldham, the DHARMA torturer who tried to get Sayid to reveal his true allegiance in season 5. In our recent interview with Sanderson promoting the new season of HBO’s True Blood, premiering June 14, I asked him about his guest role on the show and whether there’s a possibility of seeing more of DHARMA’s version of Sayid.
“Well, they never said anything differently. A few years ago they had talked to my agent and were giving me dates and promised - or implied - that I would be doing a recurring role. Well, that didn’t happen, so the fact that it came around again for me to do a different role, I was very grateful. I said, “Well, they don’t hate me.” But they did not say anything about doing another role and I hate that because when they do it, sometimes they promise you, “This might recur” and it just messes yourhead up. Just a one time thing as far as I know.”
