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When I wrote my print TIME feature on the end of Lost, one section I had to drop for space had to do with how much money ABC was asking for ads in the finale—reportedly $900,000 a pop—even though Lost was not close to the highest-rated program on TV. That fact points to something that has potential to shape the business, and thus …
In this age of DVR, Hulu and TiVO, live TV events are increasingly rare. But advertisers are betting on the fact that fans of Lost are going to be tuned in live May 23, for the much-anticipated final episode. And when we say betting, we mean betting big.
AdAge is reporting that a 30-second commercial spot during the Lost finale is …
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Variety is reporting what has been whispered around the TV business for a while: this will be the final season for 24 on Fox. The show has been losing viewers and critical acclaim for a while, and it’s expensive to produce; after eight seasons, there’s apparently not enough upside.
This may not be the end of Jack Bauer entirely; there’s …
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I’m on the road for the next couple days and away from my beloved TiVo, so I missed last night’s Big Love and won’t be able to catch up on it. I’ve been detecting some dissatisfaction with the show in the Twitterverse, however, and figured the Big Lovers, or Big-Love-to-Haters, here might like to hash it out themselves today. I’ll try to …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, pour yourself a big old scotch, put some pants on and go watch last night’s Lost.
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, take a quick taxi ride and watch last night’s Lost.
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I’ve been waiting for the Internet to do this for me, and now it has: someone has stitched together a side-by-side video of the initial airplane scene from the pilot of Lost and the just-ever-so-different version from the season 6 premiere. Now you can review the two like one of those puzzles in the old Highlights for Children magazine, …
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Because you should always endeavor to do exactly what I’m doing, this would be a good time to go back and re-watch Lost’s pilot in preparation for the season debut next Tuesday.
You can have plenty of fun looking back and seeing, in retrospect, how much foreshadowing there is in those two hours …
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This new ad for the final season of Lost aired on ABC. For the particularly spoiler sensitive, I’ll save my impressions of what I see in it for after the jump…
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While I’m otherwise occupied, you must, must, must read the first installment of Maureen Ryan’s lengthy interview with Damon Lindelof and Carleton Cuse as a walk-up to the Feb. 2 final-season premiere of Lost. No spoilers, no plot-heavy interrogation: instead, thankfully, Ryan got the producers to engage in a really thoughtful …
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The Wrap reports that The White House is considering as possible dates for the State of the Union address a Tuesday: either Jan. 26… or Feb. 2. You might know Feb. 2 as Groundhog Day—or as the date of the two-hour premiere of the final season of Lost.
By tradition—though not by requirement—SOTU speeches are held on Tuesday. Most …
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I may be on vacation, but that doesn’t mean that I’m not working. Depending on how you define “work.” As I write this, I’m already looking at a tall stack of screeners to watch for midseason 2010 (including Big Love, 24 and Chuck for January). And there’s quite a roster of high-profile new projects for 2010 already. After the jump, I …
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Last October, Maureen Ryan, Alan Sepinwall and I met at John’s pizzeria in midtown Manhattan to divide the globe among our respective empires a margherita pie and talk about TV. Mo Ryan went to the trouble of recording and transcribing the convo and is posting it in three parts. (The Library of Congress will be after this recording, …
