It’s a much smaller world than it used to be. The
web, of course, is partly responsible. Worldwide television syndication
is another reason. I can watch Black Adder and Mr. Bean here
in the US. In the UK, people can watch LOST and Desperate Housewives.
According to the LOSTpedia, Lost is syndicated worldwide, and has been sold to
over 210 territories, making it the second most popular TV show in the world.
The most popular is CSI, but it is actually more than one show (CSI, CSI: Miami,
CSI: Las Vegas, CSI: New York City).
Today, I can even buy the LOST soundtrack from a Russian website (AllofMP3), copy it to a
Chinese made USB flash drive and play it in my Japanese car.

  Speaking of Russia, LOST is now in it’s second season in Russia.
I just received an email from Ксения (Kseniya),
a 15 year old girl in Russia, and she is a real LOST fan! She tells us that LOST is
known as Остаться ь живых and
it translates roughly to the phrase to survive. Остаться ь живых airs
on the 1st Channel and is currently on episode 19 of season 2 (as of 10/29/2006).

  Kseniya lives in a small town in Russia and her favorite characters are Kate and Jack. She hopes that they get together.
She even has the LOST Season 2 DVD and is ready for Season 3 to start. She thinks that LOST teaches us about life and I have to agree.
LOST is the type of show that makes us all think.

More information:

A popular LOST fansite in Russia is: www.lostfilm.ru.

Airdates of LOST Worldwide

  It’s a much smaller world than it used to be. The
web, of course, is partly responsible. Worldwide television syndication
is another reason. I can watch Black Adder and Mr. Bean here
in the US. In the UK, people can watch LOST and Desperate Housewives.
According to the LOSTpedia, Lost is syndicated worldwide, and has been sold to
over 210 territories, making it the second most popular TV show in the world.
The most popular is CSI, but it is actually more than one show (CSI, CSI: Miami,
CSI: Las Vegas, CSI: New York City).
Today, I can even buy the LOST soundtrack from a Russian website (AllofMP3), copy it to a
Chinese made USB flash drive and play it in my Japanese car.

  Speaking of Russia, LOST is now in it’s second season in Russia.
I just received an email from Ксения (Kseniya),
a 15 year old girl in Russia, and she is a real LOST fan! She tells us that LOST is
known as Остаться ь живых and
it translates roughly to the phrase to survive. Остаться ь живых airs
on the 1st Channel and is currently on episode 19 of season 2 (as of 10/29/2006).

  Kseniya lives in a small town in Russia and her favorite characters are Kate and Jack. She hopes that they get together.
She even has the LOST Season 2 DVD and is ready for Season 3 to start. She thinks that LOST teaches us about life and I have to agree.
LOST is the type of show that makes us all think.

More information:

A popular LOST fansite in Russia is: www.lostfilm.ru.

Airdates of LOST Worldwide

references: Paisley Daily Express, 
Answers.com, holby.tv, Wikipedia

from: TheCustard.TV

The National Television Awards: 

Held at London’s Royal Albert Hall on 31 October, hosted by Sir Trevor McDonald. Aired on ITV1 on 1 November

2006 NOMINEES – shortlist
Actress Sue Cleaver (Eileen Grimshaw, Coronation Street), Billie Piper (Rose Tyler, Doctor Who), Lacey Turner (Stacey Slater, EastEnders), Ursula Holden-Gill (Alice Dingle, Emmerdale), Evangeline Lilly (Kate Austen, Lost)

Actor Bradley Walsh (Danny Baldwin, Coronation Street), David Tennant (Doctor Who), Ross Kemp (Grant Mitchell, EastEnders), Chris Fountain (Justin Burton, Hollyoaks), Matthew Fox (Jack Shephard, Lost)

Daytime Deal or no Deal, Neighbours, The Paul O’Grady Show, This Morning

… Drama Bad Girls, Desperate Housewives, Doctor Who, Lost

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Editor’s note: Deal or No Deal?

references: Paisley Daily Express, 
Answers.com, holby.tv, Wikipedia

from: TheCustard.TV

The National Television Awards: 

Held at London’s Royal Albert Hall on 31 October, hosted by Sir Trevor McDonald. Aired on ITV1 on 1 November

2006 NOMINEES – shortlist
Actress Sue Cleaver (Eileen Grimshaw, Coronation Street), Billie Piper (Rose Tyler, Doctor Who), Lacey Turner (Stacey Slater, EastEnders), Ursula Holden-Gill (Alice Dingle, Emmerdale), Evangeline Lilly (Kate Austen, Lost)

Actor Bradley Walsh (Danny Baldwin, Coronation Street), David Tennant (Doctor Who), Ross Kemp (Grant Mitchell, EastEnders), Chris Fountain (Justin Burton, Hollyoaks), Matthew Fox (Jack Shephard, Lost)

Daytime Deal or no Deal, Neighbours, The Paul O’Grady Show, This Morning

… Drama Bad Girls, Desperate Housewives, Doctor Who, Lost

read more

Editor’s note: Deal or No Deal?

originally published June 25, 2006

  There is a very good podcast interview with Michael
Emerson available from Comic News Insider.
It’s a great interview- funny with some revealing information regarding the making of LOST. One of the funniest
moments came when Emerson brought up the subject of kids and Halloween costumes:
The best compliment I’ve gotten lately… was a friend of my wife’s called to
say that her son was going as Henry Gale for Halloween… to me, what could be better? We’re
going to send him a little picture of Henry for reference purposes: the torn orange shirt, the
arrow bandage…

  So, really! What would we need for a Henry Gale costume?

(1) Torn orange shirt – check Salvation Army thrift stores, closet
(2) gauze bandage – easy!
(3) fake scratches – see instructions here! – reference photo here
(4) fake bruises – see instructions here!
(5) box of Cheerios with Dharma logo – got any milk?

  
Now that LOST is back, we should have plenty of little LOST characters collecting
lots of candy. Jack (with squirt gun, intense look, eyes pointing in different directions): OK Sawyer – give us the candy!

originally published June 25, 2006

  There is a very good podcast interview with Michael
Emerson available from Comic News Insider.
It’s a great interview- funny with some revealing information regarding the making of LOST. One of the funniest
moments came when Emerson brought up the subject of kids and Halloween costumes:
The best compliment I’ve gotten lately… was a friend of my wife’s called to
say that her son was going as Henry Gale for Halloween… to me, what could be better? We’re
going to send him a little picture of Henry for reference purposes: the torn orange shirt, the
arrow bandage…

  So, really! What would we need for a Henry Gale costume?

(1) Torn orange shirt – check Salvation Army thrift stores, closet
(2) gauze bandage – easy!
(3) fake scratches – see instructions here! – reference photo here
(4) fake bruises – see instructions here!
(5) box of Cheerios with Dharma logo – got any milk?

  
Now that LOST is back, we should have plenty of little LOST characters collecting
lots of candy. Jack (with squirt gun, intense look, eyes pointing in different directions): OK Sawyer – give us the candy!

  In a recent podcast, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse
confirmed that there was more than one faction of «Others.»
Apparently, this revelation plus the stunning opening sequence in
the first episode of this season has inspired a song called
There Are Other Others. The song is written by Chris Crabtree
and you can listen to it on his website by clicking here.

There Are Other Others

There are other others
In other places
With other names
And other faces

Some go shoeless
And carry bears
Some bake muffins
In their mystery island timeshare

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  In a recent podcast, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse
confirmed that there was more than one faction of «Others.»
Apparently, this revelation plus the stunning opening sequence in
the first episode of this season has inspired a song called
There Are Other Others. The song is written by Chris Crabtree
and you can listen to it on his website by clicking here.

There Are Other Others

There are other others
In other places
With other names
And other faces

Some go shoeless
And carry bears
Some bake muffins
In their mystery island timeshare

read more

from ABC News Nightline
   Oct. 17, 2006 — In anticipation of the third season of «Lost,» ABC News Senior National Correspondent Jake Tapper sat down with executive producers and writers J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse to talk about the show, the mythologies, and its place in TV history.

  
What follows is an edited transcript of that conversation.

  
JAKE TAPPER: Why do you think «Lost» became such a phenomenon?

  
CARLTON CUSE: We don’t know. We set out to make a show that we thought was cool for us, and you can’t really predict when that’s going to catch fire with the public. But I think that in making a show that was something that we all enjoyed, we violated a lot of rules of television. We have a large and sprawling cast, we have characters who are inherently unsympathetic — there are murderers — we have complicated story lines. Those are all things that intrigued us as storytellers, and I think made the show feel different than other things that have been on the air. And so I think by pleasing ourselves, we ended up creating a show that was a little bit different than things that had come before it.

  
DAMON LINDELOF: When the show came along, the climate of television was made up of procedural dramas, which were great but at the same time you knew what was going to happen next week. And we all loved the idea of going into this territory where anything could happen. And that sort of started to create a buzz and make the audience perk up and say, «Wow, I have to watch this thing.»

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from ABC News Nightline
   Oct. 17, 2006 — In anticipation of the third season of «Lost,» ABC News Senior National Correspondent Jake Tapper sat down with executive producers and writers J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse to talk about the show, the mythologies, and its place in TV history.

  
What follows is an edited transcript of that conversation.

  
JAKE TAPPER: Why do you think «Lost» became such a phenomenon?

  
CARLTON CUSE: We don’t know. We set out to make a show that we thought was cool for us, and you can’t really predict when that’s going to catch fire with the public. But I think that in making a show that was something that we all enjoyed, we violated a lot of rules of television. We have a large and sprawling cast, we have characters who are inherently unsympathetic — there are murderers — we have complicated story lines. Those are all things that intrigued us as storytellers, and I think made the show feel different than other things that have been on the air. And so I think by pleasing ourselves, we ended up creating a show that was a little bit different than things that had come before it.

  
DAMON LINDELOF: When the show came along, the climate of television was made up of procedural dramas, which were great but at the same time you knew what was going to happen next week. And we all loved the idea of going into this territory where anything could happen. And that sort of started to create a buzz and make the audience perk up and say, «Wow, I have to watch this thing.»

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In the first episode of season 3, Kate tells Mr. Friendly
that she isn’t going to shower in front of him. Mr. Friendly laughs and
tells Kate that she isn’t his type.

Of course, everyone knows what we’re supposed to think
about Mr. Friendly, but my first crazed thought was Holy Moley!
Mr. Friendly is a space alien!

We’ve seen how the others are observing everyone as
if they are very foreign and unusual. If «The Others» are human, they
could simply study each other. I first believed that «Henry» was really
from Minnesota, then later, after Sayid dug up the body of the real Henry
Gale, we discovered that his name was probably not Henry and he probably
wasn’t from Minnesota. Now, he tells Jack that his name is Ben Linus and
he has always lived on the island. He also has a way to observe the
world outside the island – an island that incredibly isn’t visible to
the outside world. When the plane broke apart over the island, Ben immediately
sent Goodwin and Ethan to observe any survivors and to pretend to be survivors.

Now, realistically, they probably aren’t really from the far
reaches of space. However, something sets them apart from the rest of humanity.
The mystery, of course, is the question: what is the nature of their separation and how did
they get that way?

In the first episode of season 3, Kate tells Mr. Friendly
that she isn’t going to shower in front of him. Mr. Friendly laughs and
tells Kate that she isn’t his type.

Of course, everyone knows what we’re supposed to think
about Mr. Friendly, but my first crazed thought was Holy Moley!
Mr. Friendly is a space alien!

We’ve seen how the others are observing everyone as
if they are very foreign and unusual. If «The Others» are human, they
could simply study each other. I first believed that «Henry» was really
from Minnesota, then later, after Sayid dug up the body of the real Henry
Gale, we discovered that his name was probably not Henry and he probably
wasn’t from Minnesota. Now, he tells Jack that his name is Ben Linus and
he has always lived on the island. He also has a way to observe the
world outside the island – an island that incredibly isn’t visible to
the outside world. When the plane broke apart over the island, Ben immediately
sent Goodwin and Ethan to observe any survivors and to pretend to be survivors.

Now, realistically, they probably aren’t really from the far
reaches of space. However, something sets them apart from the rest of humanity.
The mystery, of course, is the question: what is the nature of their separation and how did
they get that way?

  There are quite a few LOST fans in the UK and until recently there were
few places to obtain any real LOST memorabilia. EverythingLost.co.uk has
Oceanic boarding passes, character action figures, puzzles, T-shirts,
autographed photos and more.

  There are quite a few LOST fans in the UK and until recently there were
few places to obtain any real LOST memorabilia. EverythingLost.co.uk has
Oceanic boarding passes, character action figures, puzzles, T-shirts,
autographed photos and more.

  Emilie de Ravin was on the Jimmy Kimmel show this October 4. They
discussed the LOST premiere party in Hawaii, drunk LOST actors, ballet
dancing, pregnancy and plastic animatronic babies. Here are a few of the
highlights:

  
Kimmel: Just tell me which of the cast members will be the next to get
a DUI… have you guys learned to now get drivers?

de Ravin: (laughing) That’s probably the next step!

Kimmel: Well, it should have been the next step about 3 of them ago!

Kimmel: You trained to be a ballet dancer in Australia… What are people in the
world of ballet like?

de Ravin: … young talented type A personality people… such a world of discipline
– you have to be so focused on one specific thing at quite a young age.

Kimmel: Like Harry Hamlin and Jerry Springer on Dancing with the Stars.

de Ravin: (laughing) Exactly like that!

Kimmel: You were pregnant on Roswell as well.

de Ravin: Not showing… alien child.

Kimmel: (puzzled expression)… we need someone who looks like they’re
pregnant. Let’s get someone who weighs 85 pounds!

during a discussion about fake babies, animatronic babies and extra babies while
filming movies, Kimmel reveals to a shocked de Ravin that there were actually about
6 Olsen twins! – note: the baby on LOST is not always real!

  
Also revealed during the show: Emilie will appear next in the third episode of Season 3.

  
There were about 15,000 people at the LOST premiere party in Hawaii!

  Emilie de Ravin was on the Jimmy Kimmel show this October 4. They
discussed the LOST premiere party in Hawaii, drunk LOST actors, ballet
dancing, pregnancy and plastic animatronic babies. Here are a few of the
highlights:

  
Kimmel: Just tell me which of the cast members will be the next to get
a DUI… have you guys learned to now get drivers?

de Ravin: (laughing) That’s probably the next step!

Kimmel: Well, it should have been the next step about 3 of them ago!

Kimmel: You trained to be a ballet dancer in Australia… What are people in the
world of ballet like?

de Ravin: … young talented type A personality people… such a world of discipline
– you have to be so focused on one specific thing at quite a young age.

Kimmel: Like Harry Hamlin and Jerry Springer on Dancing with the Stars.

de Ravin: (laughing) Exactly like that!

Kimmel: You were pregnant on Roswell as well.

de Ravin: Not showing… alien child.

Kimmel: (puzzled expression)… we need someone who looks like they’re
pregnant. Let’s get someone who weighs 85 pounds!

during a discussion about fake babies, animatronic babies and extra babies while
filming movies, Kimmel reveals to a shocked de Ravin that there were actually about
6 Olsen twins! – note: the baby on LOST is not always real!

  
Also revealed during the show: Emilie will appear next in the third episode of Season 3.

  
There were about 15,000 people at the LOST premiere party in Hawaii!

from The London Free Press

  London-raised cult TV expert Nikki Stafford is finding herself totally and happily Lost these days.

Stafford’s new book, Finding LOST: The Unofficial Guide (ECW Press) was launched yesterday in Toronto and she has been feted with Lost questions by CTV’s eTalk entertainment newsmagazine.

Finding Lost is on the shelves just as its subject Lost, the ABC hit which airs on CTV in Canada, returns tonight at 9 p.m.

Stafford has been interviewed more than a dozen times in recent days by media outlets feeding on the Lost frenzy.

Stafford is the cult TV expert identity of a London writer and editor who now lives in Toronto. She is the author of other books on cult television shows, including Bite Me! An Unofficial Guide to the World of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The London region launch for Finding Lost is at the Central Library, 251 Dundas St., Nov. 4 at

11 a.m., when Stafford will be on hand.

Never at a loss when it comes to her hometown, Stafford shared her hopes and predictions for the third season of Lost with The Free Press.

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