Caffeinated Clint
Another 48 episodes and it’ll all be over!
Personally, I don’t really see this as news.
I mean, “Lost” ending in 2009… is that really news to anyone? The show’s been on a downward spiral since it started, and personally, I thought the castaways might’ve all been gobbled up by the black shit a lot sooner than 2-3 years time. The ratings have been dipping significantly in the states (though, granted, it’s still one of the top 15 shows each and every week), so much so that some even suspected this might be the last season of the one-time next big thing on the box.
But nope, ABC is so confident in J.J Abrams’ Gilligan’s-Island-for-Geeks that they’ve given him another three years to explain just ‘what the fuck is going on’ over there on the island-that-looks-suspiciously-like-Jurassic-Park (which it is, of course).
The series will now wrap after the production of 48 additional episodes that will be divided into three, shortened 16-episode seasons. The final episode — the show’s 119th — will air during the 2009-10 season, says Variety.
In conjunction with the advance order, “Lost” showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have inked hefty new multi-year overall deals with ABC Television Studio to continue with the series until the end.
Lindelof and Cuse had wanted “Lost” to end after two more seasons. They’re essentially still getting their wish: The 48 episodes they’ll produce over the next three years is the same number the show produced during its first two seasons.
Cuse confirmed that devising an exit strategy for “Lost” was key to reupping with ABC Television Studio.
“In making this deal, Damon and I had two priorities: defining an end point for the show and keeping the quality bar high,” Cuse said. “To do that we are both fully committed to the day-to-day running of the show right up until the very end. It’s also why the 16 episodes per year was key for us. Because our show is so mythological, and because, unlike ’24,’ we can’t reset each season, we need the extra time fewer episodes affords us to really plan out the specifics of our storytelling.”
So something to look forward to – an answer to that age-old question, “how the fuck does Sawyer’s hair and beard remain so damn groomed on that island? And why doesn’t anyone complain of Hurley’s BO?’
