Good news concerning Lost always comes with some sort of downside. We found out the show was going to be given an ending, but we’d only get 16 episodes a season. Then after the strike we found out the show was coming back, but only for five more episodes.
Now we get awesome news that there will be a 14th hour added this season, but we’re going to have to endure a week off before we get to watch it.
Here’s the full scoop, thanks to the Ausiello Report:
The season finales of Lost, Grey’s Anatomy and Ugly Betty were all scheduled to take place on May 22nd. We’d get the original part 1 of the Lost finale on May 15th, then the second part on May 22nd.
As we told you a few day ago, the Lost producers have been begging ABC for an additional hour to finish the season, because otherwise it was going to feel too rushed. ABC had no problems with it, but the scheduling conflict on May 22nd posed a problem.
So this is how it got fixed:
Lost will get a 14th hour, but it will now air as part of a two-hour finale on May 29th, with no episode being shown on the 22nd. The reason they did this was because of the other two shows already having their finales on the 22nd, thus not allowing a fourth hour of TV to be shown that night.
The bonus, or good side in all of this, if you are a Grey’s Anatomy fan, is that because of the great ratings they are having as well, an additional hour will be shown for their finale on the 22nd.
So to break it down:
May 15th:
- Ugly Betty
- Grey’s Anatomy
- Lost: Season finale part 1
May 22nd:
- Ugly Betty
- Grey’s Anatomy: Two hour season finale
May 29th:
- Lost encore: Season finale part 1
- Lost: Two hour conclusion
So while we get awesome news, we’re going to have to go a week without Lost once again. Always a downside.
On a side note, I wonder how this last minute scramble to film additional hours will be for the two series. I guess there is about a month and a half left until they air, but that seems to be cutting it pretty close.
From the Ausiello Report, this news will bode well for us Lost fans for another reason:
(There is a spoiler below, so do NOT read on from here if you don’t want to know something about the season finale)
“We are very excited and grateful to [ABC president] Steve McPherson for working out the scheduling difficulties to allow us to make the second part of our finale two hours,” says exec producer Carlton Cuse. “Damon and I were working on the script and we just couldn’t get it all done in one hour without shortchanging the story. Now the finale will have all the sweep and emotional completeness we wanted it to have â€â€? along with, of course, answering who’s in the coffin.”
Can’t wait.
I don’t mind waiting a week for a two hour finale. Heck, I might skip the 15th and watch three hours on the 29th just so I don’t forget anything.
And I don’t really think that’s a spoiler in the quote. They’ve been telling anyone who will listen that they would tell us that information by the end of this season. Now if YOU had given us the information - that would be a spoiler…
You already mentioned an extra hour of Lost, but now McDreamy too!?!?!? Nah, I’m still not gonna watch Greys
What am I going to do in June when all the great shows are gone and replaced with reality TV??? I guess I’ll have to start watching DVDs of Battlestar Galactica like a good wife should.
See. People can learn things by reading Pop Critics.
@Ana Start watching??!?!? Start watching!?!?! Step away from the keyboard and go turn on BSG DVD’s
Ana, my wife and I just finished watching ALL of BSG so she could catch up…soooooooooooooooooooo worth it
Wowsers!! You guys finished Mo?? Give Jina a hi5 for me!! Thats great…
She catch both season 4 episodes already too?
Yeah, we watched those last night….
Only thing she hasn’t seen is Razor, and not sure she cares too much about the Pegasus to watch it
Now you guys are talking in a foreign tongue…Razor? Pegasus? Sounds to geeky for my time. It’s too valuable to be spent on something called Razor and Pegasus.
G A S P!!! Doesnt care about the Pegasus!?!?!?! Razor was way cool arama though, AND it filled in some blanks quite nicely… once she saw it I bet she would be glad…
@Ana..Pegasus(es?) are pretty little winged horses how could you not want to watch it now!!
Ana, sometimes I feel like I don’t know you at all…
Ana…. as another Pop Critic wife, I just do what I can. Nothing more.
And yes, now I am fully caught up. Of course, my life has been on hold for two weeks, as we watched BSG in every available minute. Mike doesn’t have clean socks but seems content nonetheless. Ah, the miracle of the gods.
Well, she did just find out that some of the Cylons look like humans…she has a LOT of catching up to do.
“Ah, the miracle of the gods.”
I love my wife
What the Cylons look like humans? Next you will be telling me they were created by man!
The Cylons are a cybernetic civilization at war with the Twelve Colonies of Humanity…They were originally created by the humans as robotic workers and soldiers. This, however, greatly differs from the 1978 Cylons who were an advanced reptilian race who created robots to serve them…Thank you very much!
There are many copies… and they have a plan…
Um, Mike, I think Jina needs to rewatch all three previous seasons, post-haste.
HaHa - My experimental mind control experiments involving brain washing are finally working! I knew if I kept repeating that over and over Ana would eventually learn it…
I have no problem with that
The extra hour will definitely be worth having to wait an extra week to see the finale.
this works out really well for us! we are going on our “babymoon” the week of the break. awwwhhh, LOST loves us back!
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