"Sorry Mike, I got my big 'one month since we said I love you' celebration. Sammy's getting some hammy tonight." - Sam, Burn Notice
I’m a huge fan of good, quality television. Shows like Lost, Battlestar Galactica and 30 Rock are examples of just how great TV can be when smart people put their heads together.
And then you have those guilty pleasure shows that just appeal to the inner-you, for whatever reason. I’ve had a ton of those in recent years, such as Felicity, Gilmore Girls, The O.C. and now One Tree Hill.
You know it’s a long ways until Lost starts when the production for season five doesn’t even begin for 12 more days.
Are you kidding me? I swear this wait for Lost and BSG is excruciatingly slow and I’m not sure I’m going to make it.
So as Lost is fond of doing, we’re getting some new characters this coming year and per usual, they are as mysterious as the ones we already know about.
Sometimes there is just too much news and stuff going on in the world of pop culture, and while we’re awesome, we cannot cover absolutely everything. So from time to time, you’re going to get a wealth of links for your exploratory purposes, published around mid-day.
Nope, I didn’t record this video but as long as it’s up and available online, I’m going to pass it on to you guys.
During the Lost live blog we did here at Pop Critics on Saturday, I told you all about a special Dharma video that we were treated to that featured Dr. Marvin Candle, now known as Pierre Chang.
One of the main panels I wanted to attend at Comic-Con was Entertainment Weekly’s Visionaries group which featured the brilliant minds behind Lost, Chuck/Gossip Girl, Pushing Daisies and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
The topic of discussion was genre television and how these guys are at the forefront of change in storytelling on the small screen and what is happening with their individual series.
This Saturday, July 26th, Lost will hold their round-table panel at San Diego’s Comic-Con and Pop Critics will be there to bring it to you LIVE.
The panel begins at NOON PST on Saturday. I will be in attendance and live blogging from the event. Damon Lindleof and Carlton Cuse will be there to answer questions about season four leading up to the finale, and perhaps have some cool surprises.
The 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Award nominations are in and we’ve got the entire list for you below.
Once again, I’ll exclaim my disappointment that Battlestar Galactica never makes it to Drama Series, but whatever. It’s nice to see Damages, Lost and Dexter in there. I just recently started watching Dexter and it deserves to be here as much as anyone else.
I made my predictions for Comedy and Drama Series not too long ago and only got two wrong. But are you kidding me that Boston Legal is in AGAIN and somehow The Wire isn’t? Is there no justice?
In case you guys are interested, here are the 20 semifinalists in the Emmy categories for Best Comedy and Best Drama series.
Most notably and highly frakking sad in my opinion, is the continued disregard for Battlestar Galactica. I guess not enough people watch the show. I can only assume if it was on FOX, enough people would have seen it and voted it into this group.
When I first heard the announcement of a new viral campaign for the show Lost, I was intrigued and despite my usual lack of participation in these things, I got involved this time.
If you forgot what happened, this commercial aired during the season finale of Lost a few weeks back:
Back in December I gave you a Top 10 list of my Favorite Fall Shows up to the writer’s strike that shut everything down. It also delayed other series that were supposed to show up in January or February, like 24 and Lost, one of which never even aired.
With the entire 2007-2008 season now under our belts, it’s time to look back and rank my favorite shows because I’m absolutely in love with ranking stuff.
Yesterday we posted an article from a TV Guide interview with Harold Perrinaeu, who plays Michael on Lost. He appeared pretty bitter about the end his character came to in the season finale, and even mentioned race as something he was concerned about.
Well, Entertainment Weekly caught up with him right after that discussion hit the net and tried to clarify what he was feeling. He backpedals a bit and seemed sorry for the way he reacted.
Well, it certainly appears that Michael is indeed dead on Lost. Not that I had any doubts after Christian/Jacob told him “You can go now.” But there were some uncertain as to whether he, or Jin, actually died on the freighter.
It appears that at least Michael did.
Actor Harold Perrineau, who plays Michael, wasn’t very thrilled with the fact that his character died without ever having a reunion with his son Walt.
I was sent this little gem by Richard, one of our guest writers here, and I totally loved it, so of course I’m passing it on to you.
What we have here is an “unused” teleplay for the original pilot to Lost, written by Andrew Bridgman.
Of course, it’s sort of what Lost might be like if it were a comedy. Here is an excerpt from the first few lines of it:
It’s hard to stop thinking about the season finale of Lost. In what was, my opinion, the best season ender so far, we wrapped up a ton of the plot points introduced throughout the show, especially this season, all while peeking ahead at new chapters for next season–like Charlotte finding “where she was born,â€? and the Oceanic 6 going back to the Island seemingly led by Ben, who is now without a plan, just “a few ideasâ€? about how to get back.
Woooo, here’s another great find today after the Lost season four finale last night. It’s very spoilerish if you haven’t seen the episode, so watch it at your own risk!
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