Watching Lost

I know that Season 5 is only days away but I am taking this time to spend the holidays with friends and family off in an island somewhere. But I am leaving you with this beautiful Lost Christmas Tribute I found off Youtube —

See you in 2009!

Sometime last week, a bunch of postcards or e-cards at the official Lost website went on display. I’m not liking the designs, but those postcards aren’t there as an eye candy. Fans think these are another bunch of clues for the upcoming season.

This one to the right, is obviously a image of Sawyer looking out to the sea…perhaps wondering if he’s ever going to see the six again.

The postcard with the tagline “Get Away To Find Yourself” has a beach in the background. It’s the perfect card to send to someone like Jack.

“Return to the Island” postcard has the image of an airplane on it. That’s what we’re all expecting to happen for the upcoming season, isn’t it? It’s the same thing for the postcard with the words “Come Back” on it.

We see the black smoke monster again in the postcard with the tagline “Expect the Unexpected”.  I don’t even wanna get a card like this…but going with the show, is this thing going to be making its appearance this season again?

“The Island Cures What Ails You” is a postcard aptly dedicated to someone like Locke or Rose. But why it’s part of this whole set is my question — is this in reference to what we will come to know this season? Is there going to be answers for this, finally?

Here are the rest of the postcards. Which  design do you like the best? I actually like the one with Sawyer’s image. The rest though are pretty fantastic, too.

I have lost count of how many previews and teasers there are of Lost now. And I really don’t intend to watch every single one of it because a good number of those teasers may spoil my viewing come January. But this latest one is really, really making a lot of the fans very curious.

I haven’t decided if I should watch it. But based on the comments from other people, this new teaser is very different from the ones previously released.

New York Magazine calls this version tantalizing. It includes

• a monk scribbling formulas on a blackboard
• a man plummeting off a balcony! Some dude completely engulfed in flames
• and Lost’s Locke appearing to speak backwards

Curious enough? Watch the teaser:

After viewing that, check what Locke supposedly did say, as this site has tried to reverse the audio and haven’t really come up with a solid conclusion.

It’s not too late to make your Christmas gift purchase!  If you haven’t bought something for your Lost junkie friend and if you’re thinking of something to get a Lost Fan, then look no further and spend at least $12 for these bags (they are pretty affordable, huh?):

I found them at this site. These are natural canvas tote bags, called Flight 815 Tote Bag. They are super perfect for anyone who breathes and dreams of Lost.

Most recent cast photos for Lost Season 5.

All images are (Copyright © 2008 ABC, Inc./FLORIAN SCHNEIDER)

I’m not even attempting to take a peak, but you might be interested to watch this two minute sneak peek for Lost Season 5 with Jack:

I admit I do not understand what Time Shifted Program means because it baffles me as to which show is #1 is on the list, when I know Heroes has been experiencing slumps.

But Lost is in it, too. So, a best in anything sounds like it must be a good one:

Top 10 “Timeshifted” Primetime TV Programs
(% is increase in viewership)

1     HEROES     NBC     35%
2     FRINGE     FOX     26%
3     LOST     ABC     25%
4     BONES     FOX     21%
5     GREY’S ANATOMY-THU 9PM     ABC     20%
6     HOUSE     FOX     18%
7     SURVIVOR: GABON     CBS     18%
8     AMERICAN IDOL-TUESDAY     FOX     13%
9     MENTALIST, THE     CBS     13%
10   AMERICAN IDOL-WEDNESDAY     FOX     12%

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This is rather late as the announcements were made last week, but Lost has been nominated under the Drama category at the Writers Guild Awards alongside Dexter, Friday Night Lights, Mad Men and The Wire.

• Dexter, Written by Scott Buck, Daniel Cerone, Charles H. Eglee, Adam E. Fiero, Lauren Gussis, Clyde Phillips, Scott Reynolds, Melissa Rosenberg, Tim Schlattmann; Showtime
• Friday Night Lights, Written by Bridget Carpenter, Kerry Ehrin, Brent Fletcher, Jason Gavin, Carter Harris, Elizabeth Heldens, David Hudgins, Jason Katims, Patrick Massett, Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, John Zinman; NBC
• Lost, Written by Carlton Cuse, Drew Goddard, Adam Horowitz, Christina M. Kim, Edward Kitsis, Damon L. Lindelof, Greggory Nations, Kyle Pennington, Elizabeth Sarnoff, Brian K. Vaughan; ABC
• Mad Men, Written by Lisa Albert, Jane Anderson, Rick Cleveland, David Isaacs, Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Marti Noxon, Robin Veith, Matthew Weiner; AMC
• The Wire, Written by Ed Burns, Chris Collins, David Mills, David Simon, William F. Zorzi, Richard Price, Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos; HBO

The awards ceremony will conclude February 7th in Los Angeles and New York simultaneously.

Listed below are the Top 10 TV shows of 2008, according to a panel judge of the American Film Institute Awards.

10 BEST TV PROGRAMS OF 2008
“Breaking Bad”
“In Treatment”
“John Adams”
“Life”
“Lost”
“Mad Men”
“The Office”
“Recount”
“The Shield”
“The Wire”

Missing from the lists are AFI favorites from last year like - 30 Rock,” “Dexter,” and “Friday Night Lights.” “The Mentalist”, this seasons most watched new program is also missing, while True Blood,” revered as the best new TV show, is also not included.

The American Film Institute Awards TV jury was chaired by Richard Frank, AFI Trustee Emeritus. The jurors: Neal Baer, writer, producer; John Caldwell, UCLA; Jean Picker Firstenberg, AFI president emerita; Mary McNamara, L.A. Times; Kathleen Nolan, actor; James Poniewozik, Time; Del Reisman, writer, senior lecturer, AFI Conservatory; Matt Roush, TV Guide; Ellen Seiter, University of Southern California; John Shaffner, president, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, University of Arizona; Tony To, director, producer.

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Lost cast member Daniel Dae Kim is going to be in a London production of the King and I. But there’s no cause to worry, there’s no reason to wonder if Jin is dead or alive or coming back to the show. The play will only run for one month in June 2009. It will be staged at the Royal Albert Hall.

The press release follows after the cut…

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Keile Sanchez was briefly in the third and fourth season of Lost (she was only part of a flashback in the fourth, if I remember correctly) so to some viewers of the show, she may have already been forgotten.

In Lost, she played Nikki Fernandez…the woman our Losties thought had died along with her boyfriend, that they ended up burying them alive on the island. Here is a profile of her character on Lostpedia.

The actress will soon star in a TV series on Showtime. She will play opposite Matthew Perry in The End of Steve.

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The actress who plays Penny on Lost, Sonya Walger, is doing a new series for ABC and it may be one kind of a show she’s most likely familiar or comfortable with by now, because it has a similar premise as Lost — time traveling.

The story is based on Robert J. Sawyer’s sci-fi novel. Entitled “Flash Foward”, according to the Hollywood Reporter, this will be about “the chaos that ensues after everyone in the world passes out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds and has a vision of the future.”

Sonya Walger will play Olivia, a woman who has visions of being in love with another man (Desmond?!). Joining Sonya will be Joseph Fiennes who will play Mark Banford, her husband and Christine Woods who will play an FBI agent trying to uncover the case.

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Could not say I’m surprised of this choice. This was good TV, man. This was the episode that made what this show is clearer for all of us. The execution was perfect, too.

Who could forget this?

Here’s what Time Magazine had to say about it —-

• At its best, Lost rips your heart out while it ties your brain in a knot. This season 4 episode did both expertly. Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick) has been experiencing premonitions of the future since becoming “unstuck in time” (a la Slaughterhouse Five) earlier in the series. It turns out that he’s been time-traveling, or rather, his mind has: his consciousness is journeying between present, future and past. (It makes sense when you watch, trust me.) The unfortunate side effects of this condition are madness and death, avoidable only by focusing on a “constant”: a person or thing present in each time one’s consciousness visits. Desmond’s constant, he learns, is Penny (Sonya Walger), the girlfriend he left behind when he was stranded on Lost’s mysterious island. His journey into his own past to find her in the present is tear-jerking and mind-blowing.

Josh Holloway, the actor playing Sawyer on Lost, will become a daddy in real life. He and his wife, Yessica Kumala, are expecting a little bundle in 2009. It will be their first child.

The couple has been married in 2004 but didn’t want to have children yet. But as Josh Holloway told USA Today in an interview last March on the subject of having children — “We have changed our minds … only recently. Basically, nature happened.”

The actor is 39 years old, ripe enough to become a new daddy, don’t you think?

Congratulations to the couple! With their genes, the baby will definitely be very beautiful!

Marsha Thomason, the actress who played Dharma’s Naomi Dorrit, is joining the cast of White Collar, a USA Network program from Fox Studios. It will star Matthew Boomer as a con artist who will help the FBI’s white-collar crime unit.

Marsha will play the role of a junior agent named Diana Lansing.

The series is scheduled for the 2009-2010 season.