ABC Makes Up Lost Episodes, Plus More Info About Comic Con
ABC, Cast and Crew of Lost, Comic-Con, Interviews, Season 5 Jump to commentsABC Entertainment President Stephen McPherson told reporters that Lost will make up for the three episodes that didn’t make it to air last season because of the writers’ strike.
“They were supposed to do 17 this year, actually,” McPherson said in a news conference at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., on July 16. “They aired 14.”
The upcoming fifth season will feature 17 episodes when it kicks off in January 2009. McPherson said that the show has 48 episodes left before the series ends in 2010.
“They’re kind of still doing the story arcs and figuring that out,” McPherson said, referring to Lost’s producers. “But we will do the full 48 that we all set out when we said, ‘Let’s set an end of the show. How many episodes do you need to tell that story and where you’re going?’”
McPherson was upstaged at last year’s press tour when Lost executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse saved some news for Comic-Con International in San Diego, which took place a week later.
This year, McPherson said that the producers will screen a promotional video at Comic-Con for the upcoming season of Lost, but added that it will also be made available immediately on ABC.com.
McPherson acknowledged that Lost suffered more from last year’s writers’ strike than other ABC shows. “Lost, unfortunately, was one of the shows that had to actually go down for a little bit and go off the air,” he said. “We were hoping to be able to run it straight through.” Instead, the decision was made to pull Lost down completely until early next year.
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