The ODI

Here is a little clip I put together of what waiting for the Heroes and LOST panels was like. Early in the morning waiting in a looong and a HUGE hall just to see our favorite stars and writers.

While in line we made great friends and finally met most of our online friends for the first time and it was a great experience. I really hope to meet more of you one of these days.

Of course, waiting in line we had several of the Team ODI members, Ryan and Jen from The Transmission podcast, Jay and Jack, Ralph from the Dharmalars, Jo from JOpinionated, Andrew aka Tapdawg, plus many more...!!

Check out the clip and I hope this gives you some what of a an idea about waiting in line at Comic Con and how ummmm fun it can be... :)

Here is the full list of categories that LOST nominated for this year and they got a couple of BIG ones including Best Drama and Supporting Actor (Male) for Michael Emerson.

Honestly if Emerson does not win this year it will be a crime!!

So good luck to all!! Finally some recognition from the Emmy voters.

Outstanding Cinematography For A One Hour Series
Lost • The Constant • ABC • ABC Studios
John Bartley, A.S.C., C.S.C., Director of Photography

Outstanding Drama Series
Lost • ABC • ABC Studios

Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (original Dramatic Score)
Lost • The Constant • ABC • ABC Studios
Michael Giacchiano, Music By

Outstanding Single-camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series
Lost • There's No Place Like Home (Parts 2 & 3) • ABC • ABC Studios
Henk Van Eeghen, Editor
Robert Florio, Editor
Mark J. Goldman, Editor
Stephen Semel, Editor

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series
Lost • The Shape Of Things To Come • ABC • ABC Studios
Thomas deGorter, M.P.S.E., Supervising Sound Editor
Paula Fairfield, M.P.S.E., Sound Editor
Carla Murray, M.P.S.E., Sound Editor
Maciek Malish, M.P.S.E., Sound Editor
Lloyd Jay Keiser, Sound Editor
Joseph Schultz, Sound Editor
Jim Bailey, Foley Artist
Cynthia Merril, Foley Artist
Alex Levy, Music Editor

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (one-hour)
Lost • Meet Kevin Johnson • ABC • ABC Studios
Robert Anderson, Production Mixer
Frank Morrone, Re-Recording Mixer
Scott Weber, Re-Recording Mixer

Outstanding Special Class - Short-format Live-action Entertainment Programs
Lost: Missing Pieces • ABC.com • ABC.com / ABC Studios
Damon Lindelof, Executive Producer
Carlton Cuse, Executive Producer
Barry Jossen, Executive Producer

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series
Lost • ABC • ABC Studios
Michael Emerson as Ben

View Full list Here: Emmy TV

One of the biggest complaints for LOST and ABC has been that the International fans have not been able to view the episodes online at ABC.com. Fans have had to resort to downloading episodes illegally, but it seems like a new deal by ABC and one of Asia's (Hong Kong) top English networks have made a deal to allow fans in those markets to watch the episode online after it airs on TV.

Could this be a sign of the future for other international markets as well?? Of course there will always be fans that want to download the shows for their "own" purposes, but at least this opens the door to new fans and it might help minimize illegal downloads.

Here are the details:

Hong Kong's top English-language channel, TVB Pearl, is partnering with Disney-ABC International Television to launch Catchup TV, a free on-demand TV service here.

"Dirty Sexy Money" will launch the service Friday on TVB.com, just 12 hours after the drama series premieres on the Hong Kong terrestrial channel, the companies said at a signing ceremony Tuesday.

A first of its kind service for ABC in Asia, TVB.com will make episodes of "Dirty" along with such ABC-produced shows as "Lost," "Desperate Housewives" and "Brothers & Sisters" online for four weeks.

Disney-ABC International Television Asia Pacific senior vp and managing director Rob Gilby told The Hollywood Reporter that Catchup TV is a "complementary service" that will echo the success of the network's Web portal at home.

"When we launched ABC.com in the U.S., we found that it helps support viewers to enjoy the show on the network, they can also enjoy it online. It's an additive process," Gilby said.

Cecilia Tan, deputy controller of TVB's program division, said that TVB is looking forward to expanding the Catchup TV lineup to include series from other networks.

Source: THR

LOST Creator spoke out about LOST and why they decided on a a end for the show. He continued confirming that current plan for Fringe is a 5 year plan, but it depends on how things happen.

Here is the video thanks to DarkUFO

At the Television Critics' Association press tour, J.J. Abrams talks about the importance of knowing when to lay a series to rest.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

5 more days, 5 more days...

Hey LOST fans,

I was just reading through the current issue of TIME and came across an article about - wait for it - LOST.

So what would you guys rather have: more episodes with a storyline that may drag on and on or less episodes with a stronger plot?

Don't worry. The article doesn't contain any spoilers.



The producers of Lost have found the secret to resuscitating a great TV show: make less of it. Last year, in the middle of a third season that was criticized by fans as slow and aimless, they proposed to end the hit show after three more seasons of 16 episodes each, six or so fewer than a typical TV-drama season. ABC, stunningly, agreed, though it had the contractual right to frog-march the lucrative property ahead for as many seasons as it liked.

Plotting its own demise was Lost's best innovation yet. Some big-network hits, like Mary Tyler Moore and Seinfeld, have gone out on top but not with an end planned years in advance. Others limp to the finish; next season is the last for ER, which began airing back when physicians used leeches to drain the body of ill humors.

But Lost, whose Season 4 finale airs May 29, is not like a sitcom or a doctor soap. An elaborate sci-fi/fantasy thriller about plane-crash survivors stranded on an island, it has told a single, wildly complicated story involving--deep breath--time travel, conspiracies, a monster made of smoke, a utopian experiment gone bad, ghosts, polar bears in the tropics, philosophy, metaphysics and a mystical set of numbers that may have to do with the end of the world.

As such, it was vulnerable to the X-Files syndrome: a complex story vamps aimlessly, adding shaggy-dog tales and swapping out stars for years too long. ABC's decision--which made the show more like a limited-run British series or The Sopranos--freed Lost to launch an endgame. In last season's finale, the show threw in a mind-blowing twist, jumping forward in time to reveal that several characters made it off the island. The move expanded the canvas yet pointed to a conclusion and made the series compelling again.

Then the writers' strike hit. Season 4, which debuted to fans' and critics' raves, had to pause after eight episodes and cut two of its planned hours. Disaster, right? Wrong. Early seasons of Lost tended to get slack and digressive in the middle. At nearly half the length of previous seasons, this one couldn't afford to. It was focused and propulsive, hurtling the action forward on the island (where the survivors have been found by "rescuers" of murderous intent) while revealing new dimensions to the characters in the flash-forwards to the future (where we learn that six castaways escaped, at a yet unspecified moral cost).

Setting an end date has obvious plot benefits. In a show with a finite run, actions can have consequences, major characters can die, questions can be answered. But it's even better for the show's emotional impact. Lost is a good sci-fi yarn, but what makes it a great story is that it is about the struggles of people: about faith vs. reason, fate vs. free will and, especially, redemption. Jack (Matthew Fox) is haunted by his relationship with his father--literally haunted, as Dad may have come back from the dead. Locke (Terry O'Quinn) balances his faith, which gives him a connection to the mystical island, with a lifetime of having been lied to by loved ones. Even villain Ben (Michael Emerson), leader of the cultlike "Others" who inhabit the island, is driven by a twisted sense of morality. "We're the good guys," he's fond of saying, and Lost holds out the possibility that he just might become one.

But redemption depends on change, and traditional network TV depends on characters staying more or less the same for as many years as it takes for the ratings to give out. The time-bending sci-fi premise in Lost--certain characters become "unstuck in time" and can re-experience past events in their lives--dramatizes a human dilemma: Can you change your future, or are you fated to make the same mistakes forever? In a meta-way, that's the dilemma of traditional TV characters, who are damned to repeat the same patterns, trip over the same ottomans, forever. The revitalized Lost has offered them an out.

And it may just offer a way forward for TV. It may seem insane for ABC to leave money on the table by limiting Lost to six seasons. But Lost is a series that harnesses intense interest--for instance, to sell millions of DVDs because fans want to watch the complex episodes repeatedly. In an era of smaller audiences, networks need programs that can monetize a devoted fan base. But that requires assuring the fans--as limiting Lost's run has done--that they won't be jerked around forever. TV may be an excessive medium, but the brilliant, groundbreaking Lost may just show it that quality can beat quantity.

Source: TIME