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From what I've seen and read, it was hoot.</p> <p>And ABC is back at it with an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://lostuniversity.org/"><strong>elaborate "Lost University" website</strong></a> that promises to begin "enrollment" on Sept. 22, 2009. From what I can gather it has a tie-in with the Blu-ray edition of "Lost's" season five DVD set. <br/></p> <p>As much fun as these things are, there's the bittersweet factor of having to wait a minimum of six months for the dawn of the Final Season. Wherefore art thou, Juliet?</p> </div>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/07/lost-how-much-longer-do-we-have-to-wait.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/%22%2BComic-Con" rel="tag">" Comic-Con</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/%22Lost" rel="tag">"Lost</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/ABC%2B" rel="tag">ABC </a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 08:18 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/07/lost-how-much-longer-do-we-have-to-wait.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/07/lost-how-much-longer-do-we-have-to-wait.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/07/lost-how-much-longer-do-we-have-to-wait.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/07/lost-how-much-longer-do-we-have-to-wait.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": How much longer do we have to wait?", summary:""Lost": How much longer do we have to wait?", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-6a00d8341bfc7553ef0115711b75ea970c"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">July</span><br>16</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/07/lost-we-need-to-send-smokey-after-the-emmy-voters-who-.html">"Lost": We need to send Smokey after the Emmy voters who ...</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef0115721026b4970b-pi" style="FLOAT: left"><img alt="Jackbender" class="at-xid-6a00d8341bfc7553ef0115721026b4970b " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef0115721026b4970b-150wi" style="MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px; WIDTH: 150px"/></a> ... ignored Jack Bender (<em>pictured left</em>) for drama series direction. He only helmed the best episodes of season ("The Incident, parts 1 and 2"; "Namaste," "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham," among others) Need we say more??</p> <p>And how did "Lost's" badass cinematographers get completely shut out?</p> <p>Oh, and what about one of the most talented composers working in film and TV today -- Michael Giacchino (<em>pictured right</em>) who still writes mini-<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef011572102d9c970b-pi" style="FLOAT: right"><img alt="Mgiacchino" class="at-xid-6a00d8341bfc7553ef011572102d9c970b " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef011572102d9c970b-150wi" style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px; WIDTH: 150px"/></a> movie <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef011572102808970b-pi" style="FLOAT: right"></a>scores for "Lost" every week that are recorded by a LIVE ORCHESTRA, not a souped-up <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef0115711b75b4970c-pi" style="FLOAT: right"></a>synthesizer or computer.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef0115721026fb970b-pi" style="FLOAT: right"></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef011572102c01970b-pi" style="FLOAT: right"></a></p> <p>He kept the insanely emotional quality going on "Lost" this past season even when he was kinda busy with a few other projects -- little movies called "Up" and "Star Trek," not to mention working on J.J. Abrams' Fox drama "Fringe."</p> <p>What more does it take?</p> </div>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/07/lost-we-need-to-send-smokey-after-the-emmy-voters-who-.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Emmy" rel="tag">Emmy</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Jack%2BBender" rel="tag">Jack Bender</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Lost" rel="tag">Lost</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Michael%2BGiacchino" rel="tag">Michael Giacchino</a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 03:20 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/emmys/">Emmys</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/07/lost-we-need-to-send-smokey-after-the-emmy-voters-who-.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/07/lost-we-need-to-send-smokey-after-the-emmy-voters-who-.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/07/lost-we-need-to-send-smokey-after-the-emmy-voters-who-.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/07/lost-we-need-to-send-smokey-after-the-emmy-voters-who-.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": We need to send Smokey after the Emmy voters who ...", summary:""Lost": We need to send Smokey after the Emmy voters who ...", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-66795535"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">May</span><br>14</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-the-incident-parts-1-and-2-take-two.html">"Lost": "The Incident, Parts 1 and 2" -- Take two</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef011570892661970b-pi" style="DISPLAY: inline"><img alt="Lost5incidentsjk" border="0" class="at-xid-6a00d8341bfc7553ef011570892661970b image-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef011570892661970b-800wi" title="Lost5incidentsjk"/></a> </p> <p>OK, picking up <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-episodes-17-and-18-the-incident-parts-i-and-ii.html"><span style="COLOR: #4040ff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>where I left off in the wee hours</strong></span></a> of Thursday out of sheer exhaustion and from thinking so much about what transpired in Wednesday night's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>"Lost"</strong></span></a> finale...</p> <p>Clearly, one of the big questions we're left to chew on is this "loophole" business and how it affected the corporeal John Locke. Or New-bad Locke as we've taken to calling him. (Round of applause here for Terry O'Quinn and Michael Emerson's fanastic work in this seg.)</p> <p>Clearly, we need to figure out why there was such bad blood between Jacob and the other guy with the salt-and-pepper beard that he was verbally sparring with in the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef01156f931f69970c-pi" style="FLOAT: left"></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef0115708926d5970b-pi" style="FLOAT: left"><img alt="Lost5incidentjacob" class="at-xid-6a00d8341bfc7553ef0115708926d5970b " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef0115708926d5970b-300wi" style="MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px; WIDTH: 300px"/></a> opening sequence. The other dude's promise that he would "find a loophole" to come back and do bodily harm to Jacob kicked things off on a nasty and oh-so-mysterious note. Are we to presume that salt-and-pepper is the guy who's inhabiting Locke's body?</p> <p> And what the heck was the time period ofthat opening segment? Jacob and Angry Guy were speaking in contempo argot but the presence of a clipper ship (similar to the ship in the bottle Richard was building in last week's ep) and the full-bodied statue certainly hinted at Black Rock era of the late 1800s (I think?).</p> <p>Even more tantalizing was the other guy's <strike>Jacob's</strike> comment about how "they come, they fight, they destroy, they corrupt -- it always ends the same" as he looks out on the ship. So we're to assume that motley crews have been arriving on the island for a long time? That would explain a lot, I suppose.</p> <p>Cleary, we still need to figure out the Richard (Ricardos) connection in all this. And the Ben connection to Richard. I still can't shake the feeling that they are still working together despite everything that's gone down -- and Ben's promise to his vision of Alex a few episodes back.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef01156f931fb5970c-pi" style="FLOAT: right"><img alt="Lost5incidentfire" class="at-xid-6a00d8341bfc7553ef01156f931fb5970c " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef01156f931fb5970c-300wi" style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px; WIDTH: 300px"/></a> </p> <p>Clearly, I need to watch the episode again to formulate anything like a coherent analysis of what we learned last night and where we're going in season six. Until then, let's review the great moments:</p> <p><span style="COLOR: #bf00bf; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>No. 1</strong></span>: The long scene with Jack and Sawyer in the jungle. First they communicated with each other like never before -- Sawyer opening up about his childhood, Jack expressing his love for Kate and regret for losing her -- and then they fought like never before. Chopsocky in the jungle! If it's a "Lost" finale, then somebody's getting beaten to a bloody pulp, but this one is by far a record for bloodied heads.</p> <p></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-the-incident-parts-1-and-2-take-two.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": "The Incident, Parts 1 and 2" -- Take two" »</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-the-incident-parts-1-and-2-take-two.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/ABC" rel="tag">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Lost" rel="tag">Lost</a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 05:34 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-the-incident-parts-1-and-2-take-two.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-the-incident-parts-1-and-2-take-two.html#comments">Comments (2)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-the-incident-parts-1-and-2-take-two.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-the-incident-parts-1-and-2-take-two.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": "The Incident, Parts 1 and 2" -- Take two", summary:""Lost": "The Incident, Parts 1 and 2" -- Take two", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-66754607"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">May</span><br>14</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-episodes-17-and-18-the-incident-parts-i-and-ii.html">"Lost": Episodes 16 and 17, "The Incident, Parts 1 and 2"</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef01156f919527970c-pi" style="DISPLAY: inline"><img alt="Lost5incidentjuliet" border="0" class="at-xid-6a00d8341bfc7553ef01156f919527970c image-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef01156f919527970c-800wi" title="Lost5incidentjuliet"/></a> </em></p> <p><em><strong>Son of a bitch!</strong></em></p> <p><span style="COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>(Stop immediately if you haven't seen the "Lost" finale yet.)</strong></span></p> <p><span style="COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span style="COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><em>Thursday update: "Lost" finale averaged 9.3 million viewers and 4.3 rating/12 share in adults 18-49 demo from 9-11 p.m. Not bad, but I still find it hard to believe that 12 million people thought "CSI: NY" was more compelling!</em></span></span></p> <p style="COLOR: #000000">Straight up, folks: I can't do these two atomic hours of television justice without a second viewing. Just can't be done. My skin was tingling and my heart was racing for the last 15 minutes of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="COLOR: #4040ff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>"Lost's"</strong></span></a> fifth-season finale, "The Incident, Parts 1 and 2." I could barely catch my breath as I watched Juliet fall down the Swan's rabbit hole. </p> <p>For now, about all I can handle is noting some of the great moments, killer lines and what the #$$%@ just happened bits that we'll be pondering all summer and fall. It almost seemed like ABC was rubbing it in with the title cards flashed over the end credits: "Destiny Found" and "2010."</p> <p>Oh how I dig this show. The auspices of the finale don't get any better: Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse wrote the first hour while the credit for the second hour was flipped to Cuse and Lindelof. And both hours were helmed by Jack Bender, for whom I am on record as raving about, and tonight was no exception. As I said to one keen-eyed "Lost" fan in an email a few weeks ago: "Jack Freakin' Bender. How can he be so talented?" </p> <p>In fact, "Destiny Found" is a pretty good summation of one of the big plot threads we dealt with in this finale. With Jacob now appearing to us in the flesh (?) in a mysterious, Zelig-like way, we now seem to have evidence that our core group of characters are connected not at random but for a larger reason. We don't know what that reason is yet, but it's no accident that Jacob encountered them in their pre-island pasts (all but Hurley), at pivotal moments in their development.<br/></p> <p></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-episodes-17-and-18-the-incident-parts-i-and-ii.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": Episodes 16 and 17, "The Incident, Parts 1 and 2"" »</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-episodes-17-and-18-the-incident-parts-i-and-ii.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/ABC" rel="tag">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Lost" rel="tag">Lost</a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 12:43 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-episodes-17-and-18-the-incident-parts-i-and-ii.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-episodes-17-and-18-the-incident-parts-i-and-ii.html#comments">Comments (3)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-episodes-17-and-18-the-incident-parts-i-and-ii.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; 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WIDTH: 175px"/></a> Good AP interview with Michael Emerson. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090512/ap_en_tv/us_ap_on_tv_emerson_lost;_ylt=ArDIWfDafsVBK60vI5MXhwlpMhkF"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ff0000"><strong style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"><span style="COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">Click here</span></strong></span>.</span></a></p> </div>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-finale-is-a-bit-shocking-sez-ben.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Lost" rel="tag">Lost</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Michael%2BEmerson" rel="tag">Michael Emerson</a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 06:53 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-finale-is-a-bit-shocking-sez-ben.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-finale-is-a-bit-shocking-sez-ben.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-finale-is-a-bit-shocking-sez-ben.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-finale-is-a-bit-shocking-sez-ben.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Finale is a 'bit shocking,' sez Ben", summary:""Lost": Finale is a 'bit shocking,' sez Ben", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-66486551"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">May</span><br> 6</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-episode-16-follow-the-leader.html">"Lost": Episode 15, "Follow the Leader"</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef011570744ae4970b-pi" style="DISPLAY: inline"><img alt="Lost5follow" border="0" class="at-xid-6a00d8341bfc7553ef011570744ae4970b image-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef011570744ae4970b-800wi" title="Lost5follow"/></a> <br/>This episode of "Lost" was a study in contrasts. The leadership skills, character styles, motivations and powers of persuasion of the show's original alpha-male pillars -- Jack, Sawyer and Locke -- were deftly dissected in an hour that was already so full of action and intrigue it made my head spin more than once.</p> <p>A lot of it came together for me after I looked up the title of the seg on the ABC press site: "Follow the Leader." All in all, a hell of an episode from writers Paul Zbyszewski and Elizabeth Sarnoff and director Stephen Williams. It worked on many levels and demands multiple viewings, especially because it involved all of our key main characters. We're on the runway for next week's two-hour fantasmic finale fer sure.</p> <p><em>Thursday update: A second viewing was incredibly helpful, particularly for all of the Locke stuff.</em></p> <p>So what'd we learn tonight? </p> <p>** Jack can't get Kate to put her faith in him for nothin'. And really, can you blame her?</p> <p>** Sawyer has finally grown up enough to be a do-right, all-night man. (Of the many great versions of that song, it's the Flying Burrito Brothers' rendition that puts a lump in my throat every time. Thanks Gram.)</p> <p>** Locke has more faith than sense. (OK, we already knew that.)</p> <p>** Richard Alpert and Ben are still somehow in cahoots toward some common goal, or common enemy. Of this, I have faith.</p> <p>It was disconcerting in several scenes in this seg to see the magical, mystical Richard Alpert looking very, very confused. (I'm confused about how his stubble manages to grow in such a perfect line across the bottom half of his face. Radiation side effect?) Ben describes him as an "a kind of advisor." Yeh, like Rasputin was to the Romanovs.</p> <p></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-episode-16-follow-the-leader.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": Episode 15, "Follow the Leader"" »</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-episode-16-follow-the-leader.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Lost" rel="tag">Lost</a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 11:41 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-episode-16-follow-the-leader.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-episode-16-follow-the-leader.html#comments">Comments (2)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-episode-16-follow-the-leader.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/05/lost-episode-16-follow-the-leader.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Episode 15, "Follow the Leader"", summary:""Lost": Episode 15, "Follow the Leader"", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-65533687"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">April</span><br>15</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-13-some-like-it-hoth.html">"Lost": Episode 13, "Some Like it Hoth"</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef011570232f3b970b-pi" style="DISPLAY: inline"><img alt="Lost5100ep" border="0" class="at-xid-6a00d8341bfc7553ef011570232f3b970b image-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef011570232f3b970b-800wi" title="Lost5100ep"/></a> </p> <p>"Welcome to the circle of trust."</p> <p>That line from Horace in tonight's ultra-fabulous <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="COLOR: #6000bf; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>"Lost"</strong></span></a> seg, "Some Like it Hoth," applies to all of us humble viewers at home. As "Lost" winds down its penultimate season, we are indeed getting the answers and the backstories that we've craved for so long. Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse are men of their words.</p> <p>Carlton has often referred to the "Lost" saga as a mosaic wherein the shiny tile pieces will be gradually be laid down, not in a methodical, finish-off-this-corner-first way but rather a let's-sprinkle-them-in-as-we-see-fit way, which has made for some astounding and confounding television for the past five seasons. </p> <p>To my mind, tonight's seg completely made up for the shortcomings of the storytelling in last week's installment (mostly I felt it was too rushed). Darlton prepped us in last week's podcast that they felt the need for an episode with some lighter moments -- kind of like a "Star Trek" fourth episode -- and in that "Hoth" delivered.</p> <p>Hurley and Miles (GREAT work by Jorge Garcia and Ken Leung) are the Cheech and Chong for a new generation. Instead of dope and rock 'n' roll, they riff about Star Wars and daddy issues. (I'm sure ABC's already thinking: Hmmm, how about a half-hour spinoff with a couple of time-traveling cut-ups in cute Dharma overalls?)</p> <p>Kudos to writers Melinda Hsu Taylor and Greggory Nations for giving us the levity that some of us sorely needed (it's been a rough week at <em>Variety</em>, lemme tell ya), mixed with a generous helping of revealing OMG moments. And I've said it before and will surely say it again -- but folks, when you see the words "directed by Jack Bender" on an episode of "Lost," you know you're in for a good time. </p> <p>There's something about the way the camera moves, the way the actors act, the way the frame of each scene is captured just so that makes television a joy to behold whenever Bender's behind the camera. Besides, what other show could pay homage to George Lucas and Billy Wilder in the same breath?</p> <p>(<em>No pics of this ep available from ABC but check out these snaps from "Lost's" recent 100th episode party. The Big 1-0-0 seg airs April 29.)</em></p> <p><em></em></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-13-some-like-it-hoth.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": Episode 13, "Some Like it Hoth"" »</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-13-some-like-it-hoth.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/ABC" rel="tag">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Carlton%2BCuse" rel="tag">Carlton Cuse</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Damon%2BLindelof" rel="tag">Damon Lindelof</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Lost" rel="tag">Lost</a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 11:26 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-13-some-like-it-hoth.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-13-some-like-it-hoth.html#comments">Comments (2)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-13-some-like-it-hoth.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-13-some-like-it-hoth.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Episode 13, "Some Like it Hoth"", summary:""Lost": Episode 13, "Some Like it Hoth"", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-65257363"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">April</span><br> 9</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-12-dead-is-dead.html">"Lost": Episode 12, "Dead is Dead"</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef0115700d9984970b-pi" style="FLOAT: right"><img alt="Lost5didben" class="at-xid-6a00d8341bfc7553ef0115700d9984970b " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef0115700d9984970b-200wi" style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px; WIDTH: 200px"/></a> <br/>There's never a dull moment in a Ben-centric episode of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="COLOR: #0000ff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>"Lost."</strong></span></a> Tonight's was a doozy. In truth, it felt a little bit over-stuffed. There were some moments -- like Ben's confrontation of Penny and Desmond at the dock in L.A. -- that seemed really rushed, and thus lost some of their impact. <span style="COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(A</span><span style="COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">fter a second viewing, this didn't bug me as much and the whole seg grew on me considerably.)</span></p> <p>But in the main -- we sure did learn a lot in "Dead is Dead," written by Brian K. Vaughan and Elizabeth Sarnoff and helmed by Stephen Williams. It might've also been titled "Rules are Rules," or "The Loves of Benjamin Linus."</p> <p>Ben does go on and on about doing everything for the sake of "the island," as does Widmore (it's getting to the enough-already point), but I think Ben's adventure with the resurrected Locke and in Smokey's underground cavern was all about his atoning for Alex's death -- not about breaking the rules of returning to the island once you've worn out your welcome with Jacob.</p> <p>We got a lot of glimpses of the bitter battles for island supremacy over the years -- between Widmore and Richard Alpert, Ben and Widmore, Horace and Richard, Ben and Richard, and Ben and Locke. And they all love to play the Jacob card on one another. "The island chooses who it chooses," is Richard's retort when Widmore gets worked up about the decision to take in the dying 12-year-old Ben in 1977. Notice a pattern to the leadership choices here? Maybe it's time Jacob thought about bestowing the crown on a femme (Juliet?) for a change.</p> <p>We even get the comic relief of seeing Ben and Locke needling each other about it -- as if they were kids in a school yard -- as Locke takes them to the Temple site to smoke out Smokey. But boy you can really see, as Ben admits, that Locke's intuition about all things Island is bugging the hell out of Ben. He nearly breaks down emotionally when he comes to realize that Locke was dead-on about what Ben's really going to face Smokey's judgment for.</p> <p>Although I should know better by now, the action in this seg kept me guessing at every turn about Ben's motives and the truthfulness of his statements until the end. And I was right to do so, as proved by the big moment at the end where Alex (<strike>or the ghost of</strike> in the guise of Smokey, duh) comes to Ben and orders her guilt-ravaged dad to become a faithful follower of Locke, and to forget his plan to kill Locke for a third time. </p> <p></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-12-dead-is-dead.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": Episode 12, "Dead is Dead"" »</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-12-dead-is-dead.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Lost" rel="tag">Lost</a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 12:23 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-12-dead-is-dead.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-12-dead-is-dead.html#comments">Comments (6)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-12-dead-is-dead.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-12-dead-is-dead.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Episode 12, "Dead is Dead"", summary:""Lost": Episode 12, "Dead is Dead"", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-65004507"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">April</span><br> 2</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-11-what-happened-happened.html">"Lost": Episode 11, "What Happened, Happened"</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef01156fc5bfc9970b-pi" style="FLOAT: left"><img alt="Lost5whathappenedkate" class="at-xid-6a00d8341bfc7553ef01156fc5bfc9970b " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef01156fc5bfc9970b-300wi" style="MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px; WIDTH: 275px"/></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef01156ece49ce970c-pi" style="FLOAT: right"></a><em>"If I understood why Jack does what he does, I sure as hell wouldn't be sitting here."</em> </p> <p>Whoo-hoo! After a lull last week, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="COLOR: #4040ff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>Peabody Award-winning "Lost"</strong></span> </a>was back in fine form with "What Happened, Happened." It might also have been titled "Role Reversal," because that's what we've got going on with some of our key characters.</p> <p>But for starters, let me offer a few kind words to Kate, who has annoyed me more often than not during the run of the skein to date. And the kindness should extend to Evangeline Lilly, who was very good in last night's seg. I've been hard on her in the past for being wooden, especially in her big emotional moments, but she showed some growth as an actress in this seg.</p> <p>I particularly liked Kate's flashback scenes back in <strike>L.A. (I presume)</strike> with Sawyer's ex, Cassidy (played by the talented Kim Dickens, who some of us know better as Matt's mom on "Friday Night Lights").</p> <p>This episode was also fulfilling because we got a lot of recent backstory filled in in a short amount of time -- and very straightforwardly too, unusually so for "Lost." It felt like a real come-to-Jacob episode for Kate, Jack, Sawyer and Juliet.</p> <p>In a nutshell, we see Kate turning into a real warrior-avenger; Jack turning into an utterly self-obsessed cretin who is so lost he's turning to island-religion to try to make sense of things; Sawyer starts out desperate to protect his new settled-down status quo but ends up doing the right thing in the end -- all things that we'd never have expected from Sawyer even last season; and we got a Great Moment with an Angry Juliet that came as the cherry on this cake.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef01156fc5d118970b-pi" style="FLOAT: right"></a> </p> <p>Oh, and at the very end, Locke shows up, just in time to make Ben's life miserable in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef01156ece65df970c-pi" style="FLOAT: right"><img alt="Lost5whathappenedmh" class="at-xid-6a00d8341bfc7553ef01156ece65df970c " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef01156ece65df970c-450wi" style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px; WIDTH: 425px"/></a> 2007. Somehow I think he's going to get some help from Caesar in this effort.</p> <p>Amid all the moving and shaking, we're treated two priceless scenes of Miles trying to help Hurley understand Faraday's Law of Time Travel, with a nod to the Zemeckis Theory as laid out by Hurley. (By the way, where<em> is</em> Daniel? And Rose? And Bernard? And what about Vincent??!!). "This is really confusing," Hurley says.</p> <p>On the backstory front, we got a key piece of the puzzle for Kate and her erstwhile charge Aaron filled in last night as we peeked in on Kate's actions in the days leading up to her decision to board Ajira Airways Flight 316. </p> <p>As many of us suspected, she's not particularly interested in following Jack to the ends of the earth -- despite what she tells Juliet in the quote above -- but she's actually on a mission to find Claire, Aaron's rightful mum. Until then, the next best thing she can do is give Aaron to his biological grandmother, Carol Littleton. (No relation.)</p> <p></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-11-what-happened-happened.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": Episode 11, "What Happened, Happened"" »</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-11-what-happened-happened.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/ABC" rel="tag">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Lost" rel="tag">Lost</a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 01:09 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-11-what-happened-happened.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-11-what-happened-happened.html#comments">Comments (1)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-11-what-happened-happened.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/04/lost-episode-11-what-happened-happened.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Episode 11, "What Happened, Happened"", summary:""Lost": Episode 11, "What Happened, Happened"", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-64821165"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">March</span><br>29</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-mythology-is-the-icing-on-the-cake.html">"Lost": Mythology is 'the icing on the cake'</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong>By Shalini Dore</strong></p> <p>No secrets were spilled, but there was plenty for Losties to geek-out on during the WGA Foundation’s panel sesh with "Lost" scribes Thursday at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills.</p> <p>The “Inside the Writers Room With Lost” evening gave fans plenty to chew over as Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse, Liz Sarnoff, Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz talked about how they plot the ABC drama.</p> <p>The process of writing each new season starts with a blue-sky meeting where scribes discuss what the season will accomplish. After that the writers break down the episodes and write them. Usually there are three storylines: on the island, off the island and one other.</p> <p>What helps the writers? Rabid-fan discussions of reality shows like “Top Chef,” which Sarnoff took credit for introducing to the "Lost" writers room.</p> <p></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-mythology-is-the-icing-on-the-cake.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": Mythology is 'the icing on the cake'" »</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-mythology-is-the-icing-on-the-cake.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Carlton%2BCuse" rel="tag">Carlton Cuse</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Damon%2BLindelof" rel="tag">Damon Lindelof</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Lost" rel="tag">Lost</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Top%2BChef" rel="tag">Top Chef</a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 03:15 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/carlton_cuse/">Carlton Cuse</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/damon_lindelof/">Damon Lindelof</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-mythology-is-the-icing-on-the-cake.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-mythology-is-the-icing-on-the-cake.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-mythology-is-the-icing-on-the-cake.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-mythology-is-the-icing-on-the-cake.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Mythology is 'the icing on the cake'", summary:""Lost": Mythology is 'the icing on the cake'", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-64648313"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">March</span><br>26</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-episode-10-hes-our-you.html">"Lost": Episode 10, "He's Our You"</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef01156f5acfa6970b-pi" style="DISPLAY: inline"><img alt="Lost5hesouryousayidben" border="0" class="at-xid-6a00d8341bfc7553ef01156f5acfa6970b " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef01156f5acfa6970b-800wi" title="Lost5hesouryousayidben"/></a> </em></p> <p><em>"A 12-year-old Benjamin Linus just brought me a chicken salad sandwich. How do you think I'm doing?<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef01156f5acf22970b-pi" style="FLOAT: left"></a>" </em></p> <p>Am I the only one who thought of "Five Easy Pieces" with all the talk of chicken salad sandwiches in this seg?</p> <p>Tonight's installment of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="COLOR: #0000ff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>"Lost"</strong></span></a> was the weakest of the season to date, for this Dharma bum. I didn't gasp enough, which means I've been spoiled by the greatness of the previous nine installments. "He's Our You" had a bunch of good lines and the whoa factor certainly picked up in the last four minutes or so.</p> <p>Generally speaking I love a good Sayid episode so this was kinda doubly disappointing. But let's think about what we've learned tonight about our favorite former member of the Iraqi Republican Guard.</p> <p>Certainly this seg, written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz and helmed by Greg Yaitanes, reinforced what we've already learned from Sayid's unfortunate dalliances with Femme Nikitas in past segs. At heart, he's a lover, not a killer. He has a healthy libido, for sure, but even more than that, he wants to be loved. He wants to be accepted as a good guy, not a monster who tortures and murders on demand (whether it's chickens or Russians or a golfing buddy of Charles Widmore).</p> <p>Even in the childhood flashback scene to his boyhood in Tikrit, you get the idea that Sayid snapped the neck of the chicken for his brother (I presume?) to be a pal, rather out of a blood-lust for poultry. Interesting that the brother is unfailingly honest and admits that Sayid killed the bird without hesitation, to his own detriment. Which probably only raises Sayid's esteem for his brother.</p> <p>Moreover, Sayid seeks a purpose to his life. For a while, it was the burning desire to reunite with his long-lost love Nadia. Then of course it was getting the Oceanic 815-ers off the island. And then it became avenging Nadia's death after their devastatingly short reunion, and protecting the friends he left behind on the island (that's some guilt trip, eh?).</p> <p>But when Ben dumps him in the flashback scene in Moscow after Sayid takes out the Russian dude, he's crushed. Not only is he being abandoned but he's now lost his purpose, and he suspects there never was one to begin with, that Ben's talk about needing to protect his friends was horse manure.</p> <p>"There's no one else in Widmore's organization we need you to go after," Ben tells him. "Mission Accomplished!" </p> <p>Sayid sounds like anything but a warrior, whining in a Moscow back alley: "What do I do now?"</p> <p></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-episode-10-hes-our-you.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": Episode 10, "He's Our You"" »</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-episode-10-hes-our-you.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Carlos%2BCastaneda" rel="tag">Carlos Castaneda</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Lost" rel="tag">Lost</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Richard%2BAlpert" rel="tag">Richard Alpert</a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 12:18 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-episode-10-hes-our-you.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-episode-10-hes-our-you.html#comments">Comments (2)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-episode-10-hes-our-you.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-episode-10-hes-our-you.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Episode 10, "He's Our You"", summary:""Lost": Episode 10, "He's Our You"", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-64056865"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">March</span><br>13</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-is-no-1-maybe.html">"Lost" is No. 1! Maybe...</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef011168f250b4970c-pi" style="FLOAT: left"><img alt="Lost5hurley" class="at-xid-6a00d8341bfc7553ef011168f250b4970c " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef011168f250b4970c-400wi" style="MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px; WIDTH: 375px"/></a> The hits just keep on coming for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="COLOR: #0000ff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>"Lost."</strong></span> </a></p> <p>ABC drama appears to lead the TV-on-Internet herd by a wide margin, drawing 2.5 million unique viewers in the month of February, according to the latest numbers from Nielsen Online. Those 2.5 million viewers initiated some 48 million streams of "Lost" episodes, clips and made-for-Web content a la the ultra-fun <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>audio and video podcasts</strong></span></a><span style="COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span> that showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse grace us with once a week (or thereabouts).</p> <p>As much as I love writing "'Lost' is No. 1'," there's an important caveat to these numbers. Nielsen Online's monthly survey does not include numbers from Hulu, the NBC Universal-News Corp. joint venture. Hulu is on a tear these days, as readers of today's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118001165.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1&query=Hulu"><span style="COLOR: #007f40; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>Daily Variety know from this page 1 story</strong></span></a> on Hulu climbing to No. 2 among online video providers behind only YouTube (which remains the equivalent of Wal-Mart, Microsoft, McDonalds and Toyota combined when it comes to online vid).</p> <p>ABC.com ranks No. 6 among Internet vid providers for February with 187.1 million streams, up 14.5% from January. Hulu, on the back of its big marketing push, spiked 33% to 309 million streams. The average Hulu viewer spent 176.9 minutes watching its vid, compared to 104.8 minutes for ABC.com</p> <p>So with that understanding, here's the rest of the top five online TV shows per Nielsen's report. They're mostly ABC shows, but that would likely change if only Hulu would cough up some show-specific numbers. Nielsen's report does include the individual websites of Hulu partners NBC and Fox, so there is some representation of their shows.</p> <p><strong>"Grey's Anatomy"</strong> -- 18.7 million streams/1.3 million unique viewers</p> <p><strong>"The Bachelor"</strong> -- 15.1 million streams/962,000 unique viewers</p> <p><strong>"The Office"</strong> -- 15 million streams</p> <p><strong>"Heroes"</strong> -- 11.7 million streams<br/></p> </div>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-is-no-1-maybe.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/ABC.com" rel="tag">ABC.com</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Carlton%2BCuse" rel="tag">Carlton Cuse</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Damon%2BLindelof" rel="tag">Damon Lindelof</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Grey's%2BAnatomy" rel="tag">Grey's Anatomy</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Heroes" rel="tag">Heroes</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Hulu" rel="tag">Hulu</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Lost" rel="tag">Lost</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/online%2Bvideo" rel="tag">online video</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/The%2BBachelor" rel="tag">The Bachelor</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/The%2BOffice" rel="tag">The Office</a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 12:01 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/carlton_cuse/">Carlton Cuse</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/damon_lindelof/">Damon Lindelof</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/heroes/">Heroes</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/hulu/">Hulu</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ratings/">Ratings</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_office/">The Office</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-is-no-1-maybe.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-is-no-1-maybe.html#comments">Comments (1)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-is-no-1-maybe.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-is-no-1-maybe.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost" is No. 1! 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Maybe...", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-63668567"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">March</span><br> 5</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-episode-8-lafleur.html">"Lost": Episode 8, "LaFleur"</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p>Holy Horace Goodspeed, this is why I love this show.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef011168c268f6970c-pi" style="FLOAT: right"><img alt="Lost5lafleurjhem" class="at-xid-6a00d8341bfc7553ef011168c268f6970c " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef011168c268f6970c-350wi" style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px; WIDTH: 350px"/></a> </p> <p>Just when all of us smarty-pants obsessive <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="COLOR: #0000ff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>"Lost"</strong></span></a> fans start to think that we have (some of) it figured out, by gum, along comes an episode like this to knock us back on our heels. I'm a little light-headed after absorbing everything that was presented to us in "LaFleur."</p> <p>I think it felt particularly intense because a lot of it seemed to be pretty straightforward. I lost track of time after the second or third "Three Years Earlier/Later" slate and just tried to keep up with the ride as best I could. There were too many WTF and OMG moments to count. I was scribbling the whole hour; for once, I didn't mind the commercial breaks (except the Victoria's Secret spot with the skeletal model. That bugged the hell out of me. Enough with the emaciated look, already.)</p> <p>One big question that popped into my mind right as I sat down to write: Where's Ben in the '70s Dharma groove that we've settled into?</p> <p>By the end of this captivating seg, written by Elizabeth Sarnoff and Kyle Pennington and helmed by Mark Goldman, we learn that our ragged band of time-travelers -- Juliet, Sawyer, Miles, Jin and Faraday -- first integrate themselves with Dharma in 1974. And three years from that time would be, of course, 1977 (summer of "Star Wars" - I remember it well).</p> <p>Ben, as we know from that great season three episode), was born by the roadside in Portland, Ore., sometime in the early 1960s (to the best of my recollection at this moment) and of course was delivered by good ol' Horace Goodspeed and his girlfriend/wife who were kind enough to help Ben's mom and dad in their moment of need, and then help Ben and his no-good dad come to the island when Ben was 10-11-ish. So doing the math, you gotta believe that Ben definitely arrives on the island somewhere between the 1974-1977 time frame, if not before. And, if memory serves, he's about 20-21-ish when he helps deliver the gas attack on the Dharmas, on his birthday no less.</p> <p>During the episode, I kept thinking about how the presence of Sawyer et al for these years will turn out to have influenced the course of the Dharma story. As Faraday reminded us yet again tonight, "What happened happened." I'm sure our "Lost" leaders have answers for us, at some point.</p> <p>Another thing that made this seg so engaging was the superb casting. The scene early on with the Dharma guards in the monitoring station who are afraid to go get "Mr. LaFleur" was a fantastic case of When TV Worlds Collide. Guard Jerry was the great Herc from "Friday Night Lights," played by Kevin Rankin. And Guard Phil was the unctuous, but somehow charming, Jimmy Barrett from "Mad Men," played by Patrick Fischler. Whoo hoo. Bonus points for TV junkies!</p> <p></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-episode-8-lafleur.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": Episode 8, "LaFleur"" »</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-episode-8-lafleur.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/ABC" rel="tag">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Lost" rel="tag">Lost</a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 12:14 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-episode-8-lafleur.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-episode-8-lafleur.html#comments">Comments (6)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-episode-8-lafleur.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/03/lost-episode-8-lafleur.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Episode 8, "LaFleur"", summary:""Lost": Episode 8, "LaFleur"", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-63365159"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">February</span><br>25</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/02/lost-episode-7-the-life-and-death-of-jeremy-bentham.html">"Lost": Episode 7, "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p>"Hey, I'm just a driver."</p> <p>When you're Lance Reddick, you're never<em> just</em> an anything. You are the creepiest, spookiest, strangely compelling and "Wire"-y driver who ever prowled the streets of L.A., or Tunisia, or Santo Domingo, or Santa Monica. Gawd, he's a fantastic actor, and there was<span style="COLOR: #ff007f; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-lance-reddick25-2009feb25,0,324345.story"><span style="COLOR: #ff007f; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>a great pic and feature story</strong></span></a> on our man Matthew Abaddon in today's L.A. Times. </p> <p>Abaddon's return to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="COLOR: #0000ff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>"Lost"</strong></span></a><span style="COLOR: #0000ff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span>in episode seven, "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham," was the maraschino cherry and jim-jims on top of a six-scoop (one for each of tonight's extra minutes) hot fudge sundae. What did we do in our past time travels to deserve such a wonder on Wednesday night. (Sadly, ABC has no art from last night's seg; apparently none of its photogs covered this episode.)</p> <p>There's much to sort through in this seg -- delivered to us by the power trio of Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof and helmer Jack "Badass Lenser" Bender -- but let's start with some big-picture questions.</p> <p>** So, who exactly is Richard Alpert aligned with? Ben? Widmore? Jacob? Captain Jack Sparrow? Someone/thing else entirely? Interesting that both Ben and Widmore sort of dismiss him to Locke.</p> <p>** How did Widmore know to track Locke pre-815 crash? How'd he know to send Abaddon to work as the orderly in the hospital where he told Locke to go on the Oz walkabout, etc. Who told him about Locke? Alpert? Or did Widmore know from their 1954 meeting? I loved it when Widmore in Tunisia asked Locke "how long has it been for you" since Locke first encountered Widmore at 17. Everything we think we know is wrong.</p> <p>** Caesar (c'mon, there's nothing coincidental about that name) who we first met briefly last week, is no innocent victim here. He seemed to be very deliberately and purposefully looking for something in that office space on the island in the opening shot. I don't remember a Dharma station that looked quite like that however. And Ilana, the woman who seemed to be a cop escorting Sayid on the plane in last week's seg, seemed to know Caesar as more than just a fellow castaway.</p> <p></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/02/lost-episode-7-the-life-and-death-of-jeremy-bentham.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": Episode 7, "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"" »</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/02/lost-episode-7-the-life-and-death-of-jeremy-bentham.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Lost" rel="tag">Lost</a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 11:54 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/02/lost-episode-7-the-life-and-death-of-jeremy-bentham.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/02/lost-episode-7-the-life-and-death-of-jeremy-bentham.html#comments">Comments (2)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/02/lost-episode-7-the-life-and-death-of-jeremy-bentham.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/02/lost-episode-7-the-life-and-death-of-jeremy-bentham.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Episode 7, "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"", summary:""Lost": Episode 7, "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-62770053"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">February</span><br>12</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/02/lost-no-1-in-online-viewing-but-privileged-has-its-fans-too.html">"Lost": No. 1 in online viewing, but "Privileged" has its fans too</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef010537240f69970b-pi" style="FLOAT: left"><img alt="Lost5sawyear" class="at-xid-6a00d8341bfc7553ef010537240f69970b " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef010537240f69970b-400wi" style="MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px; WIDTH: 360px"/></a> Here’s a news flash: <strong>“Lost”</strong> is a hit online. But so is CW’s <strong>“Privileged.”</strong> </p> <p>For the first time, Nielsen Online has released rankings for online streaming of episodes and clips.<br/>“Lost” tops the chart for the month of December with 1.4 million unique viewers, followed by NBC’s <strong>“Saturday Night Live”</strong> with 1.1 million.</p> <p>By the yardstick of the total time viewers spent with a show online, the surprise leader in December was CW’s “Privileged.” The rating-challenged dramedy drew only 29,000 unique viewers, but those that did tune in stuck around for an average of 214.6 minutes.</p> <p>There’s a big caveat to these rankings, however, in that they don’t include shows streamed via Hulu because Hulu won’t breakout its numbers to Nielsen (at least if I'm reading Nielsen-ese right. A Nielsen Online rep would only say that Hulu is "not available in our syndication service.")</p> <p>Nielsen’s survey includes the websites of Hulu partners NBC and Fox, as well as ABC, CBS and CW. But by all accounts, Hulu's vid streaming traffic has outpaced that of the Peacock and Fox nets' individual websites. The survey captures clips that are embedded on other websites and blogs, as long as the streams come from the network's proprietary player (but not Hulu's player).</p> <p></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/02/lost-no-1-in-online-viewing-but-privileged-has-its-fans-too.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": No. 1 in online viewing, but "Privileged" has its fans too" »</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/02/lost-no-1-in-online-viewing-but-privileged-has-its-fans-too.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Desperate%2BHousewives" rel="tag">Desperate Housewives</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Grey's%2BAnatomy" rel="tag">Grey's Anatomy</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Heroes" rel="tag">Heroes</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Lost" rel="tag">Lost</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Privileged" rel="tag">Privileged</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Saturday%2BNight%2BLive" rel="tag">Saturday Night Live</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Scrubs" rel="tag">Scrubs</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Ugly%2BBetty" rel="tag">Ugly Betty</a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 05:28 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/cbs/">CBS</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/cw/">CW</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/desperate_housewives/">Desperate Housewives</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/fox/">Fox</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/gossip_girl/">Gossip Girl</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/hulu/">Hulu</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/kitchen_nightmares/">Kitchen Nightmares</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ratings/">Ratings</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/saturday_night_live/">Saturday Night Live</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_simpsons/">The Simpsons</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ugly_betty/">Ugly Betty</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/02/lost-no-1-in-online-viewing-but-privileged-has-its-fans-too.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/02/lost-no-1-in-online-viewing-but-privileged-has-its-fans-too.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/02/lost-no-1-in-online-viewing-but-privileged-has-its-fans-too.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; 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WIDTH: 350px"/></a> <br/>"It's OK, he's with me."</p> <p>No, Jack, <em>you're</em> with <em>him.</em>You might as well have a dog collar around you're neck because you are sooooo subservient to Benjamin Linus now that it's hard to take. Just ask Kate.</p> <p>For all the curve balls that tonight's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="COLOR: #4040ff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>"Lost"</strong></span></a> installment, "The Little Prince," threw at us -- and they were fast and furious in the last 15 minutes (JIN! ROUSSEAU! JIN! JIN! JIN! JIN!), the one big moment of clarity I had was that Jack is just a goner. He may be cleaned up a bit, having sworn off the OxyContin and the facial hair, but he most certainly has lost his mind -- the sharp, skeptical, strategic mind that helped the castaways so much in the early going of Our Great Adventure.</p> <p>I saw it most particularly when Jack and Kate were sitting in Kate's car outside the motel, when Jack talked Kate into letting him go confront Claire's mother. (It's always a good "Lost" episode when there are multiple references to Claire's surname, or in this case "Mrs. Littleton," though in point of fact I am not a Mrs. Littleton, but it's still cool...)</p> <p>Jack pleads: "I can fix this, Kate." So cloying. If you have to spell it out, you're doomed. Jack of old would've been up the staircase before Kate had time to react, and he would've tried to punch out the lawyer on his way down the stairs. And then he would've wigged out some more and made sure he hadn't given the guy a concussion.</p> <p>In the closing scenes, Jack just sounds ridiculous trying to convince Kate "we all need to be together." Earlier in the episode he tries to convince Sayid "Ben is on our side." Can't he tell how ridiculous he sounds? Sayid wisely corrects Jack: "The only side he's on is his own." But does Jack listen? Nooooo.</p> <p></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/02/lost-episode-4-the-little-prince.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": Episode 4, "The Little Prince"" »</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/02/lost-episode-4-the-little-prince.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Evangeline%2BLilly" rel="tag">Evangeline Lilly</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Josh%2BHolloway" rel="tag">Josh Holloway</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Lost" rel="tag">Lost</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Matthew%2BFox" rel="tag">Matthew Fox</a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 12:15 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/02/lost-episode-4-the-little-prince.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/02/lost-episode-4-the-little-prince.html#comments">Comments (2)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/02/lost-episode-4-the-little-prince.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/02/lost-episode-4-the-little-prince.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Episode 4, "The Little Prince"", summary:""Lost": Episode 4, "The Little Prince"", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-62084756"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">January</span><br>29</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/01/lost-episode-three-jughead.html">"Lost": Episode 3, "Jughead"</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef010537005c4e970c-pi" style="FLOAT: left"><img alt="Lostjugheadjuliet" class="at-xid-6a00d8341bfc7553ef010537005c4e970c " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef010537005c4e970c-400wi" style="MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px; WIDTH: 375px"/></a> "Put the gun down, Widmore." I squealed at that line.</p> <p>So, we're three episodes in to the penultimate season of "Lost." Where are we? When are we? Who's who and what's what? I don't have a freakin' clue from minute to minute, but I'm loving the ride.</p> <p>Tonight's seg, "Jughead" -- written by Elizabeth Sarnoff and Paul Zbyszewski and helmed by Rod Holcomb -- was deceptively slow-paced, at least that's what you think until you see it all the way through. There's lots to digest, but I want to start by focusing on someone who's been bugging me for a while: Juliet.</p> <p>She knows more than she's telling about a lot of things. I don't mean to suggest that she's got ulterior or evil motives, or that she was anything less than committed to helping the former castaways (Jack, Kate, Sun et al) or Sawyer and the rest of the small group she's stuck with now. I think Jack had it right back in season three when he told her that he could see in her eyes how desperately she wants off that island.</p> <p>But there's still something beguiling about her, so wonderfully and maddeningly mysterious about her, and that's a testament to Elizabeth Mitchell's talent in handling this tough role. You get the feeling that Juliet hasn't told anyone one-tenth of the horrors she saw in New Otherton and other locales on the island. Maybe it's all just too painful and she's blocking it all out.</p> <p>But Juliet continues to have these moments where she dribbles out a little more information about her past -- like the scene in this seg where she starts conversing in Latin with the two guys they've captured from Richard Alpert's group. The quizzical look of disdain that Sawyer gives her when she matter of factly explains that the guys speak Latin "for the same reason I do -- because they're Others." <br/></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/01/lost-episode-three-jughead.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": Episode 3, "Jughead"" »</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/01/lost-episode-three-jughead.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/%22%2BABC" rel="tag">" ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/%22Lost" rel="tag">"Lost</a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 12:07 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/01/lost-episode-three-jughead.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/01/lost-episode-three-jughead.html#comments">Comments (1)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/01/lost-episode-three-jughead.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/01/lost-episode-three-jughead.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Episode 3, "Jughead"", summary:""Lost": Episode 3, "Jughead"", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-61735806"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">January</span><br>21</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/01/lost-better-with-friends.html">"Lost": Better with friends</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef010536e35972970b-pi" style="FLOAT: left"><img alt="Lost5hurley" class="at-xid-6a00d8341bfc7553ef010536e35972970b " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/.a/6a00d8341bfc7553ef010536e35972970b-350wi" style="MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px; WIDTH: 350px"/></a> Let's get "Lost."</p> <p>We're waiting for the pizza to arrive. It's just under an hour until "Lost's" season five premiere. </p> <p>A half-dozen of the biggest "Lost" geeks at Variety are gathering in a conference room to eat, theorize and be merry as we enjoy the first two episodes. "Lost" is better with friends. </p> </div>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/01/lost-better-with-friends.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Lost" rel="tag">Lost</a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 07:52 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/01/lost-better-with-friends.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/01/lost-better-with-friends.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/01/lost-better-with-friends.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2009/01/lost-better-with-friends.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Better with friends", summary:""Lost": Better with friends", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-60649974"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">December</span><br>31</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/12/happy-new-year.html">Happy New Year! Here's to a fine '09 full of good TV</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/31/unitedstatesoftara.jpg"><img title="Unitedstatesoftara" height="477" alt="Unitedstatesoftara" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/12/31/unitedstatesoftara.jpg" width="375" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>Emerging from my December blog hibernation, I'm much more inclined to look forward to what the small screen has in store for '09 than reassessing '08. Fortunately, my <em><span style="color: #336600;">Variety</span></em> colleague Stuart Levine was motivated to muse on his highs and lows for '08 (posted after the jump).</p> <p>There's not a whole lot that I've penciled into my must-see sked for the first quarter. Of course, the Big Event is the <span style="color: #ff0033;"><strong>Jan. 21</strong> </span>return of <strong>"Lost"</strong> for its high-five season (more on that later). The final two <strong>"Friday Night Lights"</strong> segs of the season (maybe forever) on DirecTV <strong><span style="color: #ff0066;">Jan. 7-14</span></strong>, will be three-hanky affairs, for sure, according to sources who have already screened them. And there'll be more multicamera hijinks to enjoy from <strong>"The Big Bang Theory"</strong> ensemble, my fave comedy troupe on the tube these days, hands down.</p> <p>As for new material, I was very impressed by what I saw on the four-episode screener of Showtime's <strong>"The United States of Tara." </strong>Toni Collette is amazing as a suburban mother and artist who grapples with three distinct personalities who also inhabit Tara's corporeal being. The supporting cast is also strong, with John Corbett playing Tara's husband in an understated way, and the always-engaging Rosemarie DeWitt as Tara's sister. Brie Larson impresses as the older of Tara's two teenage kids.</p> <p>"Tara," which as everyone knows was conceived by Steven Spielberg and birthed by Diablo Cody, bows<span style="color: #ff0033;"><strong> Jan. 18.</strong></span></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/12/happy-new-year.html#more">Continue reading "Happy New Year! 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The current occupant of the Wednesday 9 p.m. berth, ABC’s sophomore season drama “Private Practice,” will be relocated after “Lost” returns, ABC said Friday.</p> <p>It’s expected that ABC will make more skedding changes on Wednesday in the near future, given the weak perf of 8 p.m.’s “Pushing Daisies” and 10 p.m.’s “Dirty Sexy Money” this fall. “Private Practice,” on the other hand, has been given a full-season order.</p> <p>“Lost” will bow Jan. 21 with <del>its usual season preem drill:</del> two back to back segs from 9-11 p.m., preceded at 8 p.m. by a clip recap show.</p> <p><em>(Sorry, as a reader points out, "Lost" has not previously bowed with back-to-back segs. The screeners ABC sent out at the start of season 4 and the bifurcated season 3 included at least two episodes, so that's the source of my late-on-a-Friday-afternoon confusion.)</em></p> </div>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/11/lost-the-isle-o.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/ABC" rel="tag">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Lost" rel="tag">Lost</a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 04:33 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/11/lost-the-isle-o.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/11/lost-the-isle-o.html#comments">Comments (15)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/11/lost-the-isle-o.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/11/lost-the-isle-o.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": The isle of mystery returns Jan. 21", summary:""Lost": The isle of mystery returns Jan. 21", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-57705495"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">October</span><br>28</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/10/lost-season-5-t.html">"Lost": Season 5 trailer</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p>Oh boy, here's the new "Lost" trailer. ABC hasn't officially set the preem date beyond "early 2009." Here's to hoping it's closer to mid-Jan.than early Feb. Still wondering what Sawyer and Juliet have been talking about all this time...</p><embed name="flashObj" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005oe_/http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1873859515" width="486" height="412" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swliveconnect="true" seamlesstabbing="false" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" flashvars="playerId=1873859515&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&services URL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&domain=embed&autoStart=false&" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></embed> </div>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/10/lost-season-5-t.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/%22%2BABC" rel="tag">" ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/%22Lost" rel="tag">"Lost</a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 06:23 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/10/lost-season-5-t.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/10/lost-season-5-t.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/10/lost-season-5-t.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/10/lost-season-5-t.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Season 5 trailer", summary:""Lost": Season 5 trailer", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-55947902"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">September</span><br>21</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/09/emmys-red-carpe.html">Emmys: Red carpet madness</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/09/21/christina_hendricks.jpg"><img title="Christina_hendricks" height="522" alt="Christina_hendricks" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/09/21/christina_hendricks.jpg" width="350" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>Lotsa fun to be had out on the red carpet at the Nokia. Where else are you going to see moments like William Shatner apologizing to Glenn Close for stepping on the train of her dress? Melora Hardin and Tina Fey complimenting each other on their shows and predicting that each other's would win the top comedy prize. </p> <p>Plenty of actors seemed to come in character, like most of the "Mad Men" troupe. Couldn't help but notice that Elisabeth <del>Much</del> Moss and Vincent Kartheiser came together -- Elisabeth looking lovely in silver sequins.</p> <p>Christina Hendricks <em>(pictured left)</em> could stop traffic -- or more accurately, start traffic -- in a gorgeous emerald green clingly thing with a drop-dead neckline. Even her jeweled strappy heels were gorgeous.</p> <p>Didn't get to see Jon Hamm or January Jones, but Bryan Batt (Salvatore), Michael Gladis (Paul) and Rich Sommer (Harrry) all came together, and in character it seemed (Gladis sported a silk polka dot scarf).</p> <p>Most fun was running into Stephen Colbert, who was bragging about how he goes way back with Sarah Palin. "Sarah and I go way back together. We used to hunt together. She's all truthiness."</p> <p>Most enlightening was running into Emilie de Ravin from "Lost." "Claire's not dead," she said when I <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/09/21/brookeshields.jpg"><img title="Brookeshields" height="426" alt="Brookeshields" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/09/21/brookeshields.jpg" width="300" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/></a> gave her my condolensces. She won't be in the first few episodes of the fifth season, but "she's not dead." She said it twice so it must be true. Phew.</p> <p>Brooke Shields (<em>pictured right</em>) is channeling Rita Hayworth tonight. She looked stunning with flowing curls and a maroon frilly dress. Va va voom.</p> </div>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/09/emmys-red-carpe.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/%22%2B%22Mad%2BMen" rel="tag">" "Mad Men</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/%22%2BChristina%2BHendricks" rel="tag">" Christina Hendricks</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/%22Lost" rel="tag">"Lost</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://technorati.com/tag/Emmy" rel="tag">Emmy</a> </p> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 05:00 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/emmys/">Emmys</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/mad_men/">Mad Men</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/09/emmys-red-carpe.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/09/emmys-red-carpe.html#comments">Comments (1)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/09/emmys-red-carpe.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/09/emmys-red-carpe.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:"Emmys: Red carpet madness", summary:"Emmys: Red carpet madness", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-54487878"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">August</span><br>20</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/08/tivo-number-cru.html">TiVo number crunching: Interesting stats</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/20/lost4hurleyaaron_2.jpg"></a>What do "Lost," the U.S. Open golf tourney and "So You Think You Can Dance" all have in common? <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/20/lost4hurleyaaron_3.jpg"><img title="Lost4hurleyaaron_3" height="222" alt="Lost4hurleyaaron_3" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/08/20/lost4hurleyaaron_3.jpg" width="300" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/></a> Click on over to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/season_pass/2008/08/why-may-29-land.html"><span style="color: #9900cc;"><strong>this post on the Season Pass</strong></span></a><span style="color: #9900cc;"><strong> </strong></span>blog to find out.</p> <p>Hint: It involves TiVo viewing and commercials, and the people who love them both.</p> </div>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 06:54 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ratings/">Ratings</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/tivo/">TiVo</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/08/tivo-number-cru.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/08/tivo-number-cru.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/08/tivo-number-cru.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/08/tivo-number-cru.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:"TiVo number crunching: Interesting stats", summary:"TiVo number crunching: Interesting stats", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-53871234"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">August</span><br> 6</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/08/lost-comic-con.html">"Lost": Comic-Con video finally up on ABC.com</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/06/lost11lockelantern.jpg"><img title="Lost11lockelantern" height="293" alt="Lost11lockelantern" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/08/06/lost11lockelantern.jpg" width="200" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>Good to finally get a proper look at this year's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="color: #9900ff;"><strong>"Lost" vid from Comic-Con</strong></span></a> now that it's popped up on ABC.com. </p> <p>"Secret Candle" drops a lot of hints, though I just don't know if I buy that Marvin Candle (aka Edgar Halliwax) is Pierre Chang, professor of astrophysics from Ann Arbor, Mich.</p> <p>"Time isn't just of the essense, it is the essense," Candle/Halliwax/Chang pleads, from 30 years in the past (or is it his future and our past?). The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=podcast#t=3421"><span style="color: #ff0033;"><strong>audio of the "Lost" panel</strong></span></a><span style="color: #ff0033;"><strong> </strong></span>with Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse and Matthew Fox from Comic-Con is also posted on the show's podcast page.</p> <p>I'm grateful for any morsel of fresh "Lost" material, but it's also kinda harsh to see the "returns in early 2009" posted on the show's home page, given that it's the dog days of August and we still have to wait another Six Months at Minimum for the next full-length adventure with the Flight 815's once-and-future castaways.</p> </div>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 08:29 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/carlton_cuse/">Carlton Cuse</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/damon_lindelof/">Damon Lindelof</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/08/lost-comic-con.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/08/lost-comic-con.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/08/lost-comic-con.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/08/lost-comic-con.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Comic-Con video finally up on ABC.com", summary:""Lost": Comic-Con video finally up on ABC.com", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-53481356"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">July</span><br>29</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/07/lost-comic-con.html">"Lost": Comic-Con tidbits and trinkets</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p>Can't wait for this year's "Lost" Comic-Con teaser vid with the creepy Dr. Marvin Candle (or whatever his handle is) to show up on ABC.com or iTunes.</p> <p>I've seen the grainy versions captured on cell phone cameras and posted on YouTube but those are more frustrating than anything else because you can't grasp all the nuances, hints and clues. For those of us who didn't make it to Comic-Con, Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune has provided us with the next best thing -- a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2008/07/lost-at-comic-c.html#more"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>fabulous write-up of the "Lost" panel</strong></span></a><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong> </strong></span>on her The Watcher blog.</p> <p>It's so good, you'll feel like you've time-traveled back a few days to the S.D. Convention Center after reading it. Thanks, Mo.</p> </div>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 06:58 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/carlton_cuse/">Carlton Cuse</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/damon_lindelof/">Damon Lindelof</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/07/lost-comic-con.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/07/lost-comic-con.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/07/lost-comic-con.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/07/lost-comic-con.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Comic-Con tidbits and trinkets", summary:""Lost": Comic-Con tidbits and trinkets", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-52923070"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">July</span><br>19</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/07/emmys-parsing-t.html">Emmys: Thoughts about series directing and writing nominees</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/19/barrysonnenfeld.jpg"><img title="Barrysonnenfeld" height="205" alt="Barrysonnenfeld" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/07/19/barrysonnenfeld.jpg" width="160" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>Emmy's picks for writing and directing nominees in the series categories are kinda like a state of the craft report card every year. They're often the category where new and innovative programs are recognized long before they crack the more prominent races.</p> <p>But in a year when Emmy voters seemed to embrace new and different, the choices in the writing and directing heats seem more pedestrian, though some of this year's contenders were so obvious (<strong>Bryan Fuller</strong> and <strong>Barry</strong> <strong>Sonnenfeld</strong> for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/pushingdaisiesl/index?pn=index"><span style="color: #ff0066;"><strong>"Pushing Daisies"</strong></span></a> Pie-lette, <strong>Matthew Weiner</strong> and <strong>Alan</strong> <strong>Taylor</strong> for the<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/"><span style="color: #9900ff;"><strong> "Mad Men"</strong></span></a> pilot) as to take some of the suspense out of the race this year. Sonnenfeld <em>(pictured left)</em> and Taylor <em>(pictured right)</em> have already bagged DGA Awards for their work on these pilots.</p> <p>Sonnenfeld, IMHO, can safely begin rehearsing his acceptance speech for comedy helmer. (Coming from him, it oughta be a doozy.) The competish is strong -- a six-nominee category meaning that there was one tie in the nom ballotting -- but nothing was quite so inventive and visually distinct as that first slice of ABC's "Pushing Daisies."<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/19/alantaylordga.jpg"><img title="Alantaylordga" height="255" alt="Alantaylordga" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/07/19/alantaylordga.jpg" width="175" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/></a> </p> <p>From my viewfinder, the dark horse in the race could be <strong>James Bobin</strong> of HBO's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.hbo.com/conchords/"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>"Flight of the Conchords."</strong></span></a><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong> </strong></span>Bobin, co-creator of the series with Kiwi comedy-rockers Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, is up for the "Sally Returns" episode of "Conchord's" 12-episode frosh season.</p> <p><strong>Dan Attias</strong> nabbed a nom for the "No Cannes Do" installment of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.hbo.com/entourage/"><span style="color: #ff3300;"><strong>"Entourage."</strong></span></a> <strong>Paul Lieberstein</strong> has shown that there's no end to his talents by performing, writing and directing segs of NBC's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/"><span style="color: #339900;"><strong>"The Office,"</strong></span></a><span style="color: #339900;"><strong> </strong></span>and now he's up for helming the seg "Money" Parts 1 and 2 (sounds like a James Brown hit from the early '70s). Also nommed from "Office" is <strong>Paul Feig</strong>, for handling the season finale, "Goodbye, Toby," which happened to mark the farewell of Lieberstein's character. <strong>Michael Engler</strong> of NBC's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.nbc.com/30_Rock/"><span style="color: #990033;"><strong>"30 Rock" </strong></span></a>is up for the "Rosemary's Baby" installment.</p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/07/emmys-parsing-t.html#more">Continue reading "Emmys: Thoughts about series directing and writing nominees" »</a> </p>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 04:22 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/academy_of_television_arts_sciences/">Academy of Television Arts & Sciences</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/aliens_in_america/">Aliens in America</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/barry_sonnenfeld/">Barry Sonnenfeld</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/battlestar_galatica/">Battlestar Galatica</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/boston_legal/">Boston Legal</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/bryan_fuller/">Bryan Fuller</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/chuck_lorre/">Chuck Lorre</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/cw/">CW</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/david_simon/">David Simon</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/directors/">Directors</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/how_i_met_your_mother/">How I Met Your Mother</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/law_order/">Law & Order</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/law_order_svu/">Law & Order: SVU</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/mad_men/">Mad Men</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/matthew_weiner/">Matthew Weiner</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/nbc/">NBC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/pilots/">Pilots</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/showtime/">Showtime</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_big_bang_theory/">The Big Bang Theory</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/tina_fey/">Tina Fey</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/weeds/">Weeds</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/writers/">Writers</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/07/emmys-parsing-t.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/07/emmys-parsing-t.html#comments">Comments (2)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/07/emmys-parsing-t.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; 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(It helped me save my <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/17/lost4ben_2.jpg"><img title="Lost4ben_2" height="344" alt="Lost4ben_2" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/07/17/lost4ben_2.jpg" width="230" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/17/lost4ben.jpg"></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/17/lostben.jpg"></a>fire for the final snub of "The Wire," which "On the Air" contributor and fellow "Wire" nut Stuart Levine called more than a week ago.)</p> <p>Season four of "Lost" was one long thrill ride -- a cerebral adventure that called for viewers to have masters degrees in physics, engineering, philosophy and literature. Hard to believe Henry Ian Cusick, aka Desmond, didn't make the supporting drama actor cut, given that the seg submitted to the Acad was his tour de force in "The Constant."</p> <p>Now, there really would've been trouble in TV town if <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0256237/"><span style="color: #660033;"><strong>Michael Emerson</strong></span></a><span style="color: #660033;"><strong> </strong></span>had not made the list, for his labors as the nefarious Benjamin. He's so good in the role that you can never quite decide if he's evil incarnate or just a misunderstood Other. (My favorite bit of Emerson trivia is that the actress who played Ben's mom in the season three flashback segs, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0696387/"><span style="color: #ff0033;"><strong>Carrie Preston</strong></span></a>, is his wife.) </p> <p>Also nice to see the Acad recognize that "Lost" is the best lensed show on TV with a cinematography nod, to John Bartley for "The Constant." And another nod for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0315974/"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><strong>Michael Giacchino</strong></span></a> for his most excellent scoring work. He wuz robbed earlier this year at the Oscars when he lost for "Ratatouille." Here's hoping he adds another Emmy to his collection in September.</p> </div>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 03:19 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/michael_emerson/">Michael Emerson</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/07/emmys-lost-is-r.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/07/emmys-lost-is-r.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/07/emmys-lost-is-r.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/07/emmys-lost-is-r.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:"Emmys: "Lost" is rediscovered; Ben, you rascal, you", summary:"Emmys: "Lost" is rediscovered; Ben, you rascal, you", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-52137624"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">July</span><br> 1</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/07/lost-turns-a-pa.html">"Lost" turns a page</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/01/lost4sawyerbook.jpg"><img title="Lost4sawyerbook" height="419" alt="Lost4sawyerbook" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/07/01/lost4sawyerbook.jpg" width="299" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>Like parents trying to get the kids to turn off the TV and the Wii and spend some time between covers this summer, ABC and "Lost" stewards Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have launched the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=bookclub"><span style="color: #9900cc;"><strong>"Lost Book Club</strong></span></a>" via ABC.com and iTunes.</p> <p>It is exactly what it sounds like: A running list of books that have made their way on to one of the smallscreen's Best Shows Ever. There's info about each title, details of how it was referenced on the show and of course, a forum for fan gabbery. It's a little something to help tide us over during the (argggh) seven more months (give or take a week or two) until our heroes come storming back in early '09.</p> <p>(I'm just dying to know what's transpiring between Sawyer, Juliet and that bottle of Dharma rum right about now...)</p> <p>Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise 4 Ever!</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/01/lost4benbook.jpg"><img title="Lost4benbook" height="449" alt="Lost4benbook" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/07/01/lost4benbook.jpg" width="300" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/></a> </p> </div>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 04:28 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/carlton_cuse/">Carlton Cuse</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/damon_lindelof/">Damon Lindelof</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/07/lost-turns-a-pa.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/07/lost-turns-a-pa.html#comments">Comments (1)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/07/lost-turns-a-pa.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/07/lost-turns-a-pa.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost" turns a page", summary:""Lost" turns a page", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-51126058"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">June</span><br> 9</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/06/sag-rally-when.html">SAG rally: When TV worlds collide</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p>It was a surreal when-worlds-collide scene during the SAG solidarity rally today held outside the union's headquarters, which are conveniently located across the street from <em>Variety</em>.</p> <p>The rally was designed to be a demonstration of SAG's resolve to fight for a "fair deal" and make it crystal clear how SAG feels about the primetime contract that its fellow actors union AFTRA just reached. The "vote no" chants and frequent cries of "AFTRA sucks" from the crowd left little doubt where SAG leaders come down on how the unions' 44,000 overlapping members should vote, as <em>Variety</em>'s ever-laboring <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117987130.html?categoryid=13&cs=1"><span style="color: #336600;"><strong>Dave McNary reports.</strong></span></a></p> <p>But as I made my way closer to the speakers platform where SAG's Alan Rosenberg and Doug Allen were speechifying, I was stopped dead by the presence of an Other. I started to hear the whispers. I ducked, scanned Wilshire Boulevard for signs of Smokey, and then looked up at the turquoise sky to make sure that a commercial airliner wasn't about to explode overhead.</p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/06/sag-rally-when.html#more">Continue reading "SAG rally: When TV worlds collide" »</a> </p>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 05:11 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/adam_12/">Adam 12</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/desperate_housewives/">Desperate Housewives</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/guilds/">Guilds</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/06/sag-rally-when.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/06/sag-rally-when.html#comments">Comments (2)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/06/sag-rally-when.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/06/sag-rally-when.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:"SAG rally: When TV worlds collide", summary:"SAG rally: When TV worlds collide", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-50704584"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">June</span><br> 1</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/06/lost-theres-no.html">"Lost": "There's No Place Like Home," take two</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/06/02/lost4finale.jpg"></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/06/02/lost4finale_2.jpg"><img title="Lost4finale_2" height="250" alt="Lost4finale_2" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/06/02/lost4finale_2.jpg" width="375" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>It kinda felt like time stopped for about 48 hours or so after "Lost" delivered to us its amazing season four finale on Thursday night. I couldn't think of anything else but the scads of plot developments served up in the three-parter, "There's No Place Like Home."</p> <p>I watched it again the way it was clearly meant to be viewed -- the three parts consecutively, with pause and rewind buttons at the ready -- and tried to step back a bit and think about the larger story that has gripped so many of us since Oceanic flight 815 hit that first nasty pocket of turbulence on Sept. 22, 2004.</p> <p>Interesting, if not surprising, to see that Jack is the most focused on piecing together the truth of what's been happening to them -- even in his pill-popping, boozy, out-there state in the flash-forwards, he's on a quest for answers. The remaining survivors, even Have Gun, Will Travel Sayid, seem to still be in a state of post-traumatic island fever denial.</p> <p>On one hand, the fact that there is a conspiracy to cover it up -- the staging of the faux 815 plane wreckage, etc. - should give credence to Jack's stance that it's not about destiny or miracles but science, the individual and free will -- in this case some folks very determined to snuff out the free will, and the last breaths, of the 815 survivors. (It's not explicitly clear to me whether Jack's aware of who Charles Widmore is, but I'm guessing he got an earful from copter jockey Frank Lapidus during the time they spent together on Penny's boat)</p> <p>But on the other hand (no pun intended), Jack has a fascinating conversion in the life boat after the helicopter crash, just before they run into Penny's boat. Soon as he sees the light at the end of the tunnel -- the lights of a boat that can help them get back to civilization -- he must've heard Locke's warning from the greenhouse echoing in his ears. In insisting that the shell-shocked survivors concoct a doozy of a story to cover their tracks, he's tacitly accepting at least some of what Locke asserted.</p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/06/lost-theres-no.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": "There's No Place Like Home," take two" »</a> </p>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 10:33 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/carlton_cuse/">Carlton Cuse</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/damon_lindelof/">Damon Lindelof</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/06/lost-theres-no.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/06/lost-theres-no.html#comments">Comments (3)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/06/lost-theres-no.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/06/lost-theres-no.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": "There's No Place Like Home," take two", summary:""Lost": "There's No Place Like Home," take two", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-50600748"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">May</span><br>30</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-theres-no.html">"Lost": "There's No Place Like Home," Parts 2 and 3</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/30/lostfinale4lockecastket_2.jpg"><img title="Lostfinale4lockecastket_2" height="524" alt="Lostfinale4lockecastket_2" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/05/30/lostfinale4lockecastket_2.jpg" width="350" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>"Lie to them. If you do it half as well as you do it to yourself, they'll believe you."<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/30/lostfinale4lockecastket.jpg"></a> </p> <p>Oh Locke. Jeremy. Locke. Bentham. Whatever your name is. Wherever you are...</p> <p>"Lost's" fourth season finale, "There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 and 3," wasn't 88 minutes of television. It was somewhere between a religious experience and a psychedelic journey through time and space, through the earth's crust, past the frozen donkey wheels, past disappearing islands, heroic dudes making the ultimate sacrifices for the ones they love and a latenight break-in at a low-rent funeral parlor in a bad part of L.A. I am still tingling from the enormity and the emotional gamut of the experience.</p> <p><span style="color: #ff0033;"><strong>Friday ayem update: Ratings are in. Big but not nearly as big as you'd think for two of the Greatest Hours of Television Ever. No doubt the DVR numbers will add significantly to the viewership by next week, and the web streams off ABC.com will surely be flowing during the next few weeks. 9-10 p.m. hour of finale averaged 11.9 million viewers and 4.6 rating/13 share in adults 18-49. 10-11 p.m. hour did 12.5 million and 5.1/14 in 18-49.</strong></span></p> <p>There's so much to think about, so much info to process and plot development to parse that it would be folly to try to offer anything like a definitive commentary on these segs while the first viewing is still reverberating around my brain. I didn't know how they were going to be able to top last season's gut-wrenching finale, but Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof (who penned both hours) and helmer Jack Bender surely did.</p> <p>So first some top-of-mind observations and a few questions. After repeat viewing(s), I'll try to draw some larger conclusions. There's plenty of time. I think part of the emotional roller-coaster of tonight is having to come to grips with the fact that we won't get any new episodes until January-February. Shudder.</p> <p>**A moment of mega-significance seems to be the scene toward the end in the life boat (I felt the ghost of Tallulah Bankhead in the scene) when Hurley is talking about "miracles" and Locke moving the island. "One minute it was there, the next minute it was gone." Hurley's statement was such an echo of the conversation Jack had with Locke in the fantastic, fantastic, beautifully shot scene in the Orchard station greenhouse where those two are once again going at it on the science/faith seesaw.</p> <p>"Just wait til you see what I'm about to do," Locke warns him, and then tells him he has to lie about the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/30/lostfinale4jackben.jpg"><img title="Lostfinale4jackben" height="240" alt="Lostfinale4jackben" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/05/30/lostfinale4jackben.jpg" width="300" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/></a> survivors' plane crash experience to protect those left behind. Now fast-forward toward the scene in the life boat and Jack as always is scoffing at the notion of miracles, but, the minute he steps into what turns out to be Penny's boat (Penny's boat!), what's the first thing he cooks up? The Big Lie, for their own protection. For his own protection, as Locke warned him in the greenhouse: "the knowledge (Jack has) will eat you alive from the inside out. You're going to have to lie." Oh boy.</p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-theres-no.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": "There's No Place Like Home," Parts 2 and 3" »</a> </p>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 01:02 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/carlton_cuse/">Carlton Cuse</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/damon_lindelof/">Damon Lindelof</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-theres-no.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-theres-no.html#comments">Comments (9)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-theres-no.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-theres-no.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": "There's No Place Like Home," Parts 2 and 3", summary:""Lost": "There's No Place Like Home," Parts 2 and 3", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-50552426"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">May</span><br>29</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-in-defense.html">"Lost": In defense of the first third of season three</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/29/lostbentotc.jpg"><img title="Lostbentotc" height="377" alt="Lostbentotc" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/05/29/lostbentotc.jpg" width="250" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>"Do you believe in God, Jack?"</p> <p>"Do you?"</p> <p>"Two days after I found out that I had a fatal tumor on my spine, a spinal surgeon fell out of the sky...If that's not proof of God, I don't know what is."</p> <p>This exchange between Ben and Jack in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="color: #0000cc;"><strong>"Lost"</strong></span></a> episode "The Cost of Living," while Jack's imprisoned in the bowels of the Hydra station is more than just an epistemological debate -- it's a heck of a bit of writing that, to my way of thinking, helps prove that the first half of "Lost's" third season has been unfairly maligned as being weak. In preparation for tonight's two-hour, season four closer, I dove into the season three DVD set again.</p> <p>Time has softened some of the harsher criticism, but in the fall of 2006 it seemed that even some of the show's most devoted fans felt the show was off the rails in the first six segs that aired in October and early November, before taking a two-month break. That skedding pattern didn't work well for the peculiar storytelling pattern of "Lost" -- live and learn, and to ABC's credit, they surely did.</p> <p>Season three also carries the stigma of having the dreaded Nikki and Paolo storyline, which enough fans<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/29/lostseason31_2.jpg"><img title="Lostseason31_2" height="280" alt="Lostseason31_2" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/05/29/lostseason31_2.jpg" width="350" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/29/lostseason31.jpg"></a>  yelped about to get the poor misguided characters buried alive before the end of the season. </p> <p>But my goodness, let us not forget that the first few segs of season three are the ones that truly introduce us to Evil Sadistic Madman Ben -- beating Sawyer to a pulp, making Kate break rocks in the hot sun in an itty bitty sun dress and keeping them in cages while he plays  major head trips with Jack in the underground glass-walled cage. He's so bad ass he's not afraid to stroll around in tan pans and white shoes well after Labor Day.</p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-in-defense.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": In defense of the first third of season three" »</a> </p>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 12:04 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/carlton_cuse/">Carlton Cuse</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/damon_lindelof/">Damon Lindelof</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-in-defense.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-in-defense.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-in-defense.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-in-defense.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": In defense of the first third of season three", summary:""Lost": In defense of the first third of season three", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-49949930"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">May</span><br>16</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-episode-12.html">"Lost": Episode 12, "There's No Place Like Home," Part 1</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/16/lost12jackpc.jpg"><img title="Lost12jackpc" height="221" alt="Lost12jackpc" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/05/16/lost12jackpc.jpg" width="150" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>This one opened and closed on high notes but hit some rough sledding in between.</p> <p>"There's No Place Like Home, Part 1," the first of the tri-part season four finale, is the first <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>"Lost"</strong></span></a> seg of the season where I had believe-ability issues with the plot that were nettlesome enough to take me out of the thrall of the storytelling, ever so briefly here and there.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/16/lost12katepc.jpg"><img title="Lost12katepc" height="225" alt="Lost12katepc" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/05/16/lost12katepc.jpg" width="159" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/></a> </p> <p>Jacob's mouthpiece tells Locke to move the island? I can dig it. Ben is a master manipulator who has secret rooms and stashes of "Doctor Who" props all over the island? I'm down with that. Polar bears in the jungle and black smoke monsters with gnarly tempers? Sure. But Aaron is five weeks old? Give me a break!?! That baby is at least three-four months old if he's a day.</p> <p><span style="color: #ff0066;"><strong>(Saturday afternoon update: A reader with impeccable credentials on all things "Lost" makes two good points that should be noted. First, in the "Lost" chronology, Aaron is actually only seven weeks old at the time of the press conference, given that he was born in season one on day 38. Second, and this I really should've remembered, Screen Actors Guild rules and other labor laws make it virtually impossible to do scenes of any length with infants younger than two months. So we gotta allow some slack there.)</strong></span></p> <p>None of the reporters at that press conference would've bought that, and they would've charged that dais to get at Kate with questions about her giving birth on the island. They would've challenged Sayid's assertion that there were "absolutely not" any other crash survivors. How could he possibly know?</p> <p>Jack, as Kate says earlier in the episode, is a horrible liar and Sun is no better. The press would've smelled the B.S. and pounced. There would've been no decorum or quick exit for the survivors -- there <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/16/lost12sunpc.jpg"><img title="Lost12sunpc" height="212" alt="Lost12sunpc" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/05/16/lost12sunpc.jpg" width="150" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a> would have been a riot, and the story would've turned to skepticism about the claims of the Oceanic 6. I thought that was where they were going when the reporters started to ask Kate about giving birth and Sun about her husband. The only thing worse than Jack trying to lie to the press was the awkwardness of him instructing the other five how to lie just before they landed. I noticed they weren't looking at Jack with quite the same reverence as before.</p> <p>Second major hole in the "Lost" ozone layer for me this week: Sun and the business about buying up a controlling interest in her father's mega-conglom. I'm sure each of the 6 got fat settlements from Oceanic Airlines once they turned up, however they turned up. But enough to swoop in and steal control of a<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/16/lost12sayidpc.jpg"></a> multinational conglom from its meglomaniac leader? Oh come on. Those South Korean firms are huge -- it'd take billion(s) and it would not be the kind of transaction you could do in a single morning.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/16/lost12hamel.jpg"><img title="Lost12hamel" height="208" alt="Lost12hamel" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/05/16/lost12hamel.jpg" width="149" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/></a> </p> <p>They could've still had what was otherwise a hell of a showdown scene between Sun and her father without that flight of fancy. We know Sun's got plenty of reasons to despise her father. For starters,<del> I can't swear to it but I don't think Mr. Paik was in that opening scene of the Oceanic 6 reuniting with family members on the tarmac of the military facility</del>. (I'll check in the ayem.) OK, he was there....sorry Mr. Paik.</p> <p>All that said, once again, it was still a mighty entertaining hour of television delivered in the seg penned by our "Lost" leaders, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, and helmed by Stephen Williams. We learned a lot.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/16/lost12hurleypc.jpg"><img title="Lost12hurleypc" height="224" alt="Lost12hurleypc" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/05/16/lost12hurleypc.jpg" width="150" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a> **It jumped right out at me this time: Kate looks an awful lot like Jack's mom, Margo (played by Veronica Hamel, <em>pictured above</em>). </p> <p>**I'd been wondering, like every other "Lost" fan, about what to make of Ben and his whining about losing control to Locke and his faux emotional trauma over his daughter. I don't buy it now. I think he's still the puppet master, manipulating every situation he's in for own nefarious ends. Granted, Ben's got more of a challenge these days with all the unruly factions on the island. But as he informed Locke toward the end of the seg: "I always have a plan." He also admitted once again to not being "entirely truthful" with Locke. Duh.</p> <p>**In the flash-forward scene of Hurley's surprise party, Hurley appeared to have the same style of ceramic Virgin Mary statue that bedeviled dear old Charlie way back in season one, only Hurley's was painted gold. Great line from Mama Hurley: "Jesus Christ is not a weapon" as Hurley holds it over his head ready to strike a charging polar bear or something with it.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/16/lost12sayidpc_2.jpg"><img title="Lost12sayidpc_2" height="224" alt="Lost12sayidpc_2" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/05/16/lost12sayidpc_2.jpg" width="150" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/></a> </p> <p>**So Jack finds out about Claire, at his father's long-delayed funeral no less. He just can't catch a break. I confess to wishing that they would use Claire's surname more often on the show. It has such a familiar ring to it...</p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-episode-12.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": Episode 12, "There's No Place Like Home," Part 1" »</a> </p>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 12:53 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-episode-12.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-episode-12.html#comments">Comments (10)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-episode-12.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-episode-12.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Episode 12, "There's No Place Like Home," Part 1", summary:""Lost": Episode 12, "There's No Place Like Home," Part 1", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-49619414"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">May</span><br> 9</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-episode-11.html">"Lost": Episode 11, "Cabin Fever"</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/09/lost11lockelantern.jpg"><img title="Lost11lockelantern" height="366" alt="Lost11lockelantern" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/05/09/lost11lockelantern.jpg" width="250" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>"Destiny, John, is a fickle bitch."</p> <p>"I'm a lot more than just an orderly."</p> <p>"I'm cool with you going in alone too."</p> <p>Godspeed John, and onward Christian Shephard. Good grief, where to begin?!?</p> <p>(At the risk of diverting away readers, check out<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://blog.nj.com/alltv/2008/05/lost_cabin_fever_break_me_off.html#more"><span style="color: #339900;"><strong> this blog post from Alan Sepinwall</strong></span></a><span style="color: #339900;"><strong> </strong></span>of the New Jersey Star-Ledger. He's always insightful, analytical and has a doozy of a theory at the very end of his post.)</p> <p>The pace picked up considerably in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="color: #3300ff;"><strong>"Lost's</strong></span></a>" episode 11, "Cabin Fever," compared to last week's installment. At times like these, I find comfort in bullet points. Scribes Elizabeth Sarnoff and Kyle Pennington and helmer Paul Edwards have given us a lot to sort out.</p> <p>**In a word -- Claire! If she wasn't dead in that scene with her long-lost daddy Christian Shephard in Jacob's creepy, creeky cabin, then she sure was stoned. I'm leaning toward dead...but I don't think that Locke was hallucinating in that cabin. I think she and Christian appeared to him for the very specific reason of instructing him on what to do to "save the island." But it's heartbreaking to see her so unconcerned about being separated from Aaron.</p> <p>"I'm with him," she tells Locke, referring to Christian and agreeing with him that Aaron just isn't "supposed" to be there. </p> <p>**We've learned that Locke has been monitored for all of his born days by the omnipresent Richard Alpert (back from his mission to Miami to infiltrate a rival network series that is destined to be axed after one season). Just the sight of Richard puts me on edge. Actor Nestor Carbonell is fantastic.</p> <p>**Are we to take Ben at face value when he whines to Locke: "The island wanted me to get sick and you <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/09/lost11claire.jpg"><img title="Lost11claire" height="450" alt="Lost11claire" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/05/09/lost11claire.jpg" width="300" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/></a> to get well. It's yours now." </p> <p>**The freighter doctor does wind up with his throat cut. I can't even pretend to grasp the logic of the time-travel/consciousness projecting business.</p> <p>**Michael still can't be done away with, not yet, even when he enrages a killing machine like Keamy. (Mr. Friendly was not fooling.) The narrow room where the freighter fiends were holding Michael chained to a pipe was very reminiscent of the tiny room in the hatch where the survivors held Ben in season two when he was intro'd to us as Henry Gale. Ha! More like Elmira Gulch.</p> <p>**The look of Locke in the scenes in and around the cabin was very, very Col. Kurtz from "Apocalypse Now," minus about 75 pounds compared to Brando of course. But c'mon -- the army green T-shirt, sweaty bald head, lantern lighting touches. I half expected to hear him whisper "the horror."</p> <p>**The sight of the Dharma Initiative mass grave site makes me want to puke every time. I can't imagine how the show's production crew must feel having to set it up. It's instantly suggestive of Holocaust imagery from the camps. Never forget.</p> <p><span style="color: #ff0066;">**Friday afternoon update: Can't believe I forgot to mention Locke's encounter with Horace! Any time a scene starts with "Lost's" trademark zoom-in-on-an-eyelid-that's-about-to-open shot, you know it's going to be good. According to ABC's release for this seg Horace's last name is Goodspeed. I loved how he was wearing a tie-dye T-shirt underneath his Dharma jumpsuit. Noticed that the job category printed under his name was "mathematician." And of course, noticed that he was dealing with that nasty nosebleed that comes with time travel. That would account for the instant replay of his greeting to Locke as he's chopping down trees, and it would account for his statement: "I've been dead for 12 years."</span></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-episode-11.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": Episode 11, "Cabin Fever"" »</a> </p>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 12:18 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-episode-11.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-episode-11.html#comments">Comments (4)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-episode-11.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-episode-11.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Episode 11, "Cabin Fever"", summary:""Lost": Episode 11, "Cabin Fever"", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-49312148"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">May</span><br> 2</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-episode-10.html">"Lost": Episode 10, "Something Nice Back Home"</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/02/lost10faraday.jpg"><img title="Lost10faraday" height="234" alt="Lost10faraday" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/05/02/lost10faraday.jpg" width="350" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>Right off the top, a round of applause for director Stephen Williams and cinematographer Cort Fey.</p> <p>The look of this seg, "Something Nice Back Home," was fantastic -- sharp enough to cut glass. You never saw so many shades of green in the jungle. The sweat and stubble on Jack and Sawyer's faces was palpable, and it seemed like many of the shots were framed more tightly than usual -- heightening the sense of being inside a character's head. </p> <p>If last week's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>"Lost"</strong></span></a> seg, "The Shape of Things to Come," was an "Indiana Jones" episode packed with action and adventure, then this week's was the John Cassavetes' edition, an intense, intimate look at the dark side of love and relationships and betrayal.</p> <p>Scribes Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz did a fine job of writing was was essentially a multi-pronged character piece, though the plot pace surely picked up in the last few minutes. The operating room scene where Juliet overrules Jack on the anesthesia was quick-cutting at its most effective.</p> <p>The episode had plenty of crowd-pleasing moments. The sight in the first flashforward of Jack and Kate enjoying domestic bliss, however briefly or tenuously, must've cheered many fans (same goes for the lingering shot of Kate's butt), though true to real life, Sawyer does seem to still cast a long shadow over their lives.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/02/lost10rose.jpg"><img title="Lost10rose" height="328" alt="Lost10rose" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/05/02/lost10rose.jpg" width="225" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/></a> </p> <p>As if we needed more reasons to like Rose, she gave us one early on in the seg when Bernard is pressing Faraday on whether he's being honest about the freighter failing to answer their radio calls and Charlotte starts to get snarky.</p> <p>"Just watch your tone, Red," Rose scolds. Thank you, Rose, thank you. </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-episode-10.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": Episode 10, "Something Nice Back Home"" »</a> </p>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 01:08 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-episode-10.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-episode-10.html#comments">Comments (2)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-episode-10.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/05/lost-episode-10.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Episode 10, "Something Nice Back Home"", summary:""Lost": Episode 10, "Something Nice Back Home"", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-48998672"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">April</span><br>25</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/lost-episode-9.html">"Lost": Episode 9, "The Shape of Things to Come"</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/25/lost9sawyer.jpg"><img title="Lost9sawyer" height="337" alt="Lost9sawyer" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/04/25/lost9sawyer.jpg" width="225" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>"Who the hell is Jacob?"</p> <p>As usual, Sawyer cuts through the haze and gives voice to one of the key questions that viewers have had about <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="color: #ff0033;"><strong>"Lost"</strong></span></a> for a long time now.</p> <p>For sure, "Lost's" stormy, sensational return with No. 9 of this season, "The Shape of Things to Come," written by Brian K. Vaughan and Drew Goddard and helmed by Jack Bender, was one hell of a Big Ben episode, a tour de force for thesp Michael Emerson.</p> <p>But it was also a big night for Sawyer, who demonstrated the kind of courage and resolve under fire that only those with the highest moral character, integrity and compassion possess. First he does a "Saving Private Ryan" and risks all to save Claire as the invasion begins. Then he tries to do the same for Hurley, only Hurley won't let him. Sawyer, we always knew you had it in ya.</p> <p>"Lost" scribes surely did give us a lot to process in tonight's return after the five-week, strike-hangover hiatus. Let's review the apparent tangibles before we dive into the 'what the #$%^&?' issues.</p> <p>**We now know that by Oct. 24, 2005, Ben makes his way to Tunisia.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/25/lost9ben.jpg"><img title="Lost9ben" height="269" alt="Lost9ben" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/04/25/lost9ben.jpg" width="180" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/></a></p> <p>**We know that Ben kept up with news coverage of the early days of the Iraq war, more than a year before Oceanic flight 815 crashed. Shock and awe, indeed.</p> <p>**We know that Sayid reconnects with his beloved Nadia after he gets off the island, no doubt because of his notoriety from being one of the Oceanic 6. And we know that Nadia is killed in L.A., three blocks away from the intersection of La Brea and Santa Monica. Don't tell me they were having lunch at the Formosa Cafe? Pink's? Shopping at Target?</p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/lost-episode-9.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": Episode 9, "The Shape of Things to Come"" »</a> </p>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 12:10 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/lost-episode-9.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/lost-episode-9.html#comments">Comments (9)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/lost-episode-9.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/lost-episode-9.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Episode 9, "The Shape of Things to Come"", summary:""Lost": Episode 9, "The Shape of Things to Come"", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-48503240"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">April</span><br>15</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/lost-at-nab.html">"Lost" at NAB</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/15/lost1.jpg"><img title="Lost1" height="233" alt="Lost1" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/04/15/lost1.jpg" width="350" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>Some highlights from this morning's Q&A at the National Assn. of Broadcasters confab with "Lost" stewards Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.</p> <p>We will find out more back story as to why the late Libby was in the same mental hospital with Hurley, prior to the plane crash, and presumably after she gave her boat to Desmond for the race.</p> <p>Will we at some point catch up with Emma and Zack, the two kids from the tail section group of survivors who were kidnapped by the Others in season 2's "The Other 48 Days."</p> <p>To the question of whether we'll ever see Katey Sagal's Helen character (Locke's former flame) again, Darlton indicated that they hoped so.</p> <p>To the question of whether the DeGroots, the hirsute couple who founded the Dharma Initiative, are still alive, Cuse and Lindelof paused a bit and then pressed for more specificity on the time frame of the question. As of where the time line of "Lost" will be when the series returns on April 24, Darlton would only say: "One of them is."</p> <p>Lindelof let it be known that in a recent episode when one of the castaways (Locke? Hurley? Sawyer? I can't remember offhand) asked Ben if he knew what the island's smoke monster really was and Ben responded that he didn't know -- big lie. "Ben was lying about the smoke monster," Lindelof said.</p> <p>And once again, Darlton made it clear that they do in fact have a blueprint for the series, stem to stern, and that "the last scene has been in our heads for a long period of time."</p> <p>More to come from the sesh, which mostly focused on big-picture business issues and production processes, once I transcribe the tape.</p> <p>In the meantime, above and below are some pics from the upcoming April 24 seg "The Shape of Things to Come."</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/15/lost2.jpg"><img title="Lost2" height="233" alt="Lost2" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/04/15/lost2.jpg" width="350" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/15/lost3.jpg"><img title="Lost3" height="278" alt="Lost3" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/04/15/lost3.jpg" width="200" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/></a> </p> </div>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 03:11 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/carlton_cuse/">Carlton Cuse</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/damon_lindelof/">Damon Lindelof</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/lost-at-nab.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/lost-at-nab.html#comments">Comments (3)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/lost-at-nab.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/lost-at-nab.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost" at NAB", summary:""Lost" at NAB", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-48432298"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">April</span><br>14</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/the-office-does.html">"The Office" doesn't disappoint; "Lost" goes long</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/14/officemelorahardin_3.jpg"></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/14/officemelorahardincrop.jpg"><img title="Officemelorahardincrop" height="309" alt="Officemelorahardincrop" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/04/14/officemelorahardincrop.jpg" width="250" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>A show that did not disappoint on its post-strike return last week was NBC's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/"><span style="color: #ff9933;"><strong>"The Office"</strong></span></a> with seg "The Dinner Party."</p> <p>Special commendation is owed to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002124/"><span style="color: #ff0033;"><strong>Melora Hardin</strong></span></a>, who is turning beyond-bizarro Jan into the show's most explosively funny character. Considering that she's playing opposite Steve Carell's Michael Scott, that's saying something.</p> <p>Plot of this episode was particularly funny because it is something we've all endured -- an evening with a couple who are obviously not getting along. Of course, Rainn Wilson's Dwight Schrute took the laughs up a notch by crashing Michael and Jan's dinner party with his one-time babysitter ("Strictly carnal," he assures them) and his own food and wine in tow. I didn't catch the actress' name but she gave a great deadpan perf. Thank goodness ABC's "Lost" is moving from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. hour when it returns April 24 -- no tough choices on whether to check in first with the "Office" or the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/14/officestpauli.jpg"></a> island....</p> <p>Speaking of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="color: #3300ff;"><strong>"Lost,"</strong></span></a><span style="color: #3300ff;"><strong> </strong></span>ABC this ayem put out the good word -- strike be damned, "Lost" is getting a two-hour<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/14/lostcusesolo.jpg"><img title="Lostcusesolo" height="187" alt="Lostcusesolo" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/04/14/lostcusesolo.jpg" width="125" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/></a>  finale after all on May 29. (And yes, confirmed with ABC that it is two original hours, not a recap <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/14/lostlindelofsolo_2.jpg"><img title="Lostlindelofsolo_2" height="195" alt="Lostlindelofsolo_2" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/04/14/lostlindelofsolo_2.jpg" width="130" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a> show leading into a finale.) That translates to six post-strike segs instead of the five that Darlton previously forecast. (Only downside: "Lost" will be preempted on May 22 to make room for a two-hour "Grey's Anatomy" finale that night.)</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/14/lostlindelofsolo.jpg"></a> I hope to pry a few details about the next run of "Lost" adventures out of exec producers Damon Lindelof (<em>pictured left</em>) and Carlton Cuse (<em>pictured right</em>) Tuesday morning when I have the pleasure of moderating a Q&A with them as part of  this week's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.nabshow.com/"><span style="color: #339966;"><strong>National Assn. of Broadcasters</strong></span></a><span style="color: #339966;"><strong> </strong></span>confab in Las Vegas.</p> </div>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 12:13 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/carlton_cuse/">Carlton Cuse</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/damon_lindelof/">Damon Lindelof</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/melora_hardin/">Melora Hardin</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/nbc/">NBC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_office/">The Office</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/the-office-does.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/the-office-does.html#comments">Comments (1)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/the-office-does.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/the-office-does.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""The Office" doesn't disappoint; "Lost" goes long", summary:""The Office" doesn't disappoint; "Lost" goes long", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-47951500"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">April</span><br> 3</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/losts-dominic-m.html">"Lost's" Dominic Monaghan found hanging with Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/04/dominicmonaghan.jpg"></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/04/jimmykimmeldominic.jpg"><img title="Jimmykimmeldominic" height="352" alt="Jimmykimmeldominic" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/04/04/jimmykimmeldominic.jpg" width="250" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>Here's something we didn't expect to see at the "Jimmy Kimmel Live" 1000th episode party on Thursday night: Dominic Monaghan. The dearly departed "Lost" star was making the rounds poolside at the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel and hanging with "it" couple Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman.</p> <p>Monaghan must've had a good time making the Jimmy Kimmel-Ben Affleck music vid a few months back (he's in the sing-along celeb gospel choir). He's also guested on "Kimmel" five times since the dawn of "Lost" in the fall of 2004.</p> <p>Monaghan, looking very neat and clean (we still can't get used to that) in a crisp open-collar dress shirt and gray suit, didn't stay in one spot for too long, but we stopped him long enough to share a heartfelt "awwww" over Charlie's heroic sacrifice. Thesp said he's "trying to do something with Sarah for her show" (presumably the Comedy Central skein that resumes production in the next few weeks) and he does read the scripts that "Touchstone" (guess he didn't get the memo on the name change to ABC Studios) is sending him but is more focused on film than TV these days.</p> <p>Monaghan reported that he's just wrapped production on the "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" pic and is soon off "to go<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/04/sarahsilvermandominic_2.jpg"><img title="Sarahsilvermandominic_2" height="234" alt="Sarahsilvermandominic_2" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/04/04/sarahsilvermandominic_2.jpg" width="325" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/></a> find the world's biggest spider." Not entirely sure what that means. We do know that there's a shot of a spider in the "Happy Accidents" exhibition of photos that Monaghan recently had on display at West Hollywood art <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://www.hamiltonselway.com/events.html"><span style="color: #ff3300;"><strong>gallery Hamilton-Selway Fine Art</strong></span></a>.</p> <p>By the dim light of the heat lamps at the party, Monaghan looked cheery and chipper, like he was enjoying himself. Heck, that's all we ever wanted for Charlie...isn't it?</p> </div>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 11:41 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/dominic_monaghan/">Dominic Monaghan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jimmy_kimmel/">Jimmy Kimmel</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/sarah_silverman/">Sarah Silverman</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/losts-dominic-m.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/losts-dominic-m.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/losts-dominic-m.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/04/losts-dominic-m.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost's" Dominic Monaghan found hanging with Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman", summary:""Lost's" Dominic Monaghan found hanging with Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-47337114"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">March</span><br>20</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/03/lost-episode-8.html">"Lost": Episode 8, "Meet Kevin Johnson"</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/21/lost8michael.jpg"><img title="Lost8michael" height="359" alt="Lost8michael" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/03/21/lost8michael.jpg" width="250" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a> <em>(Just a few quick observations for now... I'm on vacation this week, but as Mr. Friendly reminded us, you're never free from the clutches of The Island.)</em></p> <p>OK, so I know he betrayed Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley. I know he shot Ana-Lucia and Libby in cold blood. He acquiesced to the Others and buddied up to Ben. I know all this, and still I have to admit, I was really happy to see Michael again in "Meet Kevin Johnson," penned by Elizabeth Sarnoff and Brian K. Vaughan and helmed by Stephen Williams.</p> <p>To my mind, Michael's one of the most interesting of the Oceanic 815-ers: flawed, tortured, hard to read, volatile, fighting his innate talents, his own worst enemy, at times, and at others, a totally stand-up guy. And he is the spawn-er of Walt, who we all know has some truly pivotal role in all of this island fever. Harold Perrineau plays it just right most of the time -- no hysterics or scenery-chewing, just a man trying to do the right thing, most of the time. (I still wonder about Walt's mom, if she may come back into Our Story at some point.) So, hey man, welcome back. Can't wait to catch up more on April 24 and thereafter when <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="color: #9900cc;"><strong>"Lost"</strong></span></a> returns with its post-strike produced segs.</p> <p>Few other quick thoughts on our eighth installment:</p> <p>**Mr. Friendly lives? Of course, Michael didn't know that he was shot by Sawyer at the end of season three....hmmm. And he's a swinger too! Who knew?...His reference to Michael being on "shore leave" made me laugh, don't ask me why. <span style="color: #ff0033;"><em>(One reader suggests that Mr. Friendly does not live and Michael's flashback is prior to his getting shot in the season three finale.)</em></span></p> <p>**Ben -- don't trust him one bit, not even with that "When I'm at war I'll do what I need to do to win...but I don't kill innocent people." How much B.S. is that? He's evil, evil, evil and I don't buy anything he sez. I don't even think he's all that devoted to Alex anymore either. I think she was set up completely by her purported father to be used as a pawn by the Freighter Folk in his survival bid.</p> <p>**Rousseau -- It was so nice to see her cleaned up a bit, and not quite so wild in the eyes. Oh well. Alex's boyfriend Karl, however, might as well have been wearing a red shirt throughout his run on this show. You just knew he was in for it, one of these segs. Then again, if Mr. Friendly is any guide, we may or may not have seen the last of Rousseau and Karl.</p> <p>**Frank Lapidus, the helicopter pilot character played by Jeff Fahey, is getting more and more intriguing. He obviously provided some very interesting tidbits about the faked Oceanic 815 wreckage in the ocean...of course there's no guarantees that they're true (even if Lapidus believes it).</p> <p>** Oh the irony. Sayid is disgusted to learn that Michael is working for "Benjamin Linus".... As we know, he shouldn't be so quick to judge.</p> <p>**Mamas and the Papas/Cass Elliot -- By my count this is the second Mamas and the Papas tune used in "Lost." When we first met Desmond at the start of season two, he was spinning "Make Your Own Kind of Music" (a song so infectious it's bound to stick in your head for a week or so every time you hear it...<span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>and as a reader points out, it's not the Mamas and the Papas but a Cass Elliot solo tune</em></span>) and then in this seg "It's Getting Better" is on the radio as Michael's trying to off himself by slamming his car into a big trash bin. Cass Elliot's pipes are recognizable on the first note, and her soaring vocals add class to any scene.</p> </div>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 10:51 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/03/lost-episode-8.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/03/lost-episode-8.html#comments">Comments (4)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/03/lost-episode-8.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/03/lost-episode-8.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Episode 8, "Meet Kevin Johnson"", summary:""Lost": Episode 8, "Meet Kevin Johnson"", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-47014538"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">March</span><br>13</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/03/lost-episode-7.html">"Lost": Episode 7, "Ji Yeon"</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/14/lost7jin.jpg"><img title="Lost7jin" height="225" alt="Lost7jin" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/03/14/lost7jin.jpg" width="300" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>Before we parse tonight's episode, let's take a moment to salute one of "Lost's" under-appreciated heroes: Jin.</p> <p>Say what you will about his past, he's been rock-solid hunk of good guy since we first met him on Sept. 22, 2004. Yes, he was involved in a lot of unsavory business back in Seoul while working for his ruthless father-in-law. But he's grown and changed in many ways since the crash. And you get the sense that his still had an inner moral compass -- certainly we've learned through the flashbacks that Jin's job was getting to him, big-time, just before the crash.</p> <p>Jin is a man of many skills (<del>didn't he snap that really mean Other's neck with just his feet while tied up in the season three finale?</del> <span style="color: #ff0033;"><em>As many readers have pointed out, that was Sayid, sorry...), </em></span>and he's endowed with patience and generosity. His skill as a fisherman helped keep the survivors alive in the early days. He's quick to volunteer for the toughest duties (he was on ill-fated raft launched at the end of season one), and he's loyal to a fault. Back in season two, when Michael first split off from the group (led by Ana Lucia at the time) in his mania to search for his son Walt, who was it that insisted on going after him? Jin. </p> <p>More than anything else, Jin loves and cherishes his wife, Sun. They've had their marital ups and downs, of course, before and during their stay on the island. But nobody, least of all Sun, has a shred of doubt that he loves her truly, madly and deeply, and that she feels the same about this extraordinary fisherman's son (even if she was intending to leave him if the plane had made it to LAX). "Lost" fans know this like they know the flight number of the plane; the credit for that goes to the writers for fantastic character development over the years, and of course to actors Daniel Dae Kim and Yunjin Kim. I bought them as husband and wife from the beginning. When they fight, you can feel the tension.</p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/03/lost-episode-7.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": Episode 7, "Ji Yeon"" »</a> </p>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 11:17 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/03/lost-episode-7.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/03/lost-episode-7.html#comments">Comments (7)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/03/lost-episode-7.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/03/lost-episode-7.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Episode 7, "Ji Yeon"", summary:""Lost": Episode 7, "Ji Yeon"", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-46702442"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">March</span><br> 6</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/03/lost-episode-6.html">"Lost," Episode 6, "The Other Woman"</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/06/lost6juliet_2.jpg"><img title="Lost6juliet_2" height="362" alt="Lost6juliet_2" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/03/06/lost6juliet_2.jpg" width="250" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>Where to begin? </p> <p>This episode was packed with plot development -- fabulously concrete, tangible, easily understood plot development, which is the rarest kind on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="color: #660033;"><strong>"Lost."</strong></span></a></p> <p>First, the big picture. It's a genius move to go back to flashbacks on one of the principle characters that we know the least. Filling in more Juliet's story, and by association, Ben's, was very, very satisfying, especially coming on the heels of the last few segs that were way more question-raising than answer-providing. </p> <p>Most intriguing thing to me about our sixth installment -- "The Other Woman," penned by Drew Goddard and Christina M. Kim and helmed by Eric Lanueville (he's come a long way from swabbing the halls on "St. Elsewhere") -- is how much it provided firm evidence of Juliet's complicity in the Others' dastardly deeds. We've grown to know her only in her heroic resistence-fighter mode, but in reality, she's got some 'splaining to do.</p> <p>Sure, Juliet was duped into joining a super-elite research org, etc., but the progession of the flashbacks in this seg makes clear she knew a lot, if not everything, that Ben was up to in New Otherton: the dossiers on the survivors; snatching the tail-section survivors, including the kids (remember Zach and Emma?); heck, she even fingered Jack for Ben as being an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/06/lost6jack_2.jpg"><img title="Lost6jack_2" height="166" alt="Lost6jack_2" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/03/06/lost6jack_2.jpg" width="250" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/></a> accomplished spinal surgeon.</p> <p>When Ben starts dispatching his lieutenants as Oceanic 815 disintegrates over their heads, it's clear that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/06/lost6jack.jpg"></a>the focus is not on helping survivors, but somehow exploiting them. (How many times have we seen that scene? Yet each time there's a slightly different perspective on the reaction in New Otherton, which makes for a creatively satisfying way for ABC to amortize a costly fx shot.) </p> <p>At the same time, the flashbacks humanize Juliet even more by filling in her back story of having an affair Goodwin and being the object of Ben's obsessive, possessive desire.</p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/03/lost-episode-6.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost," Episode 6, "The Other Woman"" »</a> </p>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 10:53 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/03/lost-episode-6.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/03/lost-episode-6.html#comments">Comments (2)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/03/lost-episode-6.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/03/lost-episode-6.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost," Episode 6, "The Other Woman"", summary:""Lost," Episode 6, "The Other Woman"", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-46341518"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">February</span><br>28</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-5.html">"Lost," Episode 5, "The Constant"</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/28/lost5des.jpg"><img title="Lost5des" height="431" alt="Lost5des" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/02/28/lost5des.jpg" width="300" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>If anything goes wrong, my <em>confusion </em>will be my constant. Let's just scrawl that right now in this e-journal, for my own safety.</p> <p>I think you need a degree in physics to keep up with tonight's installment of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="color: #3300ff;"><strong>"Lost</strong></span></a>." Near as I can tell, we've learned that the island and its immediate environs are big hunks of 3-D swiss cheese, full of all kinds of holes your consciousness can fall into and out of on its way to goodness knows where, or when. I just know there's a wrinkle coming up soon with a character named Madeleine. Or L'Engle. </p> <p>Our intrepid traveler in this episode, "The Constant," was Desmond Hume. This we should've been able to predict. As usual, nice work from Henry Ian Cusick, who is underrated as a "Lost" hero, in my book. It takes a good actor to be convincingly nutso. I was surely convinced by the end of the seg, penned by Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof and directed by Jack Bender.</p> <p>I'm guessing I'm not the only one who spent the first 20 minutes or so of the seg trying to figure out if Des' scenes in the military boot-camp setting were flash-forwards or flashbacks. Des loses his mind and his memory while he and Sayid and pilot Frank are helicoptering in to the boat and hit a rough patch, weather and otherwise.</p> <p>"This is wrong," Desmond tells his fellow grunts. "I'm not supposed to be here." Bet he's not the first recruit to the Royal Scots Regiment to utter those words.</p> <p>Back on the island, we get a flash of Juliet's steely charm as she forcefully gets Faraday and Rebecca to spill a little of what they know about the problems of time-perceptions and the unfortunate side effects that some folks experience when traveling to and from the island. I was utterly confused at 9:30 about what they were trying to say, but by 9:55 the explanation seemed to be that because of the turbulence in the copter, Desmond's consciouness was traveling back and forth between 1996 and 2004.</p> <p>As if those kind of frequent flier miles aren't hard enough on a guy, it turns out he can be prompted to do certain things in the earlier or later time frame by Faraday, who seems to think it's 1976, by the looks of his hair in the flashback scenes.</p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-5.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost," Episode 5, "The Constant"" »</a> </p>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 10:46 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/carlton_cuse/">Carlton Cuse</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/damon_lindelof/">Damon Lindelof</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-5.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-5.html#comments">Comments (3)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-5.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-5.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost," Episode 5, "The Constant"", summary:""Lost," Episode 5, "The Constant"", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-45981766"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">February</span><br>21</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-4.html">"Lost," Episode 4, "Eggtown"</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p>"Dizzying" is the only way to describe tonight's installment of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="color: #330099;"><strong>"Lost."</strong></span></a><span style="color: #330099;"><strong> </strong></span>Or maybe it should be "scrambled," given that the title of the seg is "Eggtown."</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/21/lost4lockeben_2.jpg"><img title="Lost4lockeben_2" height="266" alt="Lost4lockeben_2" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/02/21/lost4lockeben_2.jpg" width="400" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>This 43-odd minutes of television, written by Elizabeth Sarnoff and Greggory Nations and helmed by Stephen Williams (the Michael Curtiz of "Lost" directors) raises so many questions and drops so many clues that it might help to state the obvious about what we've learned (think we've learned?) upfront.</p> <p>**Most tantalizing was the apparent confirmation that Jack and Kate are lying through their teeth in the flash-forwards about what really happened after the crash and during their time on the island. What's all this nonsense Jack's spouting in the courtroom scene about there being only eight survivors, and how he was hurt and dying in the water and that Kate saved his life? (BTW, anybody else intrigued by the last installment of the "Lost: Missing Pieces" webisodes that showed Christian Shepherd on the island, shooing Vincent the dog off to go rouse Jack from his post-crash shock-slumber because "he has work to do." Haven't been able to stop thinking about that one.)</p> <p>**Naturally, this business about Kate having a son is from way-way out of left field. Very chilling at the end when she picks up the tow-headed tyke from bed and he calls her "mummy" with what sounds like an Aussie accent. Say it ain't so, Kate? She couldn't have actually snatched Aaron from Claire, could she? Either my ears are broken or Kate deliberately mumbled the last word of the episode. Did she call the kid Aaron? (The steady, noisy rain that pounded L.A. tonight didn't help the sound quality in my living room.) </p> <p>**Back on the island, in what used to be the Others compound, Kate tells Sawyer she's not pregnant -- with the kind of certainty that comes only after a girl gets the incontrovertible evidence that the natural 28-day biological order for those who are NOT in the family way is proceeding. (<em>In the cold light of the morning</em>, a <em>few people have pointed out the obvious that I probably dismissed too quickly: Kate IS pregnant, despite her denial to Sawyer, and the tow-headed one is his son</em><em>.</em>)</p> <p>**By the age of the kid in the flash-forward, whether he's Claire's or Kate's or perhaps from still another source (immaculate conception?), it would seem that the flash-forwards are taking place about three to four years after the crash. Like right about now.</p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-4.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost," Episode 4, "Eggtown"" »</a> </p>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 10:43 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-4.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-4.html#comments">Comments (3)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-4.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-4.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost," Episode 4, "Eggtown"", summary:""Lost," Episode 4, "Eggtown"", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-45650136"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">February</span><br>15</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-3.html">"Lost": Episode 3, "The Economist"</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/14/lost3sayid.jpg"><img title="Lost3sayid" height="346" alt="Lost3sayid" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/02/14/lost3sayid.jpg" width="225" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>Good grief, of all the plot developments in this rock 'em-sock 'em <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>"Lost"</strong></span></a> seg, the one most affecting to this viewer was the brief scene between Sawyer and Kate when he pours his heart out to her, in his own way, appropriately enough for a Valentine's night airing.</p> <p>It comes down quickly a little more than halfway through "The Economist," written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz and helmed by Jack Bender (the John Ford of "Lost" directors), when Sawyer traps Kate in Ben's old house in the Others' compound and points out to her that it has most of the trappings of civilization, like a roof and electricity. Sawyer confesses that he didn't chose Team Jack because he doesn't feel he's got anything to rush home to. And considering that she's on the run from at least one count of homicide, Sawyer presses Kate on why she's so eager to high-tail it back to the States. Kate's so mad about the situation, she can't process it all. </p> <p>"How long do you think we could play house," she asks him, sitting on the edge of a bed. "Why don't we find out?" he replies, with his trademark sneer-grimace that indicates he's being as sincere as he can be. It's nice work from Evangeline Lilly and Josh Holloway.</p> <p>Most chilling moment of this seg comes shortly before the Sawyer-Kate encounter when Hurley, having <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/15/lost3miles.jpg"><img title="Lost3miles" height="281" alt="Lost3miles" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/02/15/lost3miles.jpg" width="200" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/></a> been found in tied up in a closet in the compound asks the arrogant interloper Miles point-blank if he and his team have come to kill the Oceanic 815 castaways.</p> <p>"Not yet," Miles (<em>pictured right</em>) says with a creepy sidelong glance and without a pause. He doesn't come across as fearsome in this episode at all except for in this fleeting shot.</p> <p>There's far too much plot movement in this seg to recount it all, so let's hit the highlights. The episode is built around a generous portion of Sayid  -- a flash-forward with him looking very handsome as he runs around Berlin with a Bond girl-ish looking woman who of course turns out to be a spy (played by Thekla Reuten).</p> <p>Sayid <em>(pictured above) </em>is now (and again) a hit man, and so is she. He seduces her, tries to find out information about "the economist" she claims to work for; she seduces him and wings him with a bullet, he shoots back to kill, and we find out he's been working for ... Ben?!? Oh, it's all very confusing, but it's good-confusing. Naveen Andrews was good when he started "Lost" and he's only gotten better. A touch of gray in his beard really suits Sayid in the flash-forward scenes.</p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-3.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": Episode 3, "The Economist"" »</a> </p>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 12:05 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-3.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-3.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-3.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-3.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Episode 3, "The Economist"", summary:""Lost": Episode 3, "The Economist"", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-45314838"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">February</span><br> 7</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-2.html">"Lost": Episode 2, "Confirmed Dead"</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/08/lostjackrunning.jpg"></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/08/lostjackrunning_2.jpg"><img title="Lostjackrunning_2" height="250" alt="Lostjackrunning_2" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/02/08/lostjackrunning_2.jpg" width="375" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>Meet the latest visitors to our Isle of Mystery: "A head case, a ghostbuster, an anthropologist and a drunk."</p> <p>That's how the now-dead Naomi describes the foursome now romping around <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="color: #660099;"><strong>"Lost"</strong></span></a> with our favorite castaways. Our complements to "Lost's" casting execs. The new additions are all compelling actors, and characters, in their own way.</p> <p>Jeremy Davies is Daniel "head case" Faraday. He's good and twitchy, obviously not comfortable in the skin of a covert operative. Ken  Leung is good and arrogant as the hot-headed, exorcism- performing "ghostbuster" Miles. Rebecca Mader has the sassy-brilliant British bitch thing working for her as anthropologist Charlotte.</p> <p>And Jeff Fahey looks like a guy who in the past few years took a break from his acting career to help run an orphanage in Afghanistan. No kidding. "Lost" showrunner Carlton Cuse remembered the actor from the oddball mystery-crime drama "The Marshal" that aired on ABC in 1995-96 and figured he'd be perfect for the role of the weirdo helicopter pilot Frank Lapidus (the drunk). Cuse did not expect they'd wind up tracking Fahey down in Kabul, but that's where he was.</p> <p>(Interesting trivial aside: In the listings release for this seg, characters of Miles and Charlotte are not given<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/08/lostsayidjuliet_2.jpg"><img title="Lostsayidjuliet_2" height="240" alt="Lostsayidjuliet_2" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/02/08/lostsayidjuliet_2.jpg" width="375" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/></a>  last names, even though they are stated as Strum and Lewis, respectively, in the seg. What's up with that?)</p> <p>Before we move on to plot dissection of "Confirmed Dead," penned by Drew Goddard and Brian K. Vaughan and helmed by Stephen Williams, a shoutout is due to composer Michael Giacchino.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/08/lostsayidjuliet.jpg"></a> </p> <p>"Lost" wouldn't be "Lost" without his scores and the musical punctuations that he provides. Sometimes there's nothing scarier than one of his minor chords that lingers, like the sound of a twisted piece of metal creaking in the wind. And creepy as he gets on "Lost," Giacchino can turn around and give you "Ratatouille," which is as warm and Disney-classic, hum-it-out-of-the-theater as a film score could be. He's the Ennio Morricone of this generation, and he deserves the Oscar for "Ratatouille." (It is the year of the rat, after all.)</p> <p>(More "Lost" fanaticism is on display at <span style="color: #336600;"><strong>Variety's Season Pass </strong></span>blog from my colleagues Jon Weisman and Brian Cochrane. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/season_pass/2008/02/lost-episode-2.html"><span style="color: #6600cc;"><strong>Click here</strong></span></a><span style="color: #6600cc;"><strong> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/season_pass/2008/02/excuse-me-but-i.html"><span style="color: #ff3300;">here</span></a> t</strong></span>o be transported.)</p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-2.html#more">Continue reading ""Lost": Episode 2, "Confirmed Dead"" »</a> </p>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 10:42 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-2.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-2.html#comments">Comments (2)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-2.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-episode-2.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Episode 2, "Confirmed Dead"", summary:""Lost": Episode 2, "Confirmed Dead"", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-44995682"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">February</span><br> 1</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-found-by-1.html">"Lost": Found by 16 million-plus viewers</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><img title="Lost4ben" height="374" alt="Lost4ben" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/02/01/lost4ben.jpg" width="250" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/><span style="color: #3333ff;"><strong>"Lost"</strong></span></a> stomped all over the competish in its return to ABC's sked on Thursday. "Eli Stone" had a harder time of it in its debut.</p> <p>The 9 p.m. fourth season premiere seg drew 16.1 million viewers and 6.7 rating/16 share in the adults 18-49 demo, per Nielsen prelims. The 8 p.m. "Lost" clip show did a healthy 13.1 million 4.9/13 in the key demo.</p> <p>"Lost's" premiere numbers were down from last season's opener (18.8 million, 7.7/19), but we all know last night's figures will balloon when DVR viewing sources are factored in week after next.</p> <p>Kind of a mixed bag for the 10 p.m. bow of "Eli Stone." The well-reviewed drama about an idealistic lawyer who starts to realize he's a prophet had a hard time hanging on to "Lost's" coattails. It opened to 11.6 million viewers and 4.2/11 in 18-49. Not great, but not terrible either, and and it is an improvement over the perf of "Lost" companion "The Nine" last season.</p> </div>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 09:31 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ratings/">Ratings</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-found-by-1.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-found-by-1.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-found-by-1.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/02/lost-found-by-1.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Found by 16 million-plus viewers", summary:""Lost": Found by 16 million-plus viewers", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-44974798"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">January</span><br>31</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/01/lost-from-a-roc.html">''Lost": Episode 1, "The Beginning of the End"</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/31/lost4hurleygroup.jpg"></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/31/lost4hurleygroup_2.jpg"><img title="Lost4hurleygroup_2" height="256" alt="Lost4hurleygroup_2" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/01/31/lost4hurleygroup_2.jpg" width="385" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>"Are you Jack?"</p> <p>Oh, joyful night, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="color: #6600cc;"><strong>"Lost" </strong></span></a>has returned. Let's rewind from the above quote that ends the fabulous season preem, "The Beginning of the End," written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and helmed by Jack Bender.</p> <p>The seg dives right back into the flash-foward storyline that was so tantalizing in the third season closer. Oblique references, clues, hints and undoubtedly, red herrings, are dropped all over the place. Once again, Messrs. Lindelof and Cuse give us credit for brains and having the dexterity to roll with story developments that we don't have full context for -- yet. "Lost" fans live for the euphoria of discovery, analysis and interpretation, of piecing together the threads and tidbits that the scribes so carefully lay out. None of us are bozos on this bus.</p> <p><span style="color: #336600;"><strong>(Other "Lost" addicts are talking about the firecracker of a season premiere over at the <em>Variety</em> Season Pass blog. </strong></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/season_pass/2008/01/lost-from-a-roc.html"><strong><span style="color: #cc0033;">Head on over</span></strong></a><span style="color: #336600;"><strong>.)</strong></span></p> <p>After the long drought of the summer, fall and first half of winter, it was absolutely phenomenally cool to see Hurley emerging from the Dukes of Hazzard-looking Camaro after the car-chase sequence. My first guess was that Sawyer was behind the wheel, just because it looked like his kind of car, and his kind of reckless driving. Is there symbolism to the big pile of lemons <em>(note: an eagle-eyed viewer and On the Air reader reports they were actually papayas)</em> in the opening shot that Hurley drives <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/31/lost4sayid_2.jpg"><img title="Lost4sayid_2" height="294" alt="Lost4sayid_2" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/01/31/lost4sayid_2.jpg" width="200" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/></a> through? Maybe it's like oranges in the "Godfather" movies, a sign of trouble ahead. </p> <p>First big clue, of course, comes as Hurley hollers "Don't you know who I am? I'm one of the Oceanic 6" as he's being taken into custody after his romp in the Camaro. Then the cop who's interrogating him mentions that he knew Ana Lucia, that she was his partner. Forgive me, "Lost" fanatics, but did we know she was a<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/31/lost4sayid.jpg"></a>  cop? I honestly can't remember.</p> <p>As we segue to the island, our heroes look great, in their own sweaty, stubbly, dirty-raggedy way. But here's a "Gilligan's Island" issue: How come the women in the group have a never-ending supply of form-fitting undershirts, and how come they never have a hint of underarm hair? Did they find a stash of Daisy razors somewhere in season one?</p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/01/lost-from-a-roc.html#more">Continue reading "''Lost": Episode 1, "The Beginning of the End"" »</a> </p>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 10:06 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/carlton_cuse/">Carlton Cuse</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/damon_lindelof/">Damon Lindelof</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/01/lost-from-a-roc.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/01/lost-from-a-roc.html#comments">Comments (2)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/01/lost-from-a-roc.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/01/lost-from-a-roc.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:"''Lost": Episode 1, "The Beginning of the End"", summary:"''Lost": Episode 1, "The Beginning of the End"", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-44624974"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">January</span><br>24</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/01/lost-enhanced-f.html">"Lost": Enhanced fun with the third season finale</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/24/lostcharlie.jpg"><img title="Lostcharlie" height="274" alt="Lostcharlie" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2008/01/24/lostcharlie.jpg" width="200" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a>This sounds like fun. ABC plans to air an "enhanced" version of "Lost's" two-hour third season finale, "Through the Looking Glass," on Jan. 30, the night before season four begins, at long last.</p> <p>Per the ABC press release: "The enhanced version of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><strong>“Lost”</strong></span></a> will include text on the lower third of the screen and will 'let viewers in' on clues in the show, as well as give back story to catch new viewers up for Season Four."</p> <p>Hmmmm, maybe they'll clue us in to the deeper meaning of the dearly departed Charlie (<em>played by Dominic Monaghan, pictured left</em>) having to pick out "Good Vibrations" on a computer to stop the underwater Looking Glass station from sending out the signal-jamming beam. </p> </div>  </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="footer-left" style="float:left"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 03:35 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/abc/">ABC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/01/lost-enhanced-f.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/01/lost-enhanced-f.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/01/lost-enhanced-f.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </span> <span class="link" id="sharethis" style="vertical-align:top;position:relative; z-index:1;"> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_url = "https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/01/lost-enhanced-f.html?ref=sharethis"; SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:""Lost": Enhanced fun with the third season finale", summary:""Lost": Enhanced fun with the third season finale", url:share_url, icon: 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://path.to/icon' }, {button:true} ); </script> </span> </p> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-43287236"> <h3 class="entry-header"> <span class="date-header"><span class="smalldate">December</span><br>26</span> <span class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2007/12/lost-still-more.html">"Lost": Still more Web vids and fresh pics</a></span></h3> </mtweblogpostifshow> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/26/lostnewgroup_2.jpg"></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/26/lostnewgroup_3.jpg"></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/26/lostnewgroup_4.jpg"><img title="Lostnewgroup_4" height="320" alt="Lostnewgroup_4" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005im_/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/images/2007/12/26/lostnewgroup_4.jpg" width="480" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px"/></a> </p> <p>Call it a post-holiday treat. More "Lost" goodies have shown up on ABC.com, and at long last, some fresh images from the new season have been posted on ABC's press site. No obvious spoilers, natch, but intriguing all the same. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><strong>ABC.com has posted a longer trailer for season four,</strong></span></a> which bows Jan. 31 with a two-hour opening salvo. The trailer drops some big hints and makes it very clear that the cavalry that Jack, Kate et al think are coming for them are not on their side. (Ben may be rotten to the core but he's usually truthful in his malevolence.)</p> <p>There's also a very good <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index"><strong>eight-minute "Lost" series recap vid</strong></a> that just popped up. It's a good primer for anyone who hasn't been infected with island fever yet, and it's a nice refresher course even for us maniacs. After all, this show has laid a lotta story threads during the past three and a half years. In parts the recap vid plays like a "Saturday Night Live" parody of a "Lost" recap vid, but on the whole it works really well.</p> <p>Once again, the only bittersweet part of indulging in all the pre-premiere hype is knowing that A) "Lost" gurus Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse are, like every other WGA member, on strike against the studio and thus not eager to help ABC/ABC Studios prosper on the back of their labors; and B) barring a significant, immediate breakthrough in the WGA-major studios standoff, we're going to get eight or so episodes in and wham! by late March-early April, our run of fresh segs will be cut off artificially by the real-world drama that has engulfed this town. 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/andrea_mitchell/">Andrea Mitchell</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/angela-bromstad/">Angela Bromstad</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/angela_lansbury/">Angela Lansbury</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/animation/">Animation</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ant_and_dec/">Ant and Dec</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/anthony_edwards/">Anthony Edwards</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/anthony_zuiker/">Anthony Zuiker</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/antonio_villaraigosa/">Antonio Villaraigosa</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/archive_of_american_television/">Archive of American Television</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/arrested-development/">Arrested Development</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ashton_kutcher/">Ashton Kutcher</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/awards/">Awards</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/back_to_you/">Back to You</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/barack_obama/">Barack Obama</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/barry_sonnenfeld/">Barry Sonnenfeld</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/baseball/">Baseball</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/battlestar_galatica/">Battlestar Galatica</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/bbc_america/">BBC America</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ben_silverman/">Ben Silverman</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/bernie_brillstein/">Bernie Brillstein</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/beth_comstock/">Beth Comstock</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/betty_white/">Betty White</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/big_brother/">Big Brother</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/big_love/">Big Love</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/bill_bixby/">Bill Bixby</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/bill_oreilly/">Bill O'Reilly</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/bill_paxton/">Bill Paxton</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/bionic_woman/">Bionic Woman</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/bob_clark/">Bob Clark</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/bob_dylan/">Bob Dylan</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/bob_newhart/">Bob Newhart</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/bob_saget/">Bob Saget</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/bob_schieffer/">Bob Schieffer</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/bonnie_hammer/">Bonnie Hammer</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/boston_legal/">Boston Legal</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/brad_garrett/">Brad Garrett</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/bravo/">Bravo</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/breaking-bad/">Breaking Bad</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/brenda_hampton/">Brenda Hampton</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/brian_lamb/">Brian Lamb</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/britney_spears/">Britney Spears</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/brothers_and_sisters/">Brothers and Sisters</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/bruce_greenwood/">Bruce Greenwood</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/bryan-cranston/">Bryan Cranston</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/bryan_fuller/">Bryan Fuller</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/bury_my_heart_at_wounded_knee/">Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/cspan/">C-SPAN</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/cablers/">Cablers</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/camp_rock/">Camp Rock</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/carlton_cuse/">Carlton Cuse</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/carol_burnett/">Carol Burnett</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/carter_bays/">Carter Bays</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/cartoon_network/">Cartoon Network</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/cavemen/">Cavemen</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/cbs/">CBS</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/chris_albrecht/">Chris Albrecht</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/chris_parnell/">Chris Parnell</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/chris_rock/">Chris Rock</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/christina_hendricks/">Christina Hendricks</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/chuck/">Chuck</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/chuck_barris/">Chuck Barris</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/chuck_lorre/">Chuck Lorre</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/clone_wars/">Clone Wars</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/cloris_leachman/">Cloris Leachman</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/cnn/">CNN</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/comedy_central/">Comedy Central</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/community/">Community</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/conan_obrien/">Conan O'Brien</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/connie_britton/">Connie Britton</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/countdown_with_keith_olbermann/">Countdown with Keith Olbermann</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/coupling/">Coupling</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/craig_ferguson/">Craig Ferguson</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/craig_thomas/">Craig Thomas</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/crash/">Crash</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/csi/">CSI</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/csi_ny/">CSI: NY</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/cw/">CW</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/damages/">Damages</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/damon_lindelof/">Damon Lindelof</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/dan_rather/">Dan Rather</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/danny_devito/">Danny DeVito</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/darren_mcgavin/">Darren McGavin</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/david_and_lynn_angell/">David and Lynn Angell</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/david_chase/">David Chase</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/david_duchovny/">David Duchovny</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/david_letterman/">David Letterman</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/david_milch/">David Milch</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/david_morse/">David Morse</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/david_simon/">David Simon</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/deadwood/">Deadwood</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/denis-leary/">Denis Leary</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/desperate_housewives/">Desperate Housewives</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/dexter/">Dexter</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/diablo-cody/">Diablo Cody</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/dianne_wiest/">Dianne Wiest</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/dick_ebersol/">Dick Ebersol</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/dick_martin/">Dick Martin</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/dick_van_dyke/">Dick Van Dyke</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/dick_wolf/">Dick Wolf</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/directors/">Directors</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/directv/">DirecTV</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/dirty_sexy_money/">Dirty Sexy Money</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/discovery/">Discovery</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/disney/">Disney</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/disney_channel/">Disney Channel</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/disneyland/">Disneyland</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/do_not_disturb/">Do Not Disturb</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/dominic_monaghan/">Dominic Monaghan</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/dr_horribles_singalong_blog/">Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/dvd/">DVD</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/e/">E!</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ed_asner/">Ed Asner</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ed_burns/">Ed Burns</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/edie_falco/">Edie Falco</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/edward_r_murrow/">Edward R. Murrow</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/eight_days_a_week/">Eight Days a Week</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/elisabeth_moss/">Elisabeth Moss</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/eliza_dushku/">Eliza Dushku</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/emmys/">Emmys</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/encore_westerns/">Encore Westerns</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/er/">ER</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/espn/">ESPN</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/evan_lurie/">Evan Lurie</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/events/">Events</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/everybody_hates_chris/">Everybody Hates Chris</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/executives/">Executives</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/family_guy/">Family Guy</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/farscape/">Farscape</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/fcc/">FCC</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/felicity_huffman/">Felicity Huffman</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/football/">football</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/fox/">Fox</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/fox_news/">Fox News</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/friday_night_lights/">Friday 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/gene_wilder/">Gene Wilder</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/generation_kill/">Generation Kill</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/george_carlin/">George Carlin</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/geraldine_laybourne/">Geraldine Laybourne</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/gillian_anderson/">Gillian Anderson</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/gilmore_girls/">Gilmore Girls</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/girlfriends/">Girlfriends</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/glee/">Glee</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/glenn_close/">Glenn Close</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/gloria_reuben/">Gloria Reuben</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/golf/">Golf</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/gordon_ramsay/">Gordon Ramsay</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/gossip_girl/">Gossip Girl</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/green_acres/">Green Acres</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/greg_berlanti/">Greg Berlanti</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/greg_daniels/">Greg Daniels</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/guilds/">Guilds</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/hal_fishman/">Hal Fishman</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/hallmark_channel/">Hallmark Channel</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/hank_azaria/">Hank Azaria</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/hannah_montana/">Hannah Montana</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/harvey_korman/">Harvey Korman</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/hawaii_five0/">Hawaii Five-0</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/hbo/">HBO</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/hd_net/">HD Net</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/heath_ledger/">Heath Ledger</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/helen_mirren/">Helen Mirren</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/hells_kitchen/">Hell's Kitchen</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/heroes/">Heroes</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/high_school_musical/">High School Musical</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/hopkins/">Hopkins</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/house/">House</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/how_i_met_your_mother/">How I Met Your Mother</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/hrts/">HRTS</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/hugh_laurie/">Hugh Laurie</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/hulu/">Hulu</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/humanitas_prize/">Humanitas Prize</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/i_spy/">I Spy</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ian_mcshane/">Ian McShane</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ifc/">IFC</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/in-treatment/">In Treatment</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ipod_nano/">iPod Nano</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/its_always_sunny_in_philadelphia/">It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jj_abrams/">J.J. Abrams</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jack_nicholson/">Jack Nicholson</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jaime_pressly/">Jaime Pressly</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/james_corden/">James Corden</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/james_gandolfini/">James Gandolfini</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/january_jones/">January Jones</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jason_and_randy_sklar/">Jason and Randy Sklar</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jason_katims/">Jason Katims</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jay_leno/">Jay Leno</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jeff_zucker/">Jeff Zucker</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jeopardy/">Jeopardy!</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jeremy_piven/">Jeremy Piven</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jericho/">Jericho</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jerry_lewis/">Jerry Lewis</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jerry_seinfeld/">Jerry Seinfeld</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jesse_james/">Jesse James</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jim_gaffigan/">Jim Gaffigan</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jim_mckay/">Jim McKay</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jim_nantz/">Jim Nantz</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jim_parsons/">Jim Parsons</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jimmy-fallon/">Jimmy Fallon</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jimmy_kimmel/">Jimmy Kimmel</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/joan_rivers/">Joan Rivers</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/john_ford/">John Ford</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/john_from_cincinnati/">John from Cincinnati</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/john_landgraf/">John Landgraf</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/john_lurie/">John Lurie</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/john_madden/">John Madden</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/john_mccain/">John McCain</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/john_slattery/">John Slattery</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/john_stamos/">John Stamos</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/john_turturro/">John Turturro</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/john_wells/">John Wells</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jon_hamm/">Jon Hamm</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jon_stewart/">Jon Stewart</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jonas_brothers/">Jonas Brothers</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/jordana_spiro/">Jordana Spiro</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/josh_radnor/">Josh Radnor</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/joss_whedon/">Joss Whedon</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/judd_apatow/">Judd Apatow</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/judy_greer/">Judy Greer</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/kate_walsh/">Kate Walsh</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/katherine_heigl/">Katherine Heigl</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/kathy_griffin/">Kathy Griffin</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/katie_couric/">Katie Couric</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/kcet/">KCET</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/keith_olbermann/">Keith Olbermann</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/kem_nunn/">Kem Nunn</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/kevin_reilly/">Kevin Reilly</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/kevin_smith/">Kevin Smith</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/kid_nation/">Kid Nation</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/kiefer_sutherland/">Kiefer Sutherland</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/kitchen_nightmares/">Kitchen Nightmares</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ktlatv_los_angeles/">KTLA-TV Los Angeles</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/kyle_chandler/">Kyle Chandler</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lance_reddick/">Lance Reddick</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/late_late_show_with_craig_ferguson/">Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/late_night/">Late night</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/late_night_with_conan_obrien/">Late Night with Conan O'Brien</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/late_night_with_jimmy_fallon/">Late Night with Jimmy Fallon</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/late_show_with_david_letterman/">Late Show with David Letterman</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/law_order/">Law & Order</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/law_order_svu/">Law & Order: SVU</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/legends/">Legends</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/leslie_moonves/">Leslie Moonves</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/levar_burton/">LeVar Burton</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lewis_black/">Lewis Black</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/life/">Life</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/life_on_mars/">Life on Mars</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lifetime/">Lifetime</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/linda_cardellini/">Linda Cardellini</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/linda_ellerbee/">Linda Ellerbee</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/loren_bouchard/">Loren Bouchard</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lost/">Lost</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lou_grant/">Lou Grant</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/louis_gossett_jr/">Louis Gossett Jr.</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/lucy_daughter_of_the_devil/">Lucy, Daughter of the Devil</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/mad_men/">Mad Men</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/mandy_patinkin/">Mandy Patinkin</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/mara_brock_akil/">Mara Brock Akil</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/marc_cherry/">Marc Cherry</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/marcy_carsey/">Marcy Carsey</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/markpaul_gosselaar/">Mark-Paul Gosselaar</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/marshall_herskovitz/">Marshall Herskovitz</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/martin_manulis/">Martin Manulis</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/marykate_olsen/">Mary-Kate Olsen</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/marylouise_parker/">Mary-Louise Parker</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/matthew_weiner/">Matthew Weiner</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/maura_tierney/">Maura Tierney</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/meet_the_press/">Meet the Press</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/mel_shavelson/">Mel Shavelson</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/melora_hardin/">Melora Hardin</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/merv_griffin/">Merv Griffin</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/michael_chiklis_1/">Michael Chiklis</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/michael_emerson/">Michael Emerson</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/michael_j_fox/">Michael J. Fox</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/mike_darnell/">Mike Darnell</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/miley_cyrus/">Miley Cyrus</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/million_dollar_password/">Million Dollar Password</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/mindy_kaling/">Mindy Kaling</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/mirthala_salinas/">Mirthala Salinas</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/miss_guided/">Miss Guided</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/mister_rogers_neighborhood/">Mister Rogers' Neighborhood</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/mitch-hurwitz/">Mitch Hurwitz</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/moment_of_truth/">Moment of Truth</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/monster_garage/">Monster Garage</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/moonlight/">Moonlight</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/msnbc/">MSNBC</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/mtv/">MTV</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/multihyphenates/">Multihyphenates</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/muppets/">Muppets</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/my_boys/">My Boys</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/my_name_is_earl/">My Name is Earl</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/nancy_tellem/">Nancy Tellem</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/nashville/">Nashville</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/national_geographic_channel/">National Geographic Channel</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/natpe/">NATPE</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/nbc/">NBC</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/neal_baer/">Neal Baer</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/neil_patrick_harris/">Neil Patrick Harris</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/networks/">Networks</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/nick_kroll/">Nick Kroll</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/nickelodeon/">Nickelodeon</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/night_gallery/">Night Gallery</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/nina_tassler/">Nina Tassler</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/niptuck/">Nip/Tuck</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/nypd_blue/">NYPD Blue</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/obits/">Obits</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/olympics/">Olympics</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/on_the_lot/">On the Lot</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/online_nation/">Online Nation</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/only_in_tv_land/">Only in TV land...</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/oprah_winfrey/">Oprah Winfrey</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/oxygen/">Oxygen</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/paley_center_for_media/">Paley Center for Media</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/paris_hilton/">Paris Hilton</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/parker_posey/">Parker Posey</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/patrick-swayze/">Patrick Swayze</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/pbs/">PBS</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/peabody_awards/">Peabody Awards</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/peter_billingsley/">Peter Billingsley</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/peter_liguori/">Peter Liguori</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/peter_roth/">Peter Roth</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/philo_t_farnsworth/">Philo T. Farnsworth</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/pib_and_pog/">Pib and Pog</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/pilots/">Pilots</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/planet_green/">Planet Green</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/playhouse_90/">Playhouse 90</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/powers_boothe/">Powers Boothe</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/prime_suspect/">Prime Suspect</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/project_gary/">Project Gary</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/radio/">Radio</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/rainn_wilson/">Rainn Wilson</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/raising_the_bar/">Raising the Bar</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ratings/">Ratings</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/reaper/">Reaper</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/rescue-me/">Rescue Me</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/return_of_jezebel_james/">Return of Jezebel James</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/rhettandlink/">RhettandLink</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/rita_rocks/">Rita Rocks</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/rob_marshall/">Rob Marshall</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/robert_greenblatt/">Robert Greenblatt</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/robot_chicken/">Robot Chicken</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/rod_serling/">Rod Serling</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/roger_king/">Roger King</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ron-moore/">Ron Moore</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/roots/">Roots</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/rowan_and_martins_laughin/">Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ryan_seacrest/">Ryan Seacrest</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/sally_field/">Sally Field</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/sam_zell/">Sam Zell</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/sarah_connor_chronicles/">Sarah Connor Chronicles</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/sarah_palin/">Sarah Palin</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/sarah_silverman/">Sarah Silverman</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/satcasters/">Satcasters</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/saturday_night_live/">Saturday Night Live</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/sci_fi_channel/">Sci Fi Channel</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/second_life/">Second Life</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/secret_life_of_the_american_teenager/">Secret Life of the American Teenager</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/seth_green/">Seth Green</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/seth_macfarlane/">Seth MacFarlane</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/shawn_ryan/">Shawn Ryan</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/shiri_appleby/">Shiri Appleby</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/shonda_rhimes/">Shonda Rhimes</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/showrunners/">Showrunners</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/shows/">Shows</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/showtime/">Showtime</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/si_tv/">Si TV</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/simon_cowell/">Simon Cowell</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/sleeper_cell/">Sleeper Cell</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/soapnet/">soapnet</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/soul_train/">Soul Train</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/spike_tv/">Spike TV</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/spinal_tap/">Spinal Tap</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/stan_lee/">Stan Lee</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/star_jones/">Star Jones</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/star_trek/">Star Trek</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/starz/">Starz</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/stations/">Stations</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/stephen_colbert/">Stephen Colbert</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/steve_dildarian/">Steve Dildarian</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/steven_bochco/">Steven Bochco</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/steven_moffat/">Steven Moffat</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/steven_spielberg/">Steven Spielberg</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/strike_tv/">Strike TV</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/studios/">Studios</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/superdeluxe/">Superdeluxe</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/superheroes/">Superheroes</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/surviving_the_filthy_rich/">Surviving the Filthy Rich</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/survivor/">Survivor</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/suzanne_pleshette/">Suzanne Pleshette</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/swingtown/">Swingtown</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/talking_heads/">Talking heads</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/tbs/">TBS</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/tca/">TCA</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/tcm/">TCM</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ted_danson/">Ted Danson</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ted-haggard/">Ted Haggard</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/telemundo/">Telemundo</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/tell_me_you_love_me/">Tell Me You Love Me</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/terminator_the_sarah_connor_chronicles/">Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/terry_oquinn/">Terry O'Quinn</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_addams_family/">The Addams Family</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_andy_griffith_show/">The Andy Griffith Show</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_backyardigans/">The Backyardigans</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the-beast/">The Beast</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_big_bang_theory/">The Big Bang Theory</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_bob_newhart_show/">The Bob Newhart Show</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_bronx_is_burning/">The Bronx Is Burning</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_business/">The Business</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_colbert_report/">The Colbert Report</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_daily_show_with_jon_stewart/">The Daily Show with Jon Stewart</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_farnsworth_invention/">The Farnsworth Invention</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_gong_show/">The Gong Show</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_life_and_times_of_tim/">The Life and Times of Tim</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_masters/">The Masters</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_new_adventures_of_old_christine/">The New Adventures of Old Christine</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_office/">The Office</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_price_is_right/">The Price is Right</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_real_world/">The Real World</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the-rockford-files/">The Rockford Files</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_sarah_silverman_program/">The Sarah Silverman Program</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_shield/">The Shield</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_simpsons/">The Simpsons</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_sopranos/">The Sopranos</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_twilight_zone/">The Twilight Zone</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_west_wing/">The West Wing</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_wire/">The Wire</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/the_xfiles/">The X-Files</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/theme_songs/">Theme songs</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/this_american_life/">This American Life</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/thomas_dekker/">Thomas Dekker</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/thomas_haden_church/">Thomas Haden Church</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/three_stooges/">Three Stooges</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/through_the_orthicon_tube/">Through the orthicon tube</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/tim_russert/">Tim Russert</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/timothy_olyphant/">Timothy Olyphant</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/tina_fey/">Tina Fey</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/tivo/">TiVo</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/tnt/">TNT</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/todd_holland/">Todd Holland</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/tom_bergeron/">Tom Bergeron</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/tom_brokaw/">Tom Brokaw</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/tom_selleck/">Tom Selleck</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/tom_snyder/">Tom Snyder</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/toni-collette/">Toni Collette</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/top_chef/">Top Chef</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/tracey_ullman/">Tracey Ullman</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/tracey_ullmans_state_of_the_union/">Tracey Ullman's State of the Union</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/tribune_co/">Tribune Co.</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/true_blood/">True Blood</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/turner_broadcasting/">Turner Broadcasting</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/tv_land/">TV Land</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/tv_news/">TV news</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/tv_universe_stats/">TV universe stats</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/two_and_a_half_men/">Two and a Half Men</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/ugly_betty/">Ugly Betty</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/united-states-of-tara/">United States of Tara</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/univision/">Univision</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/unscripted_tv/">Unscripted TV</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/upfronts/">Upfronts</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/usa_network/">USA Network</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/varsity_inc/">Varsity Inc.</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/vh1/">VH1</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/victoria_beckham/">Victoria Beckham</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/vin_di_bona/">Vin Di Bona</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/warner_bros_/">Warner Bros._</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/warren_beatty/">Warren Beatty</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/weeds/">Weeds</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/wfaatv/">WFAA-TV</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/wga/">WGA</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/wheel_of_fortune/">Wheel of Fortune</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/who_wants_to_be_a_superhero/">Who Wants to Be a Superhero?</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/will_ferrell/">Will Ferrell</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/william_petersen/">William Petersen</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/willie_nelson/">Willie Nelson</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/wkrp_in_cincinnati/">WKRP in Cincinnati</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/world_series_of_poker/">World Series of Poker</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/worst_week/">Worst Week</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/writers/">Writers</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090829202005/http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/writers_strike/">Writers strike</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a 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