Lost is an American serial drama television series. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles crashes somewhere in the South Pacific. Each episode typically features a primary storyline on the island as well as a secondary storyline from another point in a character’s life, though other time-related plot devices change this formula in later episodes. The pilot episode was first broadcast on September 22, 2004, and since then five full seasons have aired. The show airs on the American Broadcasting Company in the United States, as well as on regional networks in many other countries.

Due to its large ensemble cast and the cost of filming primarily on location in Oahu, Hawaii, the series is one of the most expensive on television. It was created by Damon Lindelof, J. J. Abrams and Jeffrey Lieber and is produced by ABC Studios, Bad Robot Productions and Grass Skirt Productions. The score is composed by Michael Giacchino. The executive producers of the final season are Lindelof, Abrams, Bryan Burk, Jack Bender, Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, Jean Higgins, Elizabeth Sarnoff and Carlton Cuse.

Critically acclaimed and a popular success, Lost garnered an average of 16 million viewers per episode on ABC during its first year. It has won numerous industry awards including the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 2005, Best American Import at the British Academy Television Awards in 2005, the Golden Globe for Best Drama in 2006 and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series. Reflecting its devoted fan base, the series has become a part of American popular culture with references to the story and its elements appearing in other television series, commercials, comic books, webcomics, humor magazines, a video game and song lyrics. The show’s fictional universe has also been explored through tie-in novels, board and video games, and alternative reality games, The Lost Experience and Find 815.

Lost will conclude in its sixth season with its 121st and final episode airing on May 23, 2010. Season six will consist of eighteen episodes. Episodes from the first four seasons of the series have begun airing in off-network syndication in the US, distributed by Disney-ABC Domestic Television, on G4 and Syfy. ABC had been considering the possibility of a Lost spinoff, but decided against it.

Filming locations

A local dock in Hawaii, as seen in “Live Together, Die Alone“.

Lost is filmed on Panavision 35 mm cameras almost entirely on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The original island scenes for the pilot were filmed at Mokulē’ia Beach, near the northwest tip of the island. Later beach scenes take place in secluded spots of the famous North Shore. Cave scenes in the first season were filmed on a sound stage built at a Xerox parts warehouse, which had been empty since an employee mass shooting took place there in 1999. The sound-stage and production offices have since moved to the Hawaii Film Office-operated Hawaii Film Studio, where the sets depicting Season 2‘s “Swan Station” and Season 3‘s “Hydra Station” interiors were built. Various urban areas in and around Honolulu are used as stand-ins for locations around the world, including California, New York, Iowa, Miami, South Korea, Iraq, Nigeria, United Kingdom, Paris, Thailand, Berlin and Australia. For example, scenes set in a Sydney Airport were filmed at the Hawaii Convention Center, while a World War II-era bunker was used as an Iraqi Republican Guard installation. Also, scenes set in Germany during the winter were filmed in a relatively ordinary Hawaiian neighborhood, with crushed ice scattered everywhere to create snow and German automobile signs on the street.^[33] Several scenes in the Season 3 finale, “Through the Looking Glass,” were shot in Los Angeles, including a hospital set borrowed from Grey’s Anatomy. Two scenes during season four were filmed in London because Alan Dale who portrays Widmore was at the time performing in the musical Spamalot and was unable to travel to Hawaii. Extensive archives of filming locations are tracked at a repository at the Lost Virtual Tour.

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Official Lost Website is at  http://abc.go.com/shows/lost

	Naveen Andrews	…	Sayid Jarrah (115 episodes, 2004-2010)
	Matthew Fox	…	Jack Shephard (115 episodes, 2004-2010)
	Jorge Garcia	…	Hugo ‘Hurley’ Reyes (115 episodes, 2004-2010)
	Josh Holloway	…	James ‘Sawyer’ Ford (115 episodes, 2004-2010)
	Daniel Dae Kim	…	Jin Kwon (115 episodes, 2004-2010)
	Yunjin Kim	…	Sun Kwon (115 episodes, 2004-2010)
	Evangeline Lilly	…	Kate Austen (115 episodes, 2004-2010)
	Terry O’Quinn	…	John Locke (115 episodes, 2004-2010)
	Emilie de Ravin	…	Claire Littleton (93 episodes, 2004-2010)
	Michael Emerson	…	Ben Linus / … (76 episodes, 2006-2010)
	Dominic Monaghan	…	Charlie Pace (71 episodes, 2004-2010)
	Harold Perrineau	…	Michael Dawson (60 episodes, 2004-2008)
	Henry Ian Cusick	…	Desmond Hume (58 episodes, 2005-2010)
	Elizabeth Mitchell	…	Juliet Burke (52 episodes, 2006-2010)

djcprod — April 03, 2010 — This is a video that I made about The Final Season of the greatest show ever made. All clips belong to ABC. No copyright infringement intended. Song: Pink Floyd-Goodbye Blue Sky. Program Used: Final Cut Pro 6  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JSSUvgjmI8

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