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US article features ever so slight spoilers of ep 21

  • 11-04-2006 9:37am
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    Producers Stay "Lost" Next Season

    by Natalie Finn
    Apr 6, 2006, 7:15 PM PT

    With the Lost castaways already taken care of for next season, now it's time for the Others.

    And we ain't talking Creepy Beard Guy or the faux Henry Gale.

    Two months after locking up deals to keep the remaining survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 on the island for another year, Touchstone Television is making sure executive producers and showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse will be along for the ride as well.

    Lindelof, who created the series with J.J. Abrams, and Cuse have signed seven-figure deals, according to the Hollywood Reporter, ensuring that Jack, Locke, Sawyer, Kate, the professor, Mary Ann...wait a second...Anyway, ensuring that the characters will have plenty of hatches to explore, Others to avoid and flashbacks to flash back to during the 2006-07 season.

    Lindelof and Cuse are regarded as the brain trust that keeps the series' epic plot twists and stop-or-you-might-miss-'em little details coming.

    And anyone who is creative enough to pen an episode entitled "?"--that's right, just "?"--should be well-compensated. (That punctuation mark lends itself to the upcoming episode 21, by the way, and, FYI, it refers to the symbol Locke remembers from the map discovered on the hatch door during last week's episode. Got it?)

    "We feel that this batch of currently running episodes, through 19, is kind of the calm before the storm," Lindelof told E! Online TV columnist Kristin Veitch. "And then episodes 20 through 24, those final five hours of the show, we're all overwhelmingly excited about because there is a lot of incident and action and mystery revelation coming down the pike. We're really, really jazzed about that final pot of episodes."

    While the myriad cast members have been making $20,000 to $40,000 an episode, they each will be raking in close to $80,000 apiece come season three. Matthew Fox, he being the heroic doctor and all, got an additional $250,000 onetime bonus to keep on keepin' on next year.

    Although Lost's Nielsens have been slightly dented by American Idol's Wednesday results show (well, who hasn't?), the ABC series remains a huge critical and popular favorite, keeping about 15.3 million viewers glued to their couches and hitting the rewind button on their TiVos this season. The show's first season on DVD sold more than 1 million copies last year, making it the second-highest seller of 2005 behind season two of Chappelle's Show.

    Aside from Lindelof, Cuse and Abrams, Lost's other executive producers, and fellow Emmy and Golden Globe hoisters, are Bryan Burk and Jack Bender.


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