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Lost
Genre	Drama Thriller Science fiction Adventure Mystery
Created by	Jeffrey Lieber J.J. Abrams Damon Lindelof
Composer(s)	Michael Giacchino
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	74
Production
Executive producer(s)	Damon Lindelof Carlton Cuse Bryan Burk Jack Bender J. J. Abrams
Location(s)	Oahu, Hawaii
Running time	approx. 43 min.
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Picture format	480i (SDTV), 720p (HDTV) ABC HD, 1080i (HDTV) Sky HD, Premiere HD
Original run	September 22, 2004 – present

List of Lost episodes

Lost (season 1)
Season 1 began in the United States on September 22, 2004 and featured 24 episodes that were aired on Wednesdays at 8:00 pm. A plane crash strands the surviving passengers of Oceanic Flight 815 on a seemingly deserted tropical island, forcing the group of strangers to work together to stay alive. Their survival is threatened by mysterious entities including polar bears, an unseen creature that roams the jungle, and the island’s malevolent inhabitants known as the “Others”. They encounter a Frenchwoman who was shipwrecked on the island over 16 years earlier and find a mysterious metal hatch buried in the ground. An attempt is made to leave the island on a raft.

Lost (season 2)
Season 2 featured 23 episodes that were aired in the United States and Canada on Wednesdays at 9:00 pm starting on September 21, 2005. Most of the story, which continues 45 days after the crash, focuses on the growing conflict between the survivors and the Others, with the continued clash between faith and science being thematic in certain episodes. While some mysteries are resolved, new questions are raised. New characters are introduced, including the tail-section survivors and other island inhabitants. More island mythologies and insights into the survivors’ pasts are divulged. The hatch is explored and the existence of The DHARMA Initiative and its benefactor, the Hanso Foundation, are revealed. As the truth about the mysterious Others begins to unfold, one of the crash survivors betrays the other castaways, and the cause of the plane crash is revealed.

Lost (season 3)
Season 3 featured 22 episodes (one of which was a two-part, double-length episode) that were seen in the United States and Canada beginning on October 4, 2006 and on following Wednesdays at 9:00 pm. The series returned from hiatus on February 7, 2007 and was aired at 10:00 pm.The story continues 67 days after the crash. New crash survivors and Others are introduced, as the crash survivors learn about the Others and their history on the mysterious island. One of the Others and a new island inhabitant join the survivors while a survivor defects to the Others. A war between the Others and the survivors comes to a head, and the survivors make contact with a rescue team.

Lost (season 4)
Season 4 was planned (prior to the the Writers Guild of America strike) to feature 16 episodes, to be broadcast beginning in the U.S. and Canada on January 31, 2008.Due to the writers’ strike, the season will instead last only 13 episodes, consisting of the 8 pre-strike episodes already in the bag, and an additional 5 post-strike episodes being currently filmed. The show will go on a 4 week hiatus after the conclusion of the 8th episode and return April 24. Although the season will be down by three episodes, executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have announced they will be added and fitted in the remaining fifth and sixth seasons.

Future seasons and end date

On May 7, 2007, ABC Entertainment President Stephen McPherson announced that Lost will end during the 2009–2010 season with a “highly anticipated and shocking finale.”,”We felt that this was the only way to give [Lost] a proper creative conclusion,” McPherson said. Beginning with the 2007–2008 television season, the final 48 episodes of Lost would have been aired as three seasons with 16 episodes each, with Lost concluding in its sixth season. Due to the writers strike, the fourth season has only 13 episodes and, according to creators’ plans, the final 2 seasons will comprise 35 episodes.

Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse stated that they “always envisioned Lost as a show with a beginning, middle, and end,” and that by announcing when the show would end that viewers would “have the security of knowing that the story will play out as we’ve intended.”

In the meantime, Sci Fi Channel and G4 have purchased the rights to broadcast reruns of Lost beginning in the fall of 2008.