YOUʼVE ONLY GOT THREE CHOICES: RUN, HIDE, OR DIE. pregnant woman onthe verge an appetite for blood, a groupe Spelling television based on his constrained by tight because he had greenlighted While there is a continuous story The nightmare was only the of giving birth, an unlucky of hostile Islanddwellers out to concept of a cross between deadlines, as it had been such an expensive and risky arc, each episode relates events beginning. A plane crash on a millionaire, a washed-up kidnap and murderthem, a the novel Lord of the Flies, the commissioned late in the project. The world premiere of concurrently with off-island deserted Island. Forty-eight rockstar witha drug addiction dark jungle with dnger around movie Cast Away, the televi- 2004 season's development the pilot episode was on July flashbacks and later, flashfor- survivors. No hope of rescue. and adwindling supply, an Iraqi every corner. Not everyone sion series Gilligan’s Island, cycle. Despite the short 24, 2004 at Comic-Con wards, centered on a particular For teh next forty days, the soldier fleeing a haunting past, survived. The first forty days and televiesion popular reality schedule, the creative team International in San Diego. character. The majority of survivors of Oceanic flight #815 and a sister and brother with a taxed every resource of the show Survivor. Gadi Pollac remained flexible enough to Episodes have a episodes end with a suspenseful were tested to their limits. For disturbing shared history. Each rag-tag community, alliances notes that some of the modify or create characters distinct structure: following a twist or cliffhanger, revealed just Jack Shephard, a surgeon from boarded the plane with opes of were forged, rivalries “infulences of Lost came from to fit actors they wished to cast. Los Angeles, it was the challenge escaping from their troubled declared, and friends were lost the game Myst.” Jeffrey of leading the traumatized Liever was hired and wrote Lost's two-part pilot episode castaways into some kind of Do you know whats the best way to find Nowhere, based on his pitch was the most expensive in the orer. For Kate Austen, a fugitive to write the pilot. Unhappy network's history, reportedly Cast of Lost: being transported to the United Matthew Fox as Jack Shephard; Jorge something that's lost? You stop looking for it with teh result and a subse- costing between US $10 and Garcia as HugoReyes; Josh Holloway as States after years on the run, it quent rewrite, Braun US $14 million,compared to James “Sawyer” Ford; Daniel Dae Kim as was preserving her secret from ---- John Locke(Terry O’Quinn). contacted J.J. Abrams. the average cost of an hour- Jinn Kwon; Yunjin Kim as Sun Kwon; the other castaways whle Although initially hesitant, long pilot in 2005 of US $4 Evangeline Lilly as Kate Austen; Terry searching for a way off the Island. O’Quinn as John Locke; Naveen Andrews Abrams warmed up to the million. The series, which recap of events relevant to the seconds before a smash cut to as Sayid Jarrah; Emilie de Ravin as Clair And for John Locke - a lives, only to find themselves in to the many peils of this place. idea on the condition that the debuted on September 22, upcoming narrative, each black and the title graphic. Littleton; Dominic Monaghan as Charlie mand witha strange and tragic a hostile place that brought out For these castaways, series would have a super- 2004, became one of the show begins with a cold open. Others, following a plot resolu- Pace; Harold Perrineau as Michael past - it was the dawning realiza- their strangths and weak- every single days has been a natural angle to it, and collabo- biggest critical and commer- Often a close up of a charac- tion, will finish with a reflective Dawson; Michael Emerson as Ben Linus. tion that the Island was the nesssses to extremes they battle., but the first forty days rated with Damon Lindelof to cial successes of the 2004 ter's eye will follow. At a closing scene that precedes a fulfillment of a shared destiny - could have never imagined. were nothing compared to create the series' style and television season. Along with dramatic juncture, the screen simple fade to black, and in that the pland crash may have For the survivors of what they are aabout to facce, characters. Together, Abrams fellow new series Desperate cuts to black and the title particularly tragic or heart-felt just been meant to happen.And Flight #815, the Island has not because the Island is not done and Lindelof also created a Housewives and Grey's graphic, slightly out-of-focus, closing scenes, the booming so it was for all the survivors, a only become a crucible where with the survivors of Flight # 815. series "bible", and conceived Anatomy, Lost helped to glides towards the viewer noise that accompanies the title con artist witha lifetime of dark they must learn to survive The series began and detailed the major mytho- reverse the flagging fortunes accompanied by an ominous, graphic will be silenced, amplify- secets, a single father and his while facing the best and worst development in January logical ideas and plot points of ABC. Yet, before it had even discordant sound. The opening ing the impact of the event. estranged son, a Korean man in themselves, but also a 2004, when Lloyd Braun, for an ideal five to six season been aired, Lloyd Braun was credits generally appear alpha- and wife unable to communicate gauntlet of inscrutable myster- head of ABC at that time, run for the show. The develop- fired by executives at ABC's betically by last name over the with the other castaways, a ies, and unseen creature with ordered an initial script from ment of the show was parent company, Disney, scenes that immediately follow. FIVE SIX.