Surviving Lost

SKY One will return Lost on Sunday February 11th after repeating the first six season three episodes. The show returns on Wednesday February 7th in the US and is preceded by the Lost Survival Guide. This one off special is hosted by executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and will show bits and pieces of the back stories and tell us who the charac, the special will be told in a linear fashion, culminating from pieces of the characters were, what they were doing before the crash, and how the island has changed their lives. They also promise to 'reveal some of its secrets that might have been missed upon first viewing'. Yeah, right. Might be worth a look though. It airs on SKY One on Friday February 9th at ten past ten.

Bits and Pieces

The Sci-Fi Channel will premiere Heroes with a double episode on Monday 19th February and then show them again every night that week. The series will continues Mondays at 10pm with a repeat on Wednesday at 9pm......Hugh Laurie won both the Golden Globe and the SAG Awards for best actor in a drama for House....Steven Fry has been hanging round with him for long enough it seems, FOX have given him a role in Bones for couple of episodes.....Chris Meloni and Mariska Hargitay have signed on for a ninth season of Law and Order'Special Victims Units, season seven is currently airing on Hallmark. Adam Beach will also join the cast amid speculation that Ice-T is leaving....ITV4 will air the cancelled Ray Liotta drama Smith from March 6th......

Are ITV trying to kill Entourage?

After dispatching David Letterman, it seems ITV are doing their best to destroy another prime property. Entourage started last year on ITV2 at 10pm with a campaign run on the main network and in cinemas. When this garnered them some success they decided to run the second series straight away. And show it on ITV at the same time. Never mind that viewers to ITV had never seen season one, never mind it making any sense or anything.
So then we had the Christmas break, and no new episodes for several weeks. Presumably its far more important to show endless old Stallone movies. So now it's back. At midnight. On a Sunday. On ITV2. If you were watching on ITV, forget it. You have been left high and dry halfway through the series. Maybe you'll get some season three episodes in eighteen months time.
Why does ITV always do this? Why buy a prime property like this and then treat it so badly. Presumably it's ITV4 next and then it will get dropped. Thanks very much ITV.

Lots more from hit shows

NBC have renewed four shows for next season, comedies The Office and My Name Is Earl, and dramas Heroes and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit......No word on the fate of Chris Meloni and Mariska Hargitay on SVU who were reported to be holding out for more cash, although it has been announced that Adam Beach will join as a series regular.....Kyra Sedgwick has been signed to the Closer for a mighty seven seasons, which seems an awful lot for a cable series only two years on the air.....Lost will start producing webisodes and phonisodes in July. Variety reports that they will feature the Lost cast and be 'intimate and self-contained'.

Battlestar grounded? Goodbye Lost?

Two of the best shows on television may be set to come to an earlier than expected finish.

Michael Ausiello on the TV Guide podcast reckons Battlestar Galactica might not be back next year. The speculation comes following strong rumours that one of the major characters dies in episode 16 of the current season. The ratings for the show have not been that strong, and the creators may choose to end the series after just three seasons while it is on a creative high. The new season has just started on Tuesdays on SKY One

Anybody who feared Lost was going to drag on forever and provide no answers - was wrong. The creators have confirmed that are currently talking to ABC about the end. While a fourth season seems certain, the saga may well end with a shortened fifth run. This will get the show to the magic 100 episodes and also provide answers and solutions to the series for the millions of fans. Lost returns in the UK next month

Larry King meets 24

The Larry King special on 24 will air in the UK at 10am on Wednesday January 10th.
King recorded an hour with the cast and crew on set back on Monday December 18th and it will air for the first time tomorrow and be repeated at the weekend.

In addition Mary Lynn Rajskub who plays Chloe will be in the UK at the end of next week to promote the new series which premieres on SKY One at 9pm on Sunday 21st.

New Year news

The OC is over. Never watched it. Dont' care.......but if you're a fan, take heart Hidden Palms starts in the US in March, Kevin Williamson's first show since Dawsons Creek ended. SKY One will screen it here......No sign of Channel 4 showing either Studio 60 or Brothers and Sisters yet. The latter has added Rob Lowe as a full time cast member.....Tiffany Thiessen, ex 2010, joins the cast of What About Brian?, the JJ Abrams show that will show up soon on E4....Entourage is back on ITV2 on Sunday at 9.45pm.....Channel 4 are showing new episodes of King of Queens in daytime.....Dennis Leary is making a pilot for NBC which might mean the end of Rescue Me after season five airs in the US this year, SKY One airs season four next month (maybe)......The Shield won't end with its sixth season, FX have given the go-ahead for an seventh run in 2008......Sopranos returns to HBO for its final nine episodes on April 8th, E4 will screen it in August.