ABC Plans To Make Up For Missing ‘Lost’ Episodes
Written by Ian Cullen on July 18, 2008 – 11:00 am -
By Ian M. Cullen
ABC Networks President of Entertainment Stephen McPherson revealed to reporters at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour – that the network intends to make up for the shortfall of episodes from the last season of ‘Lost’ which like many other shows had a shortened season due to the writers strike.
SciFiWire who attended the event managed to get the following quotes from the Q&A with Stephen McPherson.
Last year only 14 episodes of ABCs hit series aired, “They were supposed to do 17 this year, actually,” McPherson said at the conference.
He went on to add that the season five of the series will feature 17 episodes – and that they have only 48 episodes left until the series conclusion in 2010.
“They’re kind of still doing the story arcs and figuring that out,” McPherson said, referring to Lost‘s producers. “But we will do the full 48 that we all set out when we said, ‘Let’s set an end of the show. How many episodes do you need to tell that story and where you’re going?’”
McPherson acknowledged that Lost suffered more from last year’s writers’ strike than other ABC shows. “Lost, unfortunately, was one of the shows that had to actually go down for a little bit and go off the air,” he said. “We were hoping to be able to run it straight through.” Instead, the decision was made to pull Lost down completely until early next year.
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