Yep, the last original episode of Lost for the Fall airs tonight! After tonight, Lost will be pre-empted by the Taye Diggs show Day Break, and Lost returns February 7. But tonight, catch an all-new Lost with the episode entitled I Do. Jack makes a decision regarding Ben's offer, Kate feels helpless when it looks like an angry Pickett is going to make good on his threat to kill Sawyer, and Locke discovers a hidden message that may guide him through the next steps of his journey to unlocking the secrets of the island. Be sure to drop by LostTV-Forum to register and discuss the show after it airs! (11:39 AM)

   After little more than a month of thrills and twists that have some fans feeling that the show is at its best ever, "Lost" is disappearing into the wilderness.
   After tonight's episode, only the sixth of the still-young fall television season, ABC will take "Lost" off the air for 13 weeks. The show will return on Feb. 7 for a run of 16 or 17 new episodes that will carry viewers into late May.
   But the midyear split season is a scheduling gambit that could have enormous consequences not only for ABC, but also for the entire genre of serialized television drama, testing whether audiences are loyal enough to expensive, complex shows to weather long midseason interruptions....
   ...Creating an extended, continuous season would require a different approach. "We could say, O.K., 'Lost' will be on for 30 weeks without interruption," Mr. Bader said. "But to produce that many shows, we wouldn't be able to do a season next year," and viewers would have to wait until the 2008-9 season for the next installments.
   Instead, ABC hopes to keep "Lost" fans enticed over the next three months with what it is calling " 'Lost' Nuggets": 30-second promotional clips of scenes from episodes not yet broadcast that will hint at what will become of the island castaways when the show returns.
   The "Nuggets" will be shown each week during "Day Break," although ABC is not saying at what time, meaning "Lost" fans will have to watch the new show or fast-forward through their digitally recorded files to unearth the clues. Read the full story here. (9:59 AM)

   Don't do it, ABC.
   Tonight the network airs the sixth and final original "Lost" episode then benches the series until Feb. 7.
   The series "Day Break," a serial thriller starring Taye Diggs, debuts next week and owns "Lost's" time slot for the next 13 weeks.
   There's still time to reverse that decision, ABC.
   Now is not the time to bury "Lost."
   Audiences can be fickle, especially when a show disappoints. "Lost" 's ratings are down.
   According to Nielsen Media Research, the show ranked No. 12 last week in overall household rankings. It's nowhere near the point of cancellation, but it is also no longer the ratings powerhouse of previous years.
   Yank the show now and ABC will lose what little momentum the show has.... Read the full story here. (9:56 AM)

   Lost gets lost after tonight's episode, but will a 13-week break hurt the island mystery's momentum?
   ABC's scheduling plan was hatched in May to maintain viewer interest by avoiding dismally low-rated repeats. Instead, the season was split in two, with six episodes this fall and 16 more to run uninterrupted from Feb. 7 to mid-May's two-hour finale. (Day Break, another serialized drama, fills the 9 ET/PT gap starting next week.)
   But programmers didn't expect Lost's audience — 16.2 million viewers this season — to slip another 12%, the biggest decline of any returning ABC series. They didn't count on CBS rival Criminal Minds beating it last week.
   And they didn't figure that NBC's new Heroes, a similarly mythologized serial, would become more popular among a core crowd of adults ages 18 to 34.
   "In a perfect world, for us, the fans and the network, we would love to air the show in the way 24 airs," continuously from January to May, says executive producer Damon Lindelof. But doing so would require fans to go hungry for eight months, and force the network to live, as Fox does, without one of its top series in the fall.... Read the full story here. (9:54 AM)

   Michael Emerson, considerably less creepy in person than he is on your TV, still hasn't gotten used to the idea that people he does not know approach him in public places to declare how much they despise him. It's been occurring fairly regularly since he showed up last season on the ABC series "Lost," playing the character then known as Henry Gale, the chillingly soft-spoken (in a Hannibal Lecter kind of way) leader of the frightening and mysterious Others who inhabit the show's island.
   It happened again just a couple of weeks ago, as he was passing through security at Honolulu International Airport on his way to Los Angeles from Hawaii, where "Lost" is filmed. This time it was a federal security guard, who suddenly found herself distracted from checking for liquids and gels.
   "She looks up and says: 'You! Oh, you, you ... I hate you! You're bad. You're a very bad man!' " recalled Mr. Emerson, 51, over lunch on the patio of a restaurant here, near the apartment he shares with his wife, the actress Carrie Preston. "She ended up laughing. I think it tickles people to come face to face with the character.... Read the full story here. (9:50 AM)

   Fans were sent adrift yesterday as they waited on line to meet Lost star Jorge Garcia (Hurley), executive producer Bryan Burk and McFarlane Toys' Todd McFarlane at Toys "R" Us during a private meet and greet to help launch the new Lost action figures, based on the popular ABC series.
   The private launch was for the first wave of action figures from Tempe, Ariz.-based McFarlane Toys. The figures, available for the first time yesterday morning, include characters Jack, Charlie, Kate, Shannon, Locke and Hurley as well as a Lost Series 1 The Hatch Boxed Set, a diorama of the closing scene from the season 1 finale.
   Customers who pre-ordered the boxed set received a ticket to the signing event yesterday while supplies lasted. Seven lucky fans also won a one-of-a-kind McFarlane Toys Lost pewter hand-painted action figure, personally autographed by McFarlane.... Read the full story here. (9:45 AM)

   Hey, "Lost," got a minute? We know you're busy packing for that 13-week hiatus that kicks off after tonight.
   That's what we want to discuss with you. Have a seat.
   Before we get to the core of the matter, thank you for two exciting seasons. The first really got us. Outsiders blamed our fierce loyalty back then on the head-over-heels rush of endorphins all of us experience at the beginning of a saucy new relationship. Make no mistake, that's what we have -- a relationship. An intricate serialized drama like you requires total commitment. That was crystal from the get-go.
   Week after week you teased us with puzzles, filling our brains with questions.
   Problem was, you didn't give us enough answers. Then you'd leave us frequently and without explanation during season two, making us wade through repeats and clip shows. Not cool, "Lost." Not cool.... Read the full story here. (9:43 AM)

   Here's a glimpse into the collective mind of "Lost" fans and staffers. The Fuselage, the official Web site of the show's creative team, includes a poll after each new episode that asks whether the show was "Below Average by 'Lost' Standards," "Above Average by 'Lost' Standards" or the "Best Hour of TV Ever Broadcast."
   In other words, these people have some high standards. So it should come as little surprise that even devoted fans of the show, people who swear they’ll never leave the island, are generally underwhelmed by the first batch of episodes for the fall season.
   If you believe the Internet buzz, "Lost" (9 p.m. ET, Wednesdays, ABC) has a lot to prove in its Nov. 8 fall finale if the hit drama hopes to maintain some momentum when it returns in February.... Read the full story here. (9:39 AM)

   Many fans may remember Matthew Fox from his role as Charlie Slinger on the popular series Party of Five, which lasted four years on Fox. After a two-year absence from TV, Matthew turned up as Frank Taylor in the short-lived WB series Haunted before landing the role of Dr. Jack Shepherd on ABC's gargantuan hit Lost. Now, after finding even bigger success on the small screen, Matthew Fox is getting set to make his mark on the big in We Are Marshall.
   On November 14, 1970, the entire Marshall Academy football team was lost in a plane crash, along with eight members of the coaching staff. At the time, it was one of the biggest tragedies in college football history. In the football season after the catastrophe, Marshall Academy was still able to field a team, coached by Jack Lengyel (Matthew McConaughey) and Red Dawson (Fox), one of the only members of 1970 coaching staff to not onboard the plane.... Read the full story here. (9:37 AM)

   With Oceanic Air suspending all flights, Lost fans are out of luck when it comes to getting marooned on Mystery Island with the gang. But just in time for stocking-stuffing season comes the next best thing.
   Losties can now play along at home - literally - as the first official toy line based on ABC's acclaimed action-adventure series was unveiled Monday in New York.
   Jorge Garcia, aka everyone's favorite numbers-obsessed lotto winner Hurley, turned up with executive producer Bryan Burk and the line's creator, Spawn comic book artist turned twisted toymaker Todd McFarlane, to greet and autograph action figures for more than 200 die-hards at the Toys "R" Us flagship story in Times Square.... Read the full story here. (9:31 AM)

   It's Lost night tomorrow, and AOL Television has released a couple of teaser videos to whet our appetite: Inoperable and What Killed Eko?. (11:48 AM)

   "The seating arrangement is a plot issue," quipped Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, whose Mr. Eko has become popular to the millions of fans of "Lost."
   Adewale said this as we began our recent round-robin interviews with the cast of the hit TV series that inspires tons of theories from the show's devotees. The fans love to guess about the latest mystery on the island where the plane crash survivor characters are stranded.
   To the show's rabid followers who want to know how the actors and actresses were split into four clusters as they hopped from table to table, here's the list for you to solve: Evangeline Lilly and Daniel Dae Kim; Adewale, Michael Emerson and Elizabeth Mitchell; Matthew Fox and Henry Ian Cusick; and Josh Holloway, Jorge Garcia and Yunjin Kim.
   It was a relaxed afternoon in a ballroom at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Taking a break from filming the show's season three, the cast had the easy camaraderie of folks who have been working together for quite sometime. The jokes and quips, including banter on the "perils" of working in paradise, flowed freely. Here are samples.... Read the full story here. (11:44 PM)

   Our recent trip to Honolulu coincided with the Hawaii International Film Festival, which honored our press group. But the highlight was our interview with most of the cast of the hit TV series, "Lost," and visits to the main set on the beach and the studio where many indoor shots are filmed.
   On this first part on our exclusive "Lost" encounter, we feature Evangeline Lilly who set reports straight that she lived in "a grass hut (most likely a nipa hut) in the jungles in the Philippines." Ever smiling and candid, Evangeline, who wore a white long-sleeved lacy blouse that set off her lovely face, talked to us about staying -- but not living -- in Palawan for three weeks.... Read the full story here. (11:42 PM)

   The "Lost" monster is back.
   The billowy black smoke that ambiguously frightened the castaways in past seasons returned with a vengeance on Wednesday, pummeling the island's favorite "tailie," Mr. Eko, the priest. In the most affecting death scene on the ABC drama thus far, Mr. Eko, who once had confronted the monster and forced it to retreat, this time surrendered, reciting the 23rd Psalm....
   ...On ABC message boards and fan website lost-tv.com, Lost fans wasted no time expressing their feelings about the loss of the Nigerian priest who sat in the tail section of the plane and took a 40-day vow of silence when he survived the crash....
   ...Although Losties on the Web argued that there was more ground to cover with Mr. Eko, Akinnuoye-Agbaje said he felt that once Mr. Eko helped Locke find his faith again, his mission on the island was realized.
   "The way he died is brutal, but it's a beautiful ending " Akinnuoye-Agbaje said. "Eko lived this life of torture, living double lives and that's a lot of energy to be running for your life, pretending to be this guy, that guy, never really showing who you are.... There was no point but to surrender [to death] so he just gave himself to it. Not out of fear, but acceptance.... Read the full story here. (11:39 PM)

   Lost's Mr. Eko may be dead, but rumors live on that his portrayer, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, was diffficult to work with, a trait which may have sealed his holy man's fate. "I've heard speculation that I left Lost because I wasn't happy. Straight up, it was probably one of the best relationships I've ever had, in terms of developing a character," the actor tells the New York Post. Akinnuoye-Agbaje, a Buddhist, says that his acting methods - staying in character and not talking to anyone while on the set, instead passing downtime by reading scriptures - could have been misread. "That's just the way I work," he explains. Read the full story here. (11:37 PM)

   Last season, Lost's Mr. Eko (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) looked the island's mystical monster straight in the eye and lived to tell about it.
   Last night on the ABC drama, Eko wasn't so lucky - the monster killed him.
   With Eko's death, just one tail-section passenger is still around: Sam Anderson's Bernard. Last season, Michelle Rodriguez's Ana-Lucia and Cynthia Watros' Libby were shot by Michael (Harold Perrineau). With the departures of Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Perrineau and Malcolm David Kelley (Walt), there are no series regulars who are black.
   Akinnuoye-Agbaje asked to be written off the series. After losing both parents last year, he wanted to return to his London home and work on a film he'll direct.
   Elizabeth Mitchell, who plays Juliet, got to know him off the set. "We got along really well," she says. "He's about to direct his first movie about his life, which is an incredible story. He'll be missed." Read the full story here. (11:34 PM)

   Death is a part of life, and when your marooned on some island in the middle of nowhere, death is far more apparent than most may realize.
   "Lost" is no stranger to death, even as characters we're just getting to know seem to bite the dust before we really get to know them. And once again, in the episode that aired Nov. 1, "Lost" fans had to deal with the death of the quiet but religious Mr. Eko (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) who became yet another victim of Smokezilla.
   "When Adewale came on the show, he didn't want to make a long-term commitment to a series," Carlton Cuse, executive producer of "Lost" told TV Guide's Michael Ausiello. "We love him and so we agreed that he would come on the show and then we would find a time in which his arc would come to an end. And we sort of felt after a lot of conversations with him -- most of which took place at the end of spring last year -- that we would finish his character somewhere in [these first] six episodes.... Read the full story here. (11:32 PM)

   It's Wednesday once again, which means it's Lost night again! Tonight's episode is entitled The Cost of Living: A delirious Eko wrestles with demons from his past, while Locke and some of the other castaways head back to The Pearl -- one of the Dharma Initiative's island stations -- hoping to find a computer that they can use to locate Jack, Kate and Sawyer. Meanwhile, Jack doesn't know whom to trust when two of "The Others" seem at odds with one another. AOL Television has a couple of preview videos to whet your appetite (and which you should probably avoid if you want to be surprised): Eko and John. Discuss the episode after the show at Lost-TV Forums. (11:54 AM)

   On Monday, November 6 from 3-5PM at the Toys R Us in Times Square in New York City, LOST TV star Jorge Garcia, McFarlane Toys creative force and Spawn creator Todd McFarlane and LOST Executive Producer Bryan Burk will be signing autographs and greeting customers that purchase the new LOST action figures by McFarlane Toys as presented by Touchstone Television, a division of Disney-ABC Television Group.
   To get a ticket for this event, customers must pre-order a LOST The Hatch Boxed Set ($33.99) from Personal Shopping on Level Three between 10 am and 7 pm starting Friday, Oct. 27 (while supplies last). LOST's The Hatch Boxed Set purchases will be available for pick-up at the event for all ticket holders with a valid receipt. Due to high fan demand, tickets are expected to sell-out quickly! McFarlane Toys' LOST Action Figure Line will be on-sell to the public on the day of the event.

WIN RARE, SIGNED PEWTER PAINTED LOST FIGURE!
   As an added bonus, seven lucky winners will take home a one-of-a-kind McFarlane Toys LOST pewter hand-painted figure. To enter, simply fill out a contest ballot on the day of the event on Level One. The winning names will be drawn at the end of the event, and Todd will personally sign these pieces.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Monday, Nov. 6
Signing Event:
3pm - 5pm
Level Three

Enter to Win:
Monday, Nov. 6
10am - 5pm
Level One (10:09 AM)

   We Are Marshall is a film that chronicles the aftermath of the 1970 plane crash that killed 37 members of the Marshall University football team, eight coaches, 25 boosters and five crew members and the efforts of Jack Lengyel, played by Matthew McConaughey, along with surviving assistant coach Red Dawson, played by Matthew Fox, to rebuild the team from scratch.
   Matthew Fox's character, Red Dawson, was the assistant coach for the 1970 Marshall University football team. He didn’t get on the plane the night of the crash. After the tragic occurrence, he was approached by the school to act as head coach of the team, but decided against coming back. Coach Lengyel convinces Dawson to return for a year to help rebuild the team as assistant coach.
   We spoke with Fox about how he felt undertaking such an emotional project like We Are Marshall. We also talked about him meeting the real Red Dawson and what it was like working with McG as a director.... Read the full story here. (10:07 AM)