Updated at 9:05 a.m., Thursday, November 29, 2007
'Lost' previews to air on Mainland big screens
By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Writer
With the Island-filmed ABC series still waiting in the wings for its fourth-season debut in February, Losties are hungry for new shows. Promotional previews will be shown before feature film screenings of selected movies in two chains, Screenvision and NCM. Both are on the Mainland.
The move is seen as faith by the network in episodes already in the can. The show, now on hiatus because of the Writers Guild of America strike, halted production earlier this month in Hawai'i. Eight of the ordered 16 episodes have been completed and ABC intends to air the episodes continuously, unlike past years when there were periodic breaks in programming.
For diehard Losties, ABC's online "Missing Pieces," a series of 13 two- to three-minute vignettes of never-before-seen moments from the TV series, provides a nibble or two. The Web site says these shorts are not deleted scenes from earlier shows but are newly created teasers that provide details about selected characters, enabling fans to sort out the hidden clues in the "Lost" jungle of myths and mayhem. For the three pieces already posted (with new ones making a debut every Monday), go to abc.go.com/primetime/lost/missingpieces/index.
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