NEWS!

Hot off the EW Press:

Lost to run three more seasons
ABC has ordered 48 more episodes of Lost, to run over three 16-episode seasons, with the series set to close in 2010. Executive producers/showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, who signed on to helm the final three seasons, have said in the past that they wanted the show to end after 100 episodes; the new deal ends the series after 120. The producers say they've already planned the end of the show's various storylines and praised ABC for giving them a concrete timeline to work with. ''What we didn't know was how long we had to play the story out,'' Cuse said. ''By defining the endpoint we can now really map out the rest of the series in confidence.'' This season's finale is set to air later this month, and ABC has hinted that the fourth season will not premiere until January or February 2008.

There you go, kids, the light is at the end of the tunnel. Now my question is this: Are the ABC execs and Darlton (Damon and Carlton, duh) planting their tongues firmly in their cheeks by announcing 48 more episodes to run 16 at a time?! Coincidence, hmm?