Lost

UK TV

Mobisodes none too popular

16 October 2006 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

TardisodesApparently, those Doctor Who mobisodes (aka TARDISodes) were none too popular. Although 2.6 million people downloaded them onto their home computers, only 40,000 people watched them on their mobile phones.

Iain Tweedale, the new media editor for BBC Wales, points out that the pricing to download mobisodes – £1.50 to £2 – probably put a load of people off, particularly when all they had to do was watch them for free on their home computer. But I think there were a couple of other obvious problems:

  1. They were only a minute long and nothing happened in them really
  2. They didn’t feature either the Doctor or Rose.

So £2 to download something that wasn’t actually very interesting, £26 to download the whole season’s worth. You could get several DVDs for that price. I know which I’d rather watch.

Still, Lost is going to up the ante in the US with mobisodes that star the actual cast members, and Battlestar Galactica‘s webisodes already did more or less the same thing. So maybe next series’ will be better.

US TV

Review: Lost 3.1

6 October 2006 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Lost

In the US: Wednesdays, 9/8c, ABC

In the UK: Second season being repeated on E4. Third season probably a decade away from airing on C4 and E4, given their usual speed.

Characters re-cast: 0

Major characters gotten rid of: Unknown

Major new characters: 1, maybe 2 so far

Format change percentage: 20%

Rats run through mazes: 3

When last we saw our intrepid bunch of survivors from that rather spectacular plane crash, a fair few of them were getting “blown up” and three of them were being led off into captivity by The Others. This episode we get to see what happened to Jack, Kate and Sawyer, but we’re still none the wiser as to their fate. Don’t worry, I’m not going to spoil you UK viewers.

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Varied reactions to the Lost finale

27 September 2006 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Lost, C4

“On the surface it’s good TV: glamorous, gripping, addictive even. That’s precisely the problem […] Lost is crack TV.”

Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Lost, C4

“It should have run one season at most, at which span its empty enigmas and casual indifference to its own inventions might not have been quite so obvious.”

Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

Lost, C4

“There’s a real stirring sense of the writers letting their imaginations fly.”

James Walton, The Daily Telegraph

Lost, C4

“Lost has become the pub bore of the TV schedules, propping up the bar whenever you happen to be channel-surfing, forcing you to take swift avoidance action when you spot it.”

Joe Joseph, The Times

Lost, C4

“The longer Lost limps on for, the more viewers it will lose for the simple reason that, as Phineas T. Barnum said, you can’t fool all the people all the time.”

Matt Baylis, Daily Express & Daily Mail