ABC's "Lost" ended its sixth and final season on Sunday, May 23. Here's a look at where some of our key characters ended up after a six-season run. WARNING: There be spoilers here, so don't continue if you haven't already watched the finale!
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
An average of 13.5 million "Lost" obsessives watched the series finale Sunday from 9 to 11:30 p.m., in hopes of finding out what their nearly six-year investment was all about.
Apparently either everyone on the island was actually dead all along (ooh, didn't see that one coming, having never seen "The Sixth Sense" ) or they were in a sort of limbo/purgatory and have now died happily ever after. The debate got pretty heated Monday at our office -- especially among those who remembered reading back in '07 how show creator Damon Lindelof swore the castaways were neither in purgatory nor dead, though it was pretty obvious even back then.
Sunday night's "Lost" audience is that show's biggest since February 2008. But it's far from the kind of record numbers you'd expect from the Show That Changed Television Forever. Heck, nearly 19 million people caught the drama's unveiling back in the fall of 2004, and the first two episodes of the second season both attracted 23 million people.
Meanwhile, 9.3 million people opted out of watching a bunch of actors play pretend-dead on the "Lost" finale to instead watch actual Bret Michaels truly rise from death's doorstep and be named winner of "Celebrity Apprentice" by Donald Trump the same night. The Poison frontman's appearance on the NBC reality series' season finale had been in question after he suffered a brain hemorrhage in April and was hospitalized again last week when he had what doctors called a "warning stroke." (NBC reportedly had a medical team backstage Sunday in case Michaels took a turn for the worse during the live broadcast.)
It was the biggest crowd "Celebrity Apprentice" has enjoyed since March 2008, which is impressive considering the finale aired in the teeth of the very last episode of the ABC series that "Lost" star Matthew Fox modestly told ad executives last week had "changed television forever."
You may have seen press reports saying 20.5 million people watched the finale of "Lost." That is the number of people who watched as little as six minutes of the 2.5-hour swan song. That number is hooey -- unless you're an advertiser, because it is presumed that anyone who watched six minutes probably saw an ad break. (And in case you, too, noticed -- that 2.5-hour "Lost"-apalooza contained a mind-numbing 45 minutes of commercials.)
Return of the Salahis
Washington's favorite state dinner crashers, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, are making a special return appearance on NBC's "Today" show Tuesday.
Back in December, you'll recall, the Salahis sat down with America's Sweetheart, Matt Lauer, to explain how their lives had been "destroyed" by the coverage of their alleged exploits. At that time, Lauer asked them some questions they said they could not answer because their alleged hands allegedly had been tied by the alleged Secret Service. But they invited themselves back on the show just as soon as the Secret Service gave them the all-clear to provide Matt with the documents that would prove they had, in fact, been invited to that dinner. That time, it appears, is now.
The Salahis are shaping up to be the Brangelina of "The Real Housewives of D.C.," although Bravo, which telecasts the "Real Housewives of [Fill in the City]" franchise, is still being very coy about who is in and who is out among the various divas who were taped for the latest iteration of the buzzalicious show.
Bravo says it will reveal the cast for the Washington version in the new few weeks.
Paula Abdul's new 'Dance'
Paula Abdul is back!
The former "Idol" judge has been named executive producer, "creative partner" (whatever that means), mentor, coach and lead judge of CBS's upcoming reality series "Got to Dance."
"Got to Dance" is based on a hit British reality series (naturally) that debuted earlier this year, in which amateur dancers, of any age, perform solo or in a group, with any form of dance welcome. The most talented/entertaining will get to audition for Abdul and a panel of experts who, CBS promises, will all be "world-class dancers themselves" -- no comics-with-daytime-talk-shows in the bunch.
"I've spent the better part of my life teaching, mentoring, nurturing -- working with so many talented people -- and I consider myself truly blessed to be able to continue to do something that I hold so dear to my heart," Abdul said Monday in a canned comment from her outpost on Mars.
To think it was just last summer that Fox and "American Idol" producers had to disentangle themselves from the wreckage the morning after Abdul lobbed a grenade into their midst when she tweeted that, "with sadness in my heart, I've decided not to return to 'Idol,' " after failing to persuade Fox and "Idol" producers to hike her salary from about $4 million a year to something substantially higher -- the exact amount of which reporters could never settle on.
Monday, CBS noted (cruelly we think), that Abdul's career has spanned more than three decades, over the course of which she has sold more than 60 million records worldwide and earned Emmy, Grammy, American Music and MTV awards.
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