LOST writers on the WGA Awards list

ABC's "Modern Family," Fox's "Glee" and CBS' "The Good Wife" were among the Writers Guild Awards nominees, full list below ... will any make the Golden Globes list of nominations too?

DRAMA SERIES

"Breaking Bad," Written by Sam Catlin, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, George Mastras, J. Roberts, John Shiban, Moira Walley-Beckett; AMC

"Dexter," Written by Scott Buck, Charles H. Eglee, Lauren Gussis, Clyde Phillips, Melissa Rosenberg, Wendy West; Showtime

"Friday Night Lights," Written by Bridget Carpenter, Kerry Ehrin, Ron Fitzgerald, Brent Fletcher, Etan Frankel, Jason Gavin, Elizabeth Heldens, David Hudgins, Rolin Jones, Jason Katims, Patrick Massett, Derek Santos Olson, John Zinman; NBC

"Lost," Written by Carlton Cuse, Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis, Melinda Hsu Taylor, Damon Lindelof, Greggory Nations, Kyle Pennington, Elizabeth Sarnoff, Brian K. Vaughan, Paul Zbyszewski; ABC

"Mad Men," Written by Lisa Albert, Andrew Colville, Cathryn Humphris, Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Brett Johnson, Erin Levy, Marti Noxon, Robin Veith, Dahvi Waller, Matthew Weiner; AMC

source :www.thrfeed.com

The LOST season5 the interview with Darlton !

thanks su from outlaws for the head up

Time travel, murder, religious parables—Lost’s shepherds, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, reflect on its fifth season.

Rich in mythology and character development, and tantalizingly complex, Lost is not something to be watched passively. Throughout its five years, the ABC series has brilliantly weaved a human drama about plane-crash survivors on a mysterious island into a Byzantine tableau. We’ve witnessed smoke monsters and polar bears, unearthed a bygone scientific initiative, met the native inhabitants, and sidled up to a four-toed statue and a hydrogen bomb named Jughead. There have been flash-forwards, time travel, meditations on faith and destiny and redemption, literary and pop-culture references, and the occasional Latin phrase. What’s more, all of these bizarre components are all somehow connected. The show’s intricate and cryptic details have sent many a rabid fan to reference books and online chat groups in an effort to unlock the show’s secrets.

But even for those who aren’t content to parse through the myriad clues to find out what it all means, Lost, while epic in scope, is also intimate in its relationships. The overarching story can be incredibly dizzying and confounding as it travels around the world and through time and back again, but its writers (including executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, or “Darlton,” as they’re called on message boards) take care to keep it rooted solidly in its characters—who, over the show’s duration, have grown as rich and deep as the mythology that surrounds them.

And this fifth season—which featured a return to the island for those who had been rescued and erratic time travel—was not only enthralling; it was satisfying. The energy intensified as the series began answering integral questions, ramping up acceleration and purpose as the show barreled toward its sixth and final year.

State of Shock

“There have been some seasons when the show was nominated, and there have been some seasons when the show wasn’t nominated,” said Damon Lindelof of this year’s Outstanding Drama Emmy nod. “When it’s not nominated, it’s because the show’s too weird, or too genre, or it’s too mythologically dense. So…those are the three characteristics of the fifth season of the show. We did time travel the entire time, so it was incredibly genre, it was very sci-fi, and the mythology was more dense than it’s ever been. So we were like, ‘This is definitely not the year that we’re going to be nominated for an Emmy.’ And so when it happened, we were genuinely shocked.”

Damon’s Favorite Moment

“The standout scene for me...is the moment in ‘The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham,’ where Locke [Terry O’Quinn] is about to hang himself, and the scene begins with the guy about to commit suicide, and then bridges all the way to that guy getting murdered by another guy. The maneuvers between Ben [Michael Emerson] and Locke, the summation of their relationship up until that point, the surprise of Ben killing him, the mystery of why would you talk someone down from killing himself, only to kill them with your bare hands. There were just a lot of hoops to jump through, and in the writing of that scene, and then in the actors’ execution of it, and Jack Bender’s direction of it, it was just one of those moments where you go into the editing room and you watch sort of the editor’s first pass at it, and you just go, wow, it worked. This could have been the biggest disaster in the history of television, and we somehow pulled it off. And I think that in that scene is indicative of what we try to do on the show, which is we have a bold goal—you know, we reach for the stars. Sometimes we fall short, but when we accomplish our goal, it can be really special.”

Carlton’s Favorite Moment

“The moment [in ‘The Incident, Pt. 2’] when Sawyer is basically holding Juliet [Elizabeth Mitchell], in the shaft that will one day become the Swan hatch. You know, that is also, I think, a moment that really resonated for us because you know, it was really the culmination of Sawyer’s relationship with Juliet, and Josh Holloway’s so good in that scene, and just kind of what went on between those two actors in that final moment. We wanted to try and make it somewhat ambiguous as to whether she sort of lets go and dropped, or whether it was just basically inevitable that she couldn’t take hold any longer, so it kind of embodied a little of the ambiguity that we liked to have. And it was such a strong, powerful, emotional moment for both those characters. That was another moment when, again, on a character level, you know the bulk of the scenes that we described are really, you know, hinge on the emotions between our characters, and again, there’s mythology surrounding those events, but the actual scenes that we chose, and the moments we love are when our characters really connect with each other in profound and emotional ways that make the audience feel that emotion.”

Our Man Sawyer

“We really looked at Season 5 as the year of Sawyer,” said Lindelof. “I think that the focus has been on the kind of Jack, and Locke, of it all, and obviously, Michael Emerson who came, then, as the villain, has been a very prominent character in the third and fourth years. But we had this really cool idea to basically say let’s completely flip the paradigm for Sawyer, who we’ve always perceived as kind of the Han Solo bad boy, and put him into an entirely different position, where he’s having a leadership position and he’s responsible, without sort of selling out the spirit of who he is…. And then we would do it overnight, literally. In a single episode, we’d jump three years ahead and show this sort of before and after of this guy.”

Ben’s Journey

“The great thing about Ben Linus is he sort of wears his bad guy stripes on his sleeves, and Emerson this year, especially, sort of did the opposite of what he’d been doing in previous years, obviously as a result of the storytelling, and sort of really humanized this character,” said Lindelof. “Instead of seeing Benjamin Linus as a guy who’s completely in control and all of our characters were at his mercy, now suddenly, we flipped the script on him as well, so that in addition to feeling these grave responsibilities for the death of his daughter, he’s also now Locke’s acolyte. As opposed to the way that it had been in previous seasons. And seeing Michael kind of play that pathetic version of Ben, and seeing how angry he is, about suddenly being stripped of his power, the first half of the season he’s ruthless and manipulative in getting the Oceanic 6 back to the island, and the back half of the season is now, he’s basically kind of Locke’s lackey, I think was, again, this guy just keeps finding new levels to that character.”

Evil Ben for Supporting Actor

“People really love a villain,” said Lindelof of Michael Emerson’s nomination. “And I think if you look at the actors who traditionally walk off with that supporting drama award, or the ones who are nominated, there’s always this sort of degree of a dastardly air about them. You know, John Slattery or William Hurt, you know, those guys are playing characters with a sort of nebulous moral intent, and I think that audiences really respond.”

Ben v. Locke

“Every time we write a Ben and Locke scene, we just can’t wait to see what we get back from Hawaii,” said Lindelof. “Because as Michael Emerson has mentioned multiple times, he loves working with Terry, and for some reason, those guys are like the wonder twins. When they are put in a scene together, they are ten times more powerful.

The Lost Ensemble

“We’re kind of at the point where we recognize the challenge for actors to be honored on our show,” said Cuse of the lack of acting nominations. “We have so many characters—we have 15 or 20 regular spots, and a huge supporting cast—so our actors don’t get the kind of screen time that actors who do get nominated get, and I think that puts them at a disadvantage. You know, Hugh Laurie is awesome, but he’s also in practically every scene of House, and he really is so integral to that show. Our actors are collectively integral to our show, and yet no one of them gets to be on center stage more than a few episodes at a time.

“When we’ve had success, it’s been in a supporting actor category,” Cuse continued. “Terry did win before, and Michael is such a tremendous talent that we would be so pleased if he won, but that, I think is about as tough a category as there is in the Emmys, and I think you can make a case for all of the actors that he’s up against, and so, we’re obviously rooting for Michael, but understandably, it’s a tough thing to win in that category.”

The Human Element

“Despite the fact that people perceive our show as a genre show, or a mythology show, we like to think we’re making a character show with sort of a frosting of mythology,” said Cuse. “But you know, when people eat the cake, the thing they remember the most is the frosting. We focus on the characters of these stories, and I think we felt that we told some good character-based stories this season. It seemed that because of the context in which we told those stories, we were surprised that we got nominated, but we were very pleased that people sort of recognized the fact that I think we’ve worked really hard to try to have a strong kind of, humanistic character base underpinning to the stories.”

Emmy Recognition

“As incredible as it is to be nominated for an Emmy, and what that means, in terms of, you know the support you’re getting from your peers, the only thing on our minds in terms of writing the final season of the show is making it worth everybody’s while, who came this far,” explained Lindelof. “Most importantly, our own. We’re now trying to end what will essentially be 120 hours of this kind of epic story that Carlton and I have spent full time, without doing anything else, really, you know, telling. So the primary motivation for us is that everyone will love it and that we ourselves will feel proud of it. and if that results in an Emmy nomination, well, that would just be the icing on the cake. But, you know, amazing shows like Battlestar and The Wire finished their run, and they don’t get Emmy nominations in their final seasons, so at the end of the day, the legacy value of the show itself, and the audience’s reaction to the final season and the final episode of the series is really what’s driving us.”

The Sixth and Final Season

“We’re in the early stages of it, but it’s very exciting,” said Cuse about the last show’s last run, which begins in early 2010. “I think it’s sort of exciting and bittersweet at the same time. It’s exciting because we’re finally getting to the core mythology that we’ve known for a long time, and we’re anxious to see how it lands with the audience…. At the same time, you know, I think we will be sad to see Lost go. It’s such a special thing to have any sort of successful show. And especially in this economic climate, doing a really big-scale action adventure series shot on location in Hawaii with a huge crew on 35mm film. Not only is it a question of the show coming to an end, in a lot of ways, I think it’s this era of television is coming to an end, with the economics of the business changing so profoundly.”

Any Season 6 spoilers for us?

Lindelof: “You know you had to try, but no. We can’t say squat.”

source :http://www.thedailybeast.com

Comic con live event

Hi guys i'll try to post everything we'll get online soon so check my blog

for now
7:00PM (my time) : Darlton, Jorge, Emerson, Josh and Nestor were seen !
stay stuned for more !

7:12PM free poster for the finale season (thanks ryan for taking the pics for us ) and PENCIL of the LOST university


7:24 PM :
new photos of the Hall (always ryan that i thanks a lot for us who can't be here)



7:34 PM : doc reveals that terry is here too !!!! AND There is a mysterious sixth seat!

7: 59 PM(one minute !!) panoramic view of the HALL !

jopinionated :mystery box on panel stage near nametags for Darlton

8:06 PM : The entire multiseason cast is appearing in the screen -- Locke is facing backwards!
jengod: Promo for Lost University, polar bear and physics studies. lostuniversity.org

08:10 PM : new promo
jengod: They're showing a fake ABC documentary about the Dharmaites. Tells us to piece the puzzle together. Mysteries of the Universe. Credits look just like Fringe credits. LOL
abc.com/lostmysteries - sponsored by Kia
"Nobody's gonna take me alive." Music video recap of season five. LOST: THE FINAL SEASON.
darlton are HERE !

08 :11PM : jengod: Carlton: "We are very excited to be here for our final CC...the most important thing we could do is honor the fans. Our theme is fan appreciation."
Damon mentions the camper-outers. That's us!
Carlton: We wanted to celebrate some of the stuff that you have made

08 :14PM :Lost parties...Dharma products...Dharma cake... And now we're reliving ANa-Lucia and Libby.
Fanvids. Muppet babies meets Lost. Jack has problems with his Xbox. I heart fanvids. Red Sox Natioan for life. JAWYER VID!
08 :16PM : Damon thanks fans for that
08:18PM jengod: They want to try to show us that they weren't always just making it up as we went along. Damon: "We have talked for quite some time about how the final scene of the show is in paper." Damon and Carlton both have a page of the last scene.

Final pages of Lost...Stapling them together. Carlton is securing the pages in the box. Night of the finale they will go on Jimmy Kimmel Live and open the box and read the pages proving that this is the final scene of the show. Carlton and Damon have the keys on their person. Don't mug them!
08:20PM jengod: WOW, the question line is all the way around the perimeter of the room. The sayer of the "secret word" during a question will get a special present.
**
televisionary We'll be seeing many characters we haven't seen since Season One.

by jengod Q: Will season six have similarities to season one? Damon: "The biggest moment in the show's life was when we were able to announce the show's death." They will be closing a loop. Good chance you will be seeing many familiar characdters. Carlton: There was a running around the jungle feel in season one, and the emotional discovery in the first season, we have a way that we can do that in the final season. Damon: It's our goal to watch the final season of the show and not know what we're going to do next.

08:25PM jengod: Will Faraday be happily married with children next season? CC: "Faraday is dead. If you like zombie weddings, maybe." Damon: "If Jack and crew were successful, it could mean that Faraday was happily married." Carlton: You will see Faraday. Yay Jeremy Davies.
08:26PM : Carlton: Each season of the series is its own thing. Season six is different. Time travel season is over, Flash Forward season is over.

08:28PM : Ryan: Fan contest for theme song. Over 100 submissions. Connor Mcfarlane, runner up. Winner, Matt, Prose (?), and Erin from San Diego.

08:29PM :jopinionated Hurley commercial!
ryan :Sponsor messages from Oceanic Airlines, Mr. Clucks (with Hugo Reyes), America's Most Wanted wants Kate Austen.

08:31PM jengod: America's Most Wanted segment about Kate Austen! John Walsh hosts. Awesome.
What?! John Walsh is saying Kate killed her stepdad's plumbing business assistant not her evil stepdad. Weird.
08:32PM Jorge Garcia is here !
08:33PM jengod: Jorge's Q: Were the last five seasons wiped away by Jack's plan?
Carlton: "Just trust us." Jorge: "Last time I trusted you you said Nikki and Paolo were going to be awesome."
Jorge: You're gonna answer all the Q's? Damon: Everything that matters.

08:34PM Emerson is there !
Emerson: "What happened to one question per person?!"
08:36Pm : jengod Jorge and Michael's banter is awesome. Video coming.
slLOST Ben audition tape as Hurley
08:38Pm :jengod: Jorge to Emerson: "You wanna dance? Let's dance."
jengod: Emerson is wearing a bandana and cargo shorts. Hilar. looooool
08:40Pm :televisionary "We would be incredibly remiss if we didn't give you Richard's backstory before the end of the series." -Carlton Cuse
08:42PM : jengod: Q: When are we going to get a Richard Alpert flashback? Is it going to be coincident to the arrival of the Black Rock? A: We will get Richard's backstory before the show ends. Richard's flashback is fairly involved.
Q: Is Juliet OK? And if she's not, can you make her OK?
Damon: Did the bomb detonation have the desired effect, if it did, she's OK. If it didn't, prognosis not so great. Elizabeth Mitchell will be in Lost in the final season
Question asker with time paradox problem has a nose bleed. "Hold on, I need my constant." It's Dharma beer.
Bob Stencil gets a T-shirt.

08:47 Pm : Ryan Is Jacob's nemesis named Esau? Emerson: That may be too much, but I like the way you're thinking.
Nestor Carbonell in the house! Now Stuart is on the mic! Who made the food drop? May cover in S6.
*****
jengod: Q: Is Jacob's friend at the beach named Esau? Michael Emerson: We deal in biblical imagery, so that might be too much, but I like the way your mind is working.
jengod: Q: Does Nestor Carbonell wear eyeliner? Nestor is here backstage!

08:49PM :jopinionated Hmmmm...Emile de Ravin here?
jopinionated lol or not, no Claire in person

08:52PM : jopinionated Sawyer is here!! well, Josh holloway

08:55PM televisionary Holloway shocked Damon and stole his key to the lockbox. ;)

08:56PM jopinionated Emerson steals 'final scene' from Heroes!!
08:58PM televisionary Script pages are for #Heroes, not #Lost. Big top explosion, Sylar, Parkman. This is hilarious! "WTF is this?"
09:00PM televisionary In Memorium video for all of the characters who have died over the years.
09:03 PM televisionary You are LOST but not forgotten. Dominic Monaghan in the house!!!!

09:04 PM BuddyTV Dominic showed up at the end. The final season of LOST will be the biggest thing ever. Great Comic-Con panel!

Lost Has Fan-tastic Plans for Comic-Con

On Saturday, July 25, at Comic-Con International in Hall H at the San Diego Convention Center, Lost will begin its long good-bye in front of 6,500 enthusiastic fans. Since even before the show’s premiere in 2004, the Lost panel has been one of the annual event’s hottest happenings, and this year looks like it will be no different. Executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof break their “radio silence” for an exclusive preview.

What does going to Comic-Con each year mean to you guys?
Carlton Cuse: Comic-Con sort of has the feeling of a homecoming. The most hardcore fans of the show are the people that show up at Comic-Con so we really feel like it's our chance to kind of commune with the people who care the most about Lost. And in a lot of ways, we feel we're responsible for creating this whole sense of community and fan involvement surrounding the show so that really means a tremendous amount to us.
Damon Lindelof: Lost is a TV show so it's like listening to a band that you like on CD. It's an entirely different experience to go see it live. And there is no Lost on Ice.
Carlton Cuse: We're working on that! We have to learn how to ice skate first. Damon, this morning, though—we had some ice time before this interview—he did his first Double Lutz.
Damon Lindelof: Just a one and a half. Carlton's being flattering but once we figure out the kinks…But, you know, all kidding aside, Comic-Con is about as close to a live [Lost] experience as you can get, and as it is with most live experiences, it's not as much about what's happening on the stage as it is in what's happening in the audience. It's just a great opportunity for the fans of the show who literally come from all over the world to be around that energy that normally they just experience in the privacy of their own home.

You know, the idea of Lost on Ice, ABC might be quite interested in that. But anyway, is this definitely your last year at Comic-Con or is some sort of “victory lap” or sorts even possible for 2010?
Carlton Cuse: This is definitively it. This is like a Cher farewell concert. This is the final hurrah. We're not going back to Comic-Con after show is done and in fact, the theme for our panel this year is fan appreciation. We're going as much to celebrate the fans who made Lost everything that it is as we are to talk about the show. It's really exciting and a little bittersweet for us because this is it.

How will that “fan appreciation” manifest itself?
Damon Lindelof: We're trying to be as inclusive as possible. A lot of panels are basically just the producers and directors and actors sitting up on a stage and answering questions, and while that's certainly part of our panel, we look at it more as trying to produce a show. And this year's show is going to try to take into account some content that was actually generated by fans so that they feel like they programmed the panel just as much as we did. We've got a contest out there that involves writing a title song for Lost. As you know, the only title song we've ever had is just “Waaaaaah” so the idea [for the contest was] “What if we had a conventional opening title sequence?” And the winner of that will be announced at the Con and we'll be showing and recognizing that piece there. And there are a couple of other surprises that are fan oriented or fan generated.

Didn't Jimmy Kimmel do a comedic Lost theme song for you guys at one point?
Carlton Cuse: Yeah. Jimmy's done a lot of really cool viral stuff for Lost. He's a huge fan of the show and we completely appreciate all his support, but actually this theme song thing is just open to the fans and we're excited about what we're going to get. I mean, there are some Lost tribute bands that are out there already. One band called Previously on Lost record a song after every episode which has the plot summary of that episode. So there has been some really cool stuff that has been done over time on behalf of the show. But obviously we promise some surprise guests on the panel as well so that hopefully will be engaging for the fans also.

Safe to say at least one cast member is showing up?
Carlton Cuse: I think it's safe to say that you'll see somebody from the cast.
Damon Lindelof: It sure would suck if it were just Carlton and I.

Oh that’s not…well, maybe that's true.
Damon Lindelof: It is. Look, all we can say is that it's enormously tricky because the actors don't live in L.A. and/or San Diego and they're still technically on their break when Comic-Con happens. They're not back at work so that being said, the Comic Con experience has been one that not all our actors have had yet so we might be seeing some faces that never have been down to the Con before. [Editor’s note: Previous year’s attendees: 2008 - Matthew Fox; 2007 - Harold Perrineau; 2006 - Daniel Dae Kim and Jorge Garcia; 2005 - Josh Holloway and Maggie Grace; 2004 - Matthew Fox, Dominic Monaghan and Evangeline Lilly.]

Any moment from past appearances at Comic-Con that's stuck with you guys?
Damon Lindelof: I think we probably have the same one.
Carlton Cuse: We did this thing last year where there was this guy who was a Hurley lookalike who asked [a] questions [from] the crowd and he was so far [away from the stage] we thought for a minute it was actually Jorge Garcia. And we were giving prizes away for questions and so we fortunately had on hand a giant tub of Dharma Ranch dressing which we gave to him as a prize for his question which was a huge really funny moment and that was really enjoyable.

And his question I imagine was, “Can I be a stunt double for Jorge?”
Damon Lindelof: The funny thing was although he was clearly trying to look exactly like Hurley, he did not make any reference to it. His question was not related to Hurley in any way so he sort of had the dry deadpan delivery. But, for me I guess, I'll always remember the second panel that Carlton and I did together. We bought out these little bells, so whenever one of us started answering a question that was giving away too much information, the other one had the authority to ring the bell and that person had to stop talking immediately. To create that energy focused on this one tiny object in a room that had 3,000 people in it was pretty cool.

Are you going to answer questions about the last season?
Damon Lindelof: Yes.
Carlton Cuse: We'll answer some questions and we'll be evasive about some things. I mean, again, we want to find the fine line between teasing and spoiling.
Damon Lindelof: Up until Comic-Con, we've been answering those questions by saying, “We're not talking about Season 6 until Comic-Con.” Now we will no longer be able to use that as an excuse so we'll at the very least have to find a new dodge.

source : tv guide

Lost Bosses Say They're Shocked By Latest Emmy Nod

Lost's executive producers say the ABC drama collected its latest Emmy nomination for Outstanding Drama Series in spite of — as well as because of — this past season's hyper-serialized, time-skipping narrative.

"We are very happy, and we are kind of shocked," Carlton Cuse told TVGuide.com. "Doing the time travel-heavy genre, we did not have any expectations that we would get nominated."

See the full list of Emmy nominees

But Cuse and fellow exec producer Damon Lindelof say they are not surprised to see cast member Michael Emerson earn another nomination for his portrayal of the enigmatic Benjamin Linus.

"Michael has been such an amazing part of the show," says Cuse. "His performance, particularly in the episode 'The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham,' is spectacular."

Review Emmy's biggest snubs and surprises

This year the drama series category was expanded to six nominees, but a tie resulted in seven total contenders — five of them on cable. The crowded, formidable, and by-and-large edgier field only adds to the honor of being nominated, say the producers.

"The idea that we made it into the mix with the limitations of broadcast is pretty exciting to us," Lindelof says. Adds Cuse, "Dexter, Big Love, Breaking Bad... Those are shows we think are really well done."
source : tv guide

Darlton Interview-Lost, the Final Episode and Beyond