Trailer For New Season of Lost

Okay this isn't strictly film news but we're gonna give it a pass. It seems a little easy to say that Lost has lost its way (geddit?!) in the last couple of series but it still remains an intriguing show. Just when you write it off as a tease-fest of non sequiturs and unexplainable plot holes and dead ends, they give you a stand out episode that reels you back in and makes you believe again. And this trailer is almost making us have true faith. Faith that will no doubt be dashed in the opening episode in which they completely forget about all the questions they posed at the end of the last series.

But we also post it as a comment on how TV and film are converging in a centre ground of huge production values and huge DVD sales where the budgets, stars, and publicity of each are impossible to tell apart. The Hollywood Saloon(a podcast we recommended many weeks ago) has a 2 hour discussion of this very phenomenon, arguing that a good TV programme is more comparable to a novel and a collection of seasons comparable to a series of novel. They welcome the different canvas that TV offers to make 'long format' films that can really explore characters over time. With the models of consumption changing every year DVD/Blu-Ray/Dowload/Movies-On-Demand, the distinction between TV and film is becoming obsolete. They are just different models of narrative to be consumed however we choose.

It seems we are in the midst of a revolution that has been going on since The Sopranos hit our screens and since a whole series of The X files was released on DVD. Now if they don't reveal what the the fuck is going on in Lost we might just start a real revolution and burn down the fuckin studio!