The End is Near… Kinda

ABC has announced that their mind-numbingly addictive night-time drama LOST has only 48 episodes left.

The announcement, first reported last week by E! Online columnists Kristin Veitch and Marc Malkin, comes after executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof publicly called for the network to set an end date for the show—not only to assuage viewer fears that the series, which began to shed viewers in its new time slot this year, was not simply treading water to bulk up its episode count, but to allow writers the ability to plot out the remainder of the series according to the creators’ original plan.

But instead of two more seasons, which would equate to a usual 24-episode cycle, the series will be spread out of over three 16-episode seasons–a sort of compromise between a network trying to squeeze every last dollar out of popular prime-time hit and creators who are looking to preserve their artistic vision.

This third season got off to a bit of a bumpy start. There was that ridiculously long layoff, a lot of wheel spinning, a time-slot change and not a lot of answers, but the last six or so episodes have been top notch, especially those written by Cuse and Lindelof. I’m pretty stoked to hear there’s some end in sight, though it means I’ll have to find another way to spend my Wednesday nights in a few short years. Check out the rest of the story here.

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