The project was announced in November 2005 as the Lost Video Diaries. Production was delayed when the actors, directors and writers guilds refused to support the spin-off. The mobisodes were included as special features in the fourth season’s 2008 DVD releases. The series was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2008.
About Lost: Missing Pieces in brief
Lost: Missing Pieces is a series of 13 video clips ranging in length from one to four minutes that aired during the hiatus between the 3rd and 4th seasons of the television show Lost. They generally became available to Verizon Wireless users on Mondays from November 2007 to January 2008 and were uploaded onto ABC’s website a week later for free streaming. The project was announced in November 2005 as the Lost Video Diaries. Production was delayed when the actors, directors and writers guilds refused to support the spin-off. The mobisodes were included as special features in the fourth season’s 2008 DVD releases. The series was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2008. It has not been produced, aside from a teaser clip from the Comic-Con teaser, and no mobisodes have ever been produced or uploaded to the ABC website. The average mobisodes would only be one and a half minutes long. In the third season, the writers tried to integrate two previously unseen survivors named Nikki Fernandez and Paulo Fernandez into the show. The writers were unable to reach a contract agreement and the mobisodes had seemingly been put on hold due to an inability to reach an agreement. In June 2007, it was announced that the mob episodes would star the regular characters of Lost in thirteen short video clips unrelated to each other. Twelve scenes were newly shot; one was a deleted scene from the television series. Unlike the TV series, it would not be produced by ABC Studios and would star non-Screen Actors Guild members; however it would be produced under the oversight of Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, like the TV show.
In November 2005, while the early second season of Lost was airing, The Hollywood Reporter reported that twenty-two mobisodes—each spanning several minutes—were expected to be produced in December for a January 2006 release. The Los Angeles Times confirmed in January 2006–the month originally scheduled to launch the series–that the mobisode would be originally broadcast on V CAST from Verizon Wireless. Verizon would ultimately pay ABC USD 400,000 for the Mobisodes. In February 2007, Lost’s script coordinator, responding to a fan question, suspected that theMobisodes had been put indefinitely on hold. The Mobisodes would air during the third and fourth seasons and would probably give viewers interesting information that would probably not be found in the show; the average mob episode would be 1.5 to 2.5 minutes long, with none saved exclusively for the thirdseason’s DVD set. During the hiatus, no mob episodes were to be found and clips from upcoming episodes called Lost Moments aired instead, on then ABC. The new premise featured Hurley Reyes finding a functional Dharma Initiative video camcorder that had Dharma orientation films on it. In the clip, he films Kate Austen and James “Sawyer” Ford. in the new premise, Hurley films Kate and James in the Dharma Initiative. In July 2007, Lindel of and Cuse announced that only thirteen mobisodes will be produced. They would run during theThird season’s winter hiatus.
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