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Lost Legacy - What TV Execs Should Learn From Life on the Island

“There will never be another show like it.” That’s the prevailing sentiment as the obsession, addiction, disorder known as Lost ended last night after six seasons on ABC. At a time when the networks are struggling to ...READ MORE

Enroll in a Crash Course at "Lost" University

Lessons in the physics of time-travel and underwater plot-weaving offered to students of the new online "Lost University." The tuition? the purchase price of Season 5 on Blu-Ray, available in stores starting today.READ MORE

Lessons from Lost’s Dharma Initiative: How to Start an Evil Corporate Empire

Imagine being sequestered, confined to a small space and told to painstakingly push a button over and over again, indefinitely. Wait, are we talking about ABC’s hit show Lost or the hilarious late 90s corporate satire, Office...READ MORE

Lost and Found: A Guide to Watching TV’s Most Innovative Show

With its complex plot twists and obscure allusions, the ABC drama practically requires that you consult the Web while you watch. Here's everything you need to follow tonight's season premiere. Fan forums. Fake sites. Episode recaps. Even scripts.READ MORE

Will the Open-Ended Innovation of "Lost" Ultimately Deliver for Its Audience?

There's no better day than April Fools to discuss the practical joke that one show plays on its viewers week after week. If only product designers had such luxuries.READ MORE

Rebel Alliance

How a small band of sci-fi geeks is leading Hollywood into a new era.READ MORE

Infographic: The Definitive Venn Diagram of Primetime TV in 2010

How perfect is this?READ MORE

Lost Series Finale

Lost, the TV show, is best known for the mysterious numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 -- which may or may not refer to characters who may or may not be "candidates" to control the island. But Lost, the pop-culture phenomenon, is better ...READ MORE

Reading List: Desperate Networks

Desperate Networks shows how network TV got stuck on "smoking hot hits.READ MORE

Brave New Mouse

When Disney-ABC agreed to sell its prime-time hits on Apple's iTunes, the deal set off a revolution inside the media giant. Now a digital team with the spirit of a startup is reinventing TV--And the industry is following.READ MORE

Top 10 Most Creative People in Movies and Television

1. Rich Ross, President, Disney Channels Worldwide A lifelong TV addict, Ross has expanded Disney's channels beyond the box into film, radio, mobile, and online. But he'll be remembered most for unleashing Hannah Montana and High ...READ MORE

100 Most Creative People in Business: #14 - JJ Abrams

J.J. Abrams warps Time at will. Past, present, and future coexist as a kind of fluid that cannot be contained. The camera jumps back and forth in time. Characters age and grow younger again. Time itself accelerates, then slows. ...READ MORE

Update

Fast Deals Some of the 50 Most Innovative Companies we cited in March have found one another as intriguing as we did. We named Pure Digital Technologies, maker of the supersimple Flip digital video recorders, No. 7; that month, ...READ MORE

Two "Lost" Producers Share Their Unlikely Sources of Inspiration [exclusive images]

When we spoke with Lost’s co-creator and executive producer Damon Lindelof and executive producer Carlton Cuse recently, plenty of questions were off limits. But this creative duo happily divulged the office keepsakes they turn to ...READ MORE

Hulu Gets 'Lost' With Disney's Equity Stake

Walt Disney Company is taking an equity stake in Hulu.com, the Web's third most popular pit stop for video, according to the AP. The site, originally a joint venture between NBC Universal and Fox parent News Corp, will now have ...READ MORE

Video for the Masses

Apple has finished its big event. The news? New smaller iMacs with built-in cameras and a bundled remote control to go with new photo creation software. And the new standard iPod. It is thinner. It has a 2.5-inch screen. And, as ...READ MORE

The New Wave

A digital tsunami is hitting Tinseltown, and the old guard is holding on for dear life. But a new generation of up-and-comers has arrived. Here are 10 who know how to surf.READ MORE

Disney-ABC's Anne Sweeney Does Her Own Market Research. Really.

That was just one of the things I learned during our breakfast interview at the Pierre Hotel here in New York recently. As president of Disney-ABC Television Group and the most powerful woman in television by many accounts, Sweeney ...READ MORE

Apple iPad 3G's Opening Weekend: Video Restrictions, Jailbreaking, and Shortages

Notes from the iPad 3G's opening weekend: shortages, an inability to stream Modern Family, superfast jailbreaking, and 1.5 e-books sold from the iBookstore.READ MORE

Can NBC Brand Itself as the Green Network?

Would you watch a TV network just because it is somehow "greener" than the others? NBC Universal is betting on it. The company claims that polls show that its reputation as a green network is recognized among 82% of ...READ MORE