Programme Website - Lost

Website for - LOST

Factual Information

Lost is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning serial drama television series that follows the lives of a group of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, somewhere in the South Pacific. The show is produced by ABC Television Studio (formerly Touchstone Television), Bad Robot Productions and Grass Skirt Productions and airs on the ABC Network in the U.S.

Audiences
The site itself is aimed at any fan on the television series. It has an abundance of interactive features that can capture anyone who is even half interested in the show. For the cult fans there are interviews with cast and crewe, video streams of the episodes and a forum where people discuss about possible theories based on the action. For less devoted fans there are simple reviews of the show as well as detailed descriptions of what took place the previous episode.

Institutions
The main institutions involved are ABC1 who produced the show alongside Sky1 who have bought the rights to showing the episodes. ABC1 make massive prophets, not only through television rights but through additional merchandise sold such as the Lost DVD box set or t-shirts. Companies such as Apple have also paid money to advertise their products on the site using both picture and video advertisement. Lost can be distributed in a range of different ways; you can watch on the site for free, download lost content from I-tunes, buy the actual DVD series and you can even get information sent to your phone.

Relevant Media Texts
Other lost related sites are mentioned on the site, such as the lost-wiki where lost fans can help to ‘build the definitive fans guide to lost’. There are also lost forums where fans can speculate about lost and future plots and the lost magazine is availabe online. There are multiple video clips to inform fans of previous and future events and there are also videos made by the creators of the programme to give insight into their thinking.