"LOST" redirects here. For other uses, see Lost (disambiguation).
Lost is an American television series created by Jeffrey Lieber, J. J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof, which originally aired on the American Broadcasting Company from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010. The series follows the lives of various individuals and groups of people, most importantly the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island somewhere in the South Pacific. Episodes typically feature a primary storyline on the island, as well as a secondary storyline from another point in a character's life.
Lost was produced by ABC Studios, Bad Robot Productions and Grass Skirt Productions. Throughout its run, the executive producers of the series were Lindelof, Abrams, Bryan Burk,Carlton Cuse, Jack Bender, Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, and Elizabeth Sarnoff, with Lindelof and Cuse serving as showrunners. Jean Higgins started as a producer on the first season, continuing through the entire series to end as an executive producer. Due to its large ensemble cast and the cost of filming primarily on location in Oahu, Hawaii,[1] the series was one of the most expensive on television.[2] During its run, the series utilized online alternative reality games (like The Lost Experience and Find 815), and references to the series appear in print, film, other television programs as well as Web media.
A critically-acclaimed and popular success, Lost was consistently ranked by US critics on their lists of top fives series of the year.[3] The first season garnered an average of 15.69 million US viewers per episode on ABC.[4] Although audiences lessened during the course of the series, its ratings were high enough to ensure that it remained viable and the sixth season averaged over 11 million US viewers per episode. Lost was the recipient of hundreds of US award nominations throughout its run, and won numerous industry awards, including the Emmy Award for US primetime Outstanding Drama Series in 2005,[5] Best American Import at the British Academy Television Awards in 2005, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Golden Globe for Best Drama in 2006 and a US Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series.
