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LOST Season 5 spoiler round-up

Let’s take a quick look around the web for all the latest spoilers on Lost’s Season 5. There’s nothing big enough in these spoilers to ruin your enjoyment of the new season, but there are details given away that purists won’t want to know. Spoilers are after the jump!

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LOST nominated by Producers Guild of America

The Producers Guild of America has nominated Lost and its entire roster of producers for “Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Television-Drama.” Chief among the nominees are of course Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse; also listed are Jack Bender, Drew Goddard, Jean Higgins, Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz, Liz Sarnoff, Stephen Williams, and Ra’uf Glasglow.

Lost is nominated alongside Boston Legal, Damages, Dexter, and Mad Men. The awards will be handed out at an untelevised event on Saturday, January 24th, at the Hollywood Palladium.

Image: Producers Guild of America.

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Dharma Special Access #7: The LOST Writers Room

Lost masterminds Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have released this week’s edition of Dharma Special Access (a series of behind-the-scenes videos that are building up to Season 5). If you’re looking for juicy scoopage about Season 5, you’re out of luck. But if you want a fun inside look at the Lost writers’ offices and the all-important Writers Room — where everything about our favorite show is dreamed up — then look no further.

I’m also curious to know who the Brazilian artist is who painted the character mural that’s shown. If you know who it is, please post in the Comments below!

Video: American Broadcasting Company, Inc.

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JJ Abram’s Star Trek

In the past, ApproachingLOST.com has kept you in-the-know on other projects by JJ Abrams, co-creator of Lost, such as the feature film Cloverfield and the Fox TV show Fringe. Today we officially christen our coverage of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek feature film, which also happens to be produced by Lost’s other co-creator, Damon Lindelof.

In case you’ve been living under a rock, Star Trek is Abrams’ massive-budget reboot of the Original Series, featuring an all-new cast in the iconic roles of the original crew of the Enterprise, on their very first adventure together. Star Trek stars Chris Pine as Captain James T. Kirk and Heroes‘ Zachary Quinto as Spock, along with a cast of rather inspired actors taking on these well-known roles (Karl Urban as Dr. “Bones” McCoy? Simon Pegg as Scotty? genius!).

Stay tuned in the months ahead as we’ll provide you with everything you need to know about the film, which arrives in theaters in just 4 months, on May 8, 2009.

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Friday Poll: Best Season

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Ben knows & Sawyer leads

The newest issue of TV Guide (January 5-11, 2009 - “2009 Preview”) contains a quick Q&A with Michael Emerson (Benjamin Linus) about the upcoming Season 5 and the future of his character. A few excerpts:

• When asked about how many of the big answers Ben knows, Emerson responds, “He knows all about the game or battle that he is involved in with Charles Widmore, and I think when the final solution comes at the end of the series, the audience will know as much as Ben does. What are they playing for? World domination? Or perhaps something more abstract.
• Jack found out in the Season 4 finale that some “very bad things” happened on the island after the Oceanic Six left. Emerson’s hint: “Something that Ben did went really wrong.” (My money is on his spinning of the frozen wheel.)

In the “Breaking News” section of the same issue of TVG, there’s a note about Sawyer’s role in the season to come. “I’ve been very busy this season, in a very different way than you’ve seen [Sawyer] before,” says actor Josh Holloway. He goes on to confirm that Sawyer will be taking on more of a “heroic leader” role for those on the island, now that Jack and Kate are both gone, and Locke is no longer part of the group.

Image: Copyright 2006 ©Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Happy New Year!

2009 is a good time to be a fan of Lost. The best is yet to come!

Images: CTV.ca.

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Ajira Airways website unlocked

Some super clever folks over at Lostpedia have deciphered the way to book a flight at the Ajira Airways website. On the Flights page, here’s what you input:

Flight type: One Way
From: Los Angeles
To: Guam
Departing: 1/21/2009
Select Flight: 316 11:30am
Adults: 10
Children: 0
Promotional Code: 112114111109111

Apparently, the site rotates at some kind of random sequence, so that based on when you input these codes, you get one of at least seven different results. The results are all images, but nothing really new if you’ve been paying attention to Damon and Carlton’s Dharma Special Access videos. All but one image, that is, which reveals a code: N824. No idea yet what it means.

Image: Copyright 2008 ©American Broadcasting Company.

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More early Season 5 reviews

Yesterday I told you about several members of the media who got to see the first two episodes of Season 5 early. Today I present to you an entire new slew of lucky ducks who saw it and are sharing their non-spoilery (except where marked) thoughts:

The Chicago Tribune’s Maureen Ryan, aka The Watcher, has this to say amid some brief comments: “The opening minutes of the 2-hour season opener were really, really great. I don’t want to say what happens, but I felt like I was at Comic-Con, watching one of those special Comic-Con videos that the Lost creators sometimes unleash on the super-fans there. The start of the season premiere was just that nerd-tastic for hardcore Lost fan; it’s full of shout-outs and call-backs to classic Lost moments and trivia.”

Perennial favorite Doc Jensen from Entertainment Weekly watched the eps, and says to expect: “Lots of Sawyer in the first two eps. Lots of his naked chest, too. Lots of Hurley, and as for his chest, it is covered…with a very funny T-shirt. Sayid also has mucho screen time in both episodes, though he sleeps his way through one of them. Literally. And Daniel Faraday emerges as a huge player in season 5. The eps are dotted with cameos and extended cameos from peripheral but important figures crucial to the Lost mythology and much-loved by the Lost fan community.”

Cinema Blend’s Kelly West offers some heavier spoilers than most, particularly about the time travel aspects of the show, so I won’t repeat them here.

Kristin Dos Santos from E! Online puts her own twist on the “I saw it and here’s what I think!” procedings by sticking only to the various romantic entanglements the new season has to offer.

And finally, the ever-reliable Herc from Ain’t It Cool News offers his take on the premier episodes here, but I couldn’t tell you what he says about them because frankly, I haven’t read it and I’m not gonna. I have nothing but mad respect for Herc, but he tends to give away a LOT in his early reviews, and personally, I don’t want to be spoiled for the really important stuff.

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Holiday Contest winners

The winners’ names have been drawn in the Starked.com Holiday Contest! Find the complete list of winners who will be receiving those amazing prizes, right here.

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