Post by Forever Xena on Nov 4, 2005 1:29:51 GMT -6
"Lost" Gets Real
by Sarah Hall
Nov 2, 2005, 2:45 PM PT
Is ABC trying to get Lost fans fired?
As if there wasn't already enough material out there for superfans to obsess over, including a plethora of sites and message boards devoted to the show, now a Lost storyline is making the jump from fiction to reality.
ABC has announced plans to introduce a Lost subplot about a character named Gary Troup, a fictitious author who supposedly perished in the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, but left behind the manuscript on which he had been working, having dropped it off with his publisher just days before boarding the fatal flight.
Here's where the line between fact and fiction blurs: Hyperion Books, ABC's sister publishing label, is actually putting out said manuscript in book form this spring--here in the real world--to coincide with the related episodes of Lost.
Titled Bad Twin, the private eye thriller is said to be about a rich heir's search for his devious sibling. Hyperion said it has commissioned a well-known scribe to pen the book, with the help of writers from the show.
"Fans of the show are obsessive," Hyperion President Bob Miller told Daily Variety. "We think a lot of them will be buying the book just to look for clues."
(Hey, who's he calling obsessive? Maybe the hundreds of Powerball hopefuls who played Hurley's unlucky number--4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42--in the $340 million drawing last month to no avail? Just a hunch.)
The marketing ploy may be the first to combine characters and events from a television show with a real-life sales campaign, according to Variety.
While just 9 million viewers tuned in for last week's Lost rerun, the eerie Emmy-winning drama consistently ranks as the fourth-most watched show on television, pulling in over 20 million viewers each week on average.
New episodes of Lost resume Wednesday, Nov. 9 at 9 p.m. Set your TiVos now.
by Sarah Hall
Nov 2, 2005, 2:45 PM PT
Is ABC trying to get Lost fans fired?
As if there wasn't already enough material out there for superfans to obsess over, including a plethora of sites and message boards devoted to the show, now a Lost storyline is making the jump from fiction to reality.
ABC has announced plans to introduce a Lost subplot about a character named Gary Troup, a fictitious author who supposedly perished in the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, but left behind the manuscript on which he had been working, having dropped it off with his publisher just days before boarding the fatal flight.
Here's where the line between fact and fiction blurs: Hyperion Books, ABC's sister publishing label, is actually putting out said manuscript in book form this spring--here in the real world--to coincide with the related episodes of Lost.
Titled Bad Twin, the private eye thriller is said to be about a rich heir's search for his devious sibling. Hyperion said it has commissioned a well-known scribe to pen the book, with the help of writers from the show.
"Fans of the show are obsessive," Hyperion President Bob Miller told Daily Variety. "We think a lot of them will be buying the book just to look for clues."
(Hey, who's he calling obsessive? Maybe the hundreds of Powerball hopefuls who played Hurley's unlucky number--4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42--in the $340 million drawing last month to no avail? Just a hunch.)
The marketing ploy may be the first to combine characters and events from a television show with a real-life sales campaign, according to Variety.
While just 9 million viewers tuned in for last week's Lost rerun, the eerie Emmy-winning drama consistently ranks as the fourth-most watched show on television, pulling in over 20 million viewers each week on average.
New episodes of Lost resume Wednesday, Nov. 9 at 9 p.m. Set your TiVos now.
