Lost: Missing Pieces

Lost: Missing Pieces
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Genre	Drama
Directed by	Jack Bender
Starring	Michael Emerson Matthew Fox Jorge Garcia Daniel Dae Kim Yunjin Kim Elizabeth Mitchell Harold Perrineau Josh Holloway
Composer(s)	Michael Giacchino
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Damon Lindelof Carlton Cuse Barry Jossen J. J. Abrams Bryan Burk Jack Bender Jeff Pinkner
Location(s)	Hawaii
Cinematography	John Bartley Michael Bonvillain
Editor(s)	Robert Florio
Running time	1–4 minutes
Production company(s)	ABC Studios
Release
Original network	V CAST & ABC.com
Original release	November 7, 2007 – January 28, 2008
Chronology
Related shows	Lost
External links
Website

Lost: Missing Pieces is a series of thirteen video clips ranging in length from one to four minutes that aired during the hiatus between the 3rd and 4th seasons of the television show Lost, from which the series is spun off. They generally became available to Verizon Wireless users on Mondays from November 2007 to January 2008 and were uploaded onto the ABC's website a week later for free streaming. The "mobisodes", which have also been referred to as "webisodes", were shot in Honolulu, Hawaii, and produced by the same crew with the same cast as the television series; thus, all content is considered to be canonical.Lost: Missing Pieces were included as special features in the fourth season's 2008 DVD releases.

The project was announced in November 2005 as the Lost Video Diaries; however, production was delayed several times due to contractual restrictions. Lost's writer-producers originally proposed the mobisodes as a self-contained story that would focus on two previously unseen characters of the Lost fictional universe. These characters would be played by actors who were not part of the Screen Actors Guild; however the entertainment guilds refused to support such a project. After months of unsuccessful negotiating, the series was seemingly shelved by ABC. In June 2007, it was announced that the mobisodes, which would be renamed Lost: Missing Pieces, would star the regular characters of Lost in thirteen short video clips unrelated to each other. Twelve scenes were newly shot; one was a deleted scene from the television series. Critical response to Lost: Missing Pieces was mixed. The series was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2008.

In November 2005, while the early second season of Lost was airing, The Hollywood Reporter reported that twenty-two mobisodes—each spanning several minutes—were expected to be produced in December for a January 2006 release. Zap2it reported that they would later be present on the second season's DVD set and that six would be exclusive to the DVD. Unlike the television series, it would not be produced by ABC Studios (known then as "Touchstone Television") and would star non-Screen Actors Guild members; however it would be produced under the oversight of Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, like the television series. In response to fan inquiries about Lost's thirty-odd background characters, the Lost Video Diaries would focus on a self-contained story about two survivors of the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 who had not previously been introduced. The Los Angeles Times confirmed in January 2006–the month originally scheduled to launch the series–that the mobisodes would be originally broadcast on V CAST from Verizon Wireless and that each mobisode would span only two minutes. Verizon would ultimately pay ABC $400,000 for the mobisodes.