Lost (2001 TV series)
| Lost (U.S. version) | |
|---|---|
| Starring |
Carla Antonino Dan Wells Laurie Zink Joe Gulla |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
David Dugan Nancy Stern |
| Running time | 60 min. |
| Production company(s) |
Conaco NBC Studios |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | September 4 – December 30, 2001 |
| Lost (UK version) | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 15 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | David Dugan |
| Producer(s) | Robert Davis |
| Running time | 30 min. |
| Release | |
| Original network | Channel 4 |
| Original release | October 1, 2001 |
Lost is a reality television show screened in the United States and United Kingdom in late 2001. It was a game show in a race format where teams raced around the world with few or no resources.
The premise was similar to The Amazing Race, except the three two-member teams knew only the final destination (thousands of miles away) and were given only a backpack full of clothes and other essentials. In addition, team members were not acquainted with one another prior to the show, and were assigned to teams. Contestants were blindfolded and dropped off with a single camera person in a remote location of an unknown country to find their way back to their home country.
The U.S. version of the show was produced by Conaco, a production company owned by Conan O'Brien. Sports broadcaster Al Trautwig was the narrator.
Teams were given no money until they managed to figure out what country they were in. During the first set, the teams were abandoned in Mongolia. In the second set, the teams were abandoned in Bolivia. It was revealed in the second set that there was more to the show than just getting to the destination. The contestants had to go back via a particular island, making the quest more arbitrary. The first team to reach the U.S. finish line at the Statue of Liberty in New York City would split U.S. $200,000.
With the show premiering to dismal ratings, only two of the three sets of three episodes were produced; NBC blamed the lackluster numbers on the show debuting just before the September 11, 2001 attacks. The first set debuted on September 4, 2001. The winners from the first set were announced on the final episode, airing a week later than scheduled (due to the 9/11 attacks pre-empting the airing of the second episode). While the second set was set to debut the next week, NBC put the show on hiatus. On December 23, 2001, the second set of episodes began airing on NBC in a new 7:00 p.m. ET Sunday timeslot. Although the final two episodes of the second set were initially scheduled to air in a two-hour block the following week, NBC decided to skip the second episode of the set, and only aired the final episode in a one-hour timeslot, due to the previous episode having one of the lowest ratings in the network's history.
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