Tenth Anniversary of 'Lost' Infographic: Character Facts

Ten years ago today, "Lost" premiered on ABC. To celebrate J.J. Abrams' mysterious series, Moviepilot did some cool things with infographics and here's the second one. We posted one on Friday that depicted "kill counts" and now, the one below provides some interesting character facts.

Check it out and let us know which ones you found most interesting and surprising...

-Larissa Mrykalo

Infographic Helps Celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of 'Lost'

J.J. Abrams' action-adventure series "Lost" ran from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010 on ABC. To celebrate the show's tenth anniversary, the folks over at Moviepilot created some cool infographics. The one below depicts "Kills in Lost" and, well, includes the show's characters and their kill count.

It's pretty self-explanatory so check it out and let us know if you're surprised by numbers...

Tenth Anniversary 'Lost' Panel Addresses What It All Meant

This September marks a decade since the public, and popular culture, became obsessed with a group of castaways stuck on a mystical island filled with a polar bear, smoke monster, a band of others, a godlike guardian and a load of mysteries. Yup, it's the tenth anniversary year of "Lost," and this may marks four years since the show left us (and some say left us still scratching our heads).

Well, Entertainment Weekly and The Paley Center for Media's PaleyFest, took fans back to the island for a flashback on 10 years of "Lost." On a panel featuring stars Josh Holloway, Jorge Garcia, Maggie Grace, Ian Somerhalder, Yunjin Kim, Henry Ian Cusick, Malcolm David Kelley and executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, there was much conversation about what it all meant.

But what DID it all mean? In addition to addressing lingering questions (no, they weren't dead the whole time; everyone on the show also hated Nikki & Paulo; they like the finale), the panelists try to sum up the series in just a few seconds. See what it meant to them in the video below.

-Aaron Sagers

Hellish new details about '666 Park Avenue'

Courtesy ABC

The coming Fall 2012 TV season is looking devilish courtesy ABC's new show, 666 Park Avenue. Based on the book series by Gabriella Pierce, the show stars Terry O'Quinn from Lost (in full-on evil Locke form?) as Gavin Doran, the owner of The Drake, a lux Manhattan apartment building where supernatural occurrences.

What looks to be a bit of The Devil's Advocate meets Needful Things - with a dash of American Horror Story thrown in for good measure - the 80 residents of The Drake enter into Faustian bargains with deadly results. (O'Quinn even says in the trailer, "What I do is fulfill needs," and he apparently uses Vanessa Williams as a helper in the task.)

But the question is, are the residents dealing with the actual devil or just some supernatural stand-in?

(What follows is spoilery)

Based on some inside info about the show, Paranormal Pop Culture has learned that Gavin is likely the devil and The Drake is a gateway to hell. A big marketing push from ABC will focus on asking viewers, "How far would you go to make all your dreams come true?" and "Make a deal with the devil and there will be hell to pay."

Sounds pretty cool, and when the show premieres in late September or October, we look forward to spending some time in hell.

Mark Pellegrino of 'Being Human' on getting 'Lost' in gods, monsters

Editor's note: Here there be spoilers. If you choose to read ahead, you might learn a few things about Being Human. 

BY AARON SAGERS

Pellegrino as Jacob, courtesy ABC

If the apocalypse does occur in 2012, it’s a safe bet that Mark Pellegrino is somehow involved. As an actor, he has played multiple roles so significantly tied to the survival or obliteration of humanity one can’t help but wonder if his agent is reading the Book of Revelation in between scripts - or if Pellegrino might actually perform on a stage at the end of the world.

Pellegrino is not a god, but he has played a few memorable ones on TV. He is respected for notable roles like Rita’s wife-beating ex Paul on Dexter; Gavin Q. Baker, a flamboyant attorney to cops on The Closer, a character worthy of his own spinoff; Tom Dempsey, an old-school mobster on Castle. But the actor is better known as Jacob, the godlike protector of the Island on mythology-heavy Lost. Other viewers know him better as Lucifer, the fallen archangel-cum-devil on another mythology-heavy show, Supernatural - a role he just returned to on the Feb. 17 episode "Repo Man" as a vision to Sam Winchester.

Still others might know Pellegrino best as Bishop, the undead (and later very dead) leader of Boston vampires on Syfy’s reboot series Being Human. In Being Human, which airs Mondays at 9 p.m., Bishop is yet another character in Pellegrino’s rogues gallery with a god complex. Bishop has designs on wiping out much of the human race, and turning the remainder into slaves. And because death can’t keep a good bad guy down, Bishop returns in tonight’s episode of Being Human to torment his vampire son Aidan (Sam Witwer), who is experiencing a bit of parenting problems himself

Mark Pellegrino joined us over the phone to discuss Bishop’s return, his career as angels and demons, and even his love of video games, zombies and a possible role on The Walking Dead.

Joe Maddalena: 'Hollywood Treasure' hunter

Like a real life Indiana Jones, Joe Maddalena must solve riddles, navigate through tricky situations and use his charm to discover treasures and save the day.

The main difference is that instead of battling booby traps and Nazis, he must negotiate with owners and convince them to hand over their own idols – not ancient archaeological artifacts but rare movie memorabilia.

The son of antique dealers, Maddalena is the founder of Profiles in History, an auction house he began in 1985 to sell historic documents, including baseball cards, comic books, and novels from great American writers like William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Over time, Profiles began to deal with prop and items from the movies, such as current sellers like the hover board from Back to the Future II, an original golden ticket from Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory and Brand Routh’s Superman suit from Superman Returns.

Most recently, Maddalena gained headlines for his Lost auction that pulled in more than $1.8 for items like the Dharma VW van (for $47,500) and 12 cans of Dharma beer ($5,000). But the auctioneer and movie buff is about to get headlines again with his new Syfy show Hollywood Treasure, which premieres tonight with two back-to-back half-hour episodes, and airs Weds. at 10 p.m., ET.

On the show, Maddalena and his team travel to various destinations to track down leads and find highly collectible Hollywood memorabilia for fan auctions. Over the course of the 12-episode series, Joe pursues the carpet bag used on camera in Mary Poppins, the hat worn by the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, the genie bottle Barbara Eden lived in on I Dream of Jeannie, miniature biplanes King Kong swatted at in 1931 and many more legendary items.

We spoke with Maddalena to discuss Hollywood Treasure and his life on the auction block. Additionally, we’ve included video from the Hollywood Treasure panel at the Syfy Digital Media Press Tour in Orlando, Fla. earlier this month.

'Lost' & 'Empire Strikes Back': Pop culture milestones, same weekend

'Empire Strikes Back,' courtesy LucasFilm

It is a dark time for the Candidates. Evading the dreaded Smoke Monster, a group of island castaways led by Jack Shephard have escaped the Widmore sub and established a new temporary base on the remote Dharma Island. The evil demigod Man In Black, obsessed with finding Shephard, is dispatching a final plan to kill the survivors and escape the far reaches of the island …

On May 21, 1980, The Empire Strikes Back opened in theaters and has been received as not just a great film in its own right, but as one of the best blockbusters and finest sequels in movie history. On Sept. 22, 2004, Lost premiered on ABC and has since become one of the most celebrated dramatic shows in television history.

It seems fitting – and worthy of the prologue/plot mashup above—that the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back occurs on the same weekend that Lost will conclude with the two and a half hour series finale. In addition to being personal favorites that blew my mind, earned slavish devotion and launched countless conversations, both are significant pop culture institutions that changed what many of us can expect from entertainment, but also what entertainment can expect of us.

As a child, The Empire Strikes Back was a film I loved and loathed. It was my first “What? Aw, hell no!” movie. It ended on a down note where the villains won, the Big Bad made a shocking reveal that stomped the hero’s soul and the audience was left with a three-year cliffhanger. I was too young to remember much about

'Lost' auction lets you never leave the island

So you left the mysterious island and things weren't as peachy as you'd hoped when you returned home? You found yourself growing an awful beard, becoming an addict and seeing the ghost of your dead father?

Well, even though want to scream "We Have To Go Back!" the good news is you never have to leave, and you can continue living your island dreaming with the Lost prop auction being held at Profiles In History.

Featuring 100 very cool items from the show, find your own Lost experience. Included in the items are Locke's knife set, Jin's wedding ring, Mr. Eko's walking stick, Charlie's DriveShaft ring, Hurley's winning lottery ticket, Desmond's DHARMA/Swan Station failsafe ring, and more.  And since you're bound to get hungry and thirsty while evading a smoke monster, pick up a bottle of DHARMA rum and some DHARMA food too.

'Entertainment Weekly' obsessed with death of 'Lost'

Like most of us who have dedicated the last five and a half years to it - and stuck it out despite Nikki, Paulo, Bai Ling and hiatuses - Entertainment Weekly is going gaga with goodbyes to Lost.

Led by "Doc" Jeff Jensen, the magazine has led exhaustive, thought-provoking coverage of the show (seconded by Jimmy Kimmel for exhaustive, light-hearted coverage), so it seems a natural fit for the publication to go a little nuts as we head into the weekend of the finale on May 23.

With the end in site, EW apparently has death in mind, since the coverage includes some fun tidbits on "30 Key Deaths," interviews with the dead, and my favorite, the Lost "Portraits of the Dead." Show here (actor Harold Perrinaeu who played "Michael" and is otherwise a gifted musician), the photos are creepy in concept and evoke memento mori "death portraits."

Kudos to EW, and especially photographer Michael Muller, for making me squirm with these too-realistic death portraits of characters we came to know.

'Supernatural,' 'Vampire Diaries' renewed

Not even the Apocalypse can keep Supernatural down. Despite the throwdown with Lucifer (Mark Pellegrino, left, who also plays godlike Jacob on Lost), and the plotline that was supposed to end the show, The CW will be bringing the series back for a sixth season.

Also returning is The Vampire Diaries, which has developed into a reliable ratings draw.

Lost about lost 'Lost' last night?

If you were lost about no Lost last night, you weren't alone. Instead of a new episode - as has been the pattern of straight-through February-May seasons - a repeat of the Alpert-centric "Ab Aeterno" episode aired.

Frankly, it threw us off like Desmond without a constant. But rest assured, there must be a reason for ABC disrupting the flow of the show's final season, right? Not really, it turns out.

TV Squad did the digging for this and spoke with Jeffrey Fordis, the show's publicist, and discovered the network and Lost's producers agreed upon 18 hours of programming for the final season, which consisted of 16 episodes when you consider two two-hour premiere and finale installments. Instead of starting the season a week later, and losing out on a week of February sweeps, ABC scheduled those 16 episodes to air over 17 weeks, beginning Feb. 9.

The delay comes down to business, obviously, but the reason this week was chose with this episode, remains a mystery. But the end result is an awkward, annoying and teasing pause to the momentum building for the final episodes.

I don't advocate siccing Smokey on Fordis, but we're peeved over here - so peeved, in fact, we drowned our sorrows in eating an entire cake and imagining it was the Lost 100th episode one created by Ace of Cake's Charm City Cakes last year. (Yeah, lousy way to justify running this pic)