With the news that ABC has announced a planned end date for Lost three years from now, I’ve imagined recurring guest star Mira Furlan holding seminars entitled “What to Do When My Executive Producer Cuts My Steady Gig Short Because His Story Has an Ending.”
Given Furlan’s presence on Lost, I have found it kind of amusing that there hasn’t been much mainstream mention of Babylon 5’s defined five-year structure. Then again, B5 barely scraped by year to year, and Lost is a Top 20 hit. So it’s clearly a much bigger deal for a network to say, “Yeah, we’re gonna end this thing, no matter how popular it is,” and to say it so far in advance.