Sky One has revealed that it is to broadcast the finale of Lost in the UK at exactly the same time as it is shown in the US.
In a bid stop piracy and, more importantly, make sure nobody spoils* what happens through the medium of Twitter, Sky will show the last two episodes (title: The End) at 5am Monday 24 May.
The episodes will be both shown on Sky 1 and Sky 1 HD and the same thing will be happening in six other countries outside of the US (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Israel, Turkey and Canada).
Lost and found
This will come as great news to many who thought that they would have to endure five days trying to stay spoiler-free before the episodes were to be shown on the proposed date 28 May.
Lost is coming to an end after six seasons and is one of the most talked-about televisions shows ever, due to its labyrinthine plot and numerous mysteries.
Recently, the show topped a social media interactions chart, with Networked Insights noting that it has between 131.4 million and 126.5 million social media interactions (posts and reads) per month.
The penultimate episode of Lost is currently available for dodgy-download from over 140,000 seeders on BitTorrent alone – expect this to be significantly less for the next episode as a result of the simulcast.
*They're all dead, Dave.
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tech89
May 26th 2010
7. Here's a tip, don't read tweets about Lost for five days!
Sky is showing it at 5am? I'd be sleeping instead.
Does it stop piracy? Well for me it doesn't, since I don't have sky.
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jlawless
May 21st 2010
6. I'd be careful, everyone. North America begins airing Lost at 9pm and you can catch live streams of it from 2am GMT, so there is still the possibility of being spoiled for a couple of hours, especially via Twitter.
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postieparker
May 20th 2010
5. like everyone else it is a
"Praise be to the Lord"
or words to that effect moment on seeing that Sky has cottoned on
Was getting frustrated as my brother in Spain has known for 2 days that they where to get it live.
unlike blueskythinker my trouble is not how to get up at 5am as I will already be in work. It is a case of can I get someone to swap their Monday day off for mine which is later in the week
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erebu5
May 20th 2010
4. Is this our reward for sticking with the show for 6 frustrating years? If so THANK YOU!!!!!
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bixbarton
May 20th 2010
3. Excellent stuff, now what we need is a SkyUS channel which does this ALL the time. Now that would be worth paying for!
However, UK viewers will see it at 25fps, whilst US will be 24fps. Work that out and UK viewers should get to see it a few milliseconds ahead of the US...
I look forward to someone working out the true-maths of this to show exactly how it will play out.
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blueskythinker
May 20th 2010
2. Best news I have read all day. Week. Year. Now have to work out the greatest mystery of all: how am I going to get up at 5am?!?!
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rimscar
May 20th 2010
1. Strewth it's like the clouds have parted and revelation has happened...
Why on earth has it taken them so long to figure out this simple procedure?
At this rate they'll also kill region-coding!
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