Seventeen episodes are left in Lost's life, and then we all bid farewell to it.  To make things more confusing in the show's tradition, a representative for ABC told Zap2it that the final season of the show will run not for seventeen hours, but for eighteen.

Well, yeah, this discussion might not make a lot of sense, because it's almost certain that we'll have a two-hour season premiere and a two-hour series finale.  But usually that sort of episode's actually made up of two hour-long episodes aired back-to-back.  Then again, the writers do need some time to explain the final stretch of the show, considering all that happened at the end of season 5.

Season 4 of Supernatural ended with Lucifer rising, and now, he's here.  Michael Ausiello from EW.com has confirmed that actor Mark Pellegrino will join Supernatural as the Devil.  Who is Mark Pellegrino, you ask?

Well, if you're a Lost fan, you certainly know him as Jacob, the shadowy ruler of the Island who finally appeared in the season5 finale, only to be killed off by Ben.  On that show I actually predicted that Jacob was the Devil, so it looks like I was right, only with the wrong show.

Oh, would you just stop teasing everyone and say that they're returning, please!  It's been a while since that tweet half-rocked the world of Lost fans, and sure, it's been taken back for being "false", but just like a good mystery, things are looking oddly more interesting by the minute.  We had word that Dominic Monaghan might be returning to the show's final season after all--"almost but not quite" is perhaps the best way to say it--and now, another one of those floating names comes forward: Maggie Grace's.

Benjamin Linus confuses me, which is perhaps a good thing.  Oh, if only because of what he's done since he first showed up on Lost--now you don't know what he's actually up to, with all those false details, and leaving the island, and returning to the island, and all that.  So it's a pretty interesting question, now that the series is going to end--what exactly will happen to him?  (That, and this provided a good break from all those will-Charlie-Pace-be-back? questions.)

Michael Emerson told E! Online that he thinks he'll have a pretty important part in the final season of the show next year.  "My feeling is that [Ben] will have a role to play in the next season," he said.  "And I hope he survives until almost the end at least."

I call this the Lost-is-going-to-end-next-year-so-we're-a-little-too-excited-than-usual phenomenon.  I think this is the third time in the same number of weeks that we're asking the same question: will they bring Charlie Pace back to life for the show's sixth and final season?

Let's backtrack, then.  The rumors started flying when Dominic Monaghan suddenly popped up on a promotional trailer for ABC's new fall shows.  What's he doing there?  Isn't he dead on-screen already?  Is he being brought back to life?  Turns out he's snagged a role on a different show entirely, Flash Forward, which is being touted as Lost's cousin-slash-replacement (and which I still think is a snazzy bit of casting).