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| • | Lost was a US reality television show screened in the USA in late 2001. It was a game show in a race format where teams raced around the world with little 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. Contestants were blindfolded and dropped off in the desert of an unknown country to find their way back to the US. The home-viewing audience knew that the starting point was central Mongolia but the teams did not. The finish line was the Statue of Liberty in New York City.
The show was produced by Conaco, a production company owned by Conan O'Brien. Sports broadcaster Al Trautwig narrated the show.
Only four episodes were screened after the show premiered to dismal ratings; NBC blamed the lackluster numbers on the show debuting just before the September 11, 2001 attacks. The winners were announced on the final episode. A few months later, a second set of episodes originally filmed for NBC were aired on the Travel Channel. 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 an island, making the quest more arbitrary.
A show of the same name and format was produced in the UK for Channel 4 and shown in October 2001. Five episodes were broadcast in which teams were abandoned in Northern Russia, Mali, Venezuela, Quebec and Azerbaijan. The teams had to race back to Trafalgar Square, London, except in the Azerbaijan episode, where the destination was the Angel of The North statue in Gateshead. While the show had the potential to be a success, poor scheduling of the program in a late night slot meant it reached only a limited audience. The UK version was repeated on a cable channel a few months after the first showing.
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Source: [wikipedia: lost (reality tv series)]
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