First, there was talk of CW network President saying they have talked about rebooting Gossip Girl. Now ABC’s new Entertainment President, Karey Burke, made her debut before the Television Critics Association and surprised the press corps with comments that she would “very much” like to reboot Lost.
During a video that showcased some of ABC’s biggest hits, she said her focus would be on shows that are similar to programming that she called the “soul of ABC”. It was the Lost clip — which opened the video with Jack’s famous “we have to go back” scene — that drew particular attention. She was then pressed on whether she would reboot Lost & Burke said, “Yes, I would like that very much. That is a reboot I would be interested in seeing.”
Again, much like talk of rebooting Gossip Girl, it’s just talk but this has been put in the universe a few times with ABC saying they’d like to revisit Lost. That being said, co-creator Carlton Cuse said he had no interest in rebooting it back in 2017:
Co-creator Damon Lindelof & I have always been adamant that we told the story that we wanted to tell. I would be fine if ABC hired somebody who had a good idea involving other characters that go to the island at some other point in time. I would be less excited if they wanted to use the characters that we had in our show.”
Lost originally aired on ABC from 2004-2010 and aired 121 episodes. The series is consistently ranked by critics as one of the greatest television series of all time.
