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Times online -Arts
May 21, 2010
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Lost has helped to shape American drama
The network ABC has extended the finale’s time slot by half an hour
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Or will it be the killer/teacher Ben, who was given a handsome amount of screen time in the penultimate episode on Tuesday?
In the six years since Lost was born, other “difficult” dramas have followed its wilfully tricky example.
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A Royal Navy diver who battled a flood for more than 45 minutes in the darkened engine room of the icebreaker Endurance in the Straits of Magellan has been presented with the Queen’s Commendation for Bravery.
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Their bespoke success has silenced the death knell that appeared to have been sounded by the rampant success of reality TV and chart-topping talent shows such as American Idol and Dancing with the Stars.
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Cristina García Lázaro