So tonight I watched Episode one of FlashForward, the new drama from the creators of Lost. Mr Smith had been raving about it, so had my friend (who coincidently works for the show); both encouraged me to watch despite their brief descriptions not really selling it to me. I love Lost. I can’t get enough of the show, and even when everyone slags off its complicated twists and they all say ‘I’m lost by Lost’, I don’t care, they obvioualy can’t keep up with it  – it’s not that hard!

So when I was told FlashForward was created by the same people and is  a fairly similar styled program (i.e unexplainable events happening and linking people together), I should have been into it straight away, but I was reluctant to watch it as I feared it would be a huge dissapointment. How can you follow Lost? But, in the end, random Wednesday evening boredom got the better of me and I watched it online.

First off, it was obvious within the first 5 seconds that the show shares the same creators as Lost. Our lead guy, Mark, awakes confused, in unfamiliar surroundings (well not unfamiliar, but strange surroundings because his car has been turned upside down), screams follow his confusion, along with explosions, shouting, cries for help – pretty much exactly the same as the opening scene of Lost, where Jack wakes up confused to the sounds of screaming shouting victims and explosions of the aircraft. This wasn’t necessarily a bad thing though, maybe a bit predictable, but if anyone knows how to entice a TV audience, its the people who created Lost. And it looks like they’ve recruited a few of the Lost actors too – Olivia, Marks wife, is played by Sonya Walger, who played Penny Widmore in Lost. And I read that Dominic Monaghan, who played the lovable Charlie, will appear in FlashForward in the episodes I’ll be watching soon as a character called Simon – I’m certainly looking forward to that. I was gutted when Lost killed off poor little Charlie.

I really like the idea (so far) behind FlashForward - it’s even more crazy than a plane crashing onto the one desert island it shouldn’t have crashed onto - because it’s global, the storyline affects the whole world, or so it seems, like I said, if anyone can entice an audience these guys can. So, despite the used actors (more may come) and slightly secondhand opening scene, I did think it was good and have a feeling its going to be one of my new obsess about programs.

But I do have one question – what is Seth Macfarlane doing on FlashForward?? The creator of the best and funniest adult cartoon ever known to man, the voice of Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin, but most importantly Brian Griffin, a true comedy genius . . . and yet he is now playing some FBI agent (with about 3 lines so far) for an ABC drama??

Okay then.