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Lost is perhaps the first major television show to bring fame back to Hawaii since Hawaii Five-O, which first aired in 1968.

The pilot for Lost first aired in the fall of 2004, and since then five full seasons have been broadcasted. Lost is an American serial drama television series based upon the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island. Much of the show is filmed in on the island of Oahu, and due to its large ensemble cast and the cost of filming in Hawaii, Lost is one of the most expensive productions on television. The show was created by Damon Lindelof, J.J. Abrams, and Jeffrey Lieber.

The television series has long been a popular success, gaining an extremely large fan base and attracting on average 16 million viewers per episode.

Lost has won numerous awards including the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 2005, Best American Import at the British Academy Television Awards in 2005, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series, and the Golden Globe for Best Drama in 2006. Lost has truly become a major icon of American popular culture, gaining influence in other television series, commercials, comic books, magazines, video games, and song lyrics.