Lost‘s Ajira Airways Flight 316 yielded some strange but important passengers. While Caesar, the de facto leader, turned out to just be a man out of his league (he was killed by Ben shortly after the plane crash), it was the mysterious Ilana that seemed to really be in control. Along with Bram, played by Brad William Henke, Ilana led a group of survivors who seemed to be working for Jacob, and had been working for Jacob for quite some time.

Ilana was last seen dumping the real Locke’s body out of a crate and onto the beach, revealing the prescence of Jacob’s nemesis to Richard Alpert and the rest of the others.

We’ll be seeing plenty more of Ilana next year — DarkUFO has recently confirmed that actress Zuleikha Robinson, who portrays Ilana, has been promoted to a series regular for the sixth and final season on the series. This is great news, mostly because we’ll get to find out why Ilana was so bandaged up during that visit with Jacob, how she knew Jacob before, and how she came to work for him.

I’m very excited by this new development. Robinson is the third new confirmed regular for the sixth season; Nestor Carbonell (Other Richard Alpert) was the first, and Jeff Fahey, who plays  pilot Frank Lapidus, was the second.

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Is LOST planning an homage to John Hughes?  The ever vigilant Ryan from TheTransmission passed on some details regarding a day of shooting that, among other things, suggested: Mario Van Pebbles onset as a guest director or producer; fan favorites Locke and Ben possibly taking on the role of substitute teachers; second stringers Alex Rousseau and Leslie Arzt; and, Ryan has exclusively revealed to us the identity of a certain William Atherton’s character.  Anyway you slice the scoops, one thing is clear:  this episode of LOST is high-school centric.

Atherton’s appearance on LOST was first revealed through some teasing tweets from LOST executive producer Carlton Cuse, and we now know he will be playing the part of Principal Reynolds.   Tell me this guy wasn’t born to play a bad ass principal.  Arzt, as you will recall, was a junior high science teacher so it appears we will see him back in his role, and I guess Alex will be … a student?  Wild stretch, I know.  The big question is, though, why is LOST apparently having a teenage moment?

Could it be Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have thrown together an homage to Hughes’s legendary fables of teen angst?  Ben taking a nod as Ben Stein’s iconic ‘economics teacher’ from Ferris Bueller’s day off.  “Rousseau? Rousseau? Rousseau?”  Atherton delivering a demonic take on ‘Dick’ Vernon from The Breakfast club, maybe?   Arzt doing his typical ‘Weird Science.’

As far as the Van Peebles news, that’s not nearly as left field as the recent suggestion that 24 maestro Jon Cassar will be directing an episode.

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Typically, it’s more difficult to get information out of Lost producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse than the Department of Defense.

But the duo has been a bit more open over the last few weeks, as the most fascinating show on television inches toward its final season. We have a pretty good idea, for example, which former stars will return next year.

Now, we can confirm that William Atherton will guest star on the show.

The actor has appeared on a number of shows, such as Life, Numb3rs and Desperate Housewives.

As for what character he’ll play on Lost, come on. You didn’t think Lindelof and Cuse would reveal that information, did you?

Locke better suit up for a reunion of some sort.

Lost executive producer Carlton Cuse confirmed to TV Guide Magazine that Katey Sagal is returning to the show’s final season–a stark departure, perhaps, when you think that the character she plays, Helen Norwood, is supposedly dead already.  Then again, this is Lost, and death is, well…

As always, he isn’t revealing much about who else is returning, but he’s also confirmed that Ian Somerhalder–currently anchored at the CW’s Vampire Diaries–has just shot his return scene as Boone.  And he isn’t speaking up on Harold Perrineau’s return to the show.  “I cannot yet confirm or deny whether he will be back on the show this year,” he said.

Another former cast member who wants back?  Julie Bowen, also known as Jack’s former wife.  “What’s stopping you?” she told Cuse in jest when they met up at a fundraiser.  And she’s got a possible scenario in her head, too: “The last time you saw Sarah, she was pregnant with another man’s child.  But I would pitch that it was actually Jack’s baby and Jack’s found out and it’s somehow important to whatever is happening on the island.”

Something always has to be up, it seems.

Will Lost fans meet a teenage Sawyer on season six?

According to a network casting notice, the ABC hit is seeking a Caucasian actor between the age of 12 and 14 to portray…

Teenage Boy: Sporting dirty blond hair and intense searching eyes, he’s wise beyond his years. He finds himself having to deal with a horrible family accident. Recurring.

Is there any doubt that this character will be a younger version of Sawyer?

John Hawkes is joining the final season of “Lost” as a recurring.

The “Deadwood” alum will play Lennon, the scruffy, edgy and charismatic spokesperson and translator for the president of a foreign corporation who is far more powerful than it seems from his position.

Hawkes, who played budding entrepreneur and politician Sol Star on David Milch’s Western “Deadwood,” recently co-starred on another HBO series, the offbeat comedy “Eastbound & Down.”

His feature credits include “American Gangster” and “Miami Vice.”

Hawkes is repped by Innovative and Thruline.

It’s one of the most pressing questions on the minds of Lost fans everywhere: Why the heck doesn’t Richard Alpert age?

Nestor Carbonell, the actor that plays this mysterious character, wonders the same thing. He, along with viewers, will find out next season, as Carbonell has been made a series regular.

“I’m moving my whole family to Hawaii next week,” he told TV Guide Magazine. “This whole time I’ve been flying back and forth, but now I’ll be living on the island with the others. They tell me I’ll be in 16 of the 18 episodes.”

Meanwhile, executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof confirm that Alpert’s backstory will take a long time to reveal. Said Carbonell: “Obviously Richard doesn’t age, so I’m most curious to know how old he is and if he’s in fact pulling the strings.”

The sixth and final season of Lost may center around an entirely new timeline, but it will also return to its past in at least a couple of ways.

First, Elizabeth Mitchell has confirmed that she’ll reprise her role as Juliet, despite the fact that her character was inches away from an exploded hydrogen bomb in May’s finale and despite the fact that the actress is starring in a new series, V.

“[I'll appear] pretty immediately, and then I’m not sure after that,” Mitchell told E! News this week about Juliet’s role next year. “I think it will be satisfactory.”

Meanwhile, Josh Holloway says his character’s state of mind, following the events of the season five finale, will hearken back to the former, bitter Sawyer.

“I think he’s pretty destroyed. All of that growth got ripped away. I think he’s gonna be a bit salty again, which I’m looking forward to. All I know is that he’s destroyed and has given up on life again and on having any positive lessons. So watch out!”

We surely will. Lost returns to the air in January 2010.

While everything may look set for The Vampire Diaries’ premiere in the fall, one of its stars may need to head over from Mystic Falls to Hawaii to revisit an old show.

Ian Somerhalder, who plays evil vampire brother Damon Salvatore on the upcoming CW series, tells TV Guide that there’s a “large or decent” chance that he’ll be back on the ABC series Lost for its final season. He starred on the hit sci-fi series’ debut season as Boone Carlyle, stepbrother of Maggie Grace’s Shannon Rutherford, who is also rumored to be making a return.

Somerhalder’s character was killed off in the first season, while Grace’s died in the second.

After Emilie de Ravin’s Claire, Grace hinted that she’s “looking forward to visiting Hawaii soon,” and since her character and the new vampire’s are very much intertwined, it’s not a farfetched possibility.

“I don’t know why…” As for directly acknowledging Lost, Grace simply stated, “I think that they are brilliant writers. If they found the right reason, then I’m sure I would be on.”

A conflict may arise, however, since The Vampire Diaries comes from Warner Bros, while Lost is from ABC Studios. Some say it would take a lot of cooperation between the two network to seal the deal. For the new show, though, an appearance by Somerhalder may very well build the buzz that Vampire Diaries needs.

For her part, a source reveals that Grace “still has affection for the show,” and would love to be part of it one last time, before it finally signs off in May 2010. “I think that they are brilliant writers,” Grace added. “If they found the right reason, then I’m sure I would be on.”

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