Harold Perrineau, who plays Michael Dawson, and was given a pass off the island last year, will return next season to Lost!
This thunderously important nugget was painfully extracted from ABC Entertainment boss Steve McPherson a few moments ago after indignant TV critics, including me, peppered the exec with whines and threats.
The news was supposed to come tomorrow at Comic-Con, the huge comic, sci-fi, Fanboy, fantasy convention in San Diego. But we showed them. Don't mess with the pros, Steve.
Veteran cynics propose that there will be other, even better, Lost news at Comic-Con, and that the dogged critics were only thrown a tiny bone to shut them up. But when I get a nice bone, I'm happy to share it with all of you.