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Lost masterminds Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have been dropping hints about how the show will end next spring.

Among the mysteries unravelled in the very last episode will be the significance of the four-toed statue, what the Smoke Monster really is and who the skeletons in the cave were.

(We reckon Egyptian fertility goddess Taweret, conscience and Penny & Desmond respectively, for what it's worth!)

Says Cuse: "The end of the show will be a combination of trying to answer mysteries the audience still cares about, such as the statue and the Smoke Monster.

"We'll also be answering the skeletons in the cave question. We will answer the questions we feel are important and central to the plot.

"At the same time we will be trying to tell redemption stories about the characters. These characters do indeed have a destiny.

Well done Diversity, winners of Britain's Got Talent.

The dance troupe's stunning routine was a sci-fi stormer based on their favourite movies.

Opening with Transformers, they moved into a show-stealing portrayal of the Predator alien's mouth and breathing before throwing in, quite literally, a little bit of Superman!

Turn the page for video of the winning performance!

OK, so it's official.

The four-toed statue on the Lost island is of Egyptian fertility goddess Taweret.

Show creator JJ Abrams confirmed its identity in this month's Wired magazine.

While guest-editing the mag, he dropped in a puzzle which, when solved, gives the answer: "The four-toed statue is Tawaret."

She was the goddess of birth, rebirth and the northern sky - and presumably protected pregnant mums on the island in years past.

Since the statue was all but destroyed, women on the island have risked death when giving birth.

Young British actress Karen Gillan has been announced as the next assistant in the upcoming series of Doctor Who.

Gillan, 21, has already appeared in the popular BBC1 show, having played a soothsayer in The Fires of Pompeii in the 2008 series, and has also appeared in Channel 4's The Kevin Bishop Show.

"I am absolutely over the moon at being chosen to play the Doctor's new companion. - I just can't wait to get started," she said after the announcement that she would star alongside Matt Smith, the next actor to play the Time Lord.

"The show is such a massive phenomenon that I can't quite believe I am going to be a part of it.

"Matt Smith is an incredible actor and it is going to be so much fun to act alongside him," she added.

Lead writer and producer Steven Moffat said "the game was up" when Gillan auditioned to play the Doctor's new assistant.

"She is funny, and clever, and gorgeous, and sexy," he added.

"Or Scottish, which is the quick way of saying it.

"A generation of little girls will want to be her. And a generation of little boys will want them to be her too."

Our mind-bending series continues with a look at the new Star Trek film.

Spoilers beware!

They are, quite literally, the Band From TV.

Stars from Heroes, Lost, House, Desperate Housewives and many others are rock 'n' rolling stages across the States to raise cash for charity.

Led by Greg Grunberg - telepathic cop Matt Parkman in Heroes - the band features a stellar line-up, augmented by surprise guests.

On drums there's Greg. On guitar it's Desperate Housewives heart-throb James Denton (who plays Mike) and on keyboards is Hugh Laurie, Brit star of House.

His House co-star Jesse Spencer plays fiddle, while Adrian Pasdar (Heroes senator Nathan Petrelli) often guests on bass.

Vocal duties are shared by Teri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives' Susan Mayer), Bob Guiney (Date My House & The Bachelor) and Bonnie Somerville (NYPD Blue, Friends, The OC).

But you never know who'll get up and jam.

Turn the page to see video of a sensational Heroes - Lost match-up!

Internet speculation is rife that the creators of lost have taken the idea for the show from Francis Bacon's Utopian novel - The New Atlantis.

The novel as stated on wikipedia is his creation of an ideal land where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendor, piety and public spirit" were the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants of Bensalem.

Perhaps the most interesting paragraph on the wiki entry is this;

The novel depicts a mythical land, Bensalem, which is discovered by the crew of a European ship after they are lost in the Pacific Ocean somewhere west of Peru. The European narrator recounts some of the island's customs and, most importantly, its state-sponsored scientific institution, Solomon's House.

The best and brightest of Bensalem's citizens attend a college called Solomon's House, in which scientific experiments are conducted in Baconian method in order to understand and conquer nature, and to apply the collected knowledge to the betterment of society.

European ship - the Black Rock? Bensalem? Solomon's House = Dharma Initiative?

Surely the paralells are more than a coincidence... I'm off to find out more about this book!

Bizarre....

The Prison Break 'Last Break' two-hour special - originally slated as direct to DVD - is being aired this Wednesday, May 27, on Sky 1 from 10pm to midnight.