One of the greatest television shows of all time is set to come to Netflix UK and Ireland, with fans buzzing to watch it once again.

Released back in 2004 and running until 2010, the mysterious science fiction drama set on a remote tropical island with polar bears went viral – in the days before going viral was a thing.

Running for 121 episodes and created by J. J. Abrams of Armageddon, Star Trek and Star Wars fame, it follows the survivors of commercial plane Oceanic Flight 815, after it crashes while flying from Sydney to Los Angeles.

Harold Perrineau and Malcolm David Kelley in Lost (Mario Perez / Disney General Entertainment Con / Getty Images)

Marooned on a remote island in the South Pacific Ocean, it featured flashbacks and flash forwards that often left the viewers asking even more questions surrounding the mystery of the show that gripped millions around the world. This was a world where people had to wait a whole week for a new episode; there was none of this binging in a weekend.

And with a pilot that cost more than $14 million (£10.9 million) and a huge cast including Matthew Fox, Dominic Monaghan (The Lord of the Rings), Evangeline Lilly (Ant-Man), and Josh Holloway, nothing about it was cheap. And that showed in the final product, which was ahead of its time looking back at the era in which it was released.

We are, of course, talking about Lost, which will come as no surprise if you’ve watched it before.

But for those who haven’t, get ready to binge all six seasons as they come to Netflix on Thursday (15 August).

Either watch it for the first time or relive the mysteries. (Mario Perez/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

Ranked as the ninth best TV show of all time over on Rotten Tomatoes, only the likes of Game of Thrones, Mad Men, The Sopranos, and Breaking Bad are rated higher.

And going by the same list, it is officially ranked as being better than other shows such as Better Call Saul, Ted Lasso, and Stranger Things.

Announcing the arrival of Lost, Netflix posted on X: “Oceanic Flight 815. LOST comes to Netflix 8/15. Don’t mistake coincidence for fate.”

And while some Brits hit out at the American use of the date and month order, others were quick to clock on to one of the show’s biggest mysterious – ‘The Numbers’. 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42. Six numbers that often spells for bad news.

Lost won numerous awards (Vince Bucci/Getty Images)

One fan said: “I’m so glad Lost came out when the internet was full of passionate nerds on forums poring over every frame of a 40 minute episode.

“There’s no better example than why TV works best weekly – we want to anticipate what’s next and obsess over what just happened.”

Another wrote: “I don’t care what people say, this show is f**king great.”

A third posted: “UK folk. Get this watched.”

And a fourth said: “One of the best TV shows ever, ESPECIALLY the ending. If you’ve never seen it, I’d recommend giving it a go.”

The star of one of Netflix’s biggest shows of all time was determined not to let the success of the first season impact his performance as he came back for round two.

Picture the scene: it’s March 2023, and you’re on the hunt for a gripping new series to sink your teeth in to. You spot a new arrival: a conspiracy thriller about a low-level FBI agent tasked with manning a phone that never rings.

Until one night, it does.

By the time the first episode of The Night Agent comes to an end, you’re hooked. You and millions of others.

According to Netflix’s Tudum, the series starring Gabriel Basso and Luciane Buchanan racked up 98,200,000 views and 803,200,000 hours of viewing, earning it a place in the top ten most popular shows ever on Netflix.

Looking back, Basso remembers hoping that people would like the show, but he had no idea just how big it would be.

“On season one, specifically, we had so many hiccups along the way of, ‘what is this show?’,” he told LADbible. “We were trying to figure out what it was as we were making it, so it was a little stressful.

“It was a big, sort of ‘proud dad‘ moment for me to see how much the crew went through, see how much the cast went through, the writers and [creator] Shawn [Ryan], and then see how well it did. It was just a really cool moment for me to appreciate it, but you don’t know that it’s going to be big, you know?”

The Night Agent went on to be nominated at the People’s Choice Awards, among others, but Basso tried not to let the excitement surrounding the return of his character, Peter Sutherland, get to him.

Gabriel Basso is back as Peter Sutherland in The Night Agent season two (Netflix)

When asked if he felt any added pressure about coming back for series two of the TV show, Basso said: “I’m pretty good about prioritising narrative and the show. No matter how I feel about it, Peter is going to be Peter.

“So I wasn’t going into it like, ‘oh, I need to spend an extra hour in the hair and makeup trailer because more people are going to be watching this show’.”

If anything, Basso said, the excitement around series two added ‘extra kindling’ for the cast and crew, saying: “It was a positive, because we knew that regardless of the tough nights, the brutal night shoots in winter, that people were going to enjoy the show and that it was going to be worth it.”

Series two of The Night Agent sees Peter once again thrown into the thick of a conspiracy while working in a government agency completely shrouded in secrecy.

To help prepare for the role, Basso worked with technical advisors and people with knowledge of life in the surveillance industry, as well as undergoing weapons handling and fighting lessons.

Basso stars alongside Luciane Buchanan in the series (Netflix)

The training helped Basso take on his own stunts in the show, though he admitted he was surprised by one thing he learned while researching the job.

The actor admitted he was ‘shocked’ by ‘how boring it is’.

“It’s just sitting there,” he said. “Talking to these guys in real life – obviously I knew it wasn’t [like], the ‘President’s life is at stake every single mission’, but there is a certain amount of activity that you assume they get. And you’d be shocked talking to some of these guys.”

That being said, however, Basso admitted: “They could be lying to me, and it could be classified.”

Though the job might not be quite as exciting as Basso expected, he certainly gets his fair share of action in The Night Agent, and with a third series already confirmed, he’s clearly not planning on slowing down any time soon.

The Night Agent series two is available to stream now on Netflix.

On 6 May, 1937, a giant airship with 97 people onboard was coming in for a landing in the US when it was suddenly engulfed in flames and crashed to the ground.

With the landing being filmed, the horrifying images of the burning carcass of an airship gained global recognition and became one of the iconic images of the 20th century.

That airship was the Hindenburg, and when it crashed, 35 people onboard, as well as one on the ground, died as a result of the sudden and disastrous spread of flames.

The fire spread across the airship in a matter of seconds, and now, we have a simulation for what it would have been like for those on board. Watch here:

YouTuber Zack D. Films said that the fire from the Hindenburg prevented some passengers from escaping, and prompted others to try and jump out of the still-airborne vessel in an attempt to escape.

The Hindenburg, named after the German general who became president in his later years and failed to do much about Hitler’s rise to power, was soon the subject of a number of conspiracy theories, including claims of sabotage and a bomb on board.

However, inquiries conducted by both the US and Germany concluded that atmospheric conditions were to blame for the disaster.

The Americans suggested that an electrical phenomenon known as a ‘brush discharge’ had likely ignited the hydrogen which inflated the Hindenburg’s balloon, while the Germans thought the spark might have come from a buildup of static electricity.

There have been a number of other theories as to what caused the Hindenburg disaster, but what is clear is that the hydrogen in the balloon ignited and consumed the craft within a matter of seconds.

Various newsreels put the time between the first signs of ignition and the Hindenburg crashing at a little over 30 seconds.

Most of the people on the port side of the airship were able to survive, while the chances of making it out of the starboard side were less likely as the Hindenburg rolled slightly to that side after it crashed.

Incredibly, more people survived the Hindenburg disaster than died. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

While the Hindenburg is likely to be the most known airship disaster of all time, it’s not the most deadly or devastating.

Many nations experimented with airship travel in the 20th century, but in time, each of them turned away from it as a means of conveying passengers.

The British-made R101 was the largest airship in the world before being superseded by the Hindenburg, and it crashed on its maiden overseas voyage in 1930, resulting in the deaths of 48 of the 54 people on board.

The French airship Dixmude exploded mid-air in 1923, killing all 52 people on board, while the American airship USS Akron was destroyed in a thunderstorm in 1933, killing 73 out of 76 people aboard.

Airships did get a bit of a second wind in the Second World War, where they turned out to be reasonably effective at protecting naval convoys from submarines.

If Michael Rockefeller, a member of one of the most prominent families on the planet, didn’t make it out of West Papua, I’m not sure why anyone else would fancy taking their chances there.

But the 23-year-old’s mysterious disappearance in 1961 only made people even more curious about what was going on in the ridiculously remote region and the tribe which inhabit it.

Thanks to this courageous camera crew, we can all get a glimpse of how the Asmat people live without risking our lives to see it – but the footage might leave you with more questions than answers about what happened to Michael.

Documentary makers from Sliced made the same journey which the son of US Vice President Nelson Rockefeller did, but thankfully, managed to return from their extraordinary journey to West Papua, formerly known as Dutch New Guinea.

Extraordinary footage captured the Asmat people going about their daily business (YouTube/Slice)

The crew were well aware of what they were getting into and the potential consequences, explaining to viewers in the video shared in 2022 that it’s not a place where you would turn up unannounced.

They explained they were venturing to a ‘land that has long remained free of outsiders, discouraged by the Asmats’ terrifying reputation as cannibals and headhunters’ – so you can see why it isn’t a tourist hotspot.

“We went to film them, simply to be the witnesses of their untouched culture, in one of the last unexplored regions of the globe, and to better understand their way of life in this singular territory,” Sliced explained.

But the team did not seem phased by all of the conspiracy theories regarding Michael’s fate – even though the leading hypothesis is that he ended up on the Asmat tribes menu.

The tribe all live in large houses and work as a team to sustain themselves (YouTube/Slice)

For those who don’t know, the young explorer set out on his second exhibition to the Asmat region alongside Dutch anthropologist René Wassing, intending to make contact with the locals living there.

But the pair ran into trouble when their 40-foot canoe was capsized near the shore – and although Wassing was later rescued while floating in the water, Michael was never seen or heard from again.

It was originally reported that he had either drowned or was fatally attacked by an animal, but not everyone was convinced and instead suspect that the tribespeople may have eaten him.

Although the documentary showed those in Asmat living a very different way of life to the majority of us, it portrayed them as protectors of their territory and culture who make us lot in the West look pretty lazy, rather than cold-blooded killers.

For starters, they are expert hunter-gatherers who have ‘always survived without cultivating the soil‘.

Women have to provide, while the men protect (YouTube/Slice)

And as they don’t have any refrigeration to rely on to keep food fresh, they are out foraging every single day – with Slice explaining that the women do the fishing, while the men watch over them.

“Although the Azmat are no longer threatened by surprise attacks, they have kept their traditional distribution of tasks,” the video said. “The men defend the territory, while the women are responsible for the family‘s sustenance.”

The people all live in homes that are big enough for entire families, which are built on stakes due to the extremely muddy land in the region – with one tribe member, Rufinus, explaining that ‘everyone works together’ to survive.

Despite there being enough room for him, the 20-year-old told how he and other bachelors sleep in a separate spot, but will later move in with their wife‘s family when they get married.

Getting hitched must go according to tradition – which involves ‘offering a ritual presence’ and killing a cassowary bird.

According to Rufinus’ grandfather though, their ancestors are ‘furious with them’ because of their modernity.

I obviously don’t mean they’re all walking around with iPhones by this, but rather the fact that some of their traditions have slipped over the years.

The main sticking point is the fact that the men in Asmat no longer go head hunting – which sounds exactly like what it is – seeking revenge and taking someone’s head as a souvenir.

Boys returning home with a head was seen as their elevation into manhood, while the cannibalism which accompanied it was merely a side show and a method of foraging for that night.

The tribe believes that death, sickness or any other misfortune is caused by an enemy, so they have to sort of even things out when something like that occurs by continuing the endless cycle of revenge and chopping heads off.