Fans of Lost haven't had much to cheer about recently. In the 14 months since its final episode either reduced you to a burbling puddle of snot or enraged you to the point of aneurism, we haven't exactly been spoilt for choice.

Show after high-concept show has come along to declare itself The Next Lost, but nothing has equalled it for quality or daring. Heroes dried up after about six episodes. FlashForward was awful. V was worse. The Event was barely even a thing. But hopefully the dry spell is about to end.

Just as writers for The Sopranos splintered and created the likes of Mad Men and Boardwalk Empire, Lost's writing team has split up, hunkered down and set to work on shows of their own. And soon we'll see the fruits of their labour.

Earlier this week, for example, a new trailer for upcoming ABC series Once Upon A Time was unveiled. It's a modern-day drama based on fairytales, but the biggest selling point is the fact that it was created by Lost writers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis. The more eagle-eyed among you will spot this by the way the trailer bellows "FROM! THE! WRITERS! OF! LOST!" in gigantic letters about two thirds in.

It'd be silly to predict the quality of Once Upon A Time based on a single 77-second trailer, but signs aren't promising. The production values seem to be modelled on that 13-year-old Merlin mini-series, and it's hard not to feel downhearted at the sight of Robert Carlyle prancing about as Rumplestiltskin. Lost only managed this level of weirdness after an extended game of bait and switch. Asking audiences to embrace something this bizarre right from the get go will undoubtedly be a much harder challenge.

However, Once Upon A Time isn't the only post-Lost project to emerge this year. There's also Fox's Alcatraz to look forward to. Written by Lost's Elizabeth Sarnoff and starring Lost's Jorge Garcia, it seems to contain much less of the nonsensical fantasy that bogs down the Once Upon A Time trailer. The premise – Alcatraz inmates go missing, zap forward in time 50 years and carry on being criminals – is still remarkably high-concept and silly, but no more silly than Lost ever was. Perhaps the hardest thing to accept will be Hurley playing a professor.

And then there's Person of Interest from CBS. Admittedly its links to Lost are a little more tenuous – it's produced by JJ Abrams, but then again what isn't these days? – but it does at least star Michael Emerson, whose creepy-eyed Ben almost single-handedly kept Lost afloat during the dark, wheel-spinning days of series three. What's more, it's written by Jonathan Nolan from Memento and The Dark Knight, and looks like it'll be a taut Minority Report-style crime thriller. Of these three shows, its Person of Interest that I'm most excited about. I've watched this trailer maybe 10 times, and I still find myself gurgling involuntarily during it.

So which, if any, of them are you most looking forward to? Or are you so worn down by hopeless Lost replacements that you can't find it in your heart to get excited about any of them? Let me know below.