There have been new episodes of scripted shows on all month.

I don't see how this once interesting, now weak show has any watchers left at all. No television programming is so compelling as to hold my interest through all the jerking around that the producers have inflicted upon the watchers. I abandoned it after the first hiatus.

There is only 1 hour (including commercials) of new content airing next week. The 2-hour season 3 finale is on Wed night. On Thursday night, the 1 hour Season 4 premier follows a 1 hour clip show.

@milesfromnowhere: I blame the network execs and their dumbass kowtowing to a few idots who couldn't handle some reruns. Like shows with continuing stories haven't been aring with occassional reruns for decades. "Ow my head! I'm so confused by seeing a previously aried episode! How am i going to make sense of the new episode next week!?!".

The resulting schedule chaos and mid-season hiatus shook off lots of viewers who got interested in other things. Plot development problems were also intorduced by the stupid mid-season hiatus crap. And now the end of January season start will have allowed so much time to pass since the last season that even people who loved the show barely care at thsi point.

Do we know how many scripts they have in the can for this season? Or, in other words, how many episodes are we going to get before we get jerked around again?

You guys know that the first hour is a clip show, and not the actual premiere, right?

I believe there are 8 that have been finished.

@Silverfuture: Eight. Got it.

This show can jerk me around all it wants.

@milesfromnowhere: I'm more suprised at the fact that someone is commenting on something they no longer watch or know about. There has been many ups and many downs to LOST but overall its been very good. It lost some of its mojo in the third season but picked up strong towards the end. Your opinion would be much more valid if you at least experienced the rest of the show, good or bad as it may be.

LOST IS BACK! LOST IS BACK!LOST IS BACK!

@Chongo: I guess what I mean to say is that in general I am a very fickle tv viewer. Lost is just a specific case. I will not look at tv just for the sake of looking. I have enough other things going on in my world that a show has to be fairly extraordinary, strictly in my opinion mind you, for me to continue watching past a hiatus followed by repeats and throwaway episodes that reprise the story thus far because the producers think we're too stupid to remember back before the hiatus. Weak stories and tired old cliches will kill my interest pretty quickly too.

I'll stay lost.

I gave up after the first season, for good reason. After a few episodes with actual 'story' I've been jerked around with all sorts of deus ex machina plot devices and "let's introduce a new character on the most pathetically weak of premises..." that seemed intriguing until you figured out that the writers didn't have a clue what they were doing... it's no wonder they went on strike.

OK, that was a cheap shot, which doesn't change my point that Lost is simply Koolaid that you either choose to drink or don't. As I said, I choose not.

@milesfromnowhere: Amen. Just like reading a novel that starts out strong then starts tanking, I'll probably soldier on to the conclusion since it will probably only take a few more hours, bu asking me to spend hours of my life over an extended period of time on a story that may or may not be a waste of time is something I won't do.