ABC has started to put up the weekly mobisodes leading up to the season premiere in February:

Lost - Missing Pieces Home - ABC.com

I don't know if the WGA strike will affect these mini eps, but according to Lindelof and Cuse, they managed to get the first 8 full episodes written and production will continue until 4.08 is completed. What happens then ....

I want LOST back.

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Sam: About a week ago I accidentally slept with a prostitute.
Toby: Really?
Sam: Yes.
Toby: You accidentally slept with a prostitute?
Sam: Call girl.
Toby: Accidentally?
Sam: Yes.
Toby: I don't understand. Did you trip over something?

I think that they said that it will be a short season...which sucks ass. I love Lost.

The next three seasons are only supposed to be 16 episodes each, running Feb-May each year, with the series finale in May 2010.

If the strike isn't resolved, they will only have 8 eps for season 4. Yes, it sucks major ass.

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Sam: About a week ago I accidentally slept with a prostitute.
Toby: Really?
Sam: Yes.
Toby: You accidentally slept with a prostitute?
Sam: Call girl.
Toby: Accidentally?
Sam: Yes.
Toby: I don't understand. Did you trip over something?

hopefully, they will still get in the last eight somehow somewhere, before the are required to move on to season5.

so maybe somehow we will get the full 48 for the rest of the series, as opposed to just 40....? wishful thinking? or sense-making?

I have to admit that the first time I read that, I felt like I was about to cry.
...and I’m still kind of angry at the writers for killing Mikhail.