Lost season 5 and Battlestar season 4 part two

Come January 2009 two of my favourite TV programmes will be literally exploding back on to our screens again. Lost and Battlestar Galactica.

Lost will enter it's fifth season in the US on January 21st, 2008 with a special three hour event that will start off with an hour long recap special which will be followed by the season’s first two episodes broadcast back-to-back. With an almighty cliffhanger from season four still hanging over our heads, season 5 has to be the most highly anticipated season so far. Word on the Internet is that character Anna Lucia will return, albeit for one episode, along with doomed brother and sister Boon Carlyle and Shannon Rutherford. I can't wait for this new run, but unfortunately I'll have to...

Although Lost has alienated a lot of it's viewers over the last few seasons (those who just couldn't rap their brains around the labyrinthine plot) it has always kept my interest and just watching the promo for season 5 below gives me goosebumps.

Here's the teaser for season 5

The second half of Battlestar Galactica season 4 (consisting of 10 episodes) will begin airing in the US on January 16th, 2009. Some of these episodes will run longer than the traditional episode with the series finale possibly running for up to four hours. Hopefully these final episodes will answer a myriad of questions posed recently including: Who is the 5th and final Cylon, what happened to Kara Thrace (Starbuck) when she disappeared, what is Baltar's destiny, who's in who's head out of Six and Baltar, what are the repercussions of Six's actions with the "Toasters", what happened on the Earth our heroes found at the end of the first half of season 4 and finally would Cylon Six ever considering marry me?... Er, scratch the last one...

Here's a trailer for season 4 which should re-cap some major story threads or those of you that have forgotten what's been going on.