'Lost' producer ready for action

Lost executive producer Carlton Cuse has said his team is ready to make episodes quickly to try to fit in five more this season.

Cuse said he was looking forward to returning after striking with the Writers Guild of America but that his team faced hard work.

They are aiming to make five more shows though the series will still be three short of the planned run.

He said: "We're going to have to hit the ground running, go from zero to 100 mph in a matter of days to make as many episodes as possible. We will have to condense some stories."

Cuse said the internet had enabled writers to keep up with the details of WGA negotiations. Of meetings on Saturday that appear to have hailed the end of the action he said: "It was incredible. It was so gratifying to see that at the end of the strike, we were still united as a guild despite all the talk that writers are hellbent ideologues who can't understand a complex deal."