Showrunners Lindelof and Cuse are back to work!

The Writers Guild strike is over! After a deal made on Friday with the studios, followed by meetings over the weekend in which the deal received the unofficial blessing from WGA members, the three month and one week work stoppage is over.

The "official" vote to end the strike will be held Tuesday night, but today marked the end of picket lines and the day showrunners returned to work - and yep, that includes Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, the two heads of Lost. Staff writers are set to return to work on Wednesday.

What this means for Lost's remaining schedule we still don't know for sure, and Lindelof and Cuse don't either - but they're about to find out. The handy folks over at Variety talked to the duo:

As for "Lost," exec producer Carlton Cuse said he and fellow showrunner Damon Lindelof would meet with ABC brass today to hammer out the plan for the rest of the season. They won't be able to finish the remaining eight segs of the show's planned 16-episode season -- five is a more likely number -- but they will be able to craft a completed storyline for the remainder of this season, Cuse said.
And whatever segs are not produced this season will be picked up down the road in the show's remaining two seasons, Cuse said.

"We're going to try to make as many as we can and do a good job of finishing out this season," he said. "We'll have to compress some of the storytelling we planned for this season, and that may not be a bad thing. Damon and I feel like we know how we can finish it off and still make it a really, really great story."

More concrete news as soon as it develops.

TAGS: Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Season4, Strike
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