David S. Goyer is producing Flash Forward for ABC in the US. The show generated the most buzz at this year's LA Screenings and has already been sold to over 100 international broadcasters, becoming Disney's fastest selling TV series ever.

Is it flattering or annoying that Flash Forward is constantly mentioned in the same breath as Lost?

It's a good and a bad thing. My regular viewing is towards cable, but ABC is the studio and network I chose to do Flash Forward with and with Lost they showed they are the best place if you want to create a challenging show that is more morally complex than most shows out there. Something that can be complex and a mainstream hit.

But no-one wants their show to always be compared to anything else. I didn't set out to make the next Lost and I got involved with Flash Forward eight years ago, before Lost was around.

How challenging is it to make a show that people will want to return to week after week?

TV can do serialised drama in a way that film can't. There are a lot of storylines and eleven regular characters, but we want it to die-hard fans and make it friendly enough so that a viewer can drop in and not be lost.

You've said there's a three-season story arc - was that always the plan?

Actually, there's more of a five-season plan, I fleshed out the first to the fifth season to the network. I've been asked 'what's the minimum length to do it in?' and said three, but it