With all the attention Flash Forward has got in 2009, all it’s fans are hoping that it returns in 2010 bigger and better then before, and it seems that Series producer David S Goyer believes and wants the same.

Goyer gave an exclusing interview with thehollywoodinsider.com where he talked in depth about Flash Forwards recent hiatus and how the story has been edited and changed all for the better.  You can take a look at the interview below.

EW: So… FlashForward isn’t coming back until March.
DAVID GOYER: Why?

Yes! Why?
The answer is simple. We originally planned to come back in January, but about three weeks ago we sat down with ABC scheduling and looked at what our programming schedule would be like. And I think on serialized show like 24, Lost, and Prison Break the most important thing is to air consecutive episodes without repeats or preemptions. To be brutally honest, our programming schedule in January was going to be awful. We were going to be off for four or five weeks [through December and into January], then back on for two weeks, then off for two weeks because of the Olympics, then back on four weeks, off for two weeks again, back on three, off for two again… Our first 10 episodes had one preemption; our last 13-episode arc was going to have four. I just think when we saw that, the studio and the network and all the producers looked at each other and said, “This is crazy.” We’d rather bite the bullet, come back in March, and air all 13 episodes consecutively without preemptions.

The overnight ratings for the show have steadily declined since the premiere. [FlashForward has dropped from a little over 12 million viewers to a little over 7 million viewers over the course of 10 episodes. The numbers don't reflect DVR usage, which is substantial for FlashForward.] If the ratings hadn’t been dropping do you think ABC would have made this move?
I don’t honestly know. I just know that when we first heard about this possibility three or four weeks ago, we were all looking ahead to the series of preemptions ahead of us and were feeling very concerned. One of our staff writers is from Prison Break, and he made a comment that every time their show had been preempted, it would get knocked down [in the ratings] and they’d have to build back up, and after being preempted, they’d get knocked down again and have to build up yet again—they felt like they were continually treading water. … I know for me, as an audience member, I feel incredibly annoyed when I’m watching a serialized show and have to deal with preemptions. … Our production schedule hasn’t changed at all. We’re shooting episode 14 now; we’re prepping episodes 15 and 16. We’ll have all our episodes written and most of them shot by the time we come back in March.

We recently reported that you had to shut down production to work on some scripts…
Which I was actually a bit bemused by, commenting on it as if it was a big deal.

It wasn’t?
No! We only shut down for one week. And I’ll tell you why: we were given the reins to speed up the storytelling, and we had broken episodes 15 and 16 and done some very major moves in those episodes. When the network and the studio saw the scripts for those everyone looked at each other and said “Let’s move those up to 13 and 14.” So we swapped those out and moved episodes 15 and 16 into the 13 and 14 position. In the process, we needed to take a week to re-prep.

How does the new 13-week scheduling strategy for the second half of the season affect the writing of the show?
I know we’re all as writers breathing a sigh of relief. We feel like we have all the chess pieces on the board and now we can just knock the dominos over and watch them fall in interesting ways. I kind of feel like we did when we got into working on The Dark Knight after finishing Batman Begins: we got done with the origin story, we don’t have to do that anymore, we can now hit the ground running.

So, is there really going to be another global blackout event? [SPOILER ALERT for the answer that follows!]
That may be. Look, I wish next week we could air episode 11 and then episode 12, because our biggest reveals of the season so far happen in those two episodes. On one hand, I wish those could air right now. On the other hand, they’re pretty strong episodes to be coming back to. I can give you some teases. We’ve only seen part of Mark’s flash-forward so far, but when we come back in episode 11, you’ll see all of it. And you’re also going to find out pretty early on when we come back who Suspect Zero is.

Based on your Season 1 experience, do you think Season 2 will be scheduled differently?
Yes. Definitely. But look: these decisions are not all on my shoulders. Programming is a very complicated process with a lot of influences. I wish I could say it was all me and do whatever I want.

With lots of the big TV shows getting some extended Christmas breaks (lucky them!) and Flash Forward has proved no exception with the show now on hiatus till March 4th 2010. Even though Flash Forward started off very strong, its had it’s up and downs with regard to the pacing of the show and also i have been concerned we are being pulled along for a Lost style ride, where no the answers could be dragged out so long everyone gets annoyed.

The good news is that ABC have already signed on for the full 24 episodes of season 1 but hopefully this extended break before we see the final 14 episodes will give the Flash Forward team time to tighten this show up, it definitely needs some work to be considered up there with the best shows on TV, and one Lost is all the world needs.

Flash Forward episode 10 -A561984 is not due to hit our screens until the 30th of November in the UK and in the States not until the 3rd of December so us Flash Forward fans are having to wait a little longer than usual to get our fix! First up to note in episode 10 is the imaginative title, no doubt it is the code for something we will see in the episode but it looks as though we will have to wait to find out.

We here at Flash Forward Nation have the latest promo from episode 10 for you right here so if you want a sneak preview be sure to check the video out.

This week has been so busy, i haven’t even had time to catch up with the latest episode of Flash Forward and i’m pretty annoyed with myself! Luckily i should have time to watch this later on today and will be doing a quite write up about it then, so in the meantime if you have already watched Episode 9 – Believe and haven’t shared your opinion of the show yet, then now is the perfect time to let us and all the other Flash Forward fans know what you thought of it!

So Episode 9 did it reveal any more big secrets, because after last week we already had a pretty big storyline unveiled?

With the story line in Flash Forward finally starting to hot up, we now have the introduction of a new character with Dominic Monaghan playing Simon who confronts the previously unsuspicious Lloyd Simcoe about how they think they caused the Flash Forward. Lloyd wants to come clean about what happened, but Simon has no intention of doing so, and a game of cards is played to decided how they will move forward.

This is an interesting turn of events for the story in Flash Forward, with Lloyd and Simon now being top of the list to the bad guy throne in the series, and while there is definitely something more about this, than they are telling us, it definitely ads some interesting plot potential to Flash Forward.