Lost filming to Start 10th March

As writing for film and television resumes across Hollywood's post-strike landscape, production on Lost has fired up again in the Islands.

Although the writers' strike ended a few weeks ago, the cast of castaways won't step in front of cameras until March 10 — just 10 days before the scheduled air date of the last completed episode.
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Filming stalled last fall when TV writers went on strike. That left ABC with just eight of 16 episodes planned for a season that started in January.

ABC now plans to film only five more episodes for this season, a network spokesman said. The new episodes begin airing April 24.

But that means fans must endure a four-week cliffhanger, beginning March 20.

ABC said writers are hard at work in Hollywood and crew members began returning to work in Hawaii last week.

The network employed 240 production people in Hawaii when the strike started, and many are being brought back, ABC said.

It's good news for an industry that spent a record $200 million in Hawaii last year.

While local film officials do not have numbers for the economic impact of the strike, or the economic effect of idling production crew members from Lost, they are definitely happy the labor troubles are over, said Walea Constantinau, film commissioner in the Honolulu Film Office.

"It certainly made an impact to us, because we had such a big show," she said. "A lot of people who worked on that show felt it."

Source: Tennessean.com