'FlashForward' Flashes On Without Creators

Despite penning a whole season of events last summer, down to a pivotal scene in the season finale set to air 10 months later, original FlashForward creators Marc Guggenheim and David S. Goyer will not return with the show this Thursday.

Guggenheim left the show in October, and Goyer, who co-wrote The Dark Knight, left in February to focus on new Batman and Superman movies.

Despite a new helm of people in charge, actor Jack Davenport isn’t worried about the show or its fate.

“It’s not as if David left the building with the end of his series in his head,” Davenport said in a phone interview with Wired. “There’s a building full of talented writers who have been working on the show as long as he has. When David went off to do other things, the bible of the show, the mythology, whatever you want to call it, did not exit the property with him.”

Davenport plays the character of Lloyd Simcoe, a physicist who is involved in a potential love triangle seen during the catastrophic global blackout that started the show off. The premise of the show has to do with what everyone saw during the few minutes they were all blacked out.

The overall theme of the show is one that depicts the fight between free will and fate. The mix of soap opera fiction, sci-fi machinations and conspiracy thriller elements that combined to make this theme possible resulted in an incredibly strong start for the show last fall, but it had already lost viewers by the time it took a break in late November.

FlashForward returns to ABC Thursday night with 12 new episodes after a three-month hiatus.