the season was produced by touchstone television (now abc studios), bad robot productions and grass skirt productions and was aired on the abc network in the u.s. the executive producers were co-creator j. j. abrams, co-creator damon lindelof, bryan burk, jack bender and carlton cuse. the staff writers were lindelof, cuse, co-executive producer steven maeda, supervising producer javier grillo-marxuach, supervising producers edward kitsis & adam horowitz, supervising producer leonard dick, supervising producer jeph loeb, supervising producer craig wright, producer elizabeth sarnoff and christina m. kim. the regular directors were bender, producer stephen williams, camera operator paul edwards and eric laneuville. lindelof and cuse served as the show runners.