Even though the hit ABC series "Lost" has only just finished its second season, the writers have been giving fans a heads-up on what to expect when Season 3 begins in the Fall. No doubt there will be many surprises in store, but one thing viewers can anticipate is more romance, according to SciFi Wire.

"I'm excited about love in Season 3," executive producer Bryan Burk said. "Don't forget now the people have been on the island for 60-plus days. They're now obviously more familiar with each other. The concept of love [is there], and it weaves its way through all of our characters. It's going to be much more prevalent in season three."

Some new characters and the mysterious Others will also have a major influence on developments in Season 3, said executive producer Carlton Cuse. At the end of the second season the Others had captured Jack (played by Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and Sawyer (Josh Holloway).

"The Others are an important part of Season 3, and there's a lot of mysteries and a lot of questions about the Others that the audience is going to be curious about going into Season 3," Cuse said. "And those are the things we're going to explore."

Viewers can expect to see more of Henry Gale (played by Michael Emerson) and Penelope Widmore (Sonya Walger), Cuse said. Both were added to the cast in Season 2. Despite the introduction of new characters, however, Burk said that the show is still going in the direction the producers had always anticipated.

"The details are changing on this, and new characters that we hadn't thought about are here, but what's fun is kind of the whole big journey is still kind of where we had originally talked about it," said Burk. "And it feels as I had always said from day one, when I was doing interviews in season one, I kept saying that the show doesn't really start kicking in for me until seasons two and three. Somebody smarter than me recently said in a TV Guide letter, 'If you think you're still watching a show about people who crashed on an island, you're watching another show.' There's a lot going on, and as we move forward, we're getting deeper into the center of the onion."

New episodes of "Lost" begin in the Fall. The second season will be released on DVD in North America on October 3, according to TVShowsOnDVD.