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At Last! Astrid Featured In Friday’s New Fringe!

Posted by   on January 31, 2012 · 0 comments

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It took until halfway through season four, but the creative team of fringe has finally produced an Astrid episode – and it looks like an amazing hour!

Jasika Nicole talks about the ep and how the treatment script affect her – and the cast talks about the experience of filming the scene where the two Astrids meet.

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FOX Reveals Its Mid-Season Schedule!

Posted by   on December 1, 2011

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FOX’s mid-season schedule is out and Fringe fans everywhere will be relieved – as will fans of the once-canceled Breaking In. Both shows are present on the new schedule – which included some big names in new dramas, too.

J.J. Abrams’ Alcatraz will have its two-hour premiere on January 16th and will then move to its regular timeslot following House. Tim Kring’s Touch will take over the post-House slot March 19th. Bones spinoff The Finder debuts on January 12th, following an encore episode of of its parent series.

Animated series Napoleon Dynamite joins FOX’s Sunday Animation Domination on January 15th.

For the complete press release – and FOX mid-season schedule – follow the jump.

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Fringe: Stephen Root On Fringe, Fierce Fans, And Working With His Wife For The First Time!

Posted by   on November 10, 2011

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When Stephen Root appears on this week’s episode of Fringe [Fox, Fridays, 9/8C], it will mark the first time he’s appeared onscreen in film or TV with his real life wife, Romy Rosemont.

He spoke to a group of bloggers earlier this week and talked about that experience, as well as his love for science fiction – and why so many projects he’s worked on have such fierce fans.

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Fringe This Week: Peter’s Back – Let The Fun Begin!

Posted by   on November 1, 2011

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Executive Producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman talk about the impact Peter’s return will have on the rest of the season.

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PREVIEW of Grimm on NBC

Posted by   on October 27, 2011 · 1 comment

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The good news is that supernatural-themed sci-fi dramas have been making a comeback on broadcast TV, which is terrific for those of us who want to avoid the constant onslaught of reality series and even more standard cop dramas.  The bad news is that NBC decided to make a bonehead move and schedule their new series GRIMM opposite two other already established shows within the same genre, CW’s  “Supernatural”  and FOX’s  “Fringe.”   Considering that the pool of viewers usually drawn to such shows is already rather small and currently fractured between  Supernatural  and  Fringe,  adding a third player into this mix makes no sense at all. Rather than trying to fracture the small pool even further, it would have made more sense to capture a greater sample of this genre’s available viewers by scheduling opposite, well, anything else the rest of the week that isn’t sci-fi!

The premise of GRIMM puts a new twist on the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm by having a homicide detective learn that he is a descendant of a group of hunters known as “grimms” whose job is to keep humanity safe from the supernatural creatures of the world living among us.  The addition of the supernatural element certainly puts a twist on the typical cop procedural show.  The real Brothers Grimm created their fairytales in the early 1800s.  While we are certainly familiar with the cleaned up versions of Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, The Princess and the Frog, Hansel and Gretel, and Rapunzel (to name a few), many of these original tales had dark, gruesome and macabre elements.  It is this scary element that GRIMM will be trying to capture.

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Fringe’s Executive Producers, Talk to Eclipse – Promise Adventurous Storytelling In Season Four

Posted by   on September 22, 2011

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Fans of Fringe [premiering on Fox tonight at 10/9C] are among the fiercest around, hence Fox giving the show a fourth season – even if it’s on Friday nights and faces stiff competition from The CW’s supernatural and NBC’s Grimm. It will take a lot of imagination and vision to face down those odds – especially since they disappeared the show’s male lead, Peter Bishop, in last season’s finale.

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to take part in a conference call Q&A with Fringe’s executive producers, Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman, who talked about the upcoming season. They sounded excited by the challenges they face this year, and promised more of the adventurous storytelling for which the show has become known.

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TELEVISION: Rejoice Skiffy Fans! FRINGE Renewed For Third Season!

Posted by   on March 6, 2010

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Fox TV has given TV’s second-best sci fi series [behind only Lost] the thumbs up for a third season, according to Entertainment Weekly’s Lynette Rice.

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The series which averages under eight million viewers per week has still managed to give Fox a presence its new timeslot on Thursdays – and the network is showing its appreciation for both the high-quality series and its fervent fan base [kind of like they did with Dollhouse, only with a series that has better than three times as many viewers].

Maybe we’ve reached a tipping point where quality and economics and audience can co-exist – after all, NBC renewed Chuck, this season, which has a similarly-sized audience. Two shows might not seem like a trend, but with TV’s increasingly fragmented audience, they could be enough.

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