Friday, May 7, 2010
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Fringe renewed for second season
Fox announced yesterday that Fringe is getting picked up for a second season.The announcement was early, since the upfronts aren't scheduled for another two weeks.However, since the show is a success, in terms of ratings, the announcement wasn't unexpected.Fox also announced something we already knew: Leonard Nimoy will guest -star in the season finale on May 12. Read more!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Leonard Nimoy will guest on Fringe
According to various reports,Leonard Nimoy will guest on Fox's Fringe as William Bell, Massive Dynamic founder and Walter Bishop’s former lab partner at Harvard. Showrunners Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman revealed some of the plot points for Nimoy's episode (season one finale) to E!. Regarding the relationship between Walter Bishop (John Noble) and William Bell (Leonard Nimoy): "We always imagine that they were two of the smartest guys in their classes, and they went through the Ivy League together." "At that point in college where you're discovering yourself, but these guys, the intelligent geniuses they are, they might come to conclusions about what's important in this world. So we always imagine that they were very much like each other, very much friends, and very much a team—brothers in a way, and that life took them in different directions, either complementary or not directions, and we're going to find out." Orci and Kurtzman talked about the approaches both Walter and William take to the Pattern. "They have not only different approaches to the Pattern, but different interpretations of what the Pattern is. The Pattern is slightly in the eye of the beholder, you're going to find out. And sometimes what you think is real can become real. In a way, these two are the top minds in the world attempting to figure out the Pattern and how to react to it, based on their world view." [via E! Online and monstersandcritics]
Friday, March 6, 2009
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Fox orders more 'Fringe'
By Michael Schneider,Variety
"Fringe" has gone mainstream, scoring a full-season order from Fox on Wednesday.
Fox's back nine pick up comes as "Fringe" has so far ranked No. 1 among all new shows in the adults 18-49 demo (with several more entries yet to bow).
"Fringe" bowed to lukewarm ratings, but made a stunning bounce in week two. After four segs, the show has averaged a 4.2 rating and 11 share, and 10.7 million viewers overall.
The skein, created by J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, reps the second frosh series to get a full season thumb's up - following the CW's "90210."
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Fringe Trailer-Pilot Script Details
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Fringe is the fourth TV series co-created by J. J. Abrams (Felicity, Alias, Lost)and also his fourth collaboration with co-creators Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman(Alias, Mission Impossible III, Star Trek). It is produced by Bad Robot in association with Warner Bros. Television, and deals with a research scientist named Walter Bishop(who Orci describes as "Frankenstein mixed with Albert Einstein"),his son,and a female FBI agent who brings them back together. The show is being described as a cross between The X-Files, Altered States and The Twilight Zone.Like Abrams' previous TV shows,it will have an overarching mythology.A two-hour, $10,000,000 pilot was produced.Jeff Pinkner will serve as executive producer/showrunner.
Trailer
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Starring
Kirk Acevedo
Tomas Arana
Blair Brown
Joshua Jackson
Jasika Nicole
John Noble
Charlotte Rampling
Lance Reddick
Anna Torv
Mark Valley
First Look at FOX's "Fringe" Pilot Script SPOILER WARNING
www.televisionaryblog.com
October 19,2007
With Fringe, from Warner Bros. Television and Abrams' Bad Robot shingle, the dynamic duo of Kurtzman and Orci have created what can only be described as a millennial take on that seminal FOX series The X-Files, albeit with an added dose of humor and a taut mythology that serves as an undercurrent for this supernatural/crime procedural.
So what's Fringe's pilot script about? Good question. The teaser, in true Lost fashion, opens with a turbulent passenger flight from Hamburg, Germany to Boston. But lest you think that the plane crashes onto a deserted and possibly haunted island in the middle of nowhere, something else just as terrifying occurs. One passenger--referred to in the script as "Troubled"--injects himself with an insulin syringe pen and within seconds, his entire body begins to liquify. The contagion quickly spreads among the entire cabin as both passengers and crew members' bodies begin to melt. The plane itself lands safely at Logan Airport under radio silence. Cut to a cheap hotel where FBI Agent Olivia Warren (think Keri Russell) finishes a tryst with her secret lover and fellow agent, John Scott. They're summoned to the airport to await CDC inspectors as the plane shows no sign of life and the windows are caked in blood.
Pretty ominous, no? Things just get weirder from there. A suspicious exchange between two Middle Eastern men and a white guy out at a storage facility right after the plane landed is called in to the FBI and Olivia and John are sent to investigate. There they discover a lab filled with chemical equipment, canisters of unknown gas, jars of mutated animals and other horror movie detritus. Olivia goes to call for a chemical transport team when John spies a man inside the lab. A man who happens to look just like "Troubled." He gives chase, Troubled pulls out his mobile phone, punches in a few keys and detonates the lab. John is enveloped in a cloud of chemicals while Olivia is thrown backwards by the blast.
When she comes to, she's in the hospital and John is clinging to life. His entire body has become almost crystalline, his skin almost like glass, translucent and diamond-hard. Quickly losing hope that she'll lose the man she loves, Olivia tracks down the only person who could possibly help, a genius scientist named Dr. Walter Bishop (think Patrick Stewart), who engaged in research in the 1970s and 1980s that involved substances similar to that which caused John's condition. One problem: he's been in a mental hospital for the last seventeen years. Second problem: he's not allowed any visitors other than family... and his only family is his estranged son Peter, a genius misfit and nomad currently working in Baghdad. Olivia tracks down Peter, coerces him into helping her (there are some dangerous people looking for him), and gets Walter released. Together, this troika must work together to figure out a way to save John, track down the killer, uncover his link to Bishop's experiments, and prevent this from happening again.
I won't reveal anymore (sorry, spoiler junkies!) but suffice it to say, the above description is only the first two acts of a labyrinthine two-hour pilot. Along the way, there are car chases, explosions, secret cabals, shady mega-corporations, and things extraordinary, inexplicable, and unbelievably cool. As for the title? It refers to Walter Bishop's specialty: Fringe Science. Before his incarceration (there's a mystery there, BTW), Bishop investigated things like teleportation, astral projection, mutation, mind control. Otherwise known as things that conventional science can't explain. But one thing is for sure. Events like what happened aboard that plane in the pilot's opener are happening with a greater frequency and the world's governments have noticed this alarming trend, even coining a term for these anomalies: The Pattern.
I read Fringe's pilot script with a feverish passion, devouring each and every plot twist and turn. This is a hugely ambitious project and smacks of Kevin Reilly's positive influence over FOX: it's intelligent, controversial, and populist at the same time, filled with memorably abrasive characters, gruesome horror, and tongue-in-cheek humor. It's House meets The X-Files with The Twilight Zone and some of the British series Eleventh Hour thrown into the mix.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Lost flash-forwards in chronological order
The chronological order was found on Lostpedia.com (according to uploader danomano65)
Friday, May 16, 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Alias:Case closed & Five Years Bolero
One week has passed since i saw the series finale of Alias (which is one of my favorite series),almost two years since it was aired.Anyway,the first video is the full 37 minute documentary "Case Closed" from the Endgame bonus disc,which is included in the Alias complete collection box set.The second video is a tribute to Alias,called Five Years Bolero,made by YouTube member Chofi87.
http://www.dailymotion.com/scrambled/video/xp3la_alias-case-closed
More videos from the Endgame bonus disc
http://alias.wordpress.com/2006/11/24/streaming-endgame-bonus-disc/
