Here is a tongue-in-check promo announcing the one-week postponement of Fringe due to the World Series game 7.
Fringe will return on November 4th with the episode "Novation"!
There is a new clip from "Novation" in this video, so you may not want to watch if you are avoiding spoilers.
Yesterday's Game 6 of the World Series was officially postponed due to rain, and will be played tonight. This means that if the Saint Louis Cardinals win tonight, game 7 would be on Friday, which would preempt the return of Fringe this week.
What will happen if Fringe gets preempeted? According to the @MaskedScheduler, this week's episode will air next week. Unfortunately, that could push the Fringe "Fall Finale" out of November Sweeps.
Historically speaking, there is only about a 35% chance of the World
Series going to seven games, but the Cardinals are playing at home so it could go either way. It might not be a bad idea to start rooting for the Texas Rangers (or for rain on Friday!)
The good news about the World Series airing on Friday would be that it could be a huge blow to the season premiere of NBC's Grimm (i.e. the competition). The World Series has been pulling in over 14 million viewers vs. the usual 3 million for Fringe.
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It's Wednesday, and time for another installment of our weekly feature, 'Fringe:Discuss,'where we pose a question and ask for your comments.
Two weeks ago, "Subject 9," ended with our Olivia asking Peter Bishop (gulp!)"Who are you?" So this week's question starts where last week's episode ended: Q. How will Peter Bishop respond to Olivia's asking him who he is?
Please post your comments below, and remember, do not post spoilers here! Any comments with spoilers will be deleted. You can post all the spoilers you want in the "Fringe Spoilers" section, by clicking on it at the top of the main page.
Oct 17, 2011 06:48 PM ET
DVR boosts 'New Girl' ratings to tie '2 Broke Girls'
by James Hibberd
Zooey Deschanel has caught up to those CBS waitresses.
With the second week of DVR data in, Fox’s New Girl has managed to tie CBS’ 2 Broke Girls season-to-date as the two highest-rated new comedies. One might say this is a bit more impressive for New Girl since it builds from Glee lead-in whereas Broke Girls had that big boost from Two and a Half Men for its debut. Or you could argue that New Girl has the advantage because Broke has aired four episodes (and ratings for new shows tend to dip a little each week) and New Girl has only aired three (since Fox has sent Deschanel away until November … perhaps in search of her show’s missing The). Either way, both are now tied with a 5.5 adult demo average.
Here’s who else really benefited from DVR playback (unlike above, this is just for the second week): ABC’s Modern Family had the biggest raw gain during the second week of the season, its overnight rating leaping from a 5.7 to a 7.9 … that’s like Modern Family taking some modestly performing other show and eating it. ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy (3.6 to 5.1) and Two and a Half Men (7.4 to 8.9) also posted steep gains.
If you look at which shows had biggest gains on a percentage basis — in other words, which enjoyed the biggest increase compared to their debuts rather which ones had the largest raw increase — Fox’s Fringe is at the top of the list. Literally a minority of the show’s viewers actually watch this show the first night it airs (Fridays) — the second week got a 67 percent bump, from a 1.2 to a 2.0.
Read the entire Entertainment Weekly article here.
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There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits!
- Opening voiceover for The Outer Limits
(Much of what you are about to experience is a continuation of the thoughts expressed here.)
It was the night of September 16th, 1963. I still had a month to go before my 8th birthday and my young mind was terribly excited about what was scheduled to broadcast on the television that evening. Even at this age, I found I had an appetite for the fantastic and the imaginative (which has not left me to this day).
What I would never have imagined that night, however, is that I would continue to be haunted by not only this particular episode of this particular program, but that many of its episodes would become the warp and woof of the sci-fi department in my brain.
It was, of course, the premiere of The Outer Limits.
Here is the latest in the Where Is Peter Bishop? video series, featuring interviews with Lance Reddick, Joshua Jackson, Anna Torv, John Noble, and Jasika Nicole.
There's a few new clips in this video, so you may not want to watch if you are avoiding spoilers. Three more days!
Tonight's episode of Fringe is a repeat of the Fringe season 4 premier episode "Neither Here Nor There".
As we mentioned previously, after this week's baseball/sweeps break, we will have four new Fringe episodes, with the Fringe "Fall Season Finale" on November 18th.
If you haven't been following Fringe online since the very beginning, there may be a few interesting Fringe stories that you may have missed. Every week on Fringe Friday Flashback, we will look back and some interesting posts from the past that might be worth a second look.
Back in August 2008, even before the first Fringe episode aired, the Fox promotional machine was running at full throttle. "Science Of Fringe" was a short series of videos that explained various fields of Fringe science: Neuroimaging, Telekinesis, Paranormal, and Nanotechnology.
Networks Rethink the Ratings Game As DVR Usage Spreads
Oct 20, 2011 09:23 AM ET
by Michael Schneider
What a difference seven days makes. Many primetime shows are seeing their ratings skyrocket when a week's worth of DVR usage is included — and network execs are scrambling to figure out how to adjust to a time-shifting world.
Now that DVR penetration has reached around 42% of viewers, it's having a real impact on viewership — and making the initial next-day ratings that everyone reports (which includes live viewing, plus only that night's DVR usage) increasingly irrelevant.
For example, when season four of FX's Sons of Anarchy debuted September 6, it attracted 4.9 million viewers, a good number, but not a network record. By the time seven days of DVR usage was counted, that number had climbed to 6.5 million viewers — making it the most-watched program in FX history.
"The numbers are so far apart that it's not even funny," says FX president John Landgraf.
The fact that nearly half of all TV viewers now own a DVR is making some of TV's top-rated shows even more top-rated when all is said and done. ABC's Modern Family leads the DVR pack, enjoying massive audience boosts once the final time-shifted ratings are in. Thanks to DVRs, the comedy's second episode, which initially aired September 28, eventually added a staggering 4.5 million more viewers to its total.
Where the live-plus-seven ratings have the most impact so far is making a mess of network bragging rights. In the adults 18-49 demographic, NBC's Sunday Night Football was originally the No. 1 show for the week ending October 2, posting a 7.7 rating. But once the DVR numbers came in, Sunday Night Football was virtually unchanged (up 1 percent to 7.8), while CBS' Two and a Half Men (8.9, up 20 percent from 7.4) and ABC's Modern Family (7.9, up 39 percent from 5.7) leapt in front.
In another example, CBS' Two Broke Girls was the top-rated new sitcom among adults 18-49 prior to the latest DVR data — but now that more extensive live-plus-seven numbers have come in, Fox's New Girl was the bigger beneficiary. As a result, both shows are tied for first.
"Part of the problem is when you report live-plus-same-day and single airing ratings, you convey the impression that the scale of a show is 'x' when in reality the scale of that show is 'y,'" Landgraf says.
Meanwhile, the DVR revolution is also giving hope to lower-rated shows, as their so-so numbers wind up looking a lot better once time-shifting is included. ABC's Grey's Anatomy averaged a rather disappointing 3.6 rating among adults 18-49 in week two of the fall TV season. But the show got a hefty 41.7% boost thanks to seven days of DVR usage, bringing its final rating up to a much stronger 5.1.
Today's News: Our Take 10 Bubble Shows — Which Will Survive?
Oct 19, 2011 10:01 PM ET
by Adam Bryant and Denise Martin
We're mere weeks into the new TV season, and already the freshman class has provided some bona fide hits (hello, girls both New and 2 Broke!) But while some shows started strong, several others faltered out of the gate (RIP, The Playboy Club, Free Agents, How to Be a Gentleman and Charlie's Angels!) Which shows will be next? These 11 are in the most danger, due to low ratings, poor performances among younger viewers and other typical bad signs. Is your favorite show on the list?
4. Fringe (Fox) Fridays at 9/8c The Good News: Well...on Fridays, the bar is still very low! In its most recent outing, Fringe delivered a 1.2 rating/4 share in the demo, which isn't that far from Friday-night leader CSI: NY (1.7/5). And Fox President of Entertainment Kevin Reilly is a fan. "It was one of the great victories for us last season," Reilly said in August. "We were cheering the Friday night victory for Fringe... I don't expect explosive growth [this fall]..." The Bad News: Hmm, what's the opposite of explosive growth? Because that's what seems instead to have happened to Fringe. Viewership has dropped significantly between the Season 3 finale (5.83 million) — which ended on a mind-boggling, Peter-"killing" cliffhanger! -- and the most recent Season 4 numbers (3.16 million). Was the latest twist too much for even Fringe's most die-hard fans?
Beyond The Fringe #2: Chapter A was written by Joshua Jackson, is available now for $0.99 via Comixology.com.
Here is the official description:
Peter And The Machine: Chapter 2
Peter's desperate time-traveling adventure continues! From the lythical land of Hy-Brasil, to the rolling hills of Mohawk Valley, and on to Tibet - Peter moves through space and time in search of the machine's pieces in his heroic attempt to save the world.
Now, we really understand how crazy the dilemma must be for Fox when it comes to whether or not to keep "Fringe" -- the show does succeed in the ratings to an extent for a Friday show, but very few people actually bother to watch it live.
For the second week of the season, the drama (which airs in the TV dungeon that is Friday night) brought in a 2.0 rating in the 18-49 demographic -- up a whopping 66% from the 1.2 it registered during the live viewing. This increase of 66% is far and away the best percentage on TV -- and it's not even close. Another show airing in the same timeslot -- "Supernatural" -- is in second place with a 57% gain up to a 1.1 rating.
Will this be enough to actually save the show? That's where it gets difficult, since the people who DVR the show are not actually helping the advertisers in any way. It's really once again an issue of the timeslot, and Fox wanting to keep the show around to please sci-fi fans.
Do you watch "Fringe" live, or do you prefer to DVR it?
Whereas last week’s episode left me—but not everyone—rather cold, this ostensible case-of-the-week was absolutely delightful. The difference? Although Olivia and Walter thought they were on the trail of a traditional fringy unsub, they were really pursuing their own destiny. That makes for good television, doesn’t it?
It's pre-nomination time again for The People's Choice Awards program that will air in January of 2012.
Click on the link below to vote for Joshua Jackson as a nominee for Favorite TV Drama Actor.
By clicking on the bottom box you can add in Anna Torv, and John Noble also.
Please vote today and show your favorite actors your support!
Then return on November 8th to vote in the official Nominee Ballot.
Today's News: Our Take Fringe Scoop: 5 Things to Know Now That Peter Has Returned Oct 14, 2011 11:26 PM ET by Natalie Abrams
[Warning: This story contains spoilers from Friday's episode of Fringe.]
Fringe's Peter has returned!
After Olivia (Anna Torv) and Walter (John Noble) both realized they were having visions of the same strange man, they set out to discover his identity. Considering that Peter (Joshua Jackson) took the form of a bright blue blob of energy -- a side effect of trying to cross into the timeline -- he found them first. After observing The Energy Blob absorbing all things metal, they mistakenly assumed that it was actually a rogue cortexiphan patient Olivia had previously encountered who had the ability to project himself . Although they hunted down the subject in question, turns out he wasn't responsible for The Blob, but could destroy it.
Fortunately, realizing it was literally the man of her dreams, Olivia stopped the patient in time, though he still seemingly provided enough juice for Peter to reappear in corporeal form at Reiden Lake, the site of over-there Peter's death when he was a boy.
So, Peter is back — but no one remembers him, as showcased when Olivia said, "Who are you?" Who is he indeed? Since this is the convoluted world of Fringe, we need to get acquainted with this new Peter, so we've compiled the five things to know about him and the reality he's facing now that he's returned:
1. Peter 2.0 is definitely an upgrade: Peter is technically the same man we've come to know and love, but he isn't the man we first met. "Because the guy that we met in the beginning of Fringe had no desire to be there, and slowly but surely got warped into this, as John and I described it, fanboy," Jackson previously told us. "In the course of doing that, he kind of went from being the impetuous teenager of the show to kind of sulking in the corner, to actually being a man. And the guy who would come back to the show after having sacrificed himself for the love of his family is a different man. I think he's grown up a lot. I think a different guy comes back than the guy that left."
2. There will be trust issues: They may not know him, but Peter still retains all of his memories of them, which will cause the Fringe Division to put him on lockdown. "When he shows up claiming all these things and knowing all these things, it's really freaky," Lance Reddick says. "Broyles' attitude is that it's possible what he's saying is true, but the last place I'm going to do is to believe him... at least at first. It has to reach a point where there's so much validity to the information that he has and the way that he helps, that over time, he's given more and more trust and more and more freedom to operate, work and help."
The story telling thrust of the season narrative could be palpably felt
shifting into the next gear in, 'Subject 9.' Gone are the hand holding
moments from the previous episodes for new viewers.
The net result?
A most excellent episode filled with several WOW(Wonderful Olivia & Walter) moments as Walter
is driven to prove his worth by stepping out of the lab for the first
time in three years. This subplot was designed for character moments;
all journey versus destination, its true intent never about being a source of story tension. Olivia's decision going for or against
Walter was never in question.
A WOW Moment - Walter Teaching Olivia How To Properly Drink A Root Beer Float
'Fringe' report: The beauty of the new season's storytelling, and what it means for the future by Ken Tucker
The frequently heart-breaking, beautifully romantic yet action-packed season of Fringe continues, with the series moving along on great swells of emotion, as though trying to reach the peaks of the Mozart that Walter was listening to in “One Night in October.” This week, the hour titled “Subject 9″ returned to the series’ most potent, everlasting element of its mythology: the Cortexiphan experiments conducted more than two decades ago on “37 innocent children,” including Olivia (“Olive”) Dunham. Oh, and in part because we saw the writing credits — showrunners Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman plus Akiva Goldsman — we knew we probably were in for some fundamental shifts in the season’s main plot line, the search for Peter Bishop, and we sure got ‘em. I’m going to leave the close reading of “Subject 9″ to Jeff Jensen and his recap. (Have fun, comrade, with double-gloved Nina!) Here, I’d like to write more broadly about this episode and the season thus far. The apparitions of Peter that both Walter and Olivia had been experiencing this week manifested themselves as a blue charge of amorphous energy. Walter has a theory that it relates to astral projection, which reminds him of experiments he did with William Bell 25 years ago during the Cortexiphan trials. In this Fringe universe, Olivia recalls having set fire to the Florida building but seems less psychically damaged by what she went through — unlike Cameron James, subject number nine in the trials, whose life has been cursed. When anxious, he “sends metal flying,” he tells Olivia and Walter when they visit him, and he’s bitter and depressed about the lonely life he’s led.
That’s just one level of the story-telling. An equally important one is the follow-up on last week’s psychiatric evaluation of Walter. Discovering that St. Claire’s Hospital is seeking Olivia’s opinion as to whether Walter should be re-admitted for further evaluation, Walter is moved to leave his lab for the first time in three years. This placed him in the midst of the action and face-to-face with Cameron James, and the old guilt stole over the older man. He’s still not without guile — he tries to mollify Olivia’s questions about her youth by assuring her, “You were always the strongest; you were always the favorite.” But we are also told that Olivia ran away from Bishop and Bell’s house of pharmaceutical horrors. This is an Olivia who’s suppressed a great deal. With immense yet discreet skill, “Subject 9″ returned us to Fringe’s richest subjects: Children lost (both literally and psychologically), children loved too little and too much.
Read Ken Tucker's entire Entertainment Weekly article here.
Every episode of Fringe contains a hidden clue that foreshadows something in the next episode. In Fringe #403 "Alone In The World", Walter has a book on his shelf titled "Astral Projectiond and Other Psychic Phenomenon".
The Observer can be spotted in the Fringe episode "Subject 9" standing on the shore of Reiden Lake, where Peter appears out of thin air, and into the water.
Fringe executive producers Jeff Pinkner (@JeffPinkner) and Joel Wyman (@JWFringe) will be tweeting during the west-coast airing of Fringe "Subject 9", starting at 9:00 PM PT / 12:00 AM ET.
Tonight on Fringe Friday is the fourth episode of season four "Subject 9".
WALTER’S PAST HAS POWERFUL CONSEQUENCES IN THE PRESENT
Olivia uncovers a dangerous force that may be connected to Walter’s past experiments with the drug Cortexiphan. Their investigation forces Walter to leave the lab for the first time in years as he and Olivia head to Massive Dynamic in New York to examine old case files. Walter struggles with life outside the lab as he comes face-to-face with the demons of his past.
Discuss the show here in the comments, and after the show, get more information on "Subject 9" at:
Tonight is our weekly LIVE Fringe chat, where we play "spot the observer", and "What's the glyph code?", plus discuss the action on the show. Reminder: this season we have our own new and improved chat room at chat.fringetelevision.com
Anna Torv stopped by MTV News earlier in the week to talk about the new season of "Fringe," and they asked her to tease what's going down in tonight's fourth episode, titled "Subject 9." Though she initially had some trouble dropping hints — "I'm just such a bad tease," she laughed — she did offer a very tantalizing clue regarding how Olivia's past has changed in light of this new continuity.
Tonight on Fringe is the all new episode "Subject 9", but next week's episode will be a re-run of the Season 4 premiere "Neither Here Nor There".
Taking a one week break right now queues up the next four Fringe episodes for "Novermber Sweeps", which runs October 27 – November 23.
This block of four episodes will end with the "Fall Season Finale", making them the last four we see this year. Here is the remaining schedule for 2011:
10/14 - Subject 9 (#404)
10/21 - Neither Here Nor There (#401 Repeat)
10/28 - Novation (#405)
11/04 - And Those We've Left Behind (#406)
11/11 - Wallflower (#407)
11/18 - Back To Where You've Never Been (#408 - Fall Finale!)
Starting next week, we will have a whole batch of new Fringe prizes! During tonight's episode of Fringe, visit FringeTelevision.com and click on the: WATCH FRINGE LIVE AND WIN!
link or banner to enter. So you don't have to miss a single minute of Fringe (or any commercials ;), we will start the entry period 15 minutes prior to the episode, and close it 15 minutes after. We will have the contest post open for both east coast and west coast airings.
The winning name will be selected at random from all eligible entries.
The contest (and Fringe ratings) are limited to US residents only.
Also, Zap2it recently got a chance to speak with legendary comedic actor Danny DeVito about "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." He made a really interesting comparison for "Sunny" vs. "Taxi," the show he was famous for in the late 1970s/early 1980s.
"It's like... have you ever watched 'Fringe?' says DeVito. "It's like another universe. It's like the same thing, in a way, because ['Sunny' has] really good writing and we had great writing on 'Taxi.' We had a great cast on 'Taxi' and we have a great cast on Sunny. And we have people who really care about each other, but it's just an alternate universe. It's like a kind of a different milieu. A different whole zeitgeist, what goes on there."
Twitter is reporting tonight that executive producers Joel Wyman and Jeff Pinkner will be Tweeting LIVE during tomorrow night's WEST COAST AIRING ONLY starting at 9PM Pacific Time. So jump on Twitter and say hello to the best showrunners around!
For someone who doesn’t exist, Peter Bishop sure is getting a lot of attention.
“Fringe,” the breathtaking Fox series currently in its fourth year on television, is well known for taking bizarre risks and asking viewers to come along for the ride… but erasing one of the show’s most important characters — Joshua Jackson’s skeptic young genius Peter Bishop — completely from existence? That’s a gigantic gamble, even for this show.
When Anna Torv, who stars in the series as brilliant FBI agent Olivia Dunham, stopped by MTV News this week to talk about the current season of “Fringe,” we asked her the most important question of all: what is life like in a world without Peter Bishop?
“Well, the Olivia that I play doesn’t know what life was like with him, so I’m normal,” she said, speaking to the fact that the show currently exists in a world where both the Peter from our universe and the one from the other side died in their childhood — in other words, he never lived long enough to meet Olivia and join up with Fringe Division.
Of course, Peter did exist — our heroes just don’t know that right now. And it won’t be long before he comes roaring back to life, Torv teased, and when he does, things are going to get… well, interesting, to put it lightly.
“I don’t think I’m giving anything away when I say that the event of this season is Peter Bishop,” she said. “We’re going to see a lot more of him and how he unravels these characters.”
Going into this latest season, Torv said that she was completely unaware of the “Fringe” writers’ plans for how to deal with Olivia, her fellow cast members and the mythology they’ve already spent years establishing in light of Peter’s departure.
“They go to their writers camp and pretty close to filming, they come back, and it’s like, ‘Okay, can we talk now?’” she laughed. “I guess there’s just sort of so much that there wasn’t the time to sit down and work out which cases didn’t get solved and which ones did [in the new, Peter-less 'Fringe' timeline].”
Without that kind of concrete information, then, Torv focused on what she believed would be the changed dynamics between Olivia and other members of the Fringe team, namely Peter’s father Walter, the ingenious but damaged scientist played to perfection by John Noble.
“When Peter was there, he was very much the nurturer [to Walter], he was very much the companion, but without him, the biggest difference we see is in Walter, who didn’t have Peter to bring him out and help him get better,” she said. “But what I was excited about is there’s a little bit more warmth, a closeness between Walter and Olivia.”
It’s not just Olivia and Walter’s relationship that’s changed because of Peter’s removal from existence, either.
“There are a couple of episodes coming up where we reintroduce a couple of characters and you’ll go, ‘Oh, that’s a different relationship to the one we’re used to,’” she teased. “But I’m not going to say any more about that!”
John Noble discusses the implications from the death of young Peter and self-performed lobotomies, in this latest
episode of Noble Intentions, for the Fringe episode "Alone In The World".
Top 50 Power Showrunners 2011 by The Holloywood Reporter Staff 12:49 PM PDT 10/12/2011
by Philiana Ng Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman Fringe (Fox)
When Fringe moved from Thursdays to Fridays in the middle of its third season, viewership tumbled from 5.1 million to fewer than 4 million. This is why it was so meaningful -- and shocking, really -- that Fox renewed the cult favorite for a fourth season in March. It was a sign, say Pinkner and Wyman, that ratings are no longer the most valuable unit of measurement by network execs. Buzz can be all powerful. "We keep a lot of plot secrets because we find it's better that way," says Wyman. "If nobody knows what you're doing, then nobody can tell." Created by J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, Fringe took a creative gamble last season when it erased the existence of one main character and added a new series regular. But Pinkner, 45, a former producer on Abrams' Alias and Lost, and the Montreal-bred Wyman, 44, who was a writer on Canadian period series Wind at My Back and created Keen Eddie, are hardly ready to close up shop. "The only show we've done that said, 'Hey, this is going to be our end date and we're marching toward it,' was Lost," Pinkner says. "We hope it's a long time before that happens for Fringe."
Read the entire article and judging methodology here.
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10/13/2011 09:05:00 AM
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It's Wednesday, and time for a new installment of Fringe:Discuss, where we
throw out a question and ask for your comments.
With all the talk and promos about the return of Peter Bishop, here is this week's question:
What will Peter Bishop be like when he enters the new timeline September established?
Please sound off in the comments section below.
Remember, NO SPOILERS HERE. All comments containing spoilers will be removed.
Feel free to post your spoilers in the "Fringe Spoilers" section by clicking on that tab from the menu at the top of the page.
There is no correct answer, so please be courteous of everyone's opinions.
Welcome to the Observiews for Season 4 of Fringe. I call them Observiews because they are more visual observations than deep thinking reviews.
Screen caps are taken from fringefiles.com. All observations are mine and therefore could be totally off the wall and/or wrong. I have not read or looked at any recaps or reviews.
It is interesting to consider the development of television narrative devices. I maintain that TV today is a place of subtle, radical developments in traditional narrative structure, just as much as Victorian novels (particularly the sensational ones) often addressed the grim realities hiding under petticoats and behind cravats. Those wildly popular novels incorporated radical critiques of law and tradition into suspenseful narrative; in the same way, TV today takes radical storytelling risks, trusting the viewer to follow multiple timelines, alternate realities, astonishing improbabilities, and deeply entrenched metaphors amid chase scenes, unrequited love, and everyday travails as experienced by telegenic people.
Ratings: Fringe Scares Up Small Gain, Nikita Dips, Supernatural Holds Steady Matt Webb Mitovich
The promise of Peter’s imminent return perhaps played a part in perking up Fringe‘s latest numbers. The Fox drama, with 3.24 million total viewers and a 1.3 rating, rebounded from last week’s all-time low to gain 8 percent in the demo. It also notched a 6 percent bump in total audience.
In fact, Fringe was one of only two Friday programs to register a week-to-week gain in the demo, and the only show to bring in additional viewers.
The
show continues it’s exploration of what a world without Peter is like
and its impact on those he left behind. Till this episode that journey
has been an interesting one with the success of the journey relying
heavily on how interesting the case of the week is. In my books
translucent shape shifters and serial killers trump killer fungus any
day.
‘Gus’ was too flat a threat to get very excited about.
Pity
too because John Noble acted the heck out of the episode. So did Anna
Torv - when she could break away from the case of the week imposition.
Special marks for Jesika Nicole too.
Oddly
enough on our last FBI - Fringe Benefits Inc podcast, (which you can find under the Podcast tab here at FringeTV), we remarked it was
curious that Peter was only trying to contact Walter and not Olivia.
The previous two episodes had a definite lack of Walter and we hoped for
more of him. Both of these items were addressed in this episode.
Every episode of Fringe contains a hidden clue that foreshadows something in the next episode. In Fringe #402 "One Night In October", the author of the book "Killer Mindscapes" is S. Pores - as in SPORES.
Tonight on Fringe Friday is the third Fringe episode of season four "Alone In The World".
FRINGEY FIGURE CONNECTED TO CREEPY CASE
When two 12-year-old
kids bully another boy, they are found dead and in just hours after
dying their bodies are shockingly in an advanced state of decomposition.
As the Fringe team investigates the mysterious case, they uncover an
amorphous figure claiming more victims. Meanwhile, Walter becomes
increasingly distracted by his hallucinations.
After the show, get more information on "Alone In The World" at:
Tonight will will be having our traditional LIVE Fringe chat, where we play "spot the observer", and "What's the glyph code?", plus discuss the action on the show. Reminder: this season we have our own new and improved chat room at chat.fringetelevision.com
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(This essay is meant to continue from ideas expressed here.)
What are birthdays on the other side? It is the death day which is the real birthday.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I’m trying to tell you this is an all bets are off sort of thing. We may be opening a black box that may scrap our whole picture of space/time, might even have a link to another universe.
– Dr. Edward Jessup in Altered States.
And if I have to tell you how Altered States fits into all this, you’re on the wrong fan page.
(Don't worry, we will have some different prizes soon...!) During tonight's episode of Fringe, visit FringeTelevision.com and click on the: WATCH FRINGE LIVE AND WIN!
link or banner to enter. So you don't have to miss a single minute of Fringe (or any commercials
;), we will start the entry period 15 minutes prior to the episode, and
close it 15 minutes after. We will have the contest post open for both
east coast and west coast airings.
The winning name will be selected at random from all eligible entries.
The contest (and Fringe ratings) are limited to US residents only.
This is the video companion to the interview The Examiner's LA TV Insider, Danielle Turchaino had with Seth Gable recently.
Below is part of Danielle's interview:
VIDEO: 'Fringe's' Seth Gabel talks Olivia interest, Peter bromance & alt-Lincoln Danielle Turchiano, LA TV Insider Examiner
October 6, 2011
For some Fringe fans, Lincoln Lee (Seth Gabel) may be seen as a third wheel-- or an otherwise threat to Olivia (Anna Torv) and Peter (Joshua Jackson)'s relationship. But we don't believe you should feel that way. For one thing, as John Noble pointed out, Walter has let Lincoln into his lab-- so if Walter can extend him some trust, we probably should, too. But more importantly, it's not Lincoln's fault that he and Olivia have been pushed together in this new version of the universe without Peter-- nor is it his fault that Olivia has no memory of Peter. And thankfully, once Peter does return (which is sooner, rather than later!), he and Lincoln end up working together, too, in many ways.
"Lincoln and Peter seem to get along. They have-- ah, I hate the word bromance, but they get along well. Whatever the definition of bromance is without using that word, though now I just used it I don't think there's a competitive nature there. I'm hoping because there are alts of each person but only one Peter, that ultimately Lincoln and Peter can be happy in some way," Gabel shared when LA TV Insider Examiner visited the Vancouver set* of Fringe earlier this week.
You can read the entire interview with Seth Gable here.
DC Comics has unofficially released the B-story for "Beyond The Fringe: Chapter 1" (the official release date is October 12). The direct-to-digital comic series is available now for $0.99 via Comixology.com.
Here is the official description:
In the second chapter of BEYOND THE FRINGE, visit an alternate reality where Peter never died as a young boy and Walter never "broke" the two universes. Join a teenage Peter as he escapes his father for a "night on the town" - exploring a world very different than our own!
SpoilerTV is holding their annual Character Competition, where they pit characters of various shows against each other torunament-style.
In this round of voting Peter Bishop (Fringe) is up against Castiel (Supernatural). Also in this round is Richard Castle (Castle) vs. Kurt Hummel (Glee)
Head over to SpoilerTV.com to vote for your favorite characters.
* FYI, Olivia lost in the last round, but I think only because we found about it so late.
In this round of voting Olivia Dunham (Fringe) is up against Chuck Bass (Gossip Girl). Also in this round is Damon Salvatore (Vampire Diaries) vs. Dana Scully
Head over to SpoilerTV.com to vote for your favorite characters.
John Noble discusses how Walter interprets the strange Peter voices he hears, in this latest
episode of Noble Intentions, for the Fringe episode "One Night In October".
Jasika Nicole talks alt-Astrid, Fringe Division girl power & post-Peter's return by Danielle Turchiano, LA TV Insider Examiner
So much has changed for the character of FOX' Fringe now that Peter (Joshua Jackson) tore holes in the fabric of the universes and has been erased from their lives and memories. But perhaps one of the most significant shifts has been for Astrid (Jasika Nicole). Those like Walter (John Noble) and Olivia (Anna Torv) are still working in amplified but similar manners to how they always were. Astrid, on the other hand, seems to be much more of a lone wolf this time around. Whereas she was once Walter's go-to girl, he now has someone else for that, leaving her to be more independent, self-assured, and in many ways, strong. LA TV Insider Examiner had a chance to sit down with Nicole on the Vancouver set of Fringe earlier today to discuss the new dynamic among her division and how it will be affected once again when Peter does return.
It's Wednesday, and time for another round of Fringe Discuss, where we throw out a question to you and you post your opinions.
Recently in an interview with Maris Roffman of GiveMeMyRemote.com, executive producer Jeff Pinkner, said the following regarding the lack of Peter Bishop's influence on other characters in the series:
[Peter's] influence on the characters on the other side only dates back to the end of season 2. So things on that side are far less touched by Peter’s presence. Having said that, alt-Broyles was dead because he helped Olivia escape. So we can assume that because he’s alive, that didn’t happen. Elsewhere, without trying to set up a game, there are obvious clues and opportunities for the audience to figure out what’s different and what’s the same because of Peter’s presence. And we’re not trying to be elusive. With the things that are important, we will make very plain. And with the others that are less important, we will allow to color the show.
Today's Fringe Discuss question: What other changes, due to a lack of Peter Bishop, do you think the executive producers "will make very plain" in the upcoming episodes?
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