Fringe Episode 318: "Bloodline"

The intensity of life “over there” accelerates as Olivia finds herself in mortal danger.

Discuss the episode here in the comments.

Tonight On Fringe Friday: Bloodline

Tonight's Fringe episode "Bloodline", is the eighteenth episode of season 3.

As always, we'll have a LIVE Fringe chat. If you want to talk with other Fringe fans, during or after the show, we usually play "spot the observer", and "What's the glyph code?", plus discuss the action on the show. To join the chat, visit the Fringe chat room, enter your name or a nickname, and join the fun! (please don't use the default mib_xxxxx nickname - be creative!). Advanced users can go directly to the IRC channel: #FringeTV on irc.mibbit.com.

After the show, get more information on Bloodline at:

• Bloodline episode page on Fringepedia 
• Bloodline screenshot gallery at FringeFiles 
• Bloodline promotional photos at FringeFiles 

Also, don't forget to check back here after the episode for Observer sightings, Glyph codes, and other Fringe hidden clues.

To discuss Bloodline or any other episode, head over the the Fringe episode section.

How do you rate the Fringe episode "Bloodline"?

Official Press Release: Fringe Renewed for Season 4

It's Official Cortexi's, Fringe it's been renewed and here's the official press released.

FOX RENEWS “FRINGE” FOR FOURTH SEASON – IN BOTH UNIVERSES

FOX has renewed critically acclaimed thrilling drama FRINGE for a fourth season, it was announced today by Kevin Reilly, President, Entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company.

“FRINGE has truly hit a creative stride and has distinguished itself as one of television’s most original programs. The series’ ingenious producers, amazingly talented cast and crew, as well as some of the most passionate and loyal fans on the planet, made this fourth-season pickup possible,” said Reilly. “When we moved the show to Fridays, we asked the fans to follow and they did. We’re thrilled to bring it back for another full season and keep it part of the FOX family.”

FRINGE co-creator and executive producer J.J. Abrams said, “We could not be happier that the fans of FRINGE (and our most excellent partners at FOX) have allowed us to continue telling stories from the fringe for another season!”

“This early pickup comes at a perfect time as we start production on the Season Three finale,” added FRINGE showrunners and executive producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman. “We join the cast and crew in thanking our loyal fans and FOX for allowing us to have this much fun telling stories we love.”

Since moving to Fridays (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) in January, FRINGE is averaging a 2.2/7 among Adults 18-49 and has established itself as Friday’s No. 1 series in the core adult demographic.

The compelling third season continues tonight, Friday, March 25 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT), on FOX. In the “Bloodline” episode, the intensity of life “over there” accelerates as a pregnant OLIVIA (Anna Torv) is kidnapped and finds herself in mortal danger. As the Fringe Division races against time to find her, agent LINCOLN LEE (guest star Seth Gabel) receives some heartbreaking news as WALTER (John Noble) stops at nothing to preserve the new branch of the Bishop family tree.

Created by J.J. Abrams & Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci, FRINGE is produced by Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Jeff Pinkner, J.H. Wyman and Joe Chappelle serve as executive producers, while Kurtzman, Orci and Akiva Goldsman are consulting producers. Additionally, Pinkner and Wyman serve as the series’ showrunners. Become a fan of the series on Facebook at www.facebook.com/fringe and follow the series on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fringeonfox (@fringeonfox).

Source: Fox.com

Fringe Makes Matt's Weekend Picks

Matt's Weekend Picks: March 25-27
Mar 24, 2011 07:01 AM ET
by Matt Roush
Anna Torv Fringe (Friday, 9/8c, Fox)
This entire season has been a tour de force for Anna Torv. Doing double duty as dueling Olivias from parallel warring universes, she most recently spent an episode channeling her inner Spock — aka Leonard Nimoy — as the ghostly soul of William Bell inhabited her body for a very clever outing. (In the climax, the dormant Olivia resurfaced briefly, freaking out Peter and the viewing audience.) This week, we're back in alt-world, as the pregnant Alt-livia faces mortal danger from several fronts. It's a very harrowing hour, deserving a far larger audience than it's likely to get, tucked away on Fridays. Fox, stand by this show!
Source:tvguide.com

Vote in TV Line's "Renew Our Show" Poll: Fringe vs Nikita

TV Line is running a "Renew Our Show" poll, where you can vote on which shows you think should be renewed. Today's matchup is Fringe vs. Nikita.

Head over to TVLine.com and vote for Fringe!

Fringe Podcast Roundup: "Stowaway"

Here is a list of the Fringe podcasts for the episode "Stowaway":

FRiNGEcasting With Wayne And Dan #73 - Stowaway

On this 73rd episode of the FRiNGEcasting With Wayne And Dan podcast, Wayne and Dan give their reactions and theories for "Stowaway", and share some brilliant listener thoughts and theories, as well as Scott Hertzog's "FRiNGE Quote Of The Week"!

Following The Pattern - A Fringe Podcast - Episode 45 (Explicit)

The LONGEST Podcast Yet, Following The Pattern co-hosts, Terry and Jennifer, discuss Fringe season 3, episode 16, "Os" and episode 17, "Stowaway".

ThinkHero's 'Fringe' Video Podcast "Stowaway" Episode 317

In this episode, watch ThinkHero's Dennis and Roth discuss Fringe Season 3 Episode 17 "Stowaway" .

FBI(Fringe Benefits Inc.)Ep Review - 3.15 - Subject 13

Join Frea, Jan, Lou, & Maximus in our temporarily constructed shared alternate reality known as a podcast, as we discuss the latest episode of Fringe.

For all other Fringe podcasts and videocasts, click the "Fringe Podcasts" tab at the top to visit The Fringe Podcast Network.

You can subscribe to all of the podcasts on the Fringe Podcast Network iTunes feed.

Do you have a Fringe podcast that we don't know about? Send us an email and we'll add you the mix!

Fringe Merch: "'Who Observes the Observer?'" Shirt

T-Shirt-of-the-day site RiptApparel has a Fringe themed t-shirt today only, featuring the Observer and some other Fringe symbols (which spell FRINGE), and is supposed to be a nod to the Watchmen.

[source: Geeks Of Doom]

Fringe Discuss: How Will Season 3 End?

Welcome to another Wednesday, Fringe fans, and that means it's time for another round of Fringe Discuss.

We recently learned the titles of episodes 321 and 322, and they have created quite the buzz.

Episode 321 is titled "The Last Sam Weiss," and episode 322 is titled "The Day We Died."

So this week's discussion question is:

What do you think is going to happen in the last two episodes of Season 3, based on the just-released episode titles?

I would LOVE to hear everyone's take on this, so please comment below. Feel free to post any wild theories or educated guesses you might have, but NO ACTUAL SPOILERS.

Please remember that everyone has a right to their opinion no matter how far 'out there' it is (remember we're talking about Fringe here!).

And since this is a very open-ended question, this week's poll will be on the upcoming episode "Bloodline". Who is your favorite character from "Over There"? I have purposely left out Peter, although technically he is "The Man From The Other Side", and I also left out Colonel Broyles since he was killed in "Entrada".

Who is your favorite Red-Universe character?

Fringe Video: "A Matter Of Life and Death" In HD

Here is the HD version of the Fringe commercial for "Bloodline".

I have posted some of the spoilery screenshots over at FringeSpoilers.com, and ALL of the screenshots over at FringeFiles.com.

Fringe Exclusive: Remaining Schedule For Season 3

We just got word from FOX on the schedule for the remaining season 3 episodes of Fringe.

First the bad news: After this week's 'over-there' episode "Bloodline", there will be two weeks of reruns.

Hmmm. Seems like it would have made more sense to show reruns when you were up against the NCAA playoffs...

It also means we don't get a new episode on April 1st. :(

The good news is, once Fringe returns with new episodes on April 15, we will run the last four episodes of the season straight through to the season finale on May 6th.

Here is the remaining schedule:

3/25 - Bloodline (#318)
4/01 - The Firefly (#310 repeat)
4/08 - Reciprocity (#311 repeat)
4/15 - Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (#319)*
4/22 - 6:02 AM EST (#320) ***
4/29 - The Last Sam Weiss (#321) **
5/06 - The Day We Died (#322 Season Finale!) **

* According to SpoilerTV
** According to TV Line
** According to J.H. Wyman

These dates have been added to the FringeTelevision Google calendar.

UPDATE: According to The Futon Critic, Fringe will continue to air repeats all summer in the "Saturday Night Fringe" timeslot, Saturdays at 11:00PM.

Vote in TV Line's "Renew Our Show" Poll: Fringe vs V

TV Line is running a "Renew Our Show" poll, where you can vote on which shows you think should be renewed. Today's matchup is Fringe vs. V.

Head over to TVLine.com and vote for Fringe!

Fringe Reviews Roundup: "Stowaway"

Here are some reviews from around the web, in no particular order, for the Fringe episode "Stowaway":

• FringeTelevision.com: Fringe Review: Stowaway, by Josie Kafka
• Entertainment Weekly: 'Fringe' recap: Soul vampires take over!
• io9: Did Fringe just serve up one crazy plot twist too many?
• LA Times: 'Fringe' recap: 'The place where the mysteries of the universe get answered'
• AV Club: Fringe "Stowaway"
• Spoiler TV: In Which Bellivia Wants to Be Milked By Astrid and Peter Finds the Missing Linc, by Alex K.Thorne
• Spoiler TV: Fringe - 3.17 Stowaway Review, by A.D.Harris 
• TV.com: Fringe Does Some Soul-Searching
• TVOvermind: Fringe 3.17 "Stowaway" Review
• TV Fanatic: Fringe Review: For Whom The Bell Tolls
• BSC Review: Fringe: “Stowaway” – review
• HitFix: Fringe Division struggles to deal with the return of a familiar figure
• Polite Dissent: Fringe — Episode 17 (Season 3): “Stowaway”
• Cordial Deconstruction: Deconstruction Review of Fringe, Episode 17 Season 3, Stowaway
  
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• BuzzFocus: Fringe Season 3 Episode 17 Recap & Review: Stowaway – Complexity Still Impresses 

Have any favorite reviews, or reviews we should add? Let us know in the comments.

Fringe Review: Stowaway

“Destiny, fate. Jung called it synchronicity. The interconnectedness of apparently unrelated events. Don’t you think it’s curious we meet a woman unable to die at the exact moment my consciousness returns from the grave?”

The Theme of the Week is fate. The question of the week is trickier—how much fate happens despite (or because of) our heroes’ actions, and how much does William Bell make happen? Is he really the focus of all this synchronicity?

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Fringe Now: Alternate Universe Articles - Megaseas

The Sprint "Fringe Now" page of the Fox website has a new "Alternate Universe Article", which shows a news article from the Red universe, on one of those ubiquitous Motorola XOOM type devices.

The article is titled "Megaseas - Air pressure was compromised by unknown sources.":

Early this morning on Megaseas' weekly luxury tour of the submerged Island of Oahu, air pressure was compromised by unknown causes. The submarine had to make an emergency surfacing and all passengers were evacuated. This is the first time since 1978 that the famous two-day voyage had to suspend operations mid-tour..

First of all, the "Submerged Island of Oahu"? We know from the transcript of the Fringe episode Jacksonville, that people still live in Hawaii, so the whole state isn't missing. According to the alternate universe map of the US, half of California is also missing. Global warming, or giant quake?

Also, what caused the emergency in 1978? Did it have anything to do with Peter being born the same year?

Fringe Easter Eggs: Observer in "Stowaway"

The Observer can be spotted standing across the street from where Jim and Dana Gray jump from the building and into a taxi..

You can see all of The Observer's other appearances here.

Fringe Easter Eggs: Glyphs in "Stowaway"

The Glyphs code in the Fringe episode Stowaway spelled out ERODE.

For more information on the Fringe Glyphs, check out Fringepedia's Glyph / Symbols page, which has all the previous glyphs and codes.

Tonight On Fringe Friday: Stowaway

Tonight's Fringe episode "Stowaway", is the seventeenth episode of season 3.

As always, we'll have a LIVE Fringe chat. If you want to talk with other Fringe fans, during or after the show, we usually play "spot the observer", and "What's the glyph code?", plus discuss the action on the show. To join the chat, visit the Fringe chat room, enter your name or a nickname, and join the fun! (please don't use the default mib_xxxxx nickname - be creative!). Advanced users can go directly to the IRC channel: #FringeTV on irc.mibbit.com.

After the show, get more information on Stowaway at:

• Stowaway episode page on Fringepedia 
• Stowaway screenshot gallery at FringeFiles 
• Stowaway promotional photos at FringeFiles 

Also, don't forget to check back here after the episode for Observer sightings, Glyph codes, and other Fringe hidden clues.

To discuss Stowaway or any other episode, head over the the Fringe episode section.

How do you rate the Fringe episode "Stowaway"?

Fringe Episode 317: Stowaway

When the Fringe team investigates an apparent suicide victim, they uncover a second set of fingerprints leading them to a woman with uncanny characteristics that cannot die.

Discuss the episode here in the comments.

Fringe Ratings & March Madness

The ratings for Fringe have been holding steady. Even after a one-week break, "Os" kept up the 1.5 rating steak alive.

Tonight however, Fringe faces new competition in the form of college basketball - specifically the second day of the second round of the NCAA Div 1 Championship Tournament, aka March Madness.Normally, networks show reruns during popular sporting events like this, but there were plenty of new episodes yesterday, and Fringe will be new tonight.

There are four games that start around 7:00 and could overlap the start of Fringe: Kansas vs. Boston U., North Carolina vs. Longsland, Purdue vs. St. Peter’s, Xavier vs. Marquette, and four other games that could start after those games end: UNL vs. Illinois, Washington vs. Georgia, Georgetown vs. VCU, Syracuse vs. Indiana St.

If you don't care about sports, or college basketball in particular, then carry on watching Fringe LIVE tonight! If you are watching the games, but also want to watch Fringe, the easiest solution, if you have a DVR, would be to watch the early game, watch Fringe when that ends (possibly even live), then watch the late game on delay. However, I know some sports fans will only watch games live. How are you going to handle this?

Are you watching Fringe or March Madness?

TVLine Exclusive: Anna Torv Shares Her Take On a Very Spocking Twist

TV Line has an exclusive interview with Anna Torv where she discusses the difficulty of playing a William Bell-inhabited Olivia:

Anna Torv herself was agog when she first learned of the twist – one that forced into her repertoire a third Fringe characterization. “This is not one I had been asking for!” the actress admits with a laugh. “I was in shock for the first day, and then I think I hyperventilated, and then I called John Noble to say, ‘Can you please help me?’”

Torv’s reasons for turning to Walter’s portrayer were twofold. “When you are about to do something you’re kind of freaked out about, you want to be able to look up and know there’s a safe place to go to – and it’s there in John’s eyes,” she explains. And because Noble was in most of Leonard Nimoy’s scenes as “Belly,” Torv says, “I wanted to know what that relationship was like.”

Because she is Australian and already affecting an American accent for her portrayal of Olivia/”Bolivia,” Torv studied tapes of Nimoy’s Fringe work as well as consulted with the show’s dialect coach. Ultimately, though, she had to just jump in with both feet. “I’m no good at doing voices, mimicking people, so once I realized, ‘S—t, I can’t do this,’ you just take a deep breath and go for it.”

Bell’s most unexpected and equally unorthodox “return” promises to have a significant impact on the “machine” storyline that has Peter fretting over his fate as well as that of this universe. As Torv notes, the late genius “has a lot of information that we don’t have, so he’s an awesome resource for the team. And for Walter to have someone to work with is another [advantage].” Or could it be a liability…?

She also touches on the topic of Peter:

And as one might imagine, Olivia’s “possession” puts a pin in her nascent romance with Peter. “Well, yeah,” Torv confirms with a laugh. “I don’t think Peter is going to want to go to bed with William Bell!”

In other words, it’s business as usual for that oft-interrupted relationship. “Every time they sort of get it together,” Torv says, “something gets in the way.”

Torv also discusses the introduction of the Lincoln Lee (Seth Gabel) in the Blue universe, and how she will handle future twists. You can read the rest of the article at TVLine.com.