Fox.com: Questions For The Cast Of Fringe

The Official Fringe website has set up a "QUESTIONS FOR THE CAST OF FRINGE?" thread, where you can ask a question, and it may get answered in an upcoming video:

Attn Fans!

We’re sitting down with the cast of Fringe and they want to answer your questions!

Submit your questions here and they may be answered in an upcoming video.

There are no details on how long you have to ask a question, so get them in ASAP!

New Interview With Josh Jackson

Here's a new interview with Joshua Jackson where he talks about this season and about the growth of his character.

Fringe Aftermath 315: Subject 13

Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman discuss the aftermath of the Fringe episode "Subject 13", and how fate plays a large role in everyone's life.

Fringe Reminder: Tweet-Along with Jasika Nicole, Jeff Pinkner, & J.H. Wyman

Special "Tweet-Along" Event During All-New Episode of FRINGE This Friday

Be sure to tune in to the all-new "Subject 13" episode of FRINGE, airing this Friday, Feb. 25 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

As part of a special "Tweet-Along" event, Jasika Nicole (Astrid Farnsworth) and Fringe executive producers Jeff Pinkner & J.H. Wyman will be tweeting LIVE during this Friday's all-new episode.

Jeff Pinkner (@JPFringe) and J.H. Wyman (@JWFringe) will be tweeting from 9PM to 10PM EST, and Jasika Nicole (@FringeLabRat) will be tweeting from 9PM to 10PM PST (that's 12AM to 1AM EST).

You can submit your questions using the #FringeLiveTweet tag.

For more information, visit http://www.fox.com/fringe/sprint/tweet/.

Tweet-along with Fringe Executive Producers During "Subject 13"

The LIVE Tweet-along event will take place on this Fringe, February 25th, during both east and west coast feeds of the Fringe episode "Subject 13". Fringe Executive Producers Jeff Pinkner (@JPFringe) and J.H. Wyman (@JWFringe) will "join you to share insider info and answer questions from Fringe fans. It's almost like communicating with the alternate universe. Only cooler."

During the last Tweet-Along event with John Noble, you could submit you questions using the #FringeLiveTweet tag. I suspect it will probably work the same way this time as well, but be sure to check back here or at bit.ly/FringeTweet tomorrow for the full details.

UPDATE: The event has already changed. Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman will only be available during the east coast feed, and replacing them for the west coast feed will be Jasika Nicole!

Joshua Jackson: 'Start the campaign' to save 'Fringe'

Feb 18, 2011 10:49 AM ET
Joshua Jackson: 'Start the campaign' to save ‘Fringe’
by James Hibberd

FoxFans wondering about the fate of Fringe are not alone. Star Joshua Jackson is watching the ratings along with the rest of us. “I’m a positive person in general, but we really need our Fringe fans to tune in and watch us on Fridays,” Jackson tells EW. “We did good when we first moved, but last week we did not have a good week, ratings wise. It is going to take the people that like the show to watch the show and start the campaign and show their support if they want to see us stick around for another season.”

Meanwhile, more data has come in about those ratings from last Friday: The episode’s adult demo climbed 57 percent over the next three days thanks to DVR playback. That’s a lot, and higher than the previous Friday’s Fringe DVR gain, suggesting that more fans are electing to watch the show over the weekend (not enough, however, to change the overall story — numbers still fell when comparing week to week). Still, the data reinforces Jackson’s point: Fans need to watch the show on Fridays.

As for what comes next on the show, Jackson gave us more reasons to tune in …
“Apparently I’m gonna be a dad,” he says. “And it is like the most extreme long-distance relationship, which I am pretty good at as it turns out in real life. My baby mama is in another universe. I think he has to find out, but I don’t know exactly how we’re gonna work that out yet. I have not see the finale script yet or anything. The whole other universe thing and the machine and the war of the two worlds is obviously the end of this season. But you would think they can’t just let the baby thing fall away.”

Jackson also noted the show has gotten “very Romeo and Juliet-ish in” the last couple of weeks but says the show “will go back to some straight Fringeiness very soon.”

“We have been exploring our feelings a lot lately,” he says. “I feel sort of bad for fans of the relationship. The Peter-Olivia supporters have been taken for quite a ride. He wants to be with her, and in his mind it was her. But in her mind, he should have been able to tell the difference. But we get back to some cold hard out-there science stuff soon enough.”

We’re ready for more Fringeiness! Check back on Saturday mornings to see the latest Fringe ratings.

– Carrie Bell contributed to this report
Source:entertainmentweekly.com
Thanks to b3rt4 for the tip!

FRINGE - Fauxlivia is expecting!

"Olivia is not infected, she's pregnant"

Fox has a new video "Expecting" featuring interviews with Anna Torv (Olivia Dunham) and Jasika Nicole (Astrid Farnsworth) discussing the pregnancy of Fauxlivia on Fringe.

Fringe Aftermath 313: Immortality

This video interview with executive producers Jeff Pinkner and JH Wyman just showed up on the official Fringe website and YouTube in the last few hours.
Here our leaders discuss topics after episode 3.13 such as the recurring theme of lineage.

Fringe Exclusive:Producers Dissect Baby Bombshell

Today's News: Our TakeFringe Exclusive: Producers Dissect Baby Bombshell
Feb 12, 2011 01:00 AM ET
by Natalie Abrams
After much speculation, the truth was revealed in Friday night's episode of Fringe: The other Olivia (Anna Torv) is pregnant with Peter's baby.

As if the two universes couldn't be more complicated, the producers of the Fox series tell TVGuide.com exclusively that there will be much larger things to come. Will Walternate (John Noble) use Bolivia's baby to lure Peter (Joshua Jackson) back to the alternate universe? The sinister answer may surprise you.

TVGuide.com: Why make Bolivia pregnant? Was this your way of humanizing the other universe?J.H. Wyman: Yes. It's what the alternate universe is doing and who they are really is why they're human to us. There will be some much larger things to come, definitely.

TVGuide.com: It seems as though Walternate is going to use Bolivia's pregnancy to get Peter back to the alternate universe.
Jeff Pinkner: Well, actually, I'm not sure that's what's going to happen. It's implied that he's going to use the baby to get Peter back, but I think that the baby will provide Walternate with a means to his end, but it's not limited exclusively to getting Peter back.

TVGuide.com: Since the baby has the same DNA as Peter, does that mean it could be used to activate the machine?
Pinkner: That's a possibility. So, as Joel said, it has been our intent from the beginning to complicate the viewers' [main] interests. By exploring this alternate universe, we're trying to, over time, allow people to realize that they're not the bad guy. Walternate is the biggest victim in this entire saga. He had his son stolen from him.

TVGuide.com: Bolivia seems to really be in love with Peter, so how is he going to feel about Walternate's plans, whatever they might be?
Pinkner: Bolivia is just a citizen of that world who, heroically, like the fireman, is trying to put out the flames and is now involved in this much larger saga and genuinely fell for Peter. You'll definitely see repercussions of that line of thinking. All of this will drive the storytelling towards the back end of the season, for sure. She's also just discovered she's pregnant. There's a whole saga that goes on with that. It causes her to ask questions about herself.

TVGuide.com: Peter and Olivia's relationship is already so strained. Once this news comes out, will it cause a bigger break in their relationship?
Pinkner: This has been a year of self-actualization. People are starting to ask a lot of questions: what they stand for, what they're doing here, what their involvement is and what they're experiencing. I'm looking also at [them] going through changes that may bring their complex relationship to a whole other level. I can definitely assure you that it's not going to fall out in a way that you would expect.

TVGuide.com: Peter has become a machine in a lot of ways. Will this news bring back his humanity, or might it destroy him all together?
Pinkner: We were not trying to suggest that Peter was becoming a machine. The machine is clearly tapped into the darker side of his nature. This is a character who, because of Olivia and Bolivia,who he thought was Olivia, has become more vulnerable and more willing to allow somebody into his heart and to know him, both good and bad, since he was brought to our world. We were using that episode to show Olivia is actually getting through to him... we're trying to earn their relationship in a way that isn't like, "Oh, pretty TV actor, pretty TV actress, they belong together."

TVGuide.com: How Peter feels about a particular universe will effect which universe is saved by the machine. So, in learning about this pregnancy, should we all be really worried about the regular universe now?
Pinkner: There's always peril for this universe because it is going to start to break down like over there. I think that as the cards are being laid out for you, you're going to have certain assumptions, but our job is to make sure that we turn over some cards that you didn't even expect to see. So, right now, you may assume that, but it would just be an assumption.

TVGuide.com: Will Bolivia return to the normal universe?
Pinkner: Eventually, I think the characters will all meet up again. But, we're not, at this moment, prepared to say when or where.

TVGuide.com: Each season finale has had a big "what the heck just happened?" moment: showing us the Twin Towers, Olivias being switched... What can we look forward to this year?
Pinkner: There are always going to be big revelations, hopefully earned revelations that you're like, "Oh, my gosh. I never saw it coming and I'm so intrigued and compelled." It's going to be a big event, which will propel us into Season 4 and, hopefully, have you look at the show through a completely different prism and say, "Oh, wow, I never saw that coming."

Fringe airs Fridays at 9/8c on Fox.
Source:tvguide.com
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'Fringe':Joshua Jackson answers your burning questions about The First people,possible fatherhood, and the show's future-EXCLUSIVE

Feb 11, 2011 02:46 PM EST 'Fringe': Joshua Jackson answers your burning questions about The First People, possible fatherhood, and the show's future -- EXCLUSIVE
by Jeff Jensen
Categories: Fringe, Sci-Fi, Television

There is absolutely nothing new we can tell you about tonight’s episode of Fringe. Not because we don’t know anything. It’s because we happen to know everything, as we were lucky enough to see “Immortality” in advance. We can confirm as accurate the one thing you probably already know (that the story is set in the “over there” world, home to war-mongering mastermind Walternate and secret agent Fauxlivia) and the one thing that’s been gossiped about all week (that something game-changingish does indeed go down) — and we’re going to leave it like that.

So let’s cut to the chase: Last week, we said that if you sent us questions for Joshua Jackson, we would get on the phone with him and get answers for you. This week, we deliver. Fringe’s Peter Bishop spoke to us this past Monday during a break from shooting the 18th episode of the current season, and our conversation began with Jackson politely taking exception to something I wrote last week: My perception that the first half of the season was all about Olivia and the second half is all about Peter. “I don’t think that’s actually the case,” says the actor. “Our show goes season-by-season-by-themes. I’ve heard [Fringe exec producer] Jeff Pinkner describe the first season as the prologue. I think the second season was all about Walter — his guilt over kidnapping his child, having created the rift between the two universes and the moral consequences of his action. The third season, no matter what is happening on screen, is about exploring the duality of people in general and all about exploring Olivia in particular and offering insight into what makes her tick. I think that continues. It’s the season of Olivia.” I stand corrected.

Moving into your questions, Jackson wants to make one thing clear: “All of these answers are just my opinion, because I could get in trouble with the writers for looking like I’m giving things away.” That said, he offers some teases for what lies ahead. For example: “We have a couple more ‘over there’ episodes this year – the one [tonight], and one a little bit later. I don’t know what the season finale is yet, but it seems like an inevitability that we’ll be dealing with the ‘over there’ world at the end, too. We started the season with the two universes; it seems like we have to finish with the two universes.” As it happened, the most-asked question that we received from readers was answered by last week’s episode: Does Peter still have romantic feelings for Fauxlivia? According to the telepath that we met in “Concentrate and Ask Again,” the answer is yes. So we begin the Q&A proper with this follow-up question: Does Jackson think mind-scanning Simon had an accurate read on Peter’s heart?

JOSHUA JACKSON: I do think Peter genuinely harbors feelings for Fauxlivia. The difficulty for Peter is that he’s deeply, deeply conflicted over who it was he really fell in love with. And that continues to play itself out. He’s dealing with it the best he can. If he was being really honest, he’d have to say he’s not really sure how or what to feel. No human on Earth has ever experienced this before, so he’s trying to parse out what his feelings are and where his loyalties lie. He and Olivia have always had a complicated relationship that has only gotten more complicated this year. So I don’t think he knows where he stands.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: We know that Olivia was really hurt that Peter so easily mistook Fauxlivia for her, that he couldn’t glean an essential, perhaps spiritual difference between these look-alike women. So reader “TQB” asks: Do you think Peter is constantly flagellating himself for failing to notice the differences between the two Olivias?
Of course he does. He definitely beats himself up on a vanity level. He’s a guy who has lived by his wits and been a conman for most of his life before he became a hero in Fringe-ville; I think it annoys him to no end that someone was able to pull the wool over his eyes. And I think from an honest, emotional standpoint, he’s upset as well, because the reason he decided at the end of last year to come back to our universe – the reason he gave up his mother and his world and his family — was because of Olivia. So to have all of that thrown out the window because he couldn’t see what was right in front of his eyes – yeah, I think he’s very upset by all that.

Several readers (including Heidi and Bill in New York) asked: Do you think Peter at all wonders if he was always meant to be with Fauxlivia? Does he believe that he has a destiny and that destiny lies in the ‘”over there” world?
I think that’s being a little bit overly romantic. I don’t feel like Peter and Olivia — be she the one “over here” or the one “over there” — are Romeo and Juliet. I don’t think their destiny is to be together. I think circumstances threw them together on our side, and other circumstances put him in the presence of the Olivia of the other side. But it was interesting that after two years of being with “over here” Olivia, getting to know her and appreciating her, the one he physically responded to was the other one. That says something. If our Olivia is the one you take home to Mom, and their Olivia is… well, the one you actually enjoy yourself with. That’s the crass version of it. But I think that’s the problem Peter is having. He knows that our Olivia is — at the core — the more decent of the two human beings. But he’s much more compelled by the one over there because she’s more like him and more of a challenge and much more interesting to him. So I think he’s conflicted about it. But I don’t think Peter is a particularly romantic person. I don’t think he goes in for an idea like “fate.” I think he plays the skeptic on the show, so I don’t think he has that “Romeo and Juliet” idea about he and Olivia. I don’t think he thinks that they are supposed to be together. In fact, I would say that one of the ideas this season has brought into sharp relief is the idea that none of us are consigned to fate. You make a couple different decisions over the course of your life and you become radically different people. Olivia and Olivia made a couple different decisions and circumstances, and they became radically different people. Walter and Walternate, ditto. That doesn’t speak to me of fate; that speaks to me of self-determination, and I think Peter believes much more in self-determination.

I have a theory, one that many others are speculating, as well. We’ve be told that Peter will use the doomsday machine created by The First People to destroy one of the two parallel universes, and his choice will hinge on which Olivia he chooses. But do you think it’s possible there can be a third choice – like, say, choosing to not make a choice, or even creating a new universe that synthesizes the two worlds into one?
My personal opinion is exactly that. The “this girl” or “that girl”, “this world” or “that world” is a Hobson’s Choice. My personal opinion is that the doomsday machine and the scheme behind it are far too complicated for this “doomsday machine” to really be a “doomsday” machine. It seems really, really overly complicated for it to be just a fancy nuclear bomb. There are easier ways to destroy the universe. If The First People had that kind of power – if that’s what they wanted to do – why didn’t they just do it? My personal opinion, then, is that it’s at least three options: my side, your side, and both sides. One of the things we’ve left unanswered – something that seems linked to this question — is this: Where did The First People go? And if they were this advanced, what was their end? Did they choose to end? Did they screw up somehow? Did they evaporate into the ether? Are they The Observers? What the machine represents, and what Peter represents to the machine, has to be more interesting than just “I choose here or I choose there.” Otherwise, it’s a Rube Goldberg weapon: Why go through all the hassle?

Many readers like Ames asked variations of this question: What’s it like to work a scene with John Noble? What’s he like in real life? Is he as quirky as Walter? How many of your scenes with him are the result of improvisation?
He’s not nearly as quirky as Walter. I mean that in a positive way, and I hope I’m not disappointing anyone. He is crazy-intelligent like Walter. He is constantly inventive and he made that character what he is. As good as the writers are, they couldn’t have planned for the magic he was going to bring to Walter. What he has been able to do with that character and the working relationship we have – which is great – and the time and attention he’s willing to spend on developing the father-son relationship between these two guys is great. From an acting standpoint, the greatest joy I get from working on this show is working in those scenes and that relationship with John. There isn’t a lot of improv on Fringe. The writers aren’t big fans of improvisation. The show is so tightly wound, they want to keep it very much by the book.

Anne from France notes that when we first got to know Peter, we were told he had a very shady past, and a couple episodes early on seemed to suggest that he was being followed or that his past was chasing after him. Will that ever come back into play, or have we moved beyond it?
Personally, I would love to explore more of Peter’s past. I think there’s a ton of interesting stuff about Peter that we haven’t yet dealt with. That being said, it certainly won’t be this season. Hopefully — knock on wood — if there’s a fourth season, we’ll focus more on Peter. But the theme of this season is Olivia, so everything is going to go through Olivia. So we won’t be getting to know more about Peter this year, unless it’s to reflect back on Olivia.

Cliff brings us to the burning question of the moment. A couple episodes ago, The Observer seemed to intimate that Peter was a daddy – or about to become one.
The good news is that I can answer that one freely, because we haven’t addressed that yet on the show. So I won’t be giving anything away.

Do you think Fauxlivia is pregnant with Peter’s child?
My theory is that – like all things Fringe – it has to mean multiple things at the same time. I think it’s possible that she could be pregnant; that’s one big cliffhanger-y thing we could do at the end of the season. But I think it also has to do with the fact that fatherhood is about responsibility and thinking outside of yourself. Remember, The Observer’s comment was aimed at both Walter and Peter. So it could deal with Walter needing to let go of the son if he needs to – which is what that whole episode was about. But I think it also meant that Peter will have a father-like responsibility – that he will make a choice that will impact the people around him. But we’ll see if Peter becomes a daddy.

Now here’s a Fringe theory for you. What if Peter is pregnant?
Only on our show is that completely a possibility.

Lots of fans have been sweating the future of Fringe, due to the move to Friday. How are you feeling about it? Are you hopeful about the future?
Having worked in television for awhile, I, like everyone else, went “Ooo, that’s not good” when they moved us to Friday. But my opinion on this is this: If all the people who watch Fringe – on the day and date and on DVR – tune in on Fridays for the next five or six weeks, then the show will be fine. The way to save the show is very simple: If you’re a hardcore fan of the show – and in particular, if you’re a hardcore fan of the show with a Nielsen box – you have to give us an hour of your time on Friday night. To its credit, [Fox] has given us every shot. We stumbled out of the gate the first year, but Fox stuck with us. In the second season, they may have had expectations that we didn’t meet when they moved us to Thursday night, but we held our own. And now, while we have lost something of the casual viewer, we retain a solid base of hardcore viewers. If the hardcores come with us to Friday night and stick with us for the rest of the season, we’ll be able to tell next year’s story.

Coming next week: Jackson answers more of your questions. Will there be another musical-noir “Brown Betty” episode? What’s his theory about The First People? And why doesn’t he Twitter? Revelation awaits. And remember to come back tomorrow for Ken Tucker’s recap of “Immortality.”
Source:ew.com

Conference Call with Pinkner & Wyman

I had the opportunity this afternoon to join a conference call with Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman. I was thrilled to hear them answer my question, “What is going on with Peter being dark, killing shapeshifters, lying to Olivia? Is Olivia going to find out? How is she going to handle that type of betrayal?” I was assured by the writers that yes he would come clean to Olivia soon enough, there's a reason. Peter has reason to be more specifically concerned by what they're (the shapeshifters) are doing than anybody else as there's drawings of him standing inside the machine.

Naturally Peter's got questions and for years has only relied on himself. "He only had himself to trust but then he’s thrust himself into the situation where he has no knowledge and he’s basically reacting. So he’s been reacting since he came on the scene...he let go a certain amount of control in his life to be a part of this family and then realizes he’s in the nucleus of this entire thing that’s happened--doesn't have any answers. And this season was always going to be a season about self accutulization for a lot of the characters. This is the beginnings of those steps." The writers further go on to tell us that, "The truth is every one of us is human beings even in a committed relationship, has moments and thoughts and actions that whether or not are their only private matters and whether or not they share them with their loved ones and how and when and why, tells as much as anything about people and their relationship and we’re going to explore that as well between these two characters."

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Video: A Weiss Man - Cast Interview

Fox has released today a new video with the cast talking about the misterious Sam Weiss.

What Would You Ask Fringe's Pinkner & Wyman?

Tomorrow afternoon, we'll get the chance to chat with Fringe executive producers Jeff Pinkner & J.H. Wyman. It is a conference call interview, so we may only get to ask one or two questions (if any!), but we still want to know - What would you ask Pinkner & Wyman?

Submit your questions in the comments by noon tomorrow, and we'll try to include as many as we can! 

New Cast Interview - The Triangle

TVGuide has released a new interview with the cast, where they talk about Peter's decision and who he should choose, Olivia or BitchLivia.

Video: "Peter's Destiny"

The cast talks about Peter and his conection to The Vacuum.

J.J. Abrams:Fringe Deserves To Live Beyond Season 3

Today's News: Our Take J.J. Abrams: Fringe Deserves to Live Beyond Season 3
Jan 20, 2011 09:40 PM ET
by Natalie Abrams

Fringe's big move to the Friday dead zone has sent fans into a panic, but series executive producer J.J. Abrams says the sci-fi series will stay true to its story no matter where it lives.

But it's not going to get more complicated either. Abrams says at the risk of cancellation, writers won't be diving further down the rabbit hole. "It absolutely would if we weren't moving to Fridays," he says.

Which is not to say things will be dumbed down. At its core, Fringe is about "a woman who was experimented on when she was a kid ... about a man who might not have come from here ... about a father who is holding incredible secrets including those that mean war," Abrams says. "These are things we talked about at the very beginning.

"To not embrace that means that we will fail on other people's terms," he continues. "So, if we're going to fail, let's go down doing the most badass, weirdest, interesting, sophisticated version of a series that we could possibly do."

On the bright side, Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly last week insisted reporters not write the show's eulogy "prematurely." He said if the viewers who watched the show on Thursdays all made the move to Fridays, it would be more than enough to keep Fringe going.

Abrams says there are no hard feelings when it comes to the network's decision. "I literally have loved being at Fox, so much so that we're doing [the series pilot] Alcatraz for Fox," he says. "Having said that, I do not want Alcatraz to get a slot only because Fringe has left one for it. My goal is that they can co-exist happily. They're two very different series, but Fringe deserves to live beyond Season 3."
Source:tvguide.com

Conference Call with John Noble and Christopher Lloyd

Today was a first for me. I had the privilege of joining today's media conference call with John Noble and Christopher Lloyd. It was a very upbeat 30 minutes I'll never forget.

Noteworthy was the plug to watch an all-new Fringe tomorrow night which was announced at both the beginning and end of the call.(The Fringe Fridays folks should be happy.) Now no one in the greater US media can say they didn't know about tomorrow's new episode airing!

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Joshua Jackson returns with new season of 'Fringe,' hoping to solidfy show's uncertain future

Joshua Jackson returns with new season of 'Fringe' hoping to soldify show's uncertain future
BY Ethan Sacks
DAILY NEWS WRITER
Friday, January 21st 2011, 4:00 AM

On a recent marathon work day, surrounded by "victims" encased in amber for an upcoming episode of Fox's "Fringe," actor Joshua Jackson was reminded of why he's a huge fan of his own sci-fi series.

"You're in the midst of these scenes and the world is ending and you're trying to figure out what to do to save the universe - and all of a sudden a voice comes out of the amber," Jackson says breaking into an uncanny impersonation of an extra encased in plastic. "'Excuse me, can I get a cup of coffee in here? I'm really tired.'

"Is someone snoring in the amber? I get those moments a lot where I go, 'God, I love this show,'" says the 32-year-old actor. "It's just so far out there."

It is so far out there, and as the critically praised sci-fi show returns Friday at 9, that's been a problem. Producers are trying to figure out what to do to save "Fringe" amid a gradual ratings decline, and the move to Fridays doesn't help. It's a day where serialized dramas have gone to die.

"If you put a gun to my head, I couldn't explain to you why the viewership has gone down from last year when all the pieces remain the same. It's a mystery to me," says Jackson.

But fans are watching the show; they're just doing it on their DVR and on their iPhones.

"We're almost at the point where the classic national television model doesn't exist for young people anymore," says Jackson. "The future is already here."

Unfortunately, if those fans don't tune in on time on Fridays to factor into the more traditional ratings system, the future may come too late to save "Fringe." A show about shape-shifting hit men and alternative universes, all of which orbit around the relationships between FBI agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), Jackson's Peter Bishop and Peter's eccentric genius father, Walter (John Noble), it boasts a rich back-story that may be too dense for beginners. So it's up to the fans.

Nobody is rooting harder for the series to succeed than Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly. "It's a fantastic show, and honestly, I'd be heartbroken if it went away," he recently told reporters.

There have been cases where loyal fans have been able to save their favorite show. When CBS canceled the postapocalyptic series "Jericho" mid-cliffhanger, the network was deluged with shipments of peanuts - an allusion to a line from the show. The result? A stay of execution to finish the story line.

"The show's basic core audience would watch 'Fringe' in a swamp on a Friday night if that's what they had to do," says Prof. Robert Thompson, founder of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University. "[But] the places that air these shows don't sell enthusiasm; they sell ratings points."

Jackson believes the producers do have an emergency plan to wrap up the series' story line at the end of this season. But it would be a shame to end the ride when the show is hitting its creative stride.

"It's not that not enough people are watching 'Fringe,' it's that not enough people are watching 'Fringe' during the hour that it's on the air, which is key for the network," says Jackson. "You don't have to go to school the next morning. You can always go out drinking an hour later."
Source:nydailtnews.com

New Fringe Fridays Video at Official Fringe Website

Executive producers Jeff Pinkner and JH Wyman discuss how they interpreted the network moving Fringe to Friday nights.
Source:fox.com/fringe and YouTube

Fringe: Who is "He"?

The cast talks about who the Observer was talking about. Peter or Walter?