Fringe: Here Is Peter Bishop (Interviews)

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!

Anna Torv Interview at the Scream Awards

Anna Torv comments on being nominated for a Spike TV "Scream Award" at last night's ceremony.

Anna Torv Talks 'Fringe' Ratings, Peter's Return

This is a new video from the Associated Press on YouTube, in which Anna Torv talks about Peter's return, and her thoughts on the Nielsen ratings.

5 Things to Know Now That Peter Has Returned

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."

Read the entire TV Guide article here.

New Interviews with John Noble & Anna Torv

Here are two new interviews, one with John Noble and the other with Anna Torv.

Anna Torv Teases Fringe Episode "Subject 9"

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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.

New Interview with Anna Torv: Life Without Peter Bishop

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!”

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Fringe Noble Intentions: Alone In The World

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".

Joel Wyman & Jeff Pinkner:Top 50 Power Showrunners 2011

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.

FRINGE: Where Is Peter Bishop? (Interview)

Here is a new "Where Is Peter Bishop?" video, featuring interviews with Joshua Jackson and John Noble discussing the disappearance of Peter.

FOX Lounge: John Noble Interview (With Ari Margolis!)

Here is a fun rapid-fire Q&A interview with John Noble by Fringe video producer Ari Margolis.

Seth Gabel talks about Lincoln & Olivia, a bromance with Peter, and alt-couplings in 'Fringe'

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.

Fringe Noble Intentions: One Night In October

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 Interview With Examiner.com

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.

Read the rest of the article at Examiner.com.

Fringe: The Bridge

Fringe executive producers Jeff Pinkner and Joel Wyman, and Fringe stars Jasika Nicole, John Noble, and Anna Torv discuss the "bridge" that connects the two universes.

FRINGE: GMMR Interview with John Noble

At the Fox Fall junket, FRINGE star John Noble talks with GiveMeMyRemote.com's Marisa Roffman about Walter's new relationship with Peter, the uneasy trust between universes and more.

FRINGE:Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman on 'One Night in October' and What's to Come

FRINGE: Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman on ‘One Night in October’ and What’s to Come
October 1, 2011 by Marisa Roffman


So, um, that happened on FRINGE.

Now that both coasts have seen “One Night in October,” there is much to discuss — including, but not limited to, how we’re going to survive the next few days until we get our next episode.

Seriously, though, given the last scene of the hour, I had many burning questions about what the heck we just saw/heard. And thankfully, FRINGE executive producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman were willing to answer a few of them…

You can read the rest of the article at GiveMeMyRemote.com

'Fringe' star Joshua Jackson relegated to sidelines while costar Anna Torv takes center stage

'Fringe' star Joshua Jackson relegated to sidelines while costar Anna Torv takes center stage
BY Ethan Sacks
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Friday, September 30th 2011, 4:00 AM


Despite all the creepy enigmas that surround Fox's sci-fi drama "Fringe," it's no great mystery as to what the secret is behind the show's appeal.

It's the chemistry among FBI agent Oliva Dunham (Anna Torv), her love interest Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) and his eccentric scientist father, Walter (John Noble).

So what on Earth - this or any alternate one - were the show's brain-trust thinking when they wrote one of the show's main characters, Peter, out as he sacrificed himself to save this world and an alternate universe from destroying each other at the end of last season's finale?

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Q&A WITH FRINGE STAR JOSH JACKSON

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
By Brandy Phillips


We had an opportunity to ask FRINGE star Josh Jackson a few questions about his role as a writer on the new digital comic series BEYOND THE FRINGE, here’s what he had to say:

THE SOURCE: How did you get involved with this project?
JOSH JACKSON: I’m not sure who above my pay grade made the choice to ask me but, I was brought in when our producers where looking for writers for the new run of Fringe comics.

TS: Are you a big comics reader or fan?
JJ: Like just about every guy my age comics were a huge part of growing up. I have probably spent thousands of hours debating ‘who would win’ and ‘which powers kick ass more’ But lately I tend to read longer form graphic novels.

TS: What has it been like for you to write a comic, do you enjoy the process?
JJ: Writing in comic form is totally different from standard script writing. Thankfully I had a couple helpers to get me used to writing panel by panel instead of scene by scene.

TS: What can we expect from “Beyond the Fringe”?
JJ: From my portion of it, I hope that it will fill in a piece of Peters’ story in a satisfying way.

TS: How does the comic tie to season four of the show?
JJ: You’ll have to read ‘em and find out!

Source:dccomics.com

Fringe Noble Intentions: Neither Here Nor There

John Noble discusses the effects of Peter's disappearance on Walter in the Fringe season premiere "Neither Here Nor There", in this latest episode of Fringe: Noble Intentions.