Fringe Commercial #2 for Season 3 Premiere: Olivia

"Two worlds are about to collide"

Here is another commercial for the Fringe season 3 premiere episode "Olivia", which airs Thursday, September 23 on FOX.

Head over to the FringeTelevision YouTube channel (and click the "pop out" button) to watch it in full-sized HD.

Scans of Sci Fi Now Magazine

Now its time for SciFiNow Magazine to give us some spoilers about season 3 and interviews with the cast.

Source: FringeItalia

Latest Fringe Commercial - Now in HD

Here is the latest Fringe commercial in glorious HD, featuring new scenes from the Season 3 premiere episode "Olivia", which premiers on Thursday, September 23.

Head over to the FringeTelevision YouTube channel (and click the "pop out" button) to watch it full size HD.

NEW! Fringe Promo!

Jackson: "I don't want a 'Fringe' romance"

While many fans of FOX's sci-fi series Fringe might be wanting a romance between main characters Olivia Dunham and Peter Bishop, actor Joshua Jackson has stated that he would rather the relationship stay platonic.

Jackson, 32, who plays Peter, told IGN that he would rather Peter and Olivia stay just friends, forming the brother-sister relationship that pervaded for most of the show's first season (albeit with the obvious sexual tension).

"I always thought that dynamic was more interesting," he said. "I think this bizarre little family unit we have – crazy daddy, overachieving daughter and layabout, good-for-nothing son – was a really odd thing to put at the heart of a science fiction show."

Jackson's opinion is directly in contrast to costar Anna Torv (Olivia), who has stated that she wants the relationship to happen, though she isn't sure if it will. "We haven't yet committed ourselves to any sort of romantic relationship," Jackson clarified, talking about the pair's kiss from "Over There, Part 2."

But Jackson's opinion is certainly more than selfish. He's afraid that Peter and Olivia hooking up would ultimately damage the show. "I'm of the opinion that once you go there, you jump the shark. It's the build up, it's the anticipation, it's the tension, without ever consummating or making that happen. I'm always of the opinion that once you go there, you've done real damage to your show."

It'll be hard-running to get the two together, though. It seems as though, with Olivia being trapped in the alternate universe and her doppelgänger posing as her in this universe, a romance might be brewing between Peter and Olivia — just with the wrong Olivia. In fact, that's such a great story opportunity that the writers will be amiss not to go in that direction.

Fringe, which has been renewed for a third season, will return to FOX on September 23 with the premiere episode "Olivia."

Source: TV Overmind

Fringe Summer Special Repeats and Season 3 Premiere

Fox has just released the Fringe schedule that will run us right up to the season 3 premier. The "summer special repeat run" will kick off  Thursday, August 26 with the Fringe episode "White Tulip", and run until the Fringe Season 3 premiere "Olivia" on September 23rd. Here's the schedule:

• Thursday, Aug. 26 - “White Tulip”
• Thursday, Sept. 2 - “The Man from the Other Side”
• Thursday, Sept. 9 - “Northwest Passage”
• Thursday, Sept. 16 - “Over There, Part One” & “Over There, Part Two”
• Thursday, Sept. 23 - Season Three Premiere “Olivia”

You can also find all episode dates, and other important Fringe events in the Fringe US Calendar Google app, over on the right.

New Interview With Jasika Nicole

Jasika Nicole spoke to Ausiello on the red carpet of the TCA, and gave us some really good spoilers about season 3:

Extended Fringe Promo: 'The Thrill is On'

New Fringe Promo: "The Thrill is On"

Fringe and Bones together again for a fantastic new promo. No new scenes.

Video: The Cast Talk about Season 3

Here´s a interview with the main Cast of Fringe where they share their opinion about their alternate characters.

Interview With Jasika Nicole

The always lovely Jasika Nicole spoke to USAWeekend about the third season of Fringe, and told us about what is comming for Astrid and Altstrid.

The Interview may contain mild spoilers...

Alternate worlds are going to be an even larger aspect of the Fox sci-fi series Fringe when the show returns for a third season on Sept. 23. That means playing a totally different character for most of the cast, including Jasika Nicole. She worried in the beginning about how long her role, a junior federal agent named Astrid Farnsworth, would hang around. “I still take the PDF file and I search for Astrid and I make sure she doesn’t die. You never know!” she says. But her patience has paid off over that slow build, getting to play both Astrid in our world and the very cold and enigmatic Astrid of the alternate universe. She talked at Comic-Con last week about the differences between those characters and what family member she looked to for inspiration for alterna-Astrid, so read below for her thoughts.

When the third season opens, Nicole says, the loyal and warm Astrid we’ve seen for a couple years now will have a closer bond than ever with Walter Bishop (John Noble), since he’s lost the support system he’s had because of the revelations to his son Peter (Joshua Jackson) and FBI Agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv). She also says we’ll get to see Astrid’s home this season. “Her apartment is like a hippie den, and she’s got like eight rugs on the floor and all these lamps and rich colors. I would never have known her apartment looked like that,” Nicole says, laughing.

This year, though, she has a whole other character to talk about with the alternate-universe Astrid. Viewers had a chance to meet her in her beret and combat boots briefly in the May season finale, but they’ll see a whole lot more starting in September. “She’s tricky but she’s really cool. She’s so guarded that it’s a little bit easy to play her because I don’t have to relate to anybody. It’s like performing monologues, which is an interesting thing to do in a television show,” Nicole says.

“It’s really just playing a completely different charter, almost in a different show. The alternate universe is so different — none of the characters she interacts with are the same. It’s like doing a regional theater show for summer stock where you’re doing seven different shows at the same time, and you’re rehearsing one show during the day and performing another one at night.”

Nicole’s favorite aspect of playing alterna-Astrid is that she doesn’t make eye contact with anyone, something only sharp-eyed viewers aw in the season finale. “She speaks toward them and she’ll look at them, but not when she’s speaking,” Nicole explains. “That’s really funny to play because people get uncomfortable when I’m doing that in a scene. She doesn’t really respond to their facial expressions or what they’re doing. She’s not interested in that. She’s only interested in relaying the information that she has for them.

“That was something my sister does that I always thought was really interest. She’s not quite as high functioning as Asperger’s, and that was one of the first things that we knew that something was up with her: She would talk to you looking at the side of you, and then she would look at you, and then when she’d start talking again, she would look away. We just thought it was a quirky thing, and come to find out that’s one of many, many different things that kids who have autism tend to get. I’m trying to not incorporate everything about my sister, but just things that I know really well to take from my own experience and put into alternate Astrid.”

Source: USAWeekend

Fringe: The Next Chapter

Akiva Goldsman, John Noble, Leonard Nimoy, Blair Brown, Lance Reddick, and Jasika Nicole discuss the season 2 finale, and what's to come in season 3

Fringe Renewed for Third Season

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Fringe has been picked up for a third season, despite the tough competition:

The show isn’t exactly blowing the roof off of Nielsen — it’s been averaging just 7.6 million viewers and is ranked No. 50 in the all-important adults 18-49 demographic this season — it managed to survive in a tough new time period on Thursdays.

Read the official press release after the jump:

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