Ask JJ Abrams Your Fringe Questions

JJ Abrams will be participating in a LIVE webchat on Friday, October 10, 2008. The chat is sponsored by The Guardian in the UK, so the start time is at 6:00PM BST (which in the US is 10:00AM Pacifc / 1:00PM Eastern).

Since they have only seen the pilot episode in the UK, your questions will need to be very general in nature. Questions must be submitted ahead of time, so submit your own questions here, then join the chat on Friday to see what the answers are.

Fringe Dwellers Podcast: Episode 6

In the sixth Fringe Dwellers Podcast, Jen and Adele discuss the details of the newest Fringe episode, The Arrival. We tried a new recording program so this is the reason the levels are a little fishy (and for the lateness). Our intro was graciously provided by John Bailey. We had a great time discussing this fun episode with a very new feeling to it. Enjoy the show!

Listen now:


You can also subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

If you have a comment or question for Adele & Jen, you can email them at fringedwellers@gmail.com. You can also leave a voicemail for them at (206) 333-0072, or reach them on Twitter as fringedwellers, or Facebook as Gene the Cow Worshippers

What Do You Think of Fringe's 3D Location Titles?

Flying over, under, by and through Fringe's three dimensional location titles has some fans cheering and others jeering. But the veracity of the latter has us wondering, is it just an exceptionally vocal minority of fans who dislike the 3D location motif, or do their protests represent a majority opinion?

What's your take on Fringe's embedded, reflective, 3D location titles?

JJ Abrams on Conan

J.J. Abrams on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, talking about Fringe, cloverfield, Lost, plane crashes, sound effects, and talking kittens.

Fringe Premieres in UK Tonight On Sky1

Fringe premieres in the UK tonight on Sky1 at 9:00PM.

Check out the Official Sky1 Fringe website, which has some exclusive Pilot promo photos, and behind-the-scenes photos from The Ghost Network.

Massive Dynamic Email

Massive Dynamic has begun sending out emails in response to filling out the Contact Us form on MassiveDynamic.com. The email, titled "Your Communication With Massive Dynamic," comes from massive@massivedynamic.com and legal@massivedynamic.com.

It's not much, but it just may be the start of something new. I think it is no coincidence that these emails are going out the day after Fringe got picked up for a full season. Bring on the ARG!

Fringe Interview with J.J. Abrams and Spike Feresten

Talkshow host Spike Feresten talks to J.J. Abrams about FRINGE!

Fringe Picked Up By Fox For Full Season

TV Week is reporting that FOX has picked up FRINGE for a full season!

The network has ordered nine additional episodes of the sci-fi thriller, for a total of 22. The Bad Robot/Warner Bros. TV-produced series has averaged a 4.2/11 in adults 18-49 and 10.7 million total viewers since bowing last month, making it the top-rated new show of the season to date in the key demographic.

“We're having a blast working on this show with this great team of producers,” said Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly. “The series has really taken off creatively, and it's exciting to see that the audience is responding. We believe this is the first full season of many years to come.”

Is Fringe Getting Better? What About the Science?

The crowd over at TVbytheNumbers thinks so. They're decidedly bullish on Fringe:

House dominated the evening in terms of the youth demos, and Fringe won the demos for its hour and was second in demo performance only to House, though the House lead-in is definitely helping as Fringe slipped by about 800K viewers and more than 10% in the demos from the first half hour to the second.

Viewers (Millions) 10.04, 18-49 Rating/Share 4.3/11, 18-34 Rating/Share 3.9/11

bob says:

fringe is getting better each week. fringe had its best episode last night, good to see it did well in the demo and hit also hit 10 million viewers, which it was unable to do last week. I think fringe will be fine, especailly with the demo it pulls in each week...

Meanwhile over at Popular Mechanics, Kate Schweitzer has filed another installment (her third) of Fringebusters, but makes no mention of Fringe's nod to fellow Popular Mechanics' Fringebuster, S.E. Kramer.

Fox Fringe: Walter's Lab Notes #4

There are a lot of allusions in this week's Walter's Lab Notes:

• Sioux City Sasparilla is a brand soft drink, similar to root beer, made famous by The Big Lebowski
• "What's the frequency Kenneth?" is a quote made famous by Dan Rather, then later by R.E.M. . The question was asked by a man who claimed that the news media was beaming signals into his head.
• The Fisher King was in charge of protecting the Holy Grail (and also a movie by Terry Gilliam)
  

Fringe Episode 104 - The Arrival

After a deadly explosion rocks a construction site in New York City, Broyles solicits the aid of our unlikely threesome to investigate a strange cylinder mysteriously found at the scene completely unharmed by the surrounding devastation...

What do you think of the procedural aspect of Fringe?

Set Your DVRs - Fringe's 'The Arrival' Arrives Tonight

Episode 4, The Arrival, airs tonight on FOX at 9/8c.

A few reminders:

We hold an open thread discussion for each episode beginning at 9 Eastern over at Fringe Episodes. As you can see, we also attach a weekly poll to each episode discussion. This week I'm taking suggestions as to what the poll(s) should ask. Comment in reply to this post with your poll requests.

For those of you who can't wait, you can catch up on spoilers for tonight's episode and brows Fringepedia.

Also at 9 EST, the easter egg hunt over Fringe Screencaps begins. The hunt is proving to be the most popular Fringe activity on Tuesdays. So much so, that we suspect it has something to do with making Fringe must see DVR TV.

For the week of September 8-14, the premiere of Fox’s Fringe had the largest audience via DVR viewing with 2.211 million viewers via DVRs. -- TV by the Numbers