Support Fringe: Download Fringe on Amazon (For Free!)

Amazon is running a special promotion for their Video on Demand service, and we thought this would be a good way to show some support for Fringe.

Sign up before January 1st for the "Tweet and Get $5 as Amazon Video On Demand" to get your $5 VOD credit (US residents only), then use that credit to buy two episodes of Fringe.

Fringe Season 3 is currently ranked #34 in the top Video On Demand TV Shows. It would be great if everyone would buy two Fringe Season 3 episodes ($1.99 each) and see if we can move Fringe up to the top ten!

FYI, I'm buying Entrada and Marionette... what episodes will you buy?

UPDATE: The promotion has ended. Fringe Season 3 moved up four spots to #30 in top Video On Demand TV Shows. Based on orders placed through the links on this site, the most popular downloaded episodes were: Entrada, Marionette, Olivia, The Plateau, Pilot, The Abducted, and The Box. Thanks to everyone who participated!

Fringe Commercial 310: Firefly

Here is a commercial for the Fringe episode "Firefly" , which airs on its new night FRIDAY, January 21st at 9:00PM on FOX.

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

Screenshots of the video are available at FringeFiles.com

For more Fringe News, visit FringeTelevision.com

Merry Fringemas!

Merry Fringemas everyone!

Fringe Makes More Top Ten Lists

Fringe has made two more "Top Ten Lists" for 2010.


New York Post: Drama mama - The 10 characters that made Mama's year merry and bright

1. Faux-livia of "Fringe"
The classic soapy example of an evil twin breathing new life into the original character.

Entertainment Weekly: 10 Best TV Series of 2010: Ken Tucker's Picks

2. Fringe
TV's most cleverly arranged drama, full of thrills and strained relationships, laughs and nuanced acting. John Noble, Anna Torv, and the deceptively restrained Joshua Jackson should, in other words, be Emmy nominees, and Fringe deserves more credit for building the enthusiastic audience it has created.

Christmas Ideas For Fringe Fans

If you are still doing your Christmas shopping, and need some last minute Fringe stocking stuffers, here is a list of Fringe and Fringe-related gifts ideas.

Sadly, there isn't any actual official Fringe merchandise available for sale, but number one on everyone's Christmas list should be the Fringe DVDs and Blu-rays. 

Music lovers will also want the Fringe Soundtrack, featuring music from the award winning composer Michael Giacchino, plus Chris Tilton and Chad Seiter.

The album is also available as MP3s from Amazon, or for your iPod on iTunes.

You will also see something called the Fringe Mixes, which is seven remixed versions of the Fringe title theme song, but you would really have to like the theme song to buy that.

If you have a comic book store near you, you can pick up some Fringe comics. There have been two six-issue series - Fringe #1 - 6, and the latest, Tales From The Fringe #1 - 6. The first series is also available in a combined paperback book.

You can preview all of the Fringe comics here.

If you are a fan of a particular Fringe character, you may want to check out some of their other works. Here are some suggested DVDs featuring our favorite Fringe actors:

• Johsua Jackson (Peter Bishop): The Might Ducks, Dawson's Creek
• John Noble (Walter Bishop): Lord Of the Rings Trilogy
• Anna Torv (Olivia Dunham): Mistresses, The Pacific
• Lance Reddick (Phillip Broyles): The Wire (also stars Andre Royo), Lost
• Blair Brown (Nina Sharp): Altered States (trippy movie featuring a very young Blair Brown AND a sensory deprivation tank!)
• Jasika Nicole (Astrid Farnsworth): She's Out Of My League

And of course, what movie watching experience would be complete with out some Red Vines! 

Vote For Fringe in E! poll: Best TV Show of 2010

Fringe is nominated for the Best TV Show of 2010 in E!'s online poll.

Unfortunately, we just found about about it, and there is only a few hours left to vote, so please hurry over and vote ASAP. As of this moment, Fringe is in a dead heat with The Vampire Diaries, but with your help, it can make it to the next round!

"Ten Reasons We Loved Watching TV in 2010"

Ten Reasons We Loved Watching TV in 2010
Griping about the low quality of television content has become a popular pastime over the last few years, but, provided you view the medium with a certain level of discernment, 2010 was a great year for TV. Here are ten reasons why, in no particular order.
by IMDb-Editors last updated - 6 days ago

4/11“ "Fringe" Borrowing from past anthology-style genre shows such as "The X-Files," the developing mythology within "Fringe" grew from weekly explorations of weirdness into a romantic tragedy that explores betrayal, despair, love and forgiveness, all within the framework of parallel universes colliding, each threatening the existence of the other. As complex and creepy as it can seem at times, the reasons "Fringe" continues to fascinate us are fairly simple: at its center, it's about all the ways human emotions can bind, destroy, heal and sustain us. And thanks to John Noble's not-quite-sane genius scientist Walter Bishop, "Fringe" never lets us forget how important it is to take time out for the sweet things in life...like, say, a good bowl of pudding. ”

Source:imdb.com

Fringe Inception Trailer

Here is a mashup of Fringe and the trailer for the movie Inception.

10 Best TV Series of 2010:Ken Tucker's Picks

The Best of 2010
10 Best TV Series of 2010: Ken Tucker's Picks

2. Fringe
TV's most cleverly arranged drama, full of thrills and strained relationships, laughs and nuanced acting. John Noble, Anna Torv, and the deceptively restrained Joshua Jackson should, in other words, be Emmy nominees, and Fringe deserves more credit for building the enthusiastic audience it has created.
Source:entertainmentweekly.com


The clip above is from the current issue of Entertainment Weekly: Best and Worst 2010.
I smiled when I read it. We all know Ken Tucker is a big Fringe fan. I could just hug him.

SpoilerTV Awards - Results

All last week, SpoilerTV ran their "SpoilerTV Awards 2010 ", where you were able vote on your favorite shows of 2010.

Fringe was nominated in six categories, and made it into the top five in every one. Here are the final results:

• "Best Returning Show of 2010" for Fringe (5th Place)
• "Best Lead Actor in a Drama" for John Noble (5th Place)
• "Best Actress in a Drama" for Anna Torv (3rd Place)
• "Who was your favorite Guest Star?" for Leonard Nimoy as William Bell (2rd Place)
• "What was your Best Love Triangle of 2010?" for Olivia Dunham /  Peter Bishop \ Alt-Olivia Dunham (2nd Place) 
• "Best Episode of 2010" for Entrada (3rd Place)

You can see the full list of winners at SpoilerTV.

Thanks to everyone for voting for Fringe!

PS. As we draw near to the end of 2010, the best of list and polls will be coming fast and furious. If you see Fringe nominated for anything, let us know.

Firefly-Style Opening for Fringe

The next episode of Fringe has the same title as the Joss Whedon sci-fi series, "Firefly". YouTube user Gualcit has created a brilliant Firefly-style opening theme for Fringe.

And since I couldn't find it easily on Youtube, here is the original opening theme for comparison. If you haven't seen the original series, and the followup movie "Serenity", I highly recommend them.

Fox Executive Responds to "Friday Night Re-Animation" Video

Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly has a very interesting article about Fringe's move to Friday, and the so called "Deathslot" video.

To further combat the perception that Fox has basically issued a “no confidence” vote in Fringe, the network did something unusual: It created a cheeky promo that tackles the fear-mongering head-on, spliced with darkly comic death-themed clips from the show and even spiked with quotes from a variety of Chicken Little bloggers.

Jeff talked to Dean Norris, Fox’s senior VP of marketing and special projects, about about the inspiration for the video:

The network began thinking about creating the provocative spot after making a Web splash with its movie-style trailer for “Entrada,” ... “We started getting feedback from the viewers that basically said, ‘How could Fox do something so cool for a show they’re going to kill?’ We started reading these things and said, ‘Wait! We have to address this!’” The mission was to produce a piece of communication that dealt with the situation in a self-deprecating fashion, yet also assuaged fan fears.

Of course, the BEST way to "assuage fan fears" would be to renew Fringe for a fourth season. Are you listening Mr. Norris?

Norris also revealed Fox's "interesting" new marketing strategy:

The promo is the beginning of a larger effort by Fox to shore up Fringe’s existing fanbase and hopefully grow the audience by targeting teen viewers who might be at home Friday night. (The show returns on Jan. 21) Fox will continue posting “pre-caps” (as opposed to “recaps”) at Fox.com featuring cast members and producers setting up each new episode. For viewers, they’re a more entertaining and personal approach to “Previously on…” rehashes. Additionally, Norris also says future on-air promos will emphasize Fringe’s horror elements, albeit not right away, as the first episodes on the new year are relatively light on Fringe-style gore.  “We are trying to rebrand Friday, and what we’re trying to do with this show specifically is make it kind of like forbidden fruit,” says Norris. “We want that teen demographic that might not be our audience right now to say, ‘That this is a show my parents might not want me to watch — but I’m going to watch it, anyway.’”

I love me some "Fringe Cringe", but I'm not sure that turning Fringe into Tales From the Crypt is the right way to go. What do you think of this approach?

You can read the full article at EW.com