Fringe Now: Alt Universe Articles - Bubonic Plague

The Fox "Fringe Now" website has a new "Alternate Universe Article", which shows a news article from the Red universe, on one of those ubiquitous iPad-type devices.

The article is titled "Bubonic Plague - Blood toxicity tests indicate that the outbreak has been eradicated." It appears that in the Red universe, Bubonic Plague has not been eradicated.

Fringe 311 Preview: Reciprocity

Preview for the Fringe episode "Reciprocity" , which airs FRIDAY, January 28th 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

Fringe Easter Eggs: Glyphs in The Firefly

The Glyphs code in the Fringe episode The Firefly spelled out UNITES.

For more information on the Fringe Glyphs, check out Fringepedia's Glyph / Symbols page, which has all the previous glyphs and codes.

Fringe Sneak Peek 310: The Firefly

If you just can't wait any longer, here are three sneak peeks of tonight's episode "The Firefly".

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Songs In The Key Of September (Ode To An Observer)

Fringe fan lostboyragged has created this video that shows all of the Observer appearances.

Fringe Episode 310: The Firefly

An Observer makes contact with the Fringe Team to help rectify a mistake. Meanwhile, Walter befriends Roscoe Joyce (guest star Lloyd), keyboardist for Walter's favorite 1970s band, “Violet Sedan Chair.” Walter will learn the real reason the band broke up, and realize that the lives of these two men, who have never met before, overlap in strange and unexpected ways.

Discuss the episode here in the comments.

Tonight On Fringe: The Firefly

After many long weeks, Fringe is back in its new Friday night time slot. Tonight's Fringe episode is "The Firefly" - and it's the tenth episode of season 3.

As always, we'll have a LIVE Fringe chat from 9:00 PM to 12:00 PM ET, if you want to talk with other Fringe fans, during or after the show. We usually play "spot the observer", and "What's the glyph code?", plus discuss the action on the show. To join the chat, visit the Fringe chat room, enter your name or a nickname, and join the fun! (please don't use the default mib_xxxxx nickname!)

After the show, get more information on The Firefly at:

• The Firefly episode page on Fringepedia 
• The Firefly screenshot gallery at FringeFiles 
• The Firefly promotional photos at FringeFiles 

Also, don't forget to check the Fringe Easter Eggs section for Observer sightings, Glyph codes, and other Fringe hidden clues.

To discuss The Firefly or any other episode, head over the the Fringe episode section.

How do you rate "The Firefly"?

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

Fringe Press Kit For Friday Move

To commemorate Fringe's move to Friday nights, Fox sent out boxes with a very special surprise inside.

The box, marked "Property of Water Bishop", also has a label "Fringe is Moving - Fri Jan 21 -9/8c FOX".

Inside the box is a letter from Fox, explaining that the box is from Dr. Walter Bishop, who is entrusting us with one of his favorite snacks.

And that snack, of course, is Red Vines - a whole tub of them. Just in time for tonight's episode!

The tub also contains a message:

Please look after these for me. We can enjoy these together on Friday. - Walter

If you haven't decided on a snack for tonight's episode, why don't you join me in eating a handful (or two) of Red Vines!

Sneak Peek 3x11 "Reciprocity"

We haven't see tonights all new episode, but Fox has released the first preview for next week's episode:

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