Will Emmy voters slap 'Fringe' star John Noble again?

The LA Times has a small piece about John Noble's chances for Emmy nomination:

For three years, television critics and sci-fi fans have been championing John Noble for his impressively creepy work as a mad scientist on "Fringe," which recently received a fourth-season pick-up from Fox. But why hasn't he even been nominated for TV's highest honor -- Emmy?

The answer may be Emmys' long-standing bias against fantasy fare, but other stars have surmounted that in the past. Terry O'Quinn and Michael Emerson, for instance, have each recently claimed the same Emmy category of supporting drama actor for "Lost."
Now there are hopeful signs that Noble may be taken more seriously as an Emmy candidate this year.

He's received more than 7,700 votes in a Facebook Emmy campaign and he just won the Critics' Choice Television Award. He claimed that prize Monday, which was roughly two-thirds of the way into the Emmy voting period, which ends on Friday at 5 p.m. PDT.

 You can read the rest of the piece at the LA Times Awards Tracker Blog

Fringe Wins Three Saturn Awards!

The awards keep rolling in for Fringe.

The winners for the 37th annual Saturn Awards were announced today, with Fringe taking home wins in three of the four categories they were nominated for:

• Fringe won "Best Network Series", beating out Lost, Smallville, Supernatural, V, and The Vampire Diaries.
  
• John Noble picked up another award in the "Best Supporting Actor in Television" category, beating out fellow Fringe actor Lance Reddick.
  
• Anna Torv was finally recognized with an award for "Best Actress in Television".

Congratulations to everyone! Next stop: The Emmy Awards...

Noble Gesture:Fringe,Others Get Love from Broadcast Critics

Noble Gesture: Fringe, Others Get Love from Broadcast Critics
Posted by James Poniewozik Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 11:08 am

The brand-spanking-new Broadcast Television Journalists Association has announced the winners of its brand-spanking-new Critics' Choice Television Awards. The winners (list follows the jump) include some usual-suspects shows like Mad Men, but also underrecognized series like Fringe, whose John Noble (best supporting actor) deserves any hardware he can get, anywhere.

Read the rest of the article here

The Multiverse of Fringe Map

Professional cartographer/analyst Jonah Adkins, creator of the awesome Geography of Lost island map, has created a new map detailing "The Multiverse of Fringe". The maps lists fringe events, amber quarantine areas, and highlights the differences between our United States, and the map from "Over There".

If you like Jonah's work, you can buy this map as a poster or framed print at ImageKind.com

* Thanks to Paul D for sending this in!

Fringe Season 4 Begins September 23!

Ari Margolis, the man who creates the awesome Fringe trailers, revealed on Twitter today that Fringe will return for it's fourth season on Friday, September 23. That makes it exactly 3 months (or 92 days) from today!

We have a lot of fun stuff planned for the rest of the summer, so stay tuned!

Fringe - Fans Ask: 'Joshua Jackson'

Joshua has the answers to your questions.

Jeff Pinkner and Joel Wyman tease where 'Fringe' will go upon its S4 return

Jeff Pinkner and Joel Wyman tease where ‘Fringe’ will go upon its S4 return
June 21, 2011 8:55 am PT
Danielle Turchiano LA TV Insider Examiner

Diehard Fringe fans were certainly in for a surprise at the end of the season three finale, but perhaps the most surprising thing of all is that the show’s writers and executive producers Jeff Pinkner and Joel H. Wyman are still able to pull things out that garner such strong reactions from the fandom at all. After all, after three years of alternate universes, mysterious cases of the week, and mind-bending science, we really should know that just about anything can happen. Expect the unexpected, as these guys like to say! But that doesn't mean we didn't want to try to get a little something out of them about what we could expect for Fringe in season four!

“We always look at it as a new chapter every season. It’s like you get the book and so you can expect something you did not expect. We like to say that. It’s not as easy as ‘Oh, it’s a jump forward’; we always try to go a little deeper than that,” Wyman teased LA TV Insider Examiner when we caught up with him and Pinkner at the Critics Choice Awards.

“Josh’s character, Peter, made a heroic choice, and Walter recognizes he might have to sacrifice to save his son, and now we’re fighting the consequences of that,” Pinker followed up, reminding us.

Click here to read the rest of the article at Examiner.com

Eye on Emmy:How Fringe's Anna Torv Finds the Reality Amid the Unreal

Eye on Emmy: How Fringe's Anna Torv Finds the Reality Amid the Unreal
by Matt Webb Mitovich

As FBI agent Olivia Dunham, Fringe’s Anna Torv this past season loved and lost a man, endured a difficult pregnancy, and cheated death all but one time. Complementing the spectacular conceits of dual universes, duplicate selves, accelerated gestation periods and time-jumps, the drama quotient remained high as well, with this formidable female often feeling – literally — the weight of our world on her shoulders. Perhaps it’s time for Emmy voters to see past the Fox series’ fantasy elements and give props to the Aussie actress who delivers the fantastic week after week.

TVLINE This season, you played Olivia, “Bolivia,” Bolivia-as-Olivia, and Olivia as… Leonard Nimoy. How did that work out for you?
This season was my favorite so far. You do a show, and there are things you do every episode – like, we always have a crime scene – so to all of a sudden throw it in the air and be given the chance to play a whole lot of different stuff is fun.

TVLINE Could you have imagined three years ago you’d be juggling all this?
I didn’t know what to imagine even after we finished the pilot. But this [third] season exceeded my expectations, and I think everybody had a ball, actually. Season 1, [which was filmed] in New York, was awesome, and Season 2 we were feeling things out in a new town [Vancouver] with a completely different crew. So this past year essentially [felt like only] the second season – and everybody says that’s the best one, because you’re relaxed.

TVLINE Are you worried about what the writers might throw at you next?
I don’t know what they’re thinking, especially with the way we ended this season.

TVLINE I have to imagine you’ll now be playing Olivia and Bolivia concurrently in the same space…
I’m thinking so, which will be tough on the hair department but fun for me. [Laughs] The only scene they had together was at the end of Season 2, when they had to fight in the apartment. I don’t know how much of that they’re going to do because that took a damn long time to shoot.

TVLINE How do you go about making Bolivia not simply “the evil twin”?
I didn’t know where [the writers] were going to go with her, so I tended to just play it scene-for-scene or episode-for-episode. There were a couple where I thought, “Oh, she kind of is going bad,” but then you get to see her in other situations and she becomes a person. Going back to the other side and getting to play a bunch of stuff where she’s in her own world I think did great things for the character, because then you went, “She’s just fighting for her cause.”

TVLINE Talk about how you worked with John Noble to nail down what was basically an impersonation of an in absentia Leonard Nimoy.
I was not excited when that script came out. I was fearful. So what do you do? You call the people that are much better than you and say, “Help!” [Laughs] John had worked with Leonard, plus I was so, so nervous, I wanted to make sure that when I went to set to do it for the first time there was at least one person that I could look at who I had done it with before and trusted. It offered an element of comfort.

TVLINE Did you ever get a note from Mr. Nimoy?
I did! I got an email saying, “I’ve been hearing good things about your impersonation of me.” I wrote back, “Oh gosh, I’m so sorry. Why they didn’t give it to Josh [Jackson] or John, I don’t know.” He was so darling, he wrote back, “It wouldn’t have been as charming.”
Source:tvline.com
Read the rest of Anna's interview HERE!

Anna Torv Will Be Tweeting on Joel Wyman's Twitter Account Tomorrow

Showrunner Joel Wyman kept his promise from back in May, and has
apparently made arrangements for Anna Torv to borrow his Blackberry to tweet and receive tweets on his Twitter account tomorrow.

Be sure to tweet Anna and show your appreciation @JWFRINGE!

@JWFRINGE
JOEL WYMAN So...Tomorrow, between 10:45 and 11:15 am PST, Anna Torv will apprehend my Blackberry and Tweet on it for a bit.

Note:For East Coasters, that's between 1:45 and 2:15 pm EST.

FRINGE: John Noble Wins Best Supporting Actor at CCTA!

Congratulations to John Noble for winning the Best Supporting Actor award at the 2011 Critics' Choice TV Awards! Here is his acceptance speech:

Critics' Choice Television Awards Are Today! Vote for Fringe, Anna Torv, and John Noble Now!

We first mentioned the Critics' Choice Television Awards back on 6/10.
They take place today at 4PM in New York City.
Anna Torv will be onhand.
Reportedly the event will be live streamed at the VH-1 link below.

Right now Fringe is leading the "Best Drama Series" category, and Anna Torv ia leading the "Best Actress in a Drama Series" category, both by fairly wide margins.

John Noble is running away with the vote for "Best Supportibng Actor in a Drama Series!"

As of this writing, you can still vote here!Click here to vote for Fringe!

'Fringe' series finale 'has been written'

'Fringe' series finale 'has been written'
Tuesday, June 14 2011, 10:10am EDT
By Morgan Jeffery, TV Reporter

Fringe star Anna Torv has insisted that the show's writers know how the series will end.

The actress told TV & Satellite Week that the sci-fi drama's final episode "has been written".

"I've been told the ultimate final episode has been written," she said. "[The writers] know where they want us to go, but they don't know yet when we will get there."

However, Torv added that plans for the show's series finale "could still change", noting that the writing team have only sketched out a "skeleton" premise.

"It's more of a dance between the audience, the creators and the cast about what works and what doesn't," she explained. "It's nice that although the skeleton of what is going to happen is there, it's still a dance."

Torv, who plays Olivia Dunham, also admitted that she personally has no idea how Fringe will come to an end.

"Initially, I wanted to know [what's going to happen], now I'm happy not to," she said. "There's something great about working on a film or a play where you know where you're going, but on television it's more open and that's good too."

The executive producers of Fringe previously revealed that they have a seven-year plan for the show, while series star Blair Brown (Nina Sharp) claimed that the plan runs to eight seasons.

Fringe was officially renewed for a fourth season in March. The show will return to Fridays at 8/9c on Fox in the fall.
Source:digitalspy.com