Anna Torv stopped by MTV News earlier in the week to talk about the new season of "Fringe," and they asked her to tease what's going down in tonight's fourth episode, titled "Subject 9." Though she initially had some trouble dropping hints — "I'm just such a bad tease," she laughed — she did offer a very tantalizing clue regarding how Olivia's past has changed in light of this new continuity.
Tonight on Fringe is the all new episode "Subject 9", but next week's episode will be a re-run of the Season 4 premiere "Neither Here Nor There".
Taking a one week break right now queues up the next four Fringe episodes for "Novermber Sweeps", which runs October 27 – November 23.
This block of four episodes will end with the "Fall Season Finale", making them the last four we see this year. Here is the remaining schedule for 2011:
10/14 - Subject 9 (#404)
10/21 - Neither Here Nor There (#401 Repeat)
10/28 - Novation (#405)
11/04 - And Those We've Left Behind (#406)
11/11 - Wallflower (#407)
11/18 - Back To Where You've Never Been (#408 - Fall Finale!)
Starting next week, we will have a whole batch of new Fringe prizes! During tonight's episode of Fringe, visit FringeTelevision.com and click on the: WATCH FRINGE LIVE AND WIN!
link or banner to enter. So you don't have to miss a single minute of Fringe (or any commercials ;), we will start the entry period 15 minutes prior to the episode, and close it 15 minutes after. We will have the contest post open for both east coast and west coast airings.
The winning name will be selected at random from all eligible entries.
The contest (and Fringe ratings) are limited to US residents only.
Also, Zap2it recently got a chance to speak with legendary comedic actor Danny DeVito about "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." He made a really interesting comparison for "Sunny" vs. "Taxi," the show he was famous for in the late 1970s/early 1980s.
"It's like... have you ever watched 'Fringe?' says DeVito. "It's like another universe. It's like the same thing, in a way, because ['Sunny' has] really good writing and we had great writing on 'Taxi.' We had a great cast on 'Taxi' and we have a great cast on Sunny. And we have people who really care about each other, but it's just an alternate universe. It's like a kind of a different milieu. A different whole zeitgeist, what goes on there."
Twitter is reporting tonight that executive producers Joel Wyman and Jeff Pinkner will be Tweeting LIVE during tomorrow night's WEST COAST AIRING ONLY starting at 9PM Pacific Time. So jump on Twitter and say hello to the best showrunners around!
For someone who doesn’t exist, Peter Bishop sure is getting a lot of attention.
“Fringe,” the breathtaking Fox series currently in its fourth year on television, is well known for taking bizarre risks and asking viewers to come along for the ride… but erasing one of the show’s most important characters — Joshua Jackson’s skeptic young genius Peter Bishop — completely from existence? That’s a gigantic gamble, even for this show.
When Anna Torv, who stars in the series as brilliant FBI agent Olivia Dunham, stopped by MTV News this week to talk about the current season of “Fringe,” we asked her the most important question of all: what is life like in a world without Peter Bishop?
“Well, the Olivia that I play doesn’t know what life was like with him, so I’m normal,” she said, speaking to the fact that the show currently exists in a world where both the Peter from our universe and the one from the other side died in their childhood — in other words, he never lived long enough to meet Olivia and join up with Fringe Division.
Of course, Peter did exist — our heroes just don’t know that right now. And it won’t be long before he comes roaring back to life, Torv teased, and when he does, things are going to get… well, interesting, to put it lightly.
“I don’t think I’m giving anything away when I say that the event of this season is Peter Bishop,” she said. “We’re going to see a lot more of him and how he unravels these characters.”
Going into this latest season, Torv said that she was completely unaware of the “Fringe” writers’ plans for how to deal with Olivia, her fellow cast members and the mythology they’ve already spent years establishing in light of Peter’s departure.
“They go to their writers camp and pretty close to filming, they come back, and it’s like, ‘Okay, can we talk now?’” she laughed. “I guess there’s just sort of so much that there wasn’t the time to sit down and work out which cases didn’t get solved and which ones did [in the new, Peter-less 'Fringe' timeline].”
Without that kind of concrete information, then, Torv focused on what she believed would be the changed dynamics between Olivia and other members of the Fringe team, namely Peter’s father Walter, the ingenious but damaged scientist played to perfection by John Noble.
“When Peter was there, he was very much the nurturer [to Walter], he was very much the companion, but without him, the biggest difference we see is in Walter, who didn’t have Peter to bring him out and help him get better,” she said. “But what I was excited about is there’s a little bit more warmth, a closeness between Walter and Olivia.”
It’s not just Olivia and Walter’s relationship that’s changed because of Peter’s removal from existence, either.
“There are a couple of episodes coming up where we reintroduce a couple of characters and you’ll go, ‘Oh, that’s a different relationship to the one we’re used to,’” she teased. “But I’m not going to say any more about that!”
John Noble discusses the implications from the death of young Peter and self-performed lobotomies, in this latest
episode of Noble Intentions, for the Fringe episode "Alone In The World".
Top 50 Power Showrunners 2011 by The Holloywood Reporter Staff 12:49 PM PDT 10/12/2011
by Philiana Ng Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman Fringe (Fox)
When Fringe moved from Thursdays to Fridays in the middle of its third season, viewership tumbled from 5.1 million to fewer than 4 million. This is why it was so meaningful -- and shocking, really -- that Fox renewed the cult favorite for a fourth season in March. It was a sign, say Pinkner and Wyman, that ratings are no longer the most valuable unit of measurement by network execs. Buzz can be all powerful. "We keep a lot of plot secrets because we find it's better that way," says Wyman. "If nobody knows what you're doing, then nobody can tell." Created by J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, Fringe took a creative gamble last season when it erased the existence of one main character and added a new series regular. But Pinkner, 45, a former producer on Abrams' Alias and Lost, and the Montreal-bred Wyman, 44, who was a writer on Canadian period series Wind at My Back and created Keen Eddie, are hardly ready to close up shop. "The only show we've done that said, 'Hey, this is going to be our end date and we're marching toward it,' was Lost," Pinkner says. "We hope it's a long time before that happens for Fringe."
Read the entire article and judging methodology here.
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It's Wednesday, and time for a new installment of Fringe:Discuss, where we
throw out a question and ask for your comments.
With all the talk and promos about the return of Peter Bishop, here is this week's question:
What will Peter Bishop be like when he enters the new timeline September established?
Please sound off in the comments section below.
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