Vote For Fringe in Hulu's Best In Show 2012

They say this is the golden age of television. From offbeat comedies such as "30 Rock" to gripping dramas like "Game of Thrones," we can't argue with that.


But what's the most incredible, era-defining series on TV today? We asked HitFix's Alan Sepinwall for his take, but Hulu's third annual Best in Show is all about your vote. We've rounded up 32 TV shows for a bracket-style competition. Each week, the winning shows — based solely on the fans' votes — will advance, all the way until we reach No. 1. Cast your votes and find out who wins on April 12.

Week #1 March 8-March 14
 
Category:Agents Of Mass Destruction
Fringe  In hindsight, I wonder if the "Fringe" producers might like a mulligan on the decision to spend this fourth season in two brand-new (or largely-rewritten) timelines where Peter died as a boy, which severed the emotional connection we had built with all the other characters over the three previous seasons. Yet even with that handicap, we've gotten a number of excellent episodes, and John Noble is outstanding no matter how many versions of Walter Bishop he's asked to play.
 
Fringe is up for a vote against the series "Homeland."
Please vote often for Fringe from now until March 14th by clicking here.

Fringe Fans Ask: Episode 419

It the latest Fans Ask video, Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Blair Brown, John Noble, Jasika Nicole, and Seth Gabel are asked the question:

How would the cast feel about doing a live episode for episode 419?

TV Line Upgrades Fringe Season 5 to "Safe Bet"

TV Line has upgraded Fringe in its "2012 Renewal Scorecard" from "Could go either way" to "A safe bet".

While no explanation was given, this comes right off the news that "Terra Nova" has been officially  canceled.

Along with "House" ending this season, this will free up spots in the very limited 10-hours of FOX prime time schedule.

And there might even be more spots opening up soon, as both "Alcatraz" and "The Finder" have been doing poorly in the ratings.

While not a bad a sign as The Firm moving to Saturdays, the "The Finder" moving to Fridays is probably not good news for that show. Even though Fringe has been surviving on Friday nights, it was not in its rookie season when it made the move.

However, the move could help Fringe, by giving it a better lead-in than Kitchen Nightmares, which other than Walter liking to eat a lot, doesn't have much in common with Fringe. But then again, it may make little different, since Fringe has "FRINGE has the biggest percentage gain from time-shifted viewing of any series this season".

What do you think will happen?

Vote For Fringe As Best Drama In The TV Guide 2012 Fan Favorites Awards

It's that time again for TV Guide to host its Fan Favorites Awards.
Fringe is in the running for Best Drama.
Click on the link to the TV Guide Fan Favorites Awards Facebook page here, and "like" it to vote.
In the bar under "Vote For Your Favorite," click on the second, "Drama," and then bullet Fringe and click on "Vote" at the bottom right.

Voting ends on March 16th at noon ET. The winners will be announced in the April 16th issue of TV Guide Magazine. Vote as much as you want. go Fringe!

Fringe FBI Podcast Season 4 Episode 14

Frea, Jan, Lou, & Maximus get together after each Fringe episode in this temporarily constructed shared reality known as a podcast to discuss the Fourth Season of Fringe.

'The End Of All Things'

 AKA
Eye To Eye Used Once Too Often 
 Agenda:
1) Intros

2) Episode Easter Eggs  

3) Quick Thoughts 

4) RoundTable 

5) Ep Rating - out of 10 Genes

 

Intro Music: 'Lunatic Fringe' - Tom Cochrane

Exit Music: 'Eyes of a Stranger' - The Payolas - For A Confused Peter

Leave us feedback here or on Twitter:

Frea - @Frea_O

Jan - @happydayz3

Lou - @olddarth

Maximus - @mxpw999

Jan's Fringe Recaps can be found at NiceGirlsTV

FBI Inc Podcast graphics designed by Frea_O

On the run all the time? A commuter? Listen to our portable version
via iTunes - Alternate Reality Version.

Fringe Rewatch Suggestions, by Ari Marigolis

Master Fringe editor Ari Margolis (@jonxproductions) has given us some Fringe "homework" for the hiatus. These are the episodes that he suggests that we should re-watch to get ready for the return of Fringe on March 23.

Fringe 104: The Arrival (iTunes) - Where we first lean about the observers and the beacon.

We will definitely be seeing more of The Beacon soon...

Fringe 113: The Transformation (iTunes) - Olivia goes in the tank to access John Scott's memories
Fringe 301: Olivia (iTunes) - Olivia is brainwashed by Walternate to believe she is the Alt-olivia

These episodes focus on the palimpsest concept.

Fringe 114: Ability (iTunes) - Jones gets Olivia to turn off some lights
Fringe 213: The Bishop Revival (iTunes) - Fringe Nazis!
Fringe 306: 6955 kHz (iTunes) -Fringe team find pieces of The Machine

These three episodes are grouped together for a specific (but not specified) reason:

Fringe 209: Snakehead (iTunes) -Walter wanders around Chinatown in search of parasites

And this episode is recommended for another unspecified reason.

Of course all of these episodes are available on the Fringe DVDs and BluRays.

Need Fringe? The 2012 Mini Fringe Binge Begins Tonight!

Well, this is the first Friday in our new hiatus, but it does not have to be Fringe-less!
The famous  Fringe Binge is back by popular demand, and begins at 9:00PM Eastern US time-the same time Fringe airs on the East Coast.

This month's Fringe Binge is a mini one. Back in December the famous Tumblr site asked fans to pick the episodes they most wanted to rewatch. Now the list is compiled and they are ready to roll!
So if you can, sit back and enjoy the 42 fan-picked episodes of your favorite sci-fi show from tonight, March 2nd through Sunday, March 4th.

Make sure to visit the official Fringe Binge tumblr page here.

You can also follow the Mini Binge progress via Twitter:@fringebinge2012 !

Fringe Observiews 4.14 The End Of All Things

Welcome to the Observiews for Season 4 of Fringe. I call them Observiews because they are more visual observations than deep thinking reviews, if that makes sense.

Screen caps from this episode are taken from fringefiles.com. Dialog is from fringepedia.net/transcripts.

All observations are mine and therefore could be totally off the wall and/or wrong. I have not read or looked at any recaps or reviews. I could also have missed a few things, oh well…

4.01 Neither Here Nor There

OLIVIA: “Well, sometimes answers lead to more questions.”

Uh, you can say that again. 

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Fringe Noble Intentions: The End Of All Things

John Noble discusses Olivia's abduction, and entering the mind of the observer in this latest episode of Noble Intentions, for the Fringe episode "The End Of All Things".

Low-Rated ‘Fringe’ Mostly Time-Shifted Among Fans

Low-Rated ‘Fringe’ Mostly Time-Shifted Among Fans
Posted by: Editor in Entertainment
February 29th, 2012 1:23PM

Remember awhile back? When we took a look at a couple shows that continue to have life after their TV cancellations? (Stargate and Buffy) Well, this week we decided to take a look at a show that, while still on the air, also counts itself among the oft-marginalized sci-fi genre, but is still getting lots of love from the Twitter, GetGlue, and TiVo communities. We’re talking, of course, (and on Leap Day, of course) about Fringe. And you guessed it – if it weren’t for Joss Whedon, JJ Abrams would be our master. This show is awesome.

With a whopping 915,215 check-ins on Get Glue, and plenty of buzz in the Twitterverse, (@Dorcandave “Catching up with the last couple of weeks of Fringe via TiVo. Think my brain might explode! JJAbrams-you’re driving me mad with your stories.”) Fringe just may be the little sci-fi engine that could. But can it? Talking to the New York Daily News recently, executive producer J.H. Wyman talked about the reality that every season could be their last, so they’re fully prepared to wrap up this one as a series ender, if need be. We know it’s a complex issue that involves budgets and numbers and algorithms, but may we just boil it down to “Noooooo!!!!”

Read the entire blog.tivo.com article here.

FRINGE - Fans Ask: Fan Efforts

The latest vid in the Fringe "Fans Ask" series by Ari Margolis.
Here cast members comment on 2 recent, massive fan efforts-1)the "Where Is Peter Bishop?" fanvid that hundreds of us contributed to(watch it here, and you can read an interview with the video editor here), and 2)the Blue Moon Awards that the early Fringenuity group plus friends paid for and mailed to the cast, crew, and showrunners in October 2011(read about the Blue Moon Awards here).

Fringe Television wants to thank not only to the cast who took the time to comment in this video, but also to Ari Margolis, for all he does for Fringe fans.

Beyond The Fringe Comic #4: Chapter B

DC Comics has released the eighth comic in the "Beyond The Fringe" direct-to-digital series.

Beyond The Fringe #4: Chapter B was written by Danielle DiSpaltro, is available now for $0.99 via Comixology.com.

Here is the official description:

Imagine If... Our Fringe Team Were Criminals!

In this alternate reality, we find Peter, Olivia, Walter and Astrid embroiled in a high-tech art heist...but not as the crime fighting FBI agents we're used to--now they're the criminals! 

Order "Beyond The Fringe" here

Fringe Nominated for 4 Saturn Awards

by Matt Goldberg Posted:February 29th, 2012 at 7:33 am

The  Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films today announced nominations for the 38th Annual Saturn Awards, which will be presented on Wednesday, June 20.


Fringe has 4 nominations:
TELEVISION NOMINATIONS

Best Network Television Series:
Fringe Fox

Best Actress On Television:
Anna Torv, Fringe Fox

Best Supporting Actor on Television:
John Noble, Fringe Fox

Best Guest Performer on Television:
Orla Brady, Fringe Fox

Congratulations to Jeff Pinkner & Joel Wyman, JJ Abrams, Anna Torv, John Noble, Orla Brady, and all the cast and cew of Fringe for making this happen. As far as we are concerned, you are ALL winners.

Read Matt's entire collider.com article here.

Fringe Discuss: Is This Peter's Olivia, or not?

It's the first Wednesday during our new little winter hiatus, and a great time for a new installment
of Fringe Discuss, where we throw out a question to get your feedback.

There's been a lot of internet chatter since the last scene of episode 4.04, titled "Subject 9," when
Peter addresses his relief at Olivia Dunham's arrival to his hospital room and Olivia ends the episode
by asking Peter "Who are you?"

We learn that the current Olivia says she's only known Peter for 3 months, yet she has so many memories in 'The End Of All Things" of our Olivia in the Old Timeline.

When Peter has the opportunity in "The End Of All Things" to share consciousness with September, September asks Peter to do something for him, but Peter answers:

PETER: I'm not doing anything till you tell me where to find Olivia--

THE OBSERVER: For that, you have only to go home.

If you've watched 4.14 you know Peter takes that literally and goes back to his house, and that event leads him back to Olivia and Nina being held captive by David Robert Jones.

So this week's question is: The current Olivia Dunham we've seen in episode 4.14, is this Peter's Olivia, or not?

Please feel free to post your thoughts and theories below.
Remember, SPOILERS ARE NOT PERMITTED HERE. If you wish to post and/or discuss spoilers
please click on the "Fringe Spoilers" tab at the top of the page.

We look forward to reading all your theories on this one!

Is this Olivia "Peter's Olivia"?

Fringe Review: The End of All Things

“Maybe you could tell me a story.”

Once upon a time, I was friends with a good storyteller. A good storyteller, but a bad ender. Whether it was the time he and a gang of bikers rescued an abused young woman, or the one about the guy, the banana, and the French bulldog, each of his stories ended the same way: “So that happened.”

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Fringe Easter Egg: Next Episode Clue 414

Every episode of Fringe contains a hidden "next episode clue" that foreshadows something in the following episode. In the last Fringe episode "A Better Human Being", a chalk board at the Deerfield Hospital appears to have the words "Box Springs" written on it...

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Fringe 415 Teaser: A Short Story About Love

Here is the teaser trailer for the Fringe episode "A Short Story About Love", which airs IN FOUR WEEKS on FRIDAY, March 23rd at 9:00PM on FOX.

Screenshots from this preview can be viewed at FringeFiles.com.

Bonus: There is some strange backwards speak at the end of the video, so here is the entire video - in reverse!

Support Fringe: Ads From "The End Of All Things"

This is a compilation of all the commercials (and glyphs) shown during the Fringe episode "The End Of All Things".

Please take a moment to thank the sponsors of Fringe on their Twitter and/or Facebook pages (and if possible, purchase their products!):Keep it simple, like this:

Hey @BestBuy, I just observed your Ultrabook commercial during #Fringe. Thanks for supporting the show. :)

For other ways to show your support for Fringe, check out other Support Fringe posts, like the weekly Twitter and GetGlue campaigns.

Fringe 415 Preview: "A Short Story About Love"

Here is the preview from the end of "The End Of All Things" for the Fringe episode "A Short Story About Love", which airs IN FOUR WEEKS on FRIDAY, March 23rd 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 from this preview can be viewed at FringeFiles.com.

Bonus: For a 20/20 look at that those weird symbols, check out The Image Of Peter's Eye post over at FringeSpoilers.com

Fringe Glyph Code in "The End Of All Things"

The Glyphs code in the Fringe episode "The End Of All Things" spelled out UNITE. Maybe Peter will finally be able to unite the old universes with the new ones - the way he joined the bed and blue universes?

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