Fringe: Fox orders nine new episodes

FOX UNCOVERS FULL SEASON OF NEW HIT DRAMA “FRINGE”

FOX has ordered an additional nine episodes of the critically acclaimed thriller FRINGE, bringing the series to a full season order, it was announced today by Kevin Reilly, President, Entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company.

“We're having a blast working on this show with this great team of producers and amazing cast,” said Reilly. “The series has really taken off creatively, and it's exciting to see that the audience is responding. We believe this is the first full season of many years to come.”

FRINGE has captivated audiences this fall, winning its Tuesday time period weekly among key demographics and ranking as the No. 1 new series in primetime among Adults 18-49, Adults 18-34 and Teens. On Tuesday, Sept. 30, FRINGE dominated its time period by posting a 4.3/11 among Adults 18-49, which was an increase over the previous week’s airing by +5% (vs. 4.1/10), and growing +6% in Total Viewers (10.0 vs. 9.4 million).

On Tuesday, Oct. 14 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT), FRINGE returns with a high-voltage episode as the unlikely trio investigates the cause of a fatal elevator accident that had some very unusual circumstances. They discover a connection to a dangerous man whose developing abilities point to a bigger threat. Meanwhile, Olivia has a highly charged encounter of her own when she is rocked by someone from her past, and Dr. Bishop turns to a methodology Peter thinks is for the birds to help break the case.

Created by J.J. Abrams & Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci, FRINGE stars Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Lance Reddick, Kirk Acevedo, Blair Brown, Jasika Nicole with Mark Valley and John Noble. The series is produced by Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. Abrams, Kurtzman, Orci, Jeff Pinkner and Bryan Burk serve as executive producers.

Fringe: 105 Power Hungry

Six images from the upcoming Fringe episode Power Hungry have been posted into the JJ Abrams 'Fringe' Shed over at The Happy Place Forums

Fringe airs on the Nine network on Wednesdays at 2030hrs (830pm), be aware that the sked can change without notice

'Fringe' Gets a Ratings Boost in the US

Neilson's Ratings in the US report a massive 59% jump in the ratings for the second episode in the new series Fringe. 13.2 million viewers tuned in to The Same Old Story a mediocre but significant rise on last week's 9 million viewers.

The episode aired after the premiere episode of the fifth season of House MD and is seen as the catalyst for the jump in Fringe viewers holding 91% of the viewers at House. House itself was down 28% from last year's premiere episode.

"According to Fox, the Fringe spike is the largest ratings jump a new series has made from Week 1 to 2 on any broadcast network in more than a decade."

Fingers crossed for a spike/climb next week with the third episode Ghost Network. We here at Gasbo are not privvy to the AusTam ratings in Australia and hold it in contempt along with it's owners.

Anna Torv Interview at the Channel

Ne Multus: "Anna Torv has a lot to be excited about. She went from being an Australian actress unknown in the US to the star of the new show from J.J. Abrams. Now that the season premiere is under her belt, Torv sat down to give us the skinny on her adventures so far on the set of Fringe.

"The Channel: It seems like one minute you were in Australia and the next you were in New York shooting Fringe and now you're on billboards all over the place – how did that happen?

"Anna: It happened so quickly. I tested in Australia and thanks to technology today people in LA were able to see the test within hours of me doing it. It opens the world up for Australian actors, English actors and even Americans too. I auditioned and then had lots of talks on the telephone. I went to LA and met with J.J. and the other Bad Robot guys. Then I flew the next morning to Toronto and we started filming within a couple of days. It was pretty fast and furious but really exciting too." Read more >>

Fringe: 104 The Arrival, more details released

As reported yesterday there wasn't a lot of information released about the Fringe episode The Arrival, images only. Much more has becaome available in the last 24 hours, included in the press release was cast, guest cast and synopsis, to view all this stuff and more 'gate on over to The JJ Abrams 'Fringe' Shed at The Happy Place Forums Ne Multus: "After a deadly explosion rocks a construction site in New York City, Broyles (Lance Reddick) solicits the aid of our unlikely threesome to investigate a strange cylinder mysteriously found at the scene completely unharmed by the surrounding devastation.

Pictured: Lance Reddick plays Phillip Broyles,
special agent for Homeland Security
who heads the special Fringe division

Fringe: 104 The Arrival

Five hi-res images from the Fringe episode The Arrival have been posted to the JJ Abrams 'Fringe' Shed over at The Happy Place Forums.

Scant other information is available at this time, as soon as it rocks up we'll post it - Cheers G.

Fringe premieres on Aus TV on 17 September 2008 at 8.30pm on Nine

Aussie SciFi Fans wish it wasn't Nine. But is it Nine's fault? Everybody knows the FTA TV owned AusTam Ratings System is flawed. That's what drives folks to illegal scifi downloads and we get the wholesale swill that is on Commercial Telly now. vicious circle....

Fringe, new images

Three more images of the cast of Fringe have surfaced and they are stunners, to view please wander over to The Happy Place JJ Abrams 'Fringe' Shed

Fringe will premiere on, sadly, Nine at 8.30pm Wednesday 17 September 2008, thumbies of the 3 pics are posted below. Incredibly most of the Aussie TV website folks are centring on Aussie Anna Torv while Aussie John Noble with equal billing, also an Aussie is being ignored.

JJ Abrams Fringe: First (US) Prelim Ratings In

Fringe starts it's Australian run on Nine next Wednesday 17 September at 8.30pm, eight days after it aired on FOX in the US on 9 September.

We were sent the following preliminary Neilsen ratings a short time ago, the pilot aired from 8.00 to 9:35 pm and "averaged about 9 million viewers and a 3.2 rating/9 share in adults 18-49".

Fringe

Fringe, the newest TV series in the Jeffrey Jacob JJ Abrams entertainment stable, currently helming Star Trek XI the prequel to the original Star Trek series Mr Abrams says he is nervous about the success of Fringe but is confident it will do well.

Fringe premieres in Australia on the Nine Network on Thursday 18 September at 2030 830pm

Summary: FBI agents Olivia Dunham and Peter Bishop are faced with a rapidly spreading unexplained phenomenon of the threatening kind. In an attempt to stop the spread, they enlist the assistance of Bishop's estranged father, the institutionalized scientist Dr. Walter Bishop. Joshua Jackson will play the lead role of Peter Bishop, a smart guy with many gambling debts

For more info and images please 'gate to The JJ Abrams Fringe Shed at The Happy Place Forums

Fringe: S102 Same Old Story

Images, synopsis and other info from the second instalment of JJ Abrams' Fringe series Same Old Story has been posted in the JJ Abrams 'Fringe' Shed over at The Happy Place Forums.

Ne multus: Our unlikely trio’s strange partnership begins as they investigate the mysterious death of a woman who conceives, carries to full-term and births a baby in the span of hours, and her baby who ages 80 years in a matter of minutes.

Cast includes Anna Torv, John Noble, Peter Bishop, Blair Brown, Kirk Acevedo, Mark Valley, Lance Reddick, Jasika Nicole, Betty Gilpin, Derek Cecil and Mark Blum.

Fringe's Anna Torv chats to SciFiWire

Aussie actor Anna Torv is poised to make her debut on us TV in the JJ Abrams' series Fringe. The Melbournean took time out to talk to Patrick Lee the editor at SciFi Wire He started by asking Ms Torv to give a prećis of her character, "I play Olivia Dunham, who's an FBI agent, who ... all of a sudden is exposed to this whole other world and is kind of forced to deal with it, which she does. She sort of tends to take on all the responsibility she can get. She has a real sense of duty. When we first started shooting it, we were able to talk to a retired FBI agent, which was fantastic. Yeah, it's really good. And even just talking to him, I mean, not about any secrets stuff, but ... these people that do these kind of jobs have ... just such a strong sense of duty. Like, a strong sense of duty and just total focus and tunnel vision, ... high expectations of themselves, too. And I think Olivia really does fall into that category. Read more >>

Fringe, behind the scenes

Wow is the publicity machine firing up for Fringe or what? SciFi Wire has an “Exclusive Peek Behind Fringe” posted in their website, there’s an image featuring JJ Abrams, Blair Brown, Joshua Jackson and Aussie Anna Torv.

“Amid the red-and-blue flashing light of squad cars, FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham strides purposefully through the Boston parking garage with companions Peter Bishop and his father, eccentric scientist Walter Bishop, toward the crime scene. Greeted by a building supervisor, she is told that the elevator simply dropped several floors, crashing violently into the garage. "That's impossible," Peter says as they examine the wreckage. Walter and Olivia draw closer, peering inside the wrecked elevator car, where several people died. Or so it seems. Cut!” To read the rest please head on over to SciFi Wire >>

'Fringe' info on the Pilot episode posted at THP

Six (6) high resolution images, synopsis, cast, guest cast and other stuff has been posted at The Happy Place Fringe Shed

Whilst it is unknown at this time if the series was picked up at the 'upfronts' held a month or two ago in the US we here are running with the series in the Sci Fi Australia Blog and The Happy Place Forums

If the series is picked up by an Aussie network we will repost the 'Fringe' items here and at gasbo.net, if it is still live, as the series gets underway. Cheers gaz