While the Fringe pilot suffered from a severe identity crisis, trying to decide whether it was a police procedural, comedy, or a conspiracy mystery, the second episode, The Same Old Story, steers the show sharply into The X-Files sphere. The premise of the episode is a little shaky. We have a scientist’s son who kills [...]
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Fringe: The Same Old Story review
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Fox to stream premieres of Sarah Connor Chronicles and Fringe to on-campus students
In an unprecedented event, FOX will stream the premieres of TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES and FRINGE exclusively for on-campus college students at www.fox.com. Only students on college campuses accessing through a college internet domain (.edu) will have the opportunity to watch the episodes online simultaneously with their primetime premieres. TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES [...]
Fringe pilot review – J.J. Abrams’ latest
J.J. Abrams‘ new television series Fringe had an official press screening at Comic Con. The pilot for the new show, which a Horizon Media report recently said would be the highest rated new series alongside CBS’ SF procedural Eleventh Hour, has all the trademark J.J. Abrams ingredients: a whole lotta teaser questions to kick off [...]
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MGM picks up Whedon and Goddard’s Cabin in the Woods
MGM has greenlit a spec script from Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard called “The Cabin in the Woods,“ the Hollywood Reporter writes. The film will be the directorial debut for Goddard, who had previously teamed up with Whedon on cult series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel and also written episodes for two [...]
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