6 posts tagged “fringe”

I just finished watching the Emmys. For a list of winners, go here. Surprises included Bryan Cranston winning Best Actor in a Drama and Alec Baldwin winning for 30 Rock. Mad Men, The Colbert Report and The Daily Show also won their share.

Tivo check time:
I know I haven't made a big deal out of it yet, but let this be the big reminder that HEROES RETURNS MONDAY NIGHT! There's a one hour special at 8:00 "Countdown to the Premiere", and then at 9:00 is the two hour (two episode, really) premiere.

With slightly fewer capital letters, How I Met Your Mother also returns tonight at 8:30.

Tuesday brings us another new House and Fringe twofer. Also new show The Mentalist goes up against Fringe. It's supposed to be good, so I'll check it out.

Wednesday CSI:NY comes back.

Thursday has the season premiere and a second episode of My Name is Earl and the premiere of Survivor, both at 8:00. The Office also returns this week.

Next Sunday is the premiere of The Amazing Race and the Simpsons, both at 8:00.

In a way, I'm kind of glad there aren't all sorts of interesting new shows this fall because I've been busy and I'm already behind in watching what I've already recorded.

House premieres this week on Fox, Tuesday at 8. It will be followed by the second episode of Fringe.

Not much else going on. It's a quiet week in TV. There's a big news update on the horizon, but it's too late to do it tonight.

If you missed Fringe, they're airing an encore of the Pilot on Sunday. I think you should watch it. Now I'm going to say something vaguely spoilery, but don't let that stop you. See if you can guess the point at which I said, "Well, he's gonna die." I'm not saying anyone dies, just curious if anyone can guess the point at which I started talking to my TV and speculating about what was going to happen. I think I'm going to enjoy this show, but it's going to be one of the ones that I talk back at. Fun but formula.

New fall season, new Tivo reminders.

Sunday night is the MTV Video Music Awards. Britney Spears showed what a disaster she really was leading off last year's VMAs. She'll get another shot this year. The VMAs are hosted by Russell Brand. He's British and he's supposed to be funny. So I'll check it out.

Monday night is the season premiere of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Tuesday night is the premere of Fringe.

Why lookee here! My first viewer mail!

"I just read in the newspaper about a show called "Fringe".  The writer says "Fox's new sci-fi series channels 'Lost" and 'X-Files'"  This is produced by J. J. Abrams who the columnist says co-created Lost.  I looked at your blog and didn't see anything about it.  What do you know about this?"

Excellent question, Mom Faithful Reader. JJ Abrams new series, Fringe, is on Fox's fall schedule. It's set to debut on Tuesday, September 9th. There was a panel about it at last week's Television Critics Association Press Tour. It's a little bit X-Files, a little bit CSI, a little bit Lost and a little bit Heroes, but the my favorite description so far is from io9.com: "FBI-investigates-weird-shit show". The original Pilot episode, that will be altered before airing, "leaked" on the internet a few weeks ago. I grabbed it, but I haven't watched it yet. JJ and his cohorts will also be making an appearance at Comic-Con this week. He actually understands that following his other shows has be "impenetrable" and "confusing" and promises that Fringe will be more of a stand alone type show, but it will have an overarching mythology. There have been many many clips up on YouTube. Let's go take a look...

So what can we learn from this? Well, Pacey's back on TV. Yay! One of the many creepy guys from Lost appears to be another of the leads. Fox has spent a crapload of cash on this show. Last but not least, as soon as I can set a season pass for this sucker I will. That's about all I know about Fringe. I hope this was helpful, Mom Faithful Reader. Please continue to check back for updates as the fall season approaches.

Another random bits and pieces catch up post.

Jesse L. Martin is leaving Law & Order. This is too bad because this is the first year since we lost Jerry Orbach that he's got a partner that's working well. The whole cast is quite good this year. NBC is planning on doing 5 new post strike episodes that will air starting in April.

HD-DVD is dead. Long live Blu-Ray. Toshiba finally waved the white flag and gave up. All the major studios are moving to Blu-Ray. Looks like there's a PS3 in my future.

The J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie has been moved from a Christmas 2008 release to summer of 2009.

FX has confirmed that rather than produce any post-strike episodes, the season of The Riches will just be seven episodes long.

Craig Ferguson will host the White House Correspondents Dinner. I can't imagine he'll be as offensive to the President as Stephen Colbert was, but he's a funny guy and I'm sure he'll get his digs in.

The deal isn't done yet, but it looks like NBC will let Scrubs finish in the way it intended.

Lots of announcements about the upcoming Wolverine movie, but the only one I'm going to mention is that Dominic Monaghan has joined the cast.

CBS is moving How I Met Your Mother to 8:30 on Monday. Shows what I remember from before the strike, I thought it was there already. It also wasn't in the list of renewals that CBS put out earlier this week, but it seems most people think it will be back. I'll be disappointed if it isn't. They're expecting to shoot nine new episodes this season that will start airing March 17.

Leonardo DiCaprio is producing a live action version of Akira.

Bionic Woman was officially canned. I deleted the unwatched shows off my Tivo a long time ago.

Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell have all signed on to take over Heath Ledger's part in The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Since it's a Terry Gilliam movie we already knew it was going to be strange, this just makes it odder.

There's a special Aerosmith only Guitar Hero coming in May. It also looks like I'll be able to get a stand-alone guitar for the Wii in a couple weeks.

The first official trailer for the new Indiana Jones movie is out. It looks ok.

Apparently, there's a vampire movie in production called Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead. With a title like that you shouldn't need Sean Lennon doing the score, but it's got him.

Molly Ringwald recently turned 40. I feel very very old.

An Arrested Development movie might be in the works. For me, this show rode right up to my threshold of embarrassment humor and occasionally crossed it, so I'm not dying for a feature-length episode.

Among many other names added to the cast of G.I. Joe, including Dennis Quaid, Doctor Who number nine, or Claude the invisible man from Heroes depending on who you are, Christopher Eccelston has signed on.

We're getting reissues of three Replacements CDs and one EP in April. The rest of their catalog should be available by the end of the year. I may have to check these out. I love these guys.

In other music news, Thriller celebrated its 25th anniversary while I wasn't looking.

Harold and Maude finally got an official soundtrack. Seems a little silly since you can just pick up Cat Steven's greatest hits, but I guess there was never a proper soundtrack. Don't tell Jim, but I love this movie. He made me watch it one too many times before I was old enough to appreciate it, I think. But it's brilliant.

This is a great list of 48 unanswered questions on Lost. Speaking of Lost, it will produce five more episodes this season, bringing the total to 13 of the 16 they were supposed to do, and when it returns for those episodes it will be at 10 on Thursdays following Grey's Anatomy.

BSG tidbits: Season 3 will be out on DVD March 18th. Season four will premiere on April 4th, with two catch-up specials showing March 28th. The writers are back at work on the show and it looks like they'll actually get to finish it. We'll get everything they shot starting in April, and then we might not get the second half of the final season until 2009. Yikes.

I don't understand the Jane Fonda on the Today Show controversy at all. She said a naughty word, but in fairness, it was the title of one of the Vagina Monologues, so I don't get how that's so bad.

Mitch Peleggi, aka Walter Skinner, will be in the new X-Files movie. Yay! I thought he was great on the series.

The Smurfs in 3d? I just...have no words.

Looks like the Justice League movie is moving forward without Batman or Superman, since they're both currently engaged in their own movie franchise. But I ask you, is it worth seeing a Justice League movie without them?

Transformers 2 is a go. Hm. I think maybe one was enough.

Turns out we'll be getting *both* Coreys in Lost Boys 2. Thank god for that. For a while it looked like we'd have to survive with only one, and that just won't do.

J.J. Abrams new show on Fox, Fringe, has added Joshua Jackson to the cast. OMG Pacey's back on TV!

Disney Interactive has announced Discs of Tron for the XBox.

I think I might have mentioned this earlier, but SciFi announced they're going to show The Sarah Jane Adventures and the new season of Doctor Who starting in April. In fact, they're going to be on Friday night right before BSG. Sounds like we're going to get the good Doctor in a similar fashion to the way BBC America is airing Torchwood, with only a small lag between airing in the UK and airing here. The Beeb hasn't actually announced when this show is starting in the UK, a peculiarity of UK TV that they do that a lot, but it's starting on SciFi on April 18th, so one would assume it's starting sooner than that in the UK.

The Knight Rider movie did well enough that NBC is considering making it a series. Ugh.

The new Clone Wars animated series got picked up by Cartoon Network. I like the look of it. I wonder if the stories will be any good.

Ok, enough of that. I'll put all the returning show info I can find in the next post.