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TV Review: FRINGE – Season 3 – “The Day We Died” – Season Finale

By PETER BROWN 05/08/2011

John Noble in FRINGE - Season 3 - "The Day We Died" | ©2011 Fox/Liane Hentscher

Cast: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble, Lance Reddick, Jasika Nicole Director: Joe Chappelle Writers: Jeff Pinker, J. H. Wyman, Akiva Goldsman Network: Fox, Airs Fridays Original Telecast: May 7, 2011 Warning spoilers ahead … They didn’t just really kill off Peter (Joshua Jackson) on FRINGE, right? I mean that would be outrageous. That would be the biggest twist/development on the show ever. That would be totally freaking awesome. Don’t get me wrong. I love the character (and Jackson playing the role has grown on me) but just the fact that they would kill off one of the main characters […]Read On »

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Exclusive Interview: FRINGE actor Lance Reddick shifts his reality

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/06/2011

Anna Torv, John Noble and Lance Reddick in FRINGE - Season 3 | ©2011 Fox/Smallz and Raskind

On Fox’s FRINGE, which has its third-season finale tonight at 9 PM – it will be back for a fourth season – the agents of the government’s Fringe Division answer to Lance Reddick’s stern but humane Phillip Broyles. This has been true both in our own universe and the alternate universe, although alternate Broyles perished helping this world’s Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) escape the government and get back home. Baltimore, Maryland native Reddick (previously a regular on THE WIRE and Matthew Abbadon on LOST) says he’s been having a great time as both Broyles, something he elaborates on in this […]Read On »

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TV Review: FRINGE – Season 3 – “The Last Sam Weiss”

By PETER BROWN 05/02/2011

Kevin Corrigan in FRINGE - Season 3 - "The Last Sam Weiss" |©2011 Fox/Liane Hentscher

Cast: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble, Lance Reddick, Jasika Nicole, Blair Brown Writers: Monica Owusu-Breen, Allsion Schapker Director: Thomas Yatsko Network: Fox, airs Fridays Original Telecast: April 29, 2011 Do you believe in fate? We’ve been given a lot of science and experiments on FRINGE but we finally have the first glimpse of fate playing a role on the show in “The Last Sam Weiss.” Olivia (Anna Torv) has a connection to the machine. Not just any connection, but a connection that will allow her to help Peter (Joshua Jackson) enter the machine to control it. And this has […]Read On »

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TV Review: FRINGE – Season 3 – “6:02 AM EST”

By PETER BROWN 04/26/2011

John Noble in FRINGE - Season 3 - "6:02 AM EST" | ©2011 Fox/Liane Hentscher

Cast: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble, Lance Reddick, Jasika Nicole Writers: David Wilcox, Josh Singer, Graham Roland Director: Jeannot Szwarc Network: Fox, Airs on Fridays Original Telecast: April 22, 2011 I guess I am a bit confused about FRINGE “6:02 AM EST” in that I never knew that Faux-livia (Anna Torv) actually gave a rat’s ass about “over here.” Everything we saw from her during her time on our side showed someone that was completely devoid of any feelings for the people over here. She killed people in cold blood. She betrayed and tricked Peter (Joshua Jackson) a number […]Read On »

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Exclusive Interview: FRINGE actress Jasika Nicole puts in double time

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/22/2011

Jasika Nicole in FRINGE - Season 3 | ©2010 Fox/Smallz and Raskind

On FRINGE, now in its third season and renewed for a fourth on Fox on Friday nights, there are two parallel universes. In ours, brilliant but mentally unstable Dr. Walter Bishop (John Noble) long ago found a way to travel between the two, with lingering terrifying results. His son Peter (Joshua Jackson), who is really from the other universe, and FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) often enlist Walter in investigating strange phenomenon. In the other universe, another Walter Bishop (Noble again) runs the government and feels he needs to destroy our reality to protect his own, while another […]Read On »

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TV Review: FRINGE – Season 3 – “Lysergic Acid Diethlamide”

By PETER BROWN 04/18/2011

Bell and Walter race to save Olivia in FRINGE - Season 3 - "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide" | ©2011 Fox

Cast: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble, Lance Reddick, Jasika Nicole Director: Joe Chappelle Writers: Jeff Pinkner, J.H. Wyman, Avika Goldman Network: Fox, airs Fridays Original Telecast: April 15, 2011 This was certainly an interesting episode of FRINGE. A tripping Peter (Joshua Jackson), a tripping Broyles (Lance Reddick), cartoons, the Twin Towers, a dead fat guy doing a dance in a tub of ice, zombies, animated birds flying and bubbles were just some of the highlights. Yeah, the comedy was fast and furious, but it did the job in progressing the whole William Bell trapped in Olivia’s (Anna Torv) body. […]Read On »

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TV Review: CASTLE – Season 3 – “The Dead Pool”

By ANNE LOUISE BANNON 04/12/2011

Stana Katic, Nathan Fillion and Tamala Jones in CASTLE - Season 3 - "The Dead Pool" | ©2011 ABC/Matt Kennedy

Stars: Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Susan Sullivan, Molly C. Quinn, Jon Huertas, Seamus Dever, Tamala Jones Writer: Matt Pyken Director: Paul Holahan Network: ABC, airs Monday nights Original Telecast: April 11, 2011 Authors Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane are back as themselves, playing poker with their buddy Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) in the latest episode of CASTLE – “The Dead Pool”, but this case is actually about a swimmer who drowns after being knocked out by a whiff of chlorine. At first, Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) and Castle can’t find a motive for the killing of the young Olympic […]Read On »

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WonderCon 2011: Mark Valley reveals HUMAN TARGET Season 3 ideas for Chance … if there is a Season 3

By PETER BROWN 04/04/2011

Mark Valley in HUMAN TARGET - Season 2 | ©2011 Fox/Mathieu Young

During the press event for HUMAN TARGET at WonderCon 2011 in San Francisco, Mark Valley, who plays Chance on the Fox show, gave us his opinion on where he would like to see his character go if the series gets picked up for Season 3. “In terms of Chance’s overall arc, in the first episode he was closed down to the world and focused on doing his job and having some confusion about it and coming out of it,” Valley says. “The second season he started to open up a little bit. He had to in order to communicate with […]Read On »

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WonderCon 2011: Elizabeth Mitchell on Erica in V Season 3 … if there is a Season 3

By PETER BROWN

Elizabeth Mitchell and Marc Singer in V - Season 2 - "Mother's Day" | ©2011 ABC/Jack Rowand

If there is a Season 3 of V, where does Elizabeth Mitchell see her FBI character of Erica going? Will she be a kick-ass, take no prisoners type of character given that everyone she has loved is now gone? Talking with us at WonderCon 2011 in San Francisco, this is what she had to say. “Yes, I would like her to be a nothing to lose, incredibly strong, incredibly intelligent character,” Mitchell says. “I feel that maybe we can out think them [the aliens\. We are talking about the reptilian brain, which is mostly just instinct. So with a combination […]Read On »

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WonderCon 2011: V producer would bring back other 1980s V stars for Season 3

By PETER BROWN 04/03/2011

Morena Baccarin and Jane Badler in V - Season 2 | ©2011 ABC/Jeff Petry

In the two seasons V has been on the air on ABC, we’ve seen 1980s V stars Jane Badler and Marc Singer make significant appearances (with Singer potentially coming back for a major recurring role if Season 3 is picked up). The big question though is who else would Scott Rosenbaum (executive producer and V showrunner) like to bring back? “I would actually like to bring some of the actors back from [the original V series] if there is a Season 3,” Rosenbaum reveals. “I would definitely love to have Michael Ironside and I would love to have Robert Englund. […]Read On »

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