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In Fringe season 3, Joshua Jackson just might be the envy of his cast mates since he is the only who isn’t playing two characters.
If you remember, in the Season 2 finale, Peter and Olivia (Anna Torv) finally kissed and she told him that no matter which reality he is from, they belong together. But fans (and Jackson himself) question whether Peter and Olivia are meant to be together or if Peter and Olivia’s alternate universe counterpart are the ones who have the connection.
“What I’m curious about is how invested he’s going to get in Alt-Livia,” Jackson says. “The reason that I think that Olivia and Peter, for the two years that they were together, never quite could figure out how to bridge the gap and find that spark, is because they’re not from the same side.”
This makes me so sad I missed Comic-Con again this year.
“Fringe” star Joshua Jackson celebrated his past with “Funny or Die,” when he made a scene across the street from Comic-Con in San Diego last week dressed as his “Dawson’s Creek” character, Pacey Witter.
“People ask me all the time why I’m working on the show ‘Fringe,’ and the honest answer to that is to fund my first love, which is Pacey fan fiction,” Jackson explains, before reading some of his prose aloud for the video. “The winter sun was cold but bright as Pacey squinted in the glare.”
Today, FOX announced their fall premiere dates for new and returning series, and, most of the show’s wer’re all waiting for return the third week of September.
“House” starts off new shows on Monday, Sept. 20, while “Glee” makes its move to 8 p.m. on Tuesday. “Bones” and “Fringe” are back on Thursday night, Sept. 23.
As the show opens, Peter visits the Department of Defense in alt-world when an assistant comes in and tells Secretary of Defense Walternate that a high priority individual was admitted to New York General Hospital, the Secretary himself.
In the meantime, William Bell and Olivia get to New York General looking for Walter. Olivia gets to Walter as Bell stalls the just-arrived Bolivia and Charlie. Thanks to the superior healing techniques in alt-world Walter is rejuvenated and feeling well. Bell drives up to help them escape. Bolivia is shocked to see a blonde version of herelf leaving the hospital.
The “Grey’s Anatomy” season finale still couldn’t best CBS for an overall Thursday night win, but the doctors of Seattle Grace came close. The finales of “The Mentalist” and “CSI” instead took the night for CBS.
CBS averaged 12.4 million viewers and a 7.7 rating/13 share in households. ABC was a close second with 11.8 million and a 7.6/13. FOX’s finales of Bones and Fringe took a respectable third place with 7.4 million, 4.6/8. Unfortunately for NBC, they trailed in fourth, though they were up from last week, with 5.0 million viewers, 3.2/5. The CW’s rerun of “Smallville” was last with 1.4 million and a 0.9/2 share.
Today, FOX also held its Upfront presentation where the network announced its fall 2010 and mid-season schedules.
To make room for its new shows, FOX is moving “Glee” up to 8/7c on Tuesdays, followed by “Raising Hope” and the Keri Russell/Will Arnett comedy”Running Wilde.”
“American Idol”, which will return mid-season, also saw changes. It will feature a performance show Tuesday from 8-9:30 p.m. and Wednesday results shows will only last for only half an hour.
The Fringe team in the parallel universe is alerted about a breach in the system. The alternate versions of Charlie and Olivia (aka Bolivia) go to check it out with another agent, Lincoln Lee, who uses equipment to monitor an “event.”
Charlie discovers a man whose face is covered in tumors in a theater where they are monitoring the event. Bolivia (alt world Olivia) and Lincoln are confused by the man’s belongings. “Who the hell is Jackson?” Lincoln says, looking at the former President on the $20 bill. The alternate world agents do not see Walter, Olivia and two other people as they sneak away and out of the theater.
In a flashback 36 hours earlier Walter watches surveillance footage of Walternate (Walter in the alternate universe) taking Peter to the other side. Walter and Olivia remember that the Observer told him Peter must never go to the other side.
In last week’s episode of Fringe, Peter meets a waitress named Krista in a diner. She doesn’t show up at his motel that night after her shift like she said she would. She later turns up dead with a piece of her skull opened up and Peter is brought in for questioning by the local Sheriff Mathis.
When Peter knows that part of Krista’s temporal lobe is missing and he sees Newton at the crime scene, Mathis asks him for his help. Thinking Newton was using Krista to get to him, Peter calls Broyles but asks him not to tell Walter where he is.
Peter sees Mathis’ partner Ferguson with Newton. Another girl, Gwynn is found dead, but Peter doesn’t recognize her and doesn’t realize his connection to her. He questions Gwynn’s sister, Heather, but she goes missing too. Peter tests the two dead bodies for adrenaline spikes and plots them on a map to figure out where Newton may have killed them.
NBC has just announced its first pick up for the 2010-2011 season. J.J. Abrams’ CIA pilot, “Undercovers.” The hour-long pilot stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Boris Kodjoe who play a married couple retired from the CIA but are reinstated after running a quiet catering business for more than five years.
“J.J. has delivered another signature series along with our partners at Warner Bros and we couldn’t be happier,” Jeff Gaspin, Chairman of NBC Universal Television Entertainment, said. The pick up probably has a lot to do with Abrams’ track record with shows like “Lost”, “Fringe and “Alias”, making the full season order no surprise.
After last week’s explosive episode in which Peter learns the truth about himself and turns his back on Walter, “Fringe’s” producers knew they had to explore what effect this would have on the already fragile Walter.
The show’s Executive Producer Jeff Pinkner explains, “The last episode that aired, Peter learned he wasn’t from our universe … and turned his back on Walter [John Noble]. So we knew we wanted to tell an episode that really explored — we have this phenomenal actor in John Noble and this great character in Walter — how that affects Walter before we plunge forward into the end of the season. We came up with a narrative device to really explore Walter’s feelings.”
