When is the new television show Fringe going to debut on Fox?
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – In the first face-off of new fall scripted series Tuesday, Fox’s super-sized “Fringe” performed slightly above the margin while last week’s breakout hit, the CW’s “90210,” fell to earth. Airing with a lighter load of commercials, the 90-minute “Fringe” debut averaged 9.1 million viewers. While it wasn’t vintage “X-Files” in the ratings especially with all the promotion surrounding it, the supernatural drama added viewers during its 8:00-9:30 p.m. run. “Fringe” is expected to benefit from having “House” as a lead-in in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, CW’s “90210” (3.2 million) slid 26%, finishing fifth in the hour. Even in its core demo, women 18-34, “90210” fell 36% and was just barely ahead of the ratings for “Big Brother” and “Wipeout” in that demo. In the 8 p.m. hour “90210” also was beaten by the midseason finale of ABC Family’s “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” (4.5 million). Also slow Tuesday were the premiere of CW’s “Privileged” (2.6 millio
Every once in a while a pilot comes along that is so perfect, such a shining indication of what the final series will be, so perfectly cast and directed, that it’s impossible to look away. That pilot, ladies and gentlemen, is definitely FOX’s phenomenal science-tinged drama Fringe. In a nutshell, Fringe is The X-Files for the new millennium: eerie, gripping, and still haunting even after the final credits have rolled, albeit containing an overt (rather than subtle) humor that never existed in that series. In this case, the aliens aren’t from outer space: they’re the mega-corporations that dot the American landscape, pushing science and technology past their limits and exploiting that for their own gain. It poses several ethical questions: when does the pursuit of scientific discovery go too far? Who is monitoring the rapid advances in technology in today’s day and age? And what happens when a scientist–or a group of scientists–decides that the world is their laboratory? Longtime read
