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Last Night’s Fringe Was More Torturous Than the Leaked Version

Despite protestations to the contrary, I persist in believing that the Fringe PR team deliberately leaked the spooky science show’s 90 minute pilot a couple of months ago. Just so they could say things like, “The transmitted version of the pilot is totally different — you’ll have to see how great it is now.” No…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 10

Everything You Need to Know Before Watching Fringe Tonight

Tonight begins JJ “Lost” Abrams’ latest foray into the world of spooky science and family melodrama, the TV series Fringe. In the two-hour pilot tonight you’ll be introduced to its blend of bizarro, Altered States science and Felicity-esque parent/child drama. We’ve seen the pilot, we’ve talked to JJ Abrams, and now we’re here to tell…

Television Annalee Newitz Sep 9

Fringe Preview Screeners Measured Audience’s Emotional Responses

When Fringe premieres tomorrow night, what you’ll see on screen isn’t just a product of the collective minds of JJ Abrams, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. It’s also the product of biometric audience testing, to fine-tune just how addictive the show can be made to America at large. Is this the new scientific face of…

Television Graeme McMillan Sep 8

Fringe’s ARG Upsets Nature, Messes With Your Mind

Despite what you may think, Fringe isn’t just some silly little J.J. Abrams show on Fox about a Scooby Gang trying to uncover the secret behind a haunted alien spaceship. Not only do we have to deal with mind-bending scientific explanations for creepy out-of-this-world happenings in the show itself, but there is also an intricate…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 7

Star Trek Reboot Movie Will Have Tons of Gadgets

The upcoming Star Trek reboot by J.J. Abrams has a lot going for it, from interesting choices in actors (John Cho, Simon Pegg and even a cameo by the son of James Doohan, the original Scotty), to updated special effects and concepts. What we’re interested in are all the gadgets, from phasers to tricorders and…

Gadgets Jason Chen Sep 2

JJ Abrams Inspired by YouTube Video of “Crazy Pig with Monkey Face”

If you’ve watched any of JJ Abrams’ scifi-themed shows over the years like Alias and Lost — or if you’re lucky enough to have seen the season premiere of his new show Fringe before it airs Sept. 9 — you know the guy is obsessed with science. Well, not science as the journal Science would…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 28

Is Any TV Show Worth $10 Million?

If you’re wondering how the pilot of JJ Abrams’ new Fox show Fringe managed to cost around ten million dollars, then you may be disappointed to learn that the answer has more to do with your souped-up plasma HD TV than Abrams and Joshua Jackson blowing millions sniffing coke off the butts of hot Astral…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 26

What Should A Star Trek Movie Require?

Click to viewIt may be nine months until we get to see JJ Abrams’ rebooted Star Trek, but that doesn’t mean that he’s not willing to talk about it. TrekMovie.com quotes the director from a recent TVGuide interview, saying that “I think this movie is going to be worth the wait.” Not that we’d expected…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 24

Get Ready to Hear Some Romulan Pirate Smack Talk

Apparently the new JJ Abrams Star Trek flick is going for linguistic realism. A linguist actually came on set to create a Romulan language, according to Clifton Collins, Jr., who plays an evil Romulan along with Eric Bana in the film. But wait, there’s more: Not only did Collins spill the beans about the Romulan…

Movies Annalee Newitz Aug 14

Fringe Preview Comic Ramps Up Random Weirdness

For those of us who didn’t manage to pick up the special Fringe preview comic given away at Comic-Con, don’t despair; fansite FringeTelevision has posted all six pages online so that you, too, can see the kind of unusual occurrences that Joshua Jackson will be investigating in JJ Abrams’ new take on The X-Files. [Fringe…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 4

Who’s Responsible For No Star Trek At Comic-Con, Really?

Much to everyone’s surprise, yesterday’s Fringe panel – featuring Star Trek director JJ Abrams and Star Trek writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman – didn’t include a special sneak preview of next summer’s reboot of Space and The Final Frontier. It’s not that any such preview had been announced (just the opposite, in fact), but…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jul 27

JJ Abrams Tells io9 How to Make a Monster Awesome

After JJ Abrams had finished answering all the official questions about his new series Fringe, and his upcoming Star Trek prequel, I had just one crucial burning question left. About monsters. Abrams is known for being a monster-lover — after all, he helped conceive of Clovie from Cloverfield — and I needed to know just…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 27

Fringe Will Be Dark, and Clues About It Are Already Out There

In the panel devoted to JJ Abrams’ new spooky mytho-scientific show Fringe, Abrams revealed that there are already a lot of clues about the show floating around out there, but that he won’t reveal what they are or where you can find them (those “non-humans banned” signs, leading to a mystery URL around Comic-Con aroused…

Television Annalee Newitz Jul 26

The Dharma Initiative Uses Scientology Tactics

You’re in luck if you’re still hoping to get in good with the Dharma Initiative, the mysterious organization whose experiments have transformed paranormal castaway drama Lost’s island into a hellpit of experimental science gone wrong. As we told you earlier, Dharma is “recruiting” people at Comic-Con to join their organization — to apply, you have…

Television Annalee Newitz Jul 26

Star Trek Reboot To Begin In Comic Book

Turns out that you won’t have to wait for May’s movie to see your first view of JJ Abrams’ reboot version of Star Trek after all: According to Newsarama, IDW Publishing will be releasing a special comic that leads into the movie next year, complete with input from Abrams and screenwriter Roberto Orci. But will…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan Jul 25

Abrams Upset At Comic-Con’s Lack Of Trek

Disappointed that there won’t be any Star Trek sneak peeks at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con? You’re not the only one – Director JJ Abrams (who will be there, in support of his new TV show Fringe) has been sharing his feelings about the decision to reporters on the Television Critics Association tour, and he’s…

Movies Graeme McMillan Jul 15

What to Expect on the Fringe

Have you been wondering about those radio ads that prompt you to find “the pattern”? What about the posters wheatpasted in several major cities that feature fake X-ray images of frogs, apples, and a six-fingered handprint (left, reminiscent of the X-Files handprint of yore, right)? Well, I think we’ve found a pattern for you: it’s…

Television Annalee Newitz Jun 30

DC Comics Goes For A Fringe Audience

After having been announced last week in the unlikely pages of USA Today, yesterday’s release of DC Comics’ official solicitations for September means that we can find out a little bit more about the comic book version of JJ Abrams’ new Fox SF thriller, Fringe. Admittedly, it is literally just a little bit more, but…

Television Graeme McMillan Jun 17

Fringe Has Less X, More Alias-Style Mythology

It had to happen: For weeks we’ve been telling you that JJ Abrams’ new Fox show Fringe is nothing but an updated X-Files for the 21st century (ignoring the fact that the old X-Files has a new movie out this summer, which probably means that it’s still the X-Files for the 21st century). But now…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jun 2

Star Trek Premiere Tickets Sell For Too Much Money

How desperate are you to be at next summer’s premiere of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot? Thousands of dollars worth of desperate? Then perhaps you were one of the people who placed bids on a special charity auction for 2 tickets to next year’s Hollywood premiere on eBay this weekend . . . The auction,…

io9 Graeme McMillan May 12

Last Night’s Fringe Was More Torturous Than the Leaked Version

Everything You Need to Know Before Watching Fringe Tonight

Fringe Preview Screeners Measured Audience’s Emotional Responses

Fringe’s ARG Upsets Nature, Messes With Your Mind

Star Trek Reboot Movie Will Have Tons of Gadgets

JJ Abrams Inspired by YouTube Video of “Crazy Pig with Monkey Face”

Is Any TV Show Worth $10 Million?

What Should A Star Trek Movie Require?

Get Ready to Hear Some Romulan Pirate Smack Talk

Fringe Preview Comic Ramps Up Random Weirdness

Who’s Responsible For No Star Trek At Comic-Con, Really?

JJ Abrams Tells io9 How to Make a Monster Awesome

Fringe Will Be Dark, and Clues About It Are Already Out There

The Dharma Initiative Uses Scientology Tactics

Star Trek Reboot To Begin In Comic Book

Abrams Upset At Comic-Con’s Lack Of Trek

What to Expect on the Fringe

DC Comics Goes For A Fringe Audience

Fringe Has Less X, More Alias-Style Mythology

Star Trek Premiere Tickets Sell For Too Much Money

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