On the Fringe

Fox released its upfront schedule today for the 2008-2009 tv season and the most exciting television show across any network has to be Fringe. Fringe is written and created by J.J. Abrams (Felicity, Alias, Lost) and Fox is wise to jump on the Abrams bandwagon. The 2 hour pilot is rumored to have a 10 million dollar budget! You know it will be explosive with that type of cash. Stars include Joshua Jackson, John Noble, and Lance Reddick. But the main star is unknown Anna Trov who is hoping that J.J. will do for her what he did for Keri Russell, Jennifer Garner, and Evangeline Lily. Below is a brief plot synopsis. Can't wait til Fall!

Fringe Written by J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman
What It's About: When something disturbing, unexplainable and just a bit icky happens to the passengers on an international flight, FBI Agent Olivia Warren (Torv) begins an investigation that leads her to Dr. Walter Bishop (Noble), a renegade scientist whose unorthodox experiments into fringe phenomena led to arrests and eventually institutionalization. Warren can only get Bishop out with the help of his estranged son Peter (Jackson), a young man with a genius IQ, but questionable morals and motivation. The son isn't ready to reconcile with his father, the father isn't ready to be reintegrated into the outside world and Olivia isn't ready to serve as babysitter, but they form an unlikely team. How does the airplane tragedy relate to The Pattern, a spate of unexplained occurrences sweeping the world? And what does any of this have to do with the mysterious Prometheus Corporation, one of the world's most forward-thinking companies? And what do we make of Broyles (Reddick), the head of the Homeland Security's newly formed Fringe Division?