Fringe fans, get your thinking caps on - we’ve got two copies of the brand new book, Fringe, showcasing the six-issue comics mini series based on JJ Abrams’ show.
The comics were created by several of the writers from the show, including Mike Johnson and Zack Whedon (brother of Joss!), and they detail events in the years prior to Olivia Dunham becoming involved in Fringe science, as a young Doctor Walter Bishop and his fellow student, William Bell, embark on a course of experimentation that will lead them to unleashing powers beyond their wildest dreams, and a gateway into the unknown.
Q. In the TV series Fringe, what is the name of Olivia’s niece?
a) Carlie
b) Ella
c) Rachel
Email us your answer, with ‘Fringe competition’ clearly marked in the subject line, at tvspy@ipcmedia.com. The competition will close at midnight on Thursday 25 February 2010.
PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept entries submitted via the comments section of our blog. All entries must be via email.
We will collect your personal email data solely to process your competition entry. Prizes will be awarded to the first two correct entries to be drawn at random under independent supervision after the competition closes at midnight on Thursday 25 February. We will notify the winners by email within 21 days of this closing date. The prize consists of one copy of the Fringe book. Promoter: IPC Media. Prize Supplier: Titan Books.
The lovely people at Fringe Television are reporting that Star Trek legend Leonard Nimoy has been cast as Fringe’s mysterious boffin William Bell, the man behind scientific tinkers Massive Dynamic. If this is true – and seeing as how Nimoy’s been hanging around with JJ Abrams’ posse on the set of the new Star Trek movie and voicing a Transformer, it could well be – we’re looking forward to an awesome second season! Nimoy is rumoured to be popping up in the first season’s finale…
Fringe is back in the US next Tuesday, 20 January, and should, we’re promised, be back on Sky1 here in the UK a few weeks later. To get us all in the mood, those clever people at Fox have created this neat little recap video, which summarises the first 10 episodes in five minutes…
It took a little while for it to really heat up, but Fringe certainly went out with a bang before it’s mid-season break. Suddenly lurching into a Lost-style time-and-space-travel mystery, the series transported an enigmatic bad guy from a German prison to an American forest and revealed that FBI agent Olivia may be more central to the Pattern than previous thought. And why was cyber-armed possible villainess Nina Sharp hanging out in London? Here are a couple of trailers for the next episode, which isn’t due until the end of January…
Here’s an excellent recap of the first series of Fringe so far, narrated by John Noble (mad scientist Walter Bishop, himself). Thanks for FringeBloggers for pointing us in the direction of this festive treat.
…in less than a minute. Who’d have thought JJ Abrams mind-bending drama series Fringe would be so easy to sum up? The secrets of The Pattern are revealed here, and all of sudden everything makes sense.
As regular readers of this blog will know, we’re huge fans of Fringe’s Walter Bishop here at TV Spy. Last week, we promised to put together a selection of his finest moments from the series so far, but it appears that those lovely people over at Fox have beaten us to it. And so, with no further ado, we present to you two-and-a-half minutes of the finest Walterisms… Enjoy!
We know it’s just a flashy X Files rip-off, and, yes, there’s no denying it’s unbelievably silly at times, but Fringe is fast becoming our favourite new US show. For all the ludicrous leaps of faith it has demanded of us, the first few episodes have shown great style and panache – and, mercifully, humour. None of the people involved seem to be taking things too seriously and, frankly, it’s all the better for that.
Our favourite character by far is mad-as-cheese scientist Walter Bishop, played by John Noble. He gets gets all the best lines (”The only thing better than a cow is a human… unless you need milk”, etc) and steals every scene he’s in.
We will be paying proper tribute to his wit and wisdom at some yet-to-be-determined point in the future (in other words, when we can be bothered to get round to it), but in the meantime we point you in the direction of this little clip from episode six, The Cure, which airs in the US tonight and will show here in the UK on Sky 1 on Sunday 9 November, in which the great man introduces us to a chemical process we had hitherto never heard of: “Gooification“! Yes, you read right, gooification. Now if only our science teachers at school had used words like that, we might have paid more attention…
