Network Updates!

FOX

Fox's FRINGE has been relegated to the Friday death slot, so it's more than likely going to be Fringe's last season. The mythology of the show has gotten pretty complicated this season, so i can see why the ratings have taken a dive, but i still love the show.

Running Wilde has been effectively canceled, and it will be airing its last episode December 28th. Fox has also canceled The Good Guys - its last episode will be December 10th.

Fox has picked up Christian Slater's new series Breaking In, a workplace comedy rumored to be replacing Running Wilde. 


CBS

Medium has also been canceled by CBS. It will air its last episode 1/21. 


SYFY

Syfy will be premiering Merlin's third season on January 7th at 10 pm. This is a great show that aired its first season on NBC.  It's a BBC import staring Anthony Head from the Buffy television series. 

Syfy also will be premiering their new show Being Human on Monday, January 17th at 9 pm.  This is a remake of the BBC show of the same name about a werewolf, ghost, and a vampire living together.  In this version, they live together in a Boston brownstone.

Syfy will air the Christmas episodes of Eureka and Warehouse 13 on December 8th.

Fringe Science and Chemistry both make Fringe Season 2 a blast

Fringe: Season 2

FOX

Thursdays, 9 PM

Fringe is an interesting show, part science fiction drama and part police procedural, the first season was somewhat of a shock to me. I do not like police shows as a general rule, but this show is different. The show was created by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, and J. J. Abrams ( creator of Felicity, Lost, Undercovers, and producer of Star Trek and Cloverfield).

The show follows the FBI's “Fringe” division based in Boston, MA (Go Boston!). The team of FBI agent Olivia Dunham(Anna Torv), mad scientist Dr. Walter Bishop(John Noble), and his son Peter Bishop(Joshua Jackson) investigates strange unexplainable incidents using “fringe science”. In the first season we learn these occurrences are related to previous experiments done when Dr. Bishop was young, and possibly to an alternate universe.

This season we learn more about this “alternate universe” and about the shape-shifters that we learned in the first season are coming from this universe. We also learn the truth about who Peter is. Leonard Nimoy guest starts in this season, as well as the first, as Dr. Bishop's previous partner, William Bell.

In this season, we learn more about the alternate universe, and we actually go there. We find out the truth about what happened to Peter when he was a child, and we meet the man pulling the strings from the other dimension.

The end of season cliffhanger was fairly obvious to me, and one I wasn't too impressed by. The same plot is often used in alternate universe shows (such as Sliders), and is not original in the least. Time will tell in Season 3 if it goes somewhere new.

The core cast of this show shares unequaled chemistry, the characters of Dr. Bishop, Peter, and Olivia are human, complicated, and extremely well acted. Dr. Bishop's helpless, confused, crazy, mad scientist is among the most heartwarming characters in modern television who at times seems innocent and naïve and at other times selfish and amoral.

The beauty of this show is that unlike other science fiction dramas, you can catch an episode here and an episode there, and you will not feel lost.

Fringe: Season 2
3 ½ stars out of 5