Here’s screencaptures of 1×02 – “The Same Old Story” and stills of 1×04 “The Arrival”. Check them out:

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- 1.04 – “The Arrival” Stills
- 1.02 – “The Same Old Story” Screencaptures

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FOX debuted its highly anticipated but nonetheless risky new J.J. Abrams series Fringe in a special 90-minute episode on Tuesday, September 9. While solid, the ratings were not the blockbuster numbers the producers may have been hoping for. However, audiences will get another chance to tune into the pilot episode at 8 PM ET on Sunday, September 14, and FOX has added some goodies to the evening to spice up the rebroadcast even for those who caught the show the first time. In a conference call, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Fringe co-creators, writers, and executive producers), as well as Jeff Pinkner (executive producer) discussed the pesky ratings and rebroadcast treats.

Pinkner explained that not only will series stars Joshua Jackson (Peter Noble) and Anna Torv (Olivia Dunham) host the rebroadcast, FOX will also show “the first act of episode two at the tail end of the pilot.” The second episode, titled “The Same Old Story,” will deal with an investigation into the deaths of a woman who experiences a vastly accelerated pregnancy and what the press release describes as a “senior citizen” newborn. FOX will start the ball rolling on the evening with an exclusive first look at a scene from The Day The Earth Stood Still, followed by a preview of 24: Redemption, the two-hour standalone special episode of 24 coming in November.

“The Same Old Story” publicity stillWith treats like these, clearly the network is hoping viewers will check out the rebroadcast, but Kurtzman and Orci insist that they are not concerned about the modest 9.1 million ratings for the pilot. Orci explained, “If it was a movie, we’d be concerned, but a TV show is a marathon, so next week will be more a time to celebrate or be concerned.” Given that the episode gained viewers throughout the broadcast and won the desirable 18-49 age demographic, the numbers are promising, especially as Fringe launched earlier in September than other Abrams shows and without a strong lead-in. That changes next week, when Fringe should benefit from following hit show House.

Kurtzman said that the producers took into account that in early September, people would still be finding their way back to their television sets, and the show may need a two or three week ramp-up to find its audience. Fortunately, Fringe has been crafted to be less serialized than a program like Lost. Orci noted, “That’s … why we were trying to be disciplined about having a show you can come in week two, week three or week four and still catch up. If you’ve missed the pilot, it’s okay.”

Fringe will have its regular time period premiere at 9 PM ET on Tuesday, September 16, following the 8 PM season premiere of House.

source: blogcritics.org

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I found a video of a sneak peek of next week’s episode of Fringe!:

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Leading up to the premiere of Fringe, Fox seemed to put nearly all of its fall marketing dollars into J.J. Abrams’ risky sci-fi show. Along with The CW’s 90210 (also airing on Tuesday nights), it was one of the season’s most-hyped new bows. So did it pay off in the ratings last night? Well…sorta. Over its 90-minute premiere, Fringe averaged 9 million viewers, according to overnight ratings. Not too shabby, for sure, but the suits over at Fox probably aren’t dancing in their offices today, either. A double-digit premiere would have been much more stir-worthy. To the show’s credit, though, it did improve on its audience every half hour, which is a good sign (because it means viewers weren’t getting bored and tuning out), but the real test is still yet to come. Will fans be compelled to come back for the next installment? Will Fox juggernaut House give it a boost? What happens in two weeks when ABC’s Dancing With the Stars results show and CBS’s The Mentalist debut? (To weigh in on the Fringe series premiere, head over to PopWatch.

Tuesday night’s other big story brings us back to 90210. The second episode drew just 3.3 million viewers — down a startling 30 percent from its 4.7 million debut last week. Most shows drop off a bit after their premieres, but anything beyond 10 or 15 percent is cause for serious concern. Maybe fans weren’t as excited by the return of Jackie Taylor (Ann Gillespie) this week as they were by Brenda Walsh (Shannon Doherty) last week?

Last night, The CW also premiered another series focused on the young, rich, and fabulous: Privileged, starring Reba cutie JoAnna Garcia as the new tutor to two Palm Beach snobs. The debut drew a CW-appropriate 2.9 million viewers, shedding just 12 percent of 90210′s diminishing audience. Looking back at last year, though, Privileged’s numbers are an improvement on the former holder of the Tuesday-at-9 p.m. timeslot, Reaper, which averaged only 2.3 million viewers. (Reaper returns midseason in a TBD spot.) However, as the rest of the networks premiere their full slates and certain shows break out or fizzle, we’ll be looking at a vastly different landscape in the next few weeks. So the moral of this story? Stay tuned.

source: ew.com

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This particular article/interview also includes Anna, so I thought I’d link it up for you. I won’t post the whole thing here as it’s kind of long, but you can click the below link to read it and see pictures:

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Fringe premieres tomorrow at 8/7c so make sure you tune in and check it out! It’s going to be fantastically awesome.

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Hey all! I added stills of episode 2 of Fringe entitled “The Same Old Story” to the gallery as well as screencaptures of Anna’s Letterman appearance:

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- The Late Show With David Letterman – September 2, 2008
- Fringe >> Season 1 Stills >> 1×02 – “The Same Old Story

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When Fox’s Fringe debuts next week, it will introduce a new Australian actress to American audiences: Anna Torv, who has appeared in some TV down under and elsewhere, but is otherwise unknown.

But if Fringe–created by J.J. Abrams and his Star Trek writing team of Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci–is a big hit, as Fox and several critics expect, Torv won’t be unknown for long. She joins a list of Abrams discoveries–including Felicity’s Keri Russell, Alias’ Jennifer Garner and Lost’s Evangeline Lilly–who emerged from obscurity into the limelight.

“J.J. has this, I don’t know, like, uncanny knack for casting women,” Torv’s co-star, Joshua Jackson, said. “It’s crazy.”

Torv, a native of Melbourne, is perhaps best known for starring in the BBC series Mistresses and the cable miniseries The Pacific. She auditioned by tape for Fringe and was one of thousands of actresses considered for the difficult lead role of FBI special agent Olivia Dunham. Before she knew it, Torv was on a jet to Toronto, where the two-hour pilot was shot, and is now living in New York, where the series will be filmed.

Fringe centers on FBI agent Olivia Dunham, who finds herself drawn into an investigation of a mysterious aircraft disaster in Boston. Olivia’s desperate search for help to save her gravely injured partner leads to brilliant scientist Walter Bishop (fellow Aussie John Noble), who has been institutionalized for the last 17 years. And the only way to question him requires pulling his estranged son, Peter (Jackson), in to help. The investigation gets weirder and weirder as Olivia discovers that things–and science–are not what they seem.

Torv spoke with SCI FI Wire exclusively on the Manhattan set of Fringe last week. Fringe premieres Sept. 9 and will air Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Tell us about your character.

Torv: I play Olivia Dunham, who’s an FBI agent, who … all of a sudden is exposed to this whole other world and is kind of forced to deal with it, which she does. She sort of tends to take on all the responsibility she can get. She has a real sense of duty. When we first started shooting it, we were able to talk to a retired FBI agent, which was fantastic. Yeah, it’s really good. And even just talking to him, I mean, not about any secrets stuff, but … these people that do these kind of jobs have … just such a strong sense of duty. Like, a strong sense of duty and just total focus and tunnel vision, … high expectations of themselves, too. And I think Olivia really does fall into that category.

And she’s ex-military, used to being in charge. She’s used to being able to figure out what’s happening, and suddenly is thrown into these situations that are mystifying?

Torv: I think so. … I think she’s used to hard work and, like, following the trail, and the stuff that she’s dealing with is horrific, because it’s huge. … One of the beautiful things about J.J.’s show is that there’s always this overriding thing that follows you that you can’t quite get to the bottom of. Real characters in totally outrageous situations, and yeah, this is the same.

Roberto Orci told us that the subtext of the show for him was about the family that you choose: that these people sort of need each other and that’s why they come together. Do you agree with that?

Torv: I do, absolutely. And I think that as the show progresses they will need each other more and more and more. … The entire cast is fantastic. … The power of three’s a fun little number, because … the dynamic is always going to shift, and you’re always going to need one person more than the other. … I was brought up in a family of three, and there’s always two people against one.

Tell me about some of the crazier stuff you’ve had to do.

Torv: I don’t know what I can say. I mean, seriously– … this sounds so boring–but, legitimately, standing outside of a hospital in minus-45 degrees with the wind blowing in my face, with no hat on, no gloves on, nothing on my face. That was insane. And the scene got cut from the pilot anyway. …

In the pilot, they shoot you in a water isolation tank a la Altered States.

Torv: Yeah. I don’t know, how long did we do it? I think only a day, I think it was only one day in the tank. And that was OK. They were really sweet. They had to put Epsom salts in so I could float a little bit. … I was having to use my stomach muscles. But I was glad I was in first, because they did all of my stuff, and then the camera guys got in the tank with their big boots, and shot back up. So I got off easy. …

Can you talk about the sort of concept of the show. It’s pretty out there, and sort of tough for people to wrap their brains around.

Torv: I’m really excited for the show to premiere so then I stop getting asked the question, because … I never know which way to go. It’s kind of got a bit of everything, I don’t think it’s genre-specific. I think that it is very science fiction, but more emphasis on the science as opposed to the fiction. There’s drama, because your characters are all real, but they’re dealing with these … horrific [scenarios], so I think there’s elements of horror. There’s elements of action. There’s investigative [stuff]; there’s crime-solving. I mean, it’s just all consuming and far reaching. …

It sort of feels like a J.J. Abrams show because he’ll take many genres and sort of smash them together.

Torv: Totally. And seamlessly, you know? And that’s the kind of thing. I was actually just thinking about that the other day, going, “Oh, my God. We were up to episode four, and the cases are the things you’ve looked at and seen, or the characters have seen, is ridiculous. And yet it all seems to kind of gel and work.

Just briefly watching you this afternoon, rehearsing with the other actors, it’s like you guys have a lot of fun.

Torv: Yeah. Well, especially scenes like this, because … we’re all together doing stuff, and it’s not, like, high high high stakes. It’s legitimately doing and asking questions and moving and doing. I love any scene were we actually get to move or walk and talk. That’s my favorite.

This came up pretty suddenly for you. You were in Australia, and suddenly you’re moving to New York and you’ve got this TV series.

Torv: Good things sometimes come really quickly and easily, actually, and it was just the most painless audition process I think I’ve ever had. And I got the part really quickly, and I mean it was a no-brainer. I said, “Yes, thank you, I am so excited.” And I actually hopped on a plane the next day. Went to Los Angeles and met J.J. and some of the others and flew to Toronto, like, the next day, and we started shooting that week. And then we had a little bit of time between the pilot and starting the series, so I had a little bit of time to prepare to come to New York and sort all that stuff out. But, yeah, I don’t know. I think also, and then since I’ve been in New York, too, I’ve just been working nonstop, so, all this sort of external stuff that’s going on is really almost nonexistent. We’re working so many hours a day, and I literally go from home to set to home to set. But I’m having fun. … I’m really having fun doing the show. –Patrick Lee, News Editor

source: fringetelevision.com

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Hey everyone! Anna’s scheduled to appear on Letterman tomorrow September 2nd at 11:35e/10:35c so don’t miss her! I’ll have caps and clips up the following day hopefully.

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