By Stacey Harrison
Last night’s post-Super Bowl airing of Undercover Boss pulled in over 38 million viewers, the best for that time slot since 2001.
Incidentally (or not) it was another reality offering — the premiere of the second season of Survivor — that was the last to pull in those kinds of ratings. But instead of [...]
By Stacey Harrison
PASADENA, Calif. — Making a surprise appearance during the Television Critics Association panel on Monday, Simon Cowell announced that he was leaving American Idol after this season to ready the launch of another talent show, The X Factor, which will premiere on the network in 2011.
Cowell has long been trying to get X [...]
By Stacey Harrison
You can always tell when you’re in for a mythology episode or a standalone episode by the “previously on Fringe” segments. If you see a scene from the pilot, setting up the premise of the show, then Pattern junkies are probably OK to skip the next hour. If you’re seeing Leonard Nimoy, and [...]
By Stacey Harrison
First off, coolest episode name ever. Just had to say that.
We start off in Boston (which looks nothing like Vancouver, no sir, not one bit) where a man is frantically wandering the streets of Chinatown. He makes it to see a man and they start to discuss strange, oblique subjects like “the others” [...]
By Stacey Harrison
The title of the season finale is an Irish term for “the troubles,” referring to the longstanding ethno-political conflicts that plagued the two Irelands and England through much of the latter half of the 20th century. In other words, brace yourself.
This Chinese box of a wrap-up may have one too many coincidences and [...]
By Stacey Harrison
The penultimate episode this season is one long call to battle, with the opening musical montage consisting of the West Coast chapters of SAMCRO coming together to assemble a task force to fight Zobelle and The League, while the old ladies — yes, Tara included — stand by their men to the plaintive [...]
By Stacey Harrison
If you’re any fan at all of Fringe —and if you’re reading this, I’ll assume you are — you’ve heard that The Observers take center stage this week, and that we’ll find out a whole lot more about them. No one-off episode here. This one will take a permanent place in the show’s [...]
By Stacey Harrison
Are the Observers human? As far as I can tell, it’s never been definitively determined on the show, but in a conference call this week, a couple of Fringe producers may have let slip that the bald, Mad Men-styled characters who pop up during important events in several episodes are in fact of [...]
By Stacey Harrison
You always knew Opie would find out. But what would he do about it? Would he do what most of us believe we would do, and quit the group that sanctioned and carried out his wife’s murder? As each character in this show can attest, the ties to SAMCRO run deep, and not [...]
By Stacey Harrison
Fringe is known for its twists and turns, but one I didn’t see coming was the premiere of a new episode last Thursday. Perhaps I was fooled by all those FOX ads claiming that the show would be back with new episodes Nov. 12. But thanks to the Yankees taking care of business [...]
