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Just when I thought I'd seen it all from Severin, they come through with an even more impressive box set I need to add to my collection! Directed by Kier-La Janisse, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror has been getting incredible buzz during its recent festival screenings, and Severin and Kier-La have teamed up for All the Haunts Be Ours, a folk horror box set featuring 20 feature films, shorts, commentaries, and much more! Dive into all the details below and learn more at: https://severin-films.com/shop/folk-horror-box/

(Los Angeles, CA) "Hail Behemoth, Spirit Of The Dark!” On December 7th, Severin Films is digging up haunted soil to unearth a truly unprecedented box set – All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror. Curated and produced by acclaimed author and Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched: A History Of Folk Horror director Kier-La Janisse, this definitive...

Is Jj Abrams' Fringe on your must-watch list but you quite don't have time for all 100 episodes? Here's some guidance...

Is there a popular show you’d really like to watch but you just don’t have time to wade through years of it all at once? Do you just want to know why that one character keeps turning up on Tumblr? Do the fans all tell you ‘season one is a bit iffy but stick with it, it gets great!’, leaving you with absolutely zero desire ever to watch the boring/silly/just plain weird season one? Then our episode roadmap features are for you.

In these articles, we’ll outline routes through popular TV shows focusing on particular characters, story arcs or episode types. Are you really into the Klingon episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Do you want to get the overall gist of...

Feature Juliette Harrisson Feb 7, 2013

To celebrate Community's long-awaited return, Juliette counts down ten of its geekiest references to other TV shows and films...

There’s a reason Community, while struggling in the ratings out in the big wide world, often seems to be the most popular show on the internet. This is a show that has not only embraced geek culture, it threw geek culture a big party, baked it a cake then cleaned up afterwards and sent geek culture to bed with a cup of hot cocoa. From brief references to geek staples, to one-liners and visual gags, all the way up to complete spoof episodes, no show on television celebrates geek culture in quite the way that Community does. In preparation for the long-delayed return of everyone’s favourite gang of community college students, we celebrate ten of the show’s geekiest gags.

Each reference has been...

We have finally reached the end. The final Fringe Round Table.

This one will encompass both "Liberty" and "An Enemy of Fate," with those gathering around - Sean McKenna, Carla Day and Carissa Pavlica of TV Fanatic, as well as avid Fringe fan Nick Shere - answering a range of series finale questions.

What was the meaning of the white tulip? Were were satisfied with the conclusion? Pull up a virtual chair and chime in now!

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What part of finale most lived up to your expectations?

Nick: The end. The White Tulip is, for me, the most important of the symbolic and thematic threads that holds Fringe together across its whole run. I know it's weird that it's a drawing and not a plot point that I found the most satisfying -- but it really was.

Sean: I think the ending of Walter making his sacrifice, followed by the...

Feature Juliette Harrisson Jan 22, 2013

The Fringe finale left plenty of questions unanswered, but did it really need to tie up every last detail for its fans?

Spoiler warning: for obvious reasons, don't read this until you've seen the Fringe finale.

Fringe brought its five seasons to a close last Friday, and we’ve had a few days now to let it all sink in. We’ve mourned the passing of the show while celebrating its delightfully unexpected swansong, we’ve had a commemorative meal of root beer float and Red Vines, we’ve tried to alleviate our withdrawal by deciding to watch all of Alias from the beginning. But when all’s said and done, do we feel satisfied, as if swamping after a good roast dinner?

Fringe’s series finale and the episodes leading up to it answered a lot of our questions. Donald was September. The Child Observer was September’s son,...

Review Billy Grifter Jan 21, 2013

In his final ever Fringe review, Billy salutes the passing of a show that will be sorely missed...

This review contains spoilers.

5.12 Liberty & 5.13 An Enemy Of Fate

It’s always sad when a good show ends because it’s like waving goodbye to a person you know you’ll never see again. But as important as how Fringe has been for the past five seasons, it was critical that it went out in some style, especially as Fox had been uncharacteristically magnanimous in giving it the fifth half-season to put its house well and truly in order.

I wasn’t expecting it to be Shakespeare, or even the best TV ever, but the two final stories of the Fringe era were certainly designed to be a love-letter to those who have watched from the outset. Where other end-chapters have a single returning character, or some other acknowledgement,...

Fringe Review, Season 5, Episode 9: “Black Blotter”

Written by Kristin Cantrell

Directed by Tommy Gormley

Fringe Review, Season 5, Episode 10: “Anomaly Xb-6783746”

Written by David Fury

Directed by Jeffrey Hunt

Fringe has a tradition of doing at least one surrealist episode per season and this year, that episode is “Black Blotter”. As in “Brown Betty”, the noir-inspired musical episode from season two, Walter gets high and the episode around him reflects his mental state. Then it was with a potent strain of marijuana, here he’s on acid. Walter hopes his trip will help him recover the memories he needs to complete his plan against the Observers (so he’ll be able to have Nina remove the pieces of his brain turning him back into his older, crueler self) and, though he’s faced with visions of the lab assistant who burned to death years ago, causing his initial incarceration at St.

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Dexter, How I Met Your Mother, Gossip Girl and The X Factor!

1 | Did Fringe succeed in delivering something completely different with Walter’s Monty Python-esque hallucination? And did you weep for the unceremoniously dispatched Sam Weiss?

2 | How did the Degrassi: Las Vegas wedding jaunt compare to Saved By the Bell‘s nuptials in Sin City?

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Walter was up to old tricks again in "Black Blotter" - but did he get the results he expected? Join staff writers Sean McKenna and Carissa Pavlica, as well as Fringeophile Nick Shere, to discuss the trippy episode in this week's TV Fanatic Round Table...

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What did you think of Black Blotter and how it fit in to Fringe Season 5?

Nick: As is basically the theme of this season, it's a darker evolution of a previous story. (In this case, it's even darkening the title of the episode: from Brown Betty to Black Blotter.) And continues the theme of showing the struggle the characters are engaging in to remain whole in the face of increasing stakes. In Brown Betty, Walter's narrative was grim and self-judgmental (until corrected by Ella), but coherent and with an established moral perspective; in Black Blotter, a fragmented Walter builds himself a fragmented story.

Sean:...

Fringe Episode 509

“Black Blotter”

Written By: Kristin Cantrell

Directed By: Tommy Gormley

Original Airdate: 14 December 2012

In This Episode...

Walter has dropped acid, which makes this one trippy, non-linear episode.

Astrid wakes in the middle of the night to find the radio they retrieved from the pocket universe is receiving a transmission. It is a Morse code of sorts, but one that Astrid cannot decipher. Walter is far gone down the acid hole by this point, so Peter calls Anil and he helps them trace the source of the signal.

Olivia and Peter trace the source of the signal to a spot in the woods. They discover what must have been an early fight against the Observers. Three bodies on the ground, and a fourth behind the wheel of a trailer. All died in a gunfight, at least 10-15 years ago. Two were Observers; one was a loyalist. The one in the trailer was,...

There are times when watching Fringe that I think, geez, I should drop some acid! 

"Black Blotter" featured a few of those moments as Walter witnessed fairies dancing and remembered secret, long lost important code words - but in the end reality was still there, and it somehow seemed stronger than ever. I think Walter can keep his acid trips, as living in the present comes with a strong enough undercurrent for me, thank you very much.

We were back to normal this week, as normal as things get on Fringe; the radio they picked up in the pocket universe in "Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found There" suddenly started giving off a signal. Instead of searching for betamax tapes, they were off on a hunt of a different nature, and it was good to change up the pace a bit. 

Olivia and Peter had a chance to...

What a devastating episode.

"The Bullet That Saved the World" featured the tragic demise of Etta and raised the question of whether Broyles can be trusted. Below, TV Fanatic staff writers Sean McKenna, Carla Day and Carissa Pavlica are joined by Fringe super fan Nick Shere and special guest Roco of Fringe Bloggers as they attempt to shed light on the catastrophic events that unfolded...

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Were you surprised that Etta only made it to the fourth episode?

Sean: Holy crap, yes. I know it's a short season, but I expected her to survive at least a little longer. It definitely took me by surprise, but i guess that being the last season means pretty much all the chips are going to be on the table.

Nick: Yes, seriously shocked. While Fringe has always built its stories around personal tragedy, casual death of central characters hasn't really been part of...

“You never know when to give up.”-Captain Windmark There are many questions raised by this week’s episode of Fringe, but one looms larger than the rest. What took so long? I truly want to know where they’ve been hiding this episode and the people that made it. It was directed by David Straiton, a journeyman television director, whose most recent work on Fringe was last season’s Stephen King riff “Welcome to Westfield.” The writer was Alison Schapker, a veteran of eight Fringe episodes, including one of my personal favorites, “The Last Sam Weiss.” If tonight was any indication, the producers...

Fringe actor Kevin Corrigan has won a role on new Fox drama The Mob Doctor. Corrigan will play the recurring part of mobster Titus Amato, Entertainment Weekly reports. The Mob Doctor stars Jordana Spiro as a young surgeon who must work off a debt to dangerous gangsters. Corrigan - who played the mysterious Sam Weiss on Fringe - previously starred in 1990 gangster movie Goodfellas and 2006 film The Departed. Terry Kinney (Oz) (more)...

Fringe vet Kevin Corrigan has been tapped to join Fox’s new fall drama, The Mob Doctor.

The actor — who has played the mysterious Sam Weiss in multiple episodes of the network’s sci-fi series — will playthe recurring character Titus Amato, a clean-cut member of a South Chicago crime family, EW.com reports. Corrigan’s TV credits also include Grounded for Life and Community (as “Professor Professorson”/Garrity).

In turn, Oz alum Terry Kinney will recur as Titus’ brother Salvatore, per The Hollywood Reporter. The Amatos have an association with the mob boss (played by William Forsythe) to whom Jordana Spiro...

A familiar face from Fringe will frequent Fox’s fall.*

Kevin Corrigan – who plays the mysteriously helpful bowling alley manager Sam Weiss on Fringe — will play a recurring character on Fox’s new series The Mob Doctor.

The actor will play Titus Amato, described as a clean cut, business-casual mobster: “If he were in the Corleone family, Titus would be more Michael. Full of bravado, he always thinks he’s got the upper hand.”

Sony Pictures TV’s Mob Doctor stars Jordana Spiro as a young surgeon who owes a debt to the Chicago mafia. The show also just cast Oz’s Terry Kinney,...

In celebration of the recent announcement that Fox has awarded Fringe with a fifth and final season, executive producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman took to the phones to talk to a gaggle of press about what’s in store for one of television’s most creatively ambitious series as it prepares to close out its season with the first of an epic two part finale starting tonight at 9Pm on Fox (CityTV in Canada).

Jeff: As always, we are so entirely indebted to each and every one of you. We have publicly and now privately on the phone want to make it clear that we know the pickup of this show in season five is largely due to all of you and your support, so thank you very much.

Between who we saw there in the amber in episode 19, what Joshua has said about episode 19 in forming season five,...

Now That was what every Fringe episode should be like. "Nothing As It Seems" was head-scratching, question-inducing fun!

Revisiting an old case that ended differently was something I originally expected to take place between the two universes. While it was a bit disheartening it didn't happen with the doppelgangers and we had to wait for Peter to disappear and reappear, it was rewarding nonetheless.

Add to the case the mystery of Olivia's changing personality and Peter's opening feelings toward everyone after his realization he wouldn't be investing his time unwisely, and it was a solid hour of programming.

Since Olivia was, in effect, losing herself, the FBI didn't believe she was fit for duty as she wasn't the same person they licensed. Did anyone else find that odd? I mean, at least they knew her and the knowledge she had already panned out. Peter came back from nothing and was...

This past television season's offerings have run the gamut from very good (The Good Wife) to pretty darn good (Nikita) to not good in the least (90210).

Today, TV Fanatic's end-of-season Report Card series continues with Fringe.

In a season where you've just witnessed the best and worst of almost all of the characters, not to mention story lines complex enough to send your brain into spasms, merely compiling a Fringe report card proved daunting a task.

We persevered, however, and here it is:

Best Character: The Olivias. Yes, I'm picking them both because they are, in essence, the same person living in different universes (note this logic will not hold true down the line).

Both characters are full of such life, and the reason I had to pick both is because when they switched worlds, and were acting as each other, touching upon their unique differences essentially changed each forever.

One week after Fringe’s time-traveling, parallel world-bridging, and thoroughly brain melting season 3 finale, fans of the Fox sci-fi series are still steaming with burning questions. Did Peter (Joshua Jackson) erase himself from history? Who took the doomsday machine back into the paleolithic past? And whatever happened to the Blimp Guy that Olivia (Anna Torv) predicted would one day kill her? We culled our message boards for the most frequently-posed inquiries and then presented them to Fringe masterminds Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman. They were kind enough to respond, even if they acknowledged that for now, there’s little they can actually say.

“It’s radical. It could wipe clean the entire slate of Fringe.”

So said Joshua Jackson in an interview with EW.com a few weeks ago about the season finale of the Fox sci-fi series. It was a bold claim, and hard to appreciate without knowing what was going to happen in “The Day We Died.” But now we know. Spoiler Alert For The DVR Set! The finale was part Crisis On Infinite Earths and part “Days of Future Past” with a touch of A Christmas Carol (“Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come” section): After activating the so-called “doomsday...

Welcome back to the latest edition of TV Fanatic's Fringe Round Table!

Our Fringe critic, Carissa Pavlica, and fellow panelists Sean McKenna and Nick McHatton discuss this week's episode, "The Last Sam Weiss," in a Q&A below. Drop your own answers in the comments!

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Did the reality of Sam Weiss live up to what you have been expecting?

Carissa: After hearing the producers talk about him, I was surprised he was just a normal guy. I loved the direction he took in this episode and how he made me laugh. That bit with the museum card had me in stitches. So he has vast generational knowledge only...I hope there is enough there to make him a more prevalent character going forward. Best Sam episode yet.

Sean: Sam had always been portrayed as some mystical and all knowing person, something similar to The Observers. The fact that he turned...

Last month, after giving up on "Fringe" for all of six days, only to return to it by the next episode, I'm once again scratching my head, wondering why I'm watching, particularly as it seems that the entire ridiculous Soul Magnets arc was a time killer, filler to get us to where we are now. And where are we now, days before the season finale? Trapped in a show with great characters, fun ideas, and no fucking idea how to properly execute them.

It's a mess.

The best part of "Fringe" -- its mythology -- is also the weakest part. The alternate dimension is great. The "device" is interesting. That device, it turns out, is some sort of time machine, which both sets up and, it seems, resets the finale and season four, which makes it all the more intriguing, pitting this dimension against the future alterna-dimension. But the contrivances...

Fringe 3x21 – In Which Walter Flies A Kite and Peter Gets A Flash

The penultimate episode of this season was not a crazy fanfare of explosions, gunfire and gore, but it was intense, heartfelt and climatic. So let's jump straight into it:

Things That Made Me Happy

Tapioca Pudding and Kites – The episode began with Walter sitting vigil at Peter’s bedside. Astrid literally had to coax him away with tapioca pudding which I thought ridiculously sweet and telling of their relationship. I enjoyed the return to an earlier Walter/Astrid dynamic in this episode, in which Astrid acted not as Walter’s slave, but more as his sidekick. I loved the scene in which he channelled Ben Franklin and got struck by lightning – twice. “Oh, Ostrich! You are a genius.” And the subsequent kiss was one of my favourite moments of the episode. It’s these little things that...

With Peter still in hospital, a number of seemingly random dry lightning strikes cause havoc on a freeway in Holyoke, Massachusetts, destroying several vehicles and injuring dozens of people. At the Massive Dynamic facility, Sam Weiss is initially baffled as to how the machine can be active, but soon realises that the device has been tricked into thinking that Peter is inside, which is why it now repels anyone or anything that tries to enter. Sam shows Olivia the manuscript that the books written about the First People were based on, which contains sketches of an ancient box and the key that opens it. He explains that the box is said to contain a "crowbar" of sorts that will pry open the machine's force-field long enough for Peter to step inside. Broyles arrives at the hospital, informing Walter and Astrid that a number of spontaneous dry lightning storms have occurred...

Fox’s science fiction serial Fringe wraps up its third season this Friday. The network posted a two-minute cinematic trailer today to prepare fans for the end (?) of two worlds.

Warning: Fringe Season 3 Spoilers Follow!

When last Friday’s Fringe episode wrapped up, Olivia and a recovered Peter had finally managed to access and enter the Machine with a little mystical help from the world’s most mysterious bowler, Sam Weiss. When Peter activated the Machine, he was whisked away to a future where the expanded Fringe Division was assisting in a Manhattan crisis.

According to the teaser that aired at the end of “The Last Sam Weiss,” Peter’s been transported fifteen years into the future. If Walternate is to be believed, ...

Click to continue reading ‘Fringe’ Season 3 Finale Trailer is Two Minutes of Apocalyptic Action...

I’m not going to offer a lot of analysis for this, because you see, I’m a man who knows too much. I had the pleasure of chatting with Fringe stars John Noble and Joshua Jackson a couple weeks ago, and they told me a lot about the season finale. Maybe a little too much, actually. I’ll post my interview with them on Friday in advance of the season 3 capper. In the meantime: watch after the jump and discuss.

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‘Fringe’ recap: ‘The Last Sam Weiss’ and the first glimpse of the future of ‘Fringe’...

If Fringe fans weren't completely blown away by the time-travelling twist of last week's "The Last Sam Weiss," the latest look at the season finale will surely bring them over from the other side.

Going into full-on cinema mode, Fox has unleashed a full-length trailer for this week's "The Day We Died," offering more than a few ample looks at the world we'll come to know fifteen years in the future, incluting a gray-haired Peter, one-eyed Broyles, and the return of bearded Walter Bishop!

You'll also catch your first looks at guest stars Brad Dourif (Deadwood, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers) as Moreau, leader of the universe-tearing terrorist group "The End of Day-ers," as well as Emily Meade (Boardwalk Empire) as a grown-up, FBI version of Olivia's niece Ella.

What questions will be answered? Will our universe survive? Which one of our beloved cast members is going to bite the bullet?...

Spoiler Alert! Do Not Read Unless You Have Seen, "The Last Sam Weiss"

I think everyone here can agree that this last episode of Fringe had quite the startling ending. The promo's were even more startling. Walter speaking out of half of his mouth, Olivia's hair changed again, Broyles's eye not looking so good, a daughter perhaps, and then right out of the book of Lost, a coffin with no name. Now if you're a fan of theories, read on. If not and you would just like to participate in the poll simply scroll down and vote.

Alright over the seasons Fringe has showed us the difference between characters in many different ways; hair color, hair style, clothing; etc. This promo tried two of those on Olivia for us.

Her hair looks different and her clothing isn't the way she normally dresses. In the, "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide" Peter remarks that she only ever wears black.

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['Fringe' - 'The Last Sam Weiss']

First, there was mind reading, then inter-dimensional chaos, and now we're time travelling to a post-apocalyptic future! Man, I love this show.

During season 3, 'Fringe' has truly grown from an ambitious mystery-of-the-week show to an epic and engaging sci-fi saga.

The events of this week's episode solidified what the show has been hinting at from the very beginning: These characters are special, and they were brought together for a very important purpose. We're still a little shaky on the details, but we're certain of one thing: The fates of Peter, Olivia (and maybe even Walter) are undeniably tied to the survival, and maybe even the inception, of the world(s). Why else would the ancient machine only work for Peter? And why else would Olivia be the only one who could disable the machine's force field?

This was one of the most compelling episodes of the season.

After a spontaneous dry lightning storm on the highway causes a stream of car accidents, the Fringe division is on a mission to stop the disastrous events caused by the machine. If the season finale doesn’t show how the people in our universe are reacting to these strange (weather related) events, possibly the future will…

Visual learners will love Walter’s (John Noble) demonstration detailing the cause of the lightning storm. He explained the machine in our world and the machine in the alternate world as magnets and the pull between the two as the cause of the recent event. Meanwhile, Sam Weiss (guest star Kevin Corrigan) and Olivia (Anna Torv) uncover a drawing of her face in the box that is supposed to hold the crowbar (or the machine’s “emergency brake”). So Walter’s theory evolves into Olivia being able to turn the machine off through telekinesis...

Holy cow - how do you discuss perfection? How do you come to terms with the fact that what you just watched was not the season finale, and that you have to wait an entire week to see more? I honestly don't know.

I am dumbfounded at what I witnessed during this hour of Fringe.

I was trying to think of the last time I felt this way when watching an episode of television, and the season finale of Six Feet Under came to mind. That was epic television, and we still have the season three finale of Fringe to fall upon us, and at least another season ahead.

The possibilities are astounding.

Please bear with me as I try to discuss what I considered to be as close to entertainment excellence as I have ever witnessed.

I loved the the usage of The Doors, "Riders On The Storm," which...

Fox’s Fringe has been ramping up to this all season long. Who will win the war between the universes? Don’t miss tonight’s episode, the next to last episode in the show’s third season, titled “The Last Sam Weiss.” (Season Three, Episode Twenty-one) The mysterious Sam Weiss (Kevin Corrigan) is the key to understanding the machine capable of destroying universes. What does destiny have in store for Peter (Joshua Jackson) and Olivia (Anna Torv) – why is Olivia’s face on an ancient scroll as well? Check out the episode promo, sneak peeks, and behind the scenes featurette below.

Fringe Promo: Destiny

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Fringe: “The Last Sam Weiss” Sneak Peeks

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The producers of “Fringe” have promised another thrilling two-part season finale, with the first part – an episode called “The Last Sam Weiss” – airing Friday night (4/29) at 9/8c on Fox.

What can we expect from the finale? Fox All Access producer Jeff Axelrod sat down with John Noble to talk about the season and its final episodes. (Spoiler alert: Noble does offer some potential spoilers during the interview, though he keeps them relatively vague.)

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'6:02 Am Est' may have come and gone, but "The Last Sam Weiss" could still spell otherworldly doom for one of Fringe's parallel worlds.

The second of three installments for the sci-fi series third season finale airs this Friday, April 29th at 9/8 central, but the good folks at Fox and FringeLatino were kind enough two conjure up two new sneak peaks of the reality-hopping action just for you!

The first clip builds off of the confrontation between Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) and Sam Weiss (Kevin Corrigan) started in last week's "6:02 Am Est," as the agent listens to the elusively knowledgable bowler explain potential problems with the timeline that should, and shouldn't be. So just who is Sam Weiss, why does he know what he knows, and how many could there have been before that he'd be the "last?"

Then, stick around for sneak peek #2 as Peter (Joshua Jackson...

In the alternate universe, Brandon explains to Walternate that he has stripped all traces of Fauxlivia's DNA from the genetic sample that he took from her newborn child. The pair plan to activate the First People's machine with the remaining DNA, which contains half of Peter's genetic profile. On the other side, a ranch foreman, his farm-hand and a flock of panicked sheep are consumed in a blinding flash list. Meanwhile, Sam Weiss notices that a ball is vibrating oddly at his bowling alley and and performs a test with a Newton's cradle, appearing disturbed when the device springs into action by itself. When the Fringe team arrive at the field where the farmers and their sheep were last seen,

they discover that a large patch has been left barren and drained of organic life. Broyles explains that the incident happened at roughly 6.05am, and Walter theorises that the (more...

Talk about a set-up.

Everything about Fringe's three-to-go finale was there to send your tease-buds crazy but not give you anything juicy... yet. It had Sam Weiss, Machines turning operational, Peter's (not so successful) moment of heroism, Walternate reminding us he's evil and Walter's confession yet it was always throwing us bones and then not letting us fetch them. That's not to say I wasn't a fan of the episode, it certainly had me on the edge of my seat. (or at least the lying in bed equivalent)

It all kicked off with what we expected, Walternate was using Bishop Jr. DNA to power his Doomsday machine and had got Brandonate to take the neccessary 'hatch-esque' defences to ensure that starting up the machine wouldn't have any negative effects on their world. It was nice to hear that the new baby was named after Andre Royo's Henry, perhaps...

Fringe 3x20: In Which Walter Cooks Naked on Tuesdays and Our Universe Faces Imminent Destruction

This week’s episode marked the beginning of the end for both our universe and the third season of Fringe. The episode laid the foundation for the next two undoubtedly action-packed, heart-stopping instalments. ‘6:02 Am Est’ had a couple of heart-stopping moments of its own. We returned to the ‘Entrada-esque’ narrative which flipped back and forth between Ourverse and the Altverse, where Walternate was up to no good.

Things That Made Me Happy:

Now, I am become Death – Walternate’s plan was finally revealed in full. In short, he sent Altliv ‘Over Here’ to steal the last piece of tech required to assemble The Machine ‘Over There’ and also to encourage Peter to begin working on assembling The Machine. Fate then seemed to smile upon him when Altlivia discovered she was to be Peter’s baby-mama.

Coming soon to your screen: Glee takes on Mother Monster, Raylan Givens ponders revenge, and Michael Scott bids Scranton adieu. As a supplement to the awesome features and original reporting TVLine has coming your way, here are 27 shows you may want to keep on your radar this week.

Monday, April 25

8/7c Dancing With the Stars (ABC) | Without a trace of irony, the seven remaining couples dance to songs deemed “Guilty Pleasures.”

9 pm Gossip Girl (The CW) | Serena asks Cousin Charlie (not to be confused with Cousin Oliver) to find out what Dan and Blair are up to. Why, they’re rattling fan bases,...

“6:02 Am Est” was surprisingly a very tiresome episode. The title could have been a clue, but many wouldn’t expect that with only two episodes left of the season. So maybe last night was a chance for viewers to sit back and relax before all hell breaks loose.

After an entire herd of sheep goes missing and the machine activates without Peter (Joshua Jackson) present, the Fringe division discovers that a vortex has been opened by Walternate (John Noble). Later, Walter realizes that the “Give me the keys and save the girl” directions were not just a message for him in the past. It was preparation for the future, currently this moment when he has to let Peter go and turn off the machine. It’s brilliant how the writers brought the past into the present to help determine the future. But it doesn’t quite work yet. The...

Fox just dropped off one of our favorite documents of the year – its May Sweeps round-up – and suffice it to say, high drama is in plentiful supply as House, Bones, Glee, Fringe and the rest of the network’s scripted series sew up their seasons. We’ve boiled the 5,000-word press release down for you, show-by-show (in alphabetical order). But be warned: This promises to be a mighty download of scoops, teasers and outright spoilers.

Bones | Each of the team members attempts to be more forthcoming in their relationships (April 28)…. Angela keeps Hodgins in the dark regarding the details of...

For Fox’s Fringe, death is usually not straight forward. Case in point, William Bell, as portrayed by Leonard Nimoy – His physical death was not the finale end for him. As we saw in “Os” that aired in mid March, Bell’s soul had been recalled from the depths of the afterlife to possess Olivia’s (Anna Torv) body. Last Friday’s brilliant episode, “Lysergic Acid Diethylamide” saw Walter (John Noble), Peter (Joshua Jackson), and Bell delve into the depths of Olivia’s mind to retrieve her consciousness lest she be lost forever. And once again Fringe does it again with throwing us a curve ball into this seemingly Inception-like episode.

I won’t spoil the ending of that episode in case you haven’t seen it (check out the clips at the end of this piece), but death is never black and white with Fringe. Now, word has come...

Spoiler alerts are really running about for Fringe's third season finale, and now we've gotten a doozy of a confirmation from the show itself.

We recently posted a potentially huge spoiler regarding Fringe crew call sheets snapped on set, and now TVLine's Michael Ausiello has exclusive confirmation from executive producer Jeff Pinkner that at the very least, someone is going to die.

Says Pinkner, “Somebody who we all love deeply will die,” while fellow producer Joel Wyman chimes in, “Fringe always does things the way you don’t expect, so it’s going to be effective, and it will be self-explanatory. Thats sort of all we can say without spoiling anything.”

Could indeed the rumors of Olivia's demise (at least this universe's version) be true, or perhaps of one of the less utilized side characters?

Another possible rumor sharply put to bed by the pair was that "The Day...

With Lost fallen by the wayside and Fringe officially being renewed for a fourth season, we here at Ugo love getting our sci-fi and spoiler fix to obsess over as we count down to the season finale.

Fringe's executive producer Joel Wyman recently talked about the mysterious Sam Weiss and teased a few hints about the upcoming season finale "The Day We Died," and now he's at it again!

Taking to his Twitter account, Wyman gave rapid-fire answers to fan questions without being too spoilery, and we gathered up the most interesting tidbits for you:

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DoraTheVillian: How much of Season 4 do you already have planned out?

Joel Wyman:  We have a lot of ideas.

Maria_PORTUGAL2:  What subjects are [you] thinking [to] approach in the 4th season?

Joel Wyman:  Next season will be different, but still Fringe. We have some exciting ideas.

Maria4Hitz:  Please tell me none of...

The executive producers of Fringe have dropped hints about the true identity of Sam Weiss. On the sci-fi drama, Weiss (Kevin Corrigan) recently revealed that the connection between Peter (Joshua Jackson) and the machine could lead to the destruction of the universe. In an official Fox interview, showrunner Jeff Pinkner said: "Sam is either telling the truth with ulterior motives, or he's telling a lie, or he's just telling the truth." He added that the nature of Weiss's relationship with Nina Sharp (Blair Brown) is "something we should reveal". "There a secret [involved] in that," explained co-producer Joel Wyman. "It's (more)...

Fringe certainly has a lot going on for the final episodes of its third season, but what characters will shape the fate of our two worlds?

Certainly one of the more mysterious background characters comes in the mysteriously knowledgable bowling alley attendant Sam Weiss (Kevin Corrigan), who initially helped Olivia recover from her parallel universe affliction in season two.

So who is this murky sage, and what role will he have to play in the third series finale?  Fringe executive producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman have the answers for you, but they can't give everything away!

SpoilerTV broke the video that sees the two producers taking on questions over Corrigan, and what, if any relationship he has to The Observers, or the supposed "First People" outlined in the Zft manifesto.

So what burning questions get answered, and how does it all fit together for "The Day We Died" and...

Got a scoop request? An anonymous tip you’re dying to share? Just want to say hi? Send any/all of the above to askausiello@tvline.com

Question: I am loving Lexie and Avery on Grey’s Anatomy. Any chance Lexie will stick with him (the hot, age-appropriate doc) over Mark (the guy old enough to be her dad)? —Shari

Ausiello: I can tell you that there’s a bit of a time jump in the early part of May sweeps, and when the action picks up, they’re still an item. In the meantime, we’ll find out in...

Fringe 3x17 – In Which Bellivia Wants to Be Milked By Astrid and Peter Finds the Missing Linc

So this week dealt with the consequences of last week’s cliff-hanger and we spent a whole episode getting up close and a bit too personal with Bell in Olivia aka Bellivia, even though he wasn’t of much use in terms of the actual case. The case in question revolved around a woman who couldn’t die…then did. This week had its ups and downs and didn’t quite hit all of the notes I’d have liked, but there were some really fun moments:

Things That Made Me Happy:

All the Awards - Okay, so I saved most of my gushy adoration for this week, and since I wasn’t doing these reviews when Anna Torv first started playing Altlivia, I never really got the chance to comment on how...

Once again, there are grumblings of Fringe not surviving past this May, probably prompted by the series' all time low ratings this Friday leading to a Twitter rumour that the show has already began packing up for good. The good news is that the show hasn't even begun filming the second half of this years finale so it is pretty much wrong that sets would be being disposed of at this point. I'm still of the belief that Fringe will get one more season, and so we all should have a few more Freaky Fridays before we say goodbye to Olivia and co. But for now, let's focus on what we do have; a very bizarre, not completely convincing episode and one that I'm sure will be viewed in a more positive light once the end of the season has played out.

Stowaway was designed for one thing and one...

It's been a while since Fringe aired, two weeks is a lifetime to any Fringe fanatic and so to open the return of Freaky Fridays with Jorge Garcia on my TV screen in a mystery drama was perfection; based on the Fringe scale it's been an eternity since that happened.

After Walter and Garcia's Kevin the Security Guard had smoked a few and had a good giggle, we turn back towards more serious matters; Walter's desire for more knowledge. This episode he sharply turns his focus to solving this problem by searching for a way to bring back former lab partner and recently deceased William Bell. Of course, such a concept is totally bonkers, any other show (even Lost perhaps) and I would be shouting in despair at such a stupid idea, but this is Fringe and as I realised when I bought that an old couple who longed for...