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Fringe (Fox) Returns With season 4 This Fall

Aug 102011

Fringe (Fox) returns with season 4

Premiere: Friday, September 23 Order: 22 episodes

My cover of the upcoming Fall season for science fiction and fantasy fans continues.

Fringe is one of my favorite shows all categories. It is something of a modern Archive X with a great following even if one could be happier with the ratings. It will be back this Fall after a game changing season finale this Spring. Peter Bishop connected the two universes with the machine then he ceased to exist so this season starts with Peter gone. Much has Changed is Fox theme for this new season.

I doubt Peter is gone forever especially after his appearance at Comic-Con but we might have to wait and see. But one can speculate a bit about it. Rumors that he would come back as someone else has been denied and he has a contract for this season. The question is rather when he is coming back.

The new situation can be interesting. We have two Olivia, Two Fringe teams and a lot of interesting technology not to forget the animosity between the two Walters. Will there be joint missions? or will they raise a new iron curtain between the two realms? A popular speculation is that Peter will become an Observer. I am interesting how people’s lives has changed without Peter. Olivia could be a totally different person and Walter never kidnapped Peter from the other universe so why did he go there? Interesting questions …

One thing we can be sure of is that the fringe events have not been stopped by the merger or there wouldn’t be a show.

The first episode will be called ~~A Sort of Homecoming~~ Neither Here Nor There but rumor has it that Peter won’t be in it.

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Person of Interest (CBS) – New Series This Fall

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Aug 082011

Person of Interest (CBS) – New series

Premiere: September 22 Order: 13 episodes

My cover of the upcoming Fall season for science fiction and fantasy fans continues with Person of Interest.

Extrapolate our current technology and apply significant funds to it and you could probably have something like what is used in this new show. It is not ‘real’ science fiction but rather csi-fi from those entertaining but mostly unrealistic crime lab shows. A software that uses pattern recognition to identify people about to be involved in violent crimes is not far beyond what we are able to do today.

Here Finch, a billionaire software-genius played by Michael Emerson (Lost) decides to do a Bruce Wayne but lack the physical talent so he recruits a presumed dead former CIA operative named Reese played by Jim Caviezel and together they work to stop crimes before they happens.

It looks like a mystery of week kind of thing that makes it easy to pick an episode here and there. Reese’s past is probably good for a background arc or two. How come he is presumed dead? The videos so far shows a lot of action but no female casts so I assume this is a testosterone feast - a mixture of Human Target first season and Enemy of the State?

Reese’s actions will catch the attention of the NYPD, including homicide detective Carter (Henson), and Fusco (Kevin Chapman), a cop who Reese uses to his advantage.

I find action without some love interest pretty boring so I hope there is some we haven’t seen yet. Maybe Reese have an old flame he pines over but can’t see because he has to stay presumed dead?

I will probably watch this expecting light entertainment, some spiffy state of the art surveillance technology and lots of action. CBS have a good track record for this kind of show and the trailer looks promising.

What do you think?

The “Person of Interest” cast includes Jim Caviezel, Emmy Award-winner Michael Emerson, Academy Award-nominee Taraji P. Henson and Kevin Chapman.

The “Person of Interest” TV show is produced by Warner Bros. Television. Emmy Award winners J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk (“Lost”), Academy Award-nominee Jonathan Nolan (“Memento”), David Semel (“Heroes”) and Greg Plageman (“Cold Case”) are the executive producers.

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The Walking Dead (AMC) – Returning Season 2 This Fall

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Jul 232011

The Walking Dead (AMC) – returning season 2

Premiere: Friday, October 16 Order: 13 episodes

This was one of the great new shows last year. Now it is back with more than the double number of episodes and zombies. Season 2 picks up about five seconds in an overlap with the first season’s finale according to what we learned at Comic Con. The group has just left the CDC.

Rick, Lori and the other survivors leave Atlanta for a more rural setting in season 2. Things are going to get though as they start to run out of food, ammunition and other resources. The group is threatened by inner strife.

For fans of the graphic novels I can reveal that Michonne wont be appearing until season 3, but she is officially in the series, which is good news. Hershel’s farm will most likely be in this season and maybe we will see the Prison and the Governor too.

Excited? Pity it is not October yet.

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Secret Circle (CW) – New Series This Fall

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Jul 222011

Teen Witches Galore

Premiere: Thursday, September 15 Order: 13 episodes

It is that time of the year again when casting news and occasional promotional photos turns into trailers. The Secret Circle is a new supernatural series from the people behind The Vampire Diaries. This one has a mystery at its center. Young Cassie is a witch but why was that covered up?

I am all for a series about teenage witches if it is the least playful. The trailer doesn’t give a clear answer so I will have to watch a couple of episodes first. How about you?

Cassie Blake was a happy, normal teenage girl – until her mother Amelia dies in what appears to be a tragic accidental fire. Orphaned and deeply saddened, Cassie moves in with her warm and loving grandmother Jane in the beautiful small town of Chance Harbor, Washington – the town her mother left so many years before – where the residents seem to know more about Cassie than she does about herself.

As Cassie gets to know her high school classmates, including sweet-natured Diana and her handsome boyfriend Adam, brooding loner Nick, mean-girl Faye and her sidekick Melissa, strange and frightening things begin to happen. When her new friends explain that they are all descended from powerful witches, and they’ve been waiting for Cassie to join them and complete a new generation of the Secret Circle, Cassie refuses to believe them – until Adam shows her how to unlock her incredible magical powers.

But it’s not until Cassie discovers a message from her mother in an old leather-bound book of spells hidden in her mother’s childhood bedroom, that she understands her true and dangerous destiny. What Cassie and the others don’t yet know is that darker powers are at play, powers that might be linked to the adults in the town, including Diana’s father and Faye’s mother – and that Cassie’s mother’s death might not have been an accident. The series stars Britt Robertson as Cassie Blake, Thomas Dekker as Adam Conant, Gale Harold as Charles Meade, Phoebe Tonkin as Fay Chamberlain, Jessica Parker Kennedy as Melissa, Shelley Hennig as Diana Meade, Louis Hunter as Nick, Ashley Crow as Jane Blake and Natasha Henstridge as Dawn Chamberlain. Based upon the book series by L.J. Smith (author of “The Vampire Diaries” book series).

See more The Secret Circle – Series Preview (6.31 minutes)

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Death Valley (MTV) – New Series This Fall

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Jul 212011

Cops with Zombies, Vampires and Werewolves

Premiere: Monday, August 29 Order: 12 episodes

This one was flying under my horizon until I stumbled on it online. MTV has been doing some fine with Teen Wolf and this one is about zombies, vampires and werewolves. What is not to like about that? I know it is a bit early for Fall but I included it anyway.

Death Valley is a scripted horror-comedy that captures the exploits of the men and women of the Undead Task Force (UTF) – an elite branch of the LAPD that was formed in 2009 when the San Fernando Valley became overrun by zombies, vampires and werewolves. While scientists frantically search for an answer to what caused the outbreak, the UTF is responsible for eradicating the monsters, or at least containing them to the Valley. Documenting each case and paranormal encounter is a daring camera crew that is embedded with the UTF from the beginning to end of every shift. As a result, the documentary crew becomes central to the storytelling and is as much a part of the action as the young cops and the undead they encounter. Always alternating between humor and horror, Death Valley at times borrows from the conventions of reality television creating a visual style that is a blend of follow documentary and sci-fi action. The series stars an ensemble cast including Caity Lotz (who plays “Stephanie” on MAD MEN) Tania Raymonde (who played “Alex Rousseau” on LOST) and Charlie Sanders (Funny or Die’s The Big Dog).

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