Fringe is an American
science fictionScience fiction is a genre of fiction. It differs from fantasy in that, within the context of the story, its imaginary elements are largely possible within scientifically-established or scientifically-postulated laws of nature...
television series co-created by
J. J. AbramsJeffrey Jacob "J. J." Abrams is an American film and television producer, screenwriter, director, actor, composer, and founder of Bad Robot Productions...
,
Alex KurtzmanAlex Kurtzman is an American film and television screenwriter and producer.-Early life:Kurtzman was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where he met his high school friend and long time collaborator Roberto Orci...
and
Roberto OrciRoberto Gaston Orci is a Mexican film and television producer and screenwriter. His credits include Star Trek, The Legend of Zorro, Mission: Impossible III, Transformers, and Alias. He is the creator alongside with J.J...
. The series follows an FBI Fringe Division team based in Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of
Homeland SecurityHomeland security is an umbrella term for security efforts to protect the United States against perceived internal and external threats. The term arose following a reorganization of many U.S. government agencies in 2003 to form the United States Department of Homeland Security after the September...
. The team uses unorthodox
"fringe" scienceFringe science is scientific inquiry in an established field of study which departs significantly from mainstream or orthodox theories, and is classified in the "fringes" of a credible mainstream academic discipline...
and FBI investigative techniques to investigate "the Pattern", a series of unexplained, often ghastly occurrences which are occurring all over the world. The show has been described as a cross between
The X-FilesThe X-Files is an American cult science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. It first aired in September 1993 and ended in May 2002...
,
Altered StatesAltered States is a 1980 science fiction film adaptation of a novel by the same name by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky. It was the only novel that Chayefsky ever wrote, as well as his final film. Both the novel and the film are based on John C...
,
The Twilight ZoneThe Twilight Zone is an American anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964 and remains syndicated to this day. The show consisted of unrelated vignettes depicting paranormal, futuristic, dystopian, or simply disturbing events, usually...
, and
Dark AngelDark Angel is an American biopunk/cyberpunk science fiction television program created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee. Dark Angel premiered in the United States and Canada on the Fox network on October 3, 2000, but was canceled after two seasons...
.
The series premiered in the United States on September 9, 2008, on the
FoxThe Fox Broadcasting Company , commonly referred to as Fox , is an American television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, from 2004 to 2009 Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the 18–49 demographic...
network.
Fringe was part of a Fox initiative known as "Remote-Free TV". Episodes of
Fringe were longer than standard dramas on current network television. The show ran with half the commercials during the first season, adding about six minutes to the show's run time. When the show goes to a commercial, a short bumper will air informing the viewer of roughly how much time commercials will consume before the program resumes. On October 1, 2008,
Fringe first season was extended to 22 episodes. This was then cut back to 20 episodes with the season finale airing May 12. The series was renewed for a second season. Season 2 premiered September 17, 2009.
Plot
Fringe follows the exploits of FBI
special agentSpecial agent is usually the title for a detective or investigator for a state, county, municipal, federal or tribal government.A special agent is not a 'spy' , but an investigator. An agent is a worker for any other federal agency, and a secret agent is one who works for an intelligence...
Olivia Dunham,
mad scientistA mad scientist is a stock character of popular fiction, specifically science fiction. The mad scientist may be villainous, benign or neutral, and whether insane, eccentric, or simply bumbling, mad scientists often work with fictional technology in order to forward their schemes, if they even have...
Walter Bishop, and his son,
jack of all trades"Jack of all trades, master of none" is a figure of speech used in reference to a generalist: a person that is competent with many skills but is not outstanding in any particular one....
, Peter Bishop as they investigate aspects of
fringe scienceFringe science is scientific inquiry in an established field of study which departs significantly from mainstream or orthodox theories, and is classified in the "fringes" of a credible mainstream academic discipline...
(rare diseases, chimeras,
transhumanTranshuman is a term that refers to an evolutionary transition from the human to the posthuman.-History:Questioning the parameters of being human and its relationship with nature has been of philosophical interest before and since Socrates...
s with
psychic abilities,
teleportationTeleportation is supposed to be the transfer of matter from one point to another, more or less instantaneously, either by paranormal means or through technological means. Teleportation has been widely utilized in works of science fiction...
, and so forth). Unlike his other series,
LostLost is an American serial drama television series. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney, Australia, and Los Angeles, United States, crashes somewhere in the South Pacific...
, J.J. Abrams promises the series' story arc will be easier to follow and more accessible for those who skip an occasional episode. In an interview first published in September 2008, Abrams said: "Lost has garnered a certain reputation for being a very complicated show and one that you have to watch every episode. Fringe is in many ways an experiment for us, which is, we believe it is possible to do a show that does have an overall story and end game, which Fringe absolutely does… We can do a show that has that, so that there's a direction the show is going and there's an ultimate story that's being told, but also a show that you don't have to watch episodes one, two and three to tune into episode four." Roberto Orci, a cocreator, commented that Fringe "took its inspiration from The X-Files”, but will wholly “differentiate through the characters," and be a whole new take on the genre.
Season 1
All over the world, a series of apparent experiments collectively referred to as "the Pattern" (e.g., a newborn baby who
rapidly agesA DNA repair-deficiency disorder is a medical condition due to reduced functionality of DNA repair.DNA repair defects are seen in nearly all of the diseases described as accelerated aging disease, in which various tissues, organs or systems of the human body age prematurely...
and dies within a few minutes, a bus full of passengers trapped in a strange resin, like mosquitoes trapped in amber) are occurring for reasons unknown. Olivia, Peter, and Walter are in charge of investigating these strange events to determine their source. Connected to the Pattern is Massive Dynamic, a leading
global technology company that holds the patents for a number of new and important technologies. Their enemy is ZFT, a bioterrorist organization which is orchestrating all of the strange occurrences in order to prepare for a destructive
technological singularityTechnological singularity is a term used with varying meanings related to self-improving artificial intelligence, superintelligence, breakdowns in the predictability of the future, accelerating change of the exponential or superexponential/catastrophic sort, and more generic "big events" in...
. Tying both sides together is a
nootropicNootropics, also referred to as smart drugs, memory enhancers, and cognitive enhancers, are drugs, supplements, nutraceuticals, and functional foods that are purported to improve mental functions such as cognition, memory, intelligence, motivation, attention, and concentration. The word nootropic...
drug, called Cortexiphan, that was developed by Walter and his partner, William Bell (now chairman of Massive Dynamic), which Olivia and a number of others were treated with as children. The first season closes with Olivia meeting William in a
parallel universeThe multiverse is the hypothetical set of multiple possible universes that together comprise all of reality.Multiverse may also refer to:-In fiction:* Multiverse , the fictional multiverse used by DC Comics...
where, among other differences, the
World Trade CenterThe World Trade Center was a complex in Lower Manhattan in New York City whose seven buildings were destroyed in 2001 in the September 11 terrorist attacks...
was not destroyed by the September 11 attacks, and
John F. KennedyJohn Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
is still alive according to a newspaper column heading.
Season 2
In the opening episode of season two, Olivia returns back from her trip to the parallel universe, but can't remember any of it. She is hunted down by a shape-shifting assassin assigned to find out what William Bell said to her, then to kill her. Charlie Francis is eventually killed and replaced by the shape-shifter unknown to anybody. Eventually Olivia remembers her conversation with Bell who told her that a "great storm" is coming and that it is up to Olivia to prevent it. William Bell tells Olivia to make sure that she prevents the shape-shifters from getting to a man who would help them destroy one universe. Olivia then discovers that Charlie Francis is dead, and that the man she thinks is him is really the shape-shifter. Olivia kills the shape-shifter, but before she does this, she tells him the location of the man that the shape-shifters are looking for.
Characters
- Anna Torv
Anna Torv is an Australian actress who plays FBI agent Olivia Dunham on the Fox series Fringe. She is also known for her role as the voice, motion capture performer, and face of the main character Nariko in the Playstation 3 game Heavenly Sword.-Biography:Anna Torv was born in Melbourne to Susan...
as Olivia Dunham, a Federal Bureau of InvestigationThe Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency. The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...
(FBI) special agent assigned to investigate the spread of unexplained phenomena. Regular (Season 1 - Present)
- Joshua Jackson
Joshua Carter Jackson is a Canadian–American actor. He has appeared in primetime television and in over 32 film roles. He is known for playing Charlie Conway in The Mighty Ducks film series, Pacey Witter in the television series Dawson's Creek and Peter Bishop in the television series...
as Peter Bishop, a jack of all trades"Jack of all trades, master of none" is a figure of speech used in reference to a generalist: a person that is competent with many skills but is not outstanding in any particular one....
who is brought in by Olivia to work with his father Walter. Regular (Season 1 - Present)
- John Noble
John Noble is an Australian film and television actor, and theatre director of more than 80 plays. He was born in Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia....
as Dr. Walter Bishop, a former government researcher in the field of fringe scienceFringe science is scientific inquiry in an established field of study which departs significantly from mainstream or orthodox theories, and is classified in the "fringes" of a credible mainstream academic discipline...
who was institutionalized after a lab accident. Regular (Season 1 - Present)
- Lance Reddick
Lance Reddick is an American theater, film and TV actor, born in Baltimore, Maryland. He starred in The Wire as Cedric Daniels, appeared in Oz as Detective Johnny Basil and appeared in the fourth and fifth seasons of Lost. He now has a prominent role in Fringe. Previously Reddick also starred in...
as Phillip Broyles, a Homeland SecurityHomeland security is an umbrella term for security efforts to protect the United States against perceived internal and external threats. The term arose following a reorganization of many U.S. government agencies in 2003 to form the United States Department of Homeland Security after the September...
agent who runs the Fringe Division. Regular (Season 1 - Present)
- Jasika Nicole
Jasika Nicole is an American actress and illustrator from Birmingham, Alabama. She studied dance, voice and theater at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina.Nicole portrays the character of Astrid Farnsworth in the TV series Fringe...
as Astrid Farnsworth, a young federal agent and assistant to Olivia and Walter. Regular (Season 1 - Present)
- Kirk Acevedo
Kirk Acevedo is an American actor of Puerto Rican and Chinese descent. Notable is his portrayal of Miguel Alvarez in the HBO series Oz.- Early years :...
as Charlie Francis, Olivia's colleague and close friend at the FBI. He is second-in-command of the Fringe Division. Regular (Season 1 - Season 2 episode 4)
- Blair Brown
Bonnie Blair Brown is an American theater, film, and television actress. She has had a number of high profile roles, including a Tony Award winning turn in the play Copenhagen on Broadway, as well as a run as the title character in the television comedy-drama The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd,...
as Nina Sharp, the CEO of Massive Dynamic, a leading firm in science and technology research. Regular (Season 1 - present)
- Mark Valley
Mark Thomas Valley is an American actor.- Personal life :Born in Ogdensburg, New York, Valley is a 1987 graduate of the United States Military Academy with a degree in math and engineering and served in the Gulf War He has a daughter, Sherri, born in 1987, from a previous relationship...
as John Scott, Olivia's former FBI partner and lover. Regular (Season 1; 13 Episodes)
- Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Simon Nimoy is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. He is famous for playing the character of Spock on the original Star Trek series, and he reprised the role in various movie and television sequels.-Early life:Nimoy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to...
as William Bell, Walter's former lab partner, now founder and chairman of Massive Dynamic. Recurring (Season 1 - Present)
Production
Co-created by
J. J. AbramsJeffrey Jacob "J. J." Abrams is an American film and television producer, screenwriter, director, actor, composer, and founder of Bad Robot Productions...
,
Roberto OrciRoberto Gaston Orci is a Mexican film and television producer and screenwriter. His credits include Star Trek, The Legend of Zorro, Mission: Impossible III, Transformers, and Alias. He is the creator alongside with J.J...
and
Alex KurtzmanAlex Kurtzman is an American film and television screenwriter and producer.-Early life:Kurtzman was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where he met his high school friend and long time collaborator Roberto Orci...
,
Fringe is produced by Bad Robot in association with
Warner Bros. TelevisionWarner Bros. Television is the television production and distribution arm of Warner Bros. Entertainment, itself part of Time Warner. Alongside CBS Television Studios, it serves as a television production arm of The CW Television Network , though it also produces shows for other networks, such as...
. Abrams's inspiration for
Fringe came from a range of sources, including the writings of
Michael CrichtonJohn Michael Crichton or Michael Crichton was an American author, producer, director, screenwriter, and medical school graduate, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and thriller genres. His books have sold over 150 million copies worldwide, and many have been adapted...
, the
Ken RussellHenry Kenneth Alfred Russell, known as Ken Russell , is an English film director. He is known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his controversial style. He has been criticized as being overly obsessed with sexuality and the church. His subject matter is often about famous...
film
Altered StatesAltered States is a 1980 science fiction film adaptation of a novel by the same name by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky. It was the only novel that Chayefsky ever wrote, as well as his final film. Both the novel and the film are based on John C...
, and the television series
The X-FilesThe X-Files is an American cult science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. It first aired in September 1993 and ended in May 2002...
and
The Twilight ZoneThe Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist...
. Additionally, Orci stated that it is a combination of a
proceduralA Procedural is a cross-genre type of literature, film, or television program involving a sequence of technical detail. A documentary film may be written in a procedural style to heighten narrative interest.- Fiction :...
and an "extremely serialized and very culty" series, quoting as examples of each,
Law & OrderLaw & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, which premiered on NBC on September 13, 1990. Created by Dick Wolf, the series is set in New York City, and follows the professional lives of several police officers and prosecutors who represent the public interest in...
and
LostLost is an American serial drama television series. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney, Australia, and Los Angeles, United States, crashes somewhere in the South Pacific...
.
Jeff PinknerJeff Pinkner is an American television writer and producer. He has done work mostly on Alias. He graduated from Pikesville High School in Baltimore Maryland in 1983. In 2006 and 2007, he worked as an executive producer for Lost. He will be the head show runner for J.J...
was selected to act as the head
show runnerShow runner is a term used in the Canadian and United States television industry referring to the person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television series. The term is also occasionally applied to people in the television industries of other countries...
and
executive producerAn executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the filmmaking or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production. Typically an executive producer handles business and legal issues. See also associate producer, co-producer, line producer...
. Abrams noted that he trusts Pinkner after working together with him on
AliasAlias is an American action television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC for five seasons, from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006...
and
Lost.
Michael GiacchinoMichael Giacchino is an American soundtrack composer who has composed scores for movies, television series and video games. Giacchino grew up in Edgewater Park Township, New Jersey and graduated from Holy Cross High School in Delran, New Jersey...
, Abrams' frequent collaborator, composed the music for the pilot of
Fringe, before handing over duties to his assistants Chad Seiter and Chris Tilton; Giacchino retains an on-screen credit. Abrams himself wrote the series theme music.
The two-hour pilot episode, filmed in Toronto Canada, cost a total of $10 million to create. A cow used in the pilot episode had to be replaced when production of Season 1 was moved to New York, due to livestock restrictions preventing it from being brought from Canada to the United States. If viewers note the difference in the cow's appearance, the production team members have said they will paint new cows to match the original.
On February 21, 2009, it was reported that in the event that
Fringe is renewed for a second season, the show will move production to
VancouverVancouver is a coastal city and major seaport located in the Lower Mainland of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. The city is bounded by English Bay, Burrard Inlet, the Fraser River, the city of Burnaby, and the University Endowment Lands. Vancouver is named after Captain George Vancouver, a...
from
New York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
as a cost-cutting measure.
On May 4, 2009,
Fringe was officially renewed for a second season. The series now airs on Thursday nights at 9 following
BonesBones is an American comedic drama television series that premiered on the Fox Network on September 13, 2005. The show is based on forensics and police procedurals in which each episode focuses on an FBI case file concerning the mystery behind human remains brought by FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth...
.
Casting
The first actors cast were
Kirk AcevedoKirk Acevedo is an American actor of Puerto Rican and Chinese descent. Notable is his portrayal of Miguel Alvarez in the HBO series Oz.- Early years :...
and
Mark ValleyMark Thomas Valley is an American actor.- Personal life :Born in Ogdensburg, New York, Valley is a 1987 graduate of the United States Military Academy with a degree in math and engineering and served in the Gulf War He has a daughter, Sherri, born in 1987, from a previous relationship...
, who play FBI agents Charlie Francis and John Scott, respectively.
John NobleJohn Noble is an Australian film and television actor, and theatre director of more than 80 plays. He was born in Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia....
and
Lance ReddickLance Reddick is an American theater, film and TV actor, born in Baltimore, Maryland. He starred in The Wire as Cedric Daniels, appeared in Oz as Detective Johnny Basil and appeared in the fourth and fifth seasons of Lost. He now has a prominent role in Fringe. Previously Reddick also starred in...
, who play Dr. Walter Bishop and
Homeland SecurityHomeland security is an umbrella term for security efforts to protect the United States against perceived internal and external threats. The term arose following a reorganization of many U.S. government agencies in 2003 to form the United States Department of Homeland Security after the September...
agent Phillip Broyles joined the cast later on.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/01/his_recordbreaking_blockbuster.html Casting of
Anna TorvAnna Torv is an Australian actress who plays FBI agent Olivia Dunham on the Fox series Fringe. She is also known for her role as the voice, motion capture performer, and face of the main character Nariko in the Playstation 3 game Heavenly Sword.-Biography:Anna Torv was born in Melbourne to Susan...
,
Blair BrownBonnie Blair Brown is an American theater, film, and television actress. She has had a number of high profile roles, including a Tony Award winning turn in the play Copenhagen on Broadway, as well as a run as the title character in the television comedy-drama The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd,...
, and
Jasika NicoleJasika Nicole is an American actress and illustrator from Birmingham, Alabama. She studied dance, voice and theater at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina.Nicole portrays the character of Astrid Farnsworth in the TV series Fringe...
, who play Olivia Dunham, Massive Dynamic employee Nina Sharp, and Astrid Farnsworth, a federal agent and assistant to Olivia Dunham, respectively, followed; while
Joshua JacksonJoshua Carter Jackson is a Canadian–American actor. He has appeared in primetime television and in over 32 film roles. He is known for playing Charlie Conway in The Mighty Ducks film series, Pacey Witter in the television series Dawson's Creek and Peter Bishop in the television series...
, who plays Peter Bishop, was the last main character to be cast. Jackson auditioned for
James T. KirkJames Tiberius "Jim" Kirk is a fictional character in the Star Trek media franchise. First portrayed by William Shatner as the principal lead character in the original Star Trek series, Shatner also appears as Kirk in the animated Star Trek series and in the first seven Star Trek movies...
in Abrams'
Star Trek and believed this is what impressed the producer to cast him in his television project.
On April 8, 2009, it was announced that
Leonard NimoyLeonard Simon Nimoy is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. He is famous for playing the character of Spock on the original Star Trek series, and he reprised the role in various movie and television sequels.-Early life:Nimoy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to...
would appear as Walter Bishop's former lab partner, Dr. William Bell in the season's finale, which explores the existence of an ominous
parallel universeThe multiverse is the hypothetical set of multiple possible universes that together comprise all of reality.Multiverse may also refer to:-In fiction:* Multiverse , the fictional multiverse used by DC Comics...
. Nimoy will return as Dr. Bell this fall for an extended arc, and according to Orci, Bell will be "the beginning of the answers to even bigger questions." This choice led one reviewer to question if
Fringes plot might be an homageHomage is pronounced variously as , , or . The last reflects the modern French pronunciation, although the word entered Middle English many centuries ago. In traditional usage it is analogous to praise; one properly speaks of homage or the homage, rather than a homage or an homage...
to the Star TrekStar Trek is a science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that aired from September 8, 1966 to September 2, 1969. Though the original series was titled simply Star Trek, it has acquired the retronym Star Trek: The Original Series to distinguish it from the spinoffs that...
episode "Mirror, Mirror", which featured an alternate reality "mirror universeThe Mirror Universe is a fictional parallel universe in which the plots of several Star Trek television episodes take place. It is named for "Mirror, Mirror", the original series episode in which it first appeared.- Overview :...
" concept and an evil version of Spock distinguished by a goatee.
U.S. Ratings
The following is a table of seasonal USA rankings (based on total viewers per episode including reruns) of Fringe on Fox.
| Season |
Timeslot (EST) |
Season Premiere |
Season Finale |
TV Season |
Rank |
Viewers
(in millions) |
| 1st |
Tuesday 9:00 P.M. |
September 9, 2008 |
May 12, 2009 |
2008–2009 |
#43 |
9.96 |
| 2nd |
Thursday 9:00 P.M. |
September 17, 2009 |
May 2010 |
2009–2010 |
TBA |
TBA |
DVD & Blu-ray Disc
| Boxset | | DVD/Blu-ray release date |
|---|
| United States | EuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains , and the Black Sea to the southeast...
| AustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...
| Hong KongHong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a highly autonomous territory of the People's Republic of China, facing Guangdong to the north and the South China Sea to the east, west and south...
|
|---|
| The Complete First Season |
Sep 08, 2009 |
Sep 25, 2009 |
Sep 30, 2009 |
Sep 10, 2009 |
The first season was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc September 8, 2009 in the United States, on September 30, 2009 in Australia with an alternate cover. In Germany on September 25, 2009, United Kingdom on September 28, 2009, and France and Norway on October 14, 2009. Hong Kong on September 10, 2009.
Setting
Fringe is set at
Harvard UniversityHarvard University is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and currently comprises ten separate academic units...
, but was actually filmed at
Yale UniversityYale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Yale has produced many notable alumni, including five...
. Typically depicted are scenes of Phelps Hall and
Branford CollegeBranford College is the oldest of the 12 residential colleges at Yale University.-The Founding of Branford:Branford College was founded in 1933 by partitioning the Memorial Quadrangle into two parts: Saybrook and Branford...
. Initially, it was also filmed at The University of Toronto's
University CollegeUniversity College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Toronto. UC was founded in 1853 as The Provincial College to provide higher education in Ontario without regard to religious affiliation. Currently, 4,100 students and 100 faculty make their academic home at University...
and
Bahen Centre for Information TechnologyThe Bahen Centre for Information Technology is a building at the St. George campus of the University of Toronto. The university website bills it as a "state of the art facility for education of information technology professionals in electrical and computer engineering, computer science and IT...
.
Reception
The pilot episode was watched by 9.13 million viewers, garnering 3.2/9
Nielsen RatingsNielsen ratings are audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research, in an effort to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States...
among adults 18–49, with ratings improving over the course of the episode. Ratings improved greatly for the second episode, "The Same Old Story" which 13.27 million people watched, making it the fifth most watched show of the week. As of October 2008, the show had achieved the first place in the 18–49
demographicA demographic or demographic profile is a term used in marketing and broadcasting, to describe a demographic grouping or a market segment...
among new shows. As a whole, the series was well received by the critics. Barry Garron at Hollywood Reporter
found it promising because "it is reminiscent of battle-of-the-sexes charm." Robert Bianco, USA TodayUSA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth...
, said, "What Abrams brings to Fringe is a director's eye for plot and pace, a fan's love of sci-fi excitement, and a story-teller's gift for investing absurd events with real emotions and relatable characters." Travis Fickett of IGNIGN is a multimedia news and reviews website that focuses heavily on video games...
gave it 7.6 out of 10, calling it "a lackluster pilot that promises to be a pretty good series." While Tim Goodman of the San Francisco Chroniclethumb|right|The Chronicle Building following the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake]] and fireSan Francisco Chronicle is Northern California's largest newspaper, and one of the largest in the United States, serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area, but distributed throughout...
remarked that it was "boundlessly ambitious", Chicago Sun-TimesThe Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is owned by the Sun-Times Media Group, which filed for bankruptcy protection on March 31, 2009.-History:...
s Misha Davenport called it an "update of
The X-FilesThe X-Files is an American cult science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. It first aired in September 1993 and ended in May 2002...
with the addition of terrorism and the office of Homeland Security."
The pilot episode was negatively received by the
Parents Television CouncilThe Parents Television Council is an American interest group founded by conservative activist L. Brent Bozell III in 1995. Through publications on its website including reviews, research reports, and online newsletters, the Council seeks to inform parents of television programs or other...
, who named the show the worst of the week and denounced the "excessive violence and gore". In its
2008 Year in Review, Television Without Pity declared
Fringe one of the year's biggest disappointments, commenting that the show is "entertaining" and "the cast is largely strong" but the character development is insufficient. The show's main character, Olivia Dunham is "wooden and distant, and after half a season, we still haven't gotten to
know her." The untrustworthy Nina Sharp is well-acted but "one-note and lazily written" and Lance Reddick's character is also "under-developed".
The
Daily Herald comments that
Fringe is promising and "it may yet develop into a worthwhile program" but has "largely been spinning its wheels".
Meanwhile, in other articles recounting the best and worst of 2008,
The New York Times stated that
Fringe "is the best of a rash of new series that toy with the paranormal." The author goes on to praise the cast saying that "Much credit belongs to Anna Torv who stars as an F.B.I. agent investigating bizarre murders that all appear to be linked to a powerful and mysterious multinational corporation" and "Ms. Torv is backed up ably by John Noble as a crazy but brilliant fringe scientist and his level-headed but skeptical son, played by Joshua Jackson."
Additional praise came from
Entertainment Weekly, which stated "The best new show of the year took a few weeks to grow on me, but now it's a full-blown addiction", from iF Magazine, stating that "the new X-Files is fun, weird and has just enough questions that we aren’t re-creating LOST all over again just with new people in a new setting" and from the
LA Times, calling Walter Bishop one of the best characters of 2008, saying that "the role of the modern-day mad scientist could so easily have been a disaster, but the 'Fringe' writers and the masterful John Noble have conspired to create a character that seems, as trite as it sounds, more Shakespearean than sci-fi."
Chicago TribuneThe Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company...
states that some episodes are "distressingly predictable and formulaic" but adds that there have also been some excellent episodes.
A version of the show (edited for time) premiered on the
Nine NetworkThe Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian television network based in Willoughby, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney. For nearly 40 years between 1956 and 2005, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
in Australia on September 17, 2008. The following month,
Fringe also premiered on Ireland's TV3 (October 1), Sweden's
Kanal 5Kanal 5 is a Swedish commercial television channel established in 1989. It is owned by the media corporation ProSiebenSat.1 Media.After a troublesome 1990s, Kanal 5 launched new strategies in the early 2000s that established it as a popular entertainment channel targeting young people...
(October 2), and the United Kingdom's Sky1 (October 5). Nine Network later dropped the show from its primetime schedule temporarily; the show returned during the December to January non-ratings period. Fringe now airs on Nine's second digital channel GO!. In 2009,
Fringe made additional debuts on Norway's TVNorge (January 1), Finland's
MTV3MTV3 is a Finnish commercial television station owned by Bonnier. Until recently it had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels when Finnish Broadcasting Company's YLE1 took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV , due to the channel getting its revenue from running commercials...
(January 5), South Africa's
M-NetM-Net is a subscription-funded television channel in South Africa, established in 1986 by a consortium of newspaper companies, including Naspers....
(January 8), Italy's
Mediaset PremiumMediaset Premium is an Italian digital terrestrial television service provided by Mediaset. It provides pay-per-view service through use of a rechargeable smart card.There are currently seven channels on Mediaset Premium's digital terrestrial platform...
(January 31), Canada's
CTVCTV is a Canadian English language television network. It is Canada's largest privately owned network, the main television asset of CTVglobemedia, one of the country's largest media conglomerates...
(February 3), and Germany's Pro Sieben (March 16). It will be also broadcast on
TVNTVN is a major Polish commercial television network, founded by Polish businessman Mariusz Walter and launched on October 3 1997. TVN belongs to the TVN S.A...
in Poland.
Fringe has been nominated for a
2008The 61st Writers Guild of America Awards will honor the best film, television, and videogame writers of 2008. Winners were announced on February 7, 2009. -Best Adapted Screenplay:...
Writers Guild of America AwardThe Writers Guild of America Award for outstanding achievements in film, television, and radio has been presented annually by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America, West since 1949...
in the category of New Series. Also, the pilot episode has been nominated in the category of "Long Form - Original", for which television programs longer than one hour are eligible.
Media information
The pilot episode was leaked via BitTorrent, three months before the series premiere similar to leaked fellow FOX series
Terminator: The Sarah Connor ChroniclesTerminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was an American science fiction television series that aired on Fox. The show was produced by Warner Bros. Television and C2 Pictures. It is a spin-off from the Terminator series of films...
. An
alternate reality gameAn alternate reality game , is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform, often involving multiple media and game elements, to tell a story that may be affected by participants' ideas or actions....
, centered around the fictional Massive Dynamic corporation, was introduced during the pilot and featured "strange symbols paired with glowing dots" appearing throughout the episode and an "advertisement" for the company shown at the end with a web address for the game.
On August 27, 2008, a
prequelA prequel is a work that supplements a previously completed one, and has an earlier time setting.The widely recognized term was a 20th-century neologism, and a portmanteau from pre- and sequel .-History:Though the word "Prequel" is of...
comic bookA comic book is a magazine made up of narrative artwork, often accompanied by dialog and often including brief descriptive prose...
for the series written by
Zack WhedonZack Whedon is an American screenwriter. He graduated in 2002 with a film degree from Wesleyan University where he served as president of the Eclectic Society...
was released by
DC ComicsDC Comics is one of the largest and most popular American comic book and related media companies, along with Marvel Comics. It is the publishing division of DC Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary company of Warner Bros. Entertainment...
under its
WildStormWildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm, publishes American comic books. Originally an independent company established by Jim Lee and further expanded upon in subsequent years by other creators, WildStorm became a publishing imprint of DC Comics in 1999...
imprint. This was to be the first issue of a monthly 6-issue
limited seriesA limited series is a series with a set number of installments. A limited series differs from an ongoing series in that the number of issues is determined before production and it differs from a one shot in that it is composed of multiple issues....
but the others were delayed until January 2009, when monthly publication resumed, with the sixth and final issue scheduled for release on June 17. The Vice President of WildStorm,
Hank KanalzHank Kanalz is an American comic book writer and editor.Kanalz is currently the Vice President and General Manager of WildStorm Productions, a company owned by DC Comics.-Biography:...
, explained the publication hiatus:
Mystery
Abrams revealed in an interview that the glyphs in the show had a hidden meaning. "It's something that we're doing for people who care to figure it out and follow it, but it's not something that a viewer has to consider when they watch the show." Abrams also revealed that the seemingly unrelated frogs which have the
Greek letterThe Greek alphabet is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BCE. It is the first and oldest alphabet in the narrow sense that it notes each vowel and consonant with a separate symbol. It is as such in continuous use to...
PhiPhi , in modern Greek and or sometimes in English, is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet. In modern Greek, it represents , a voiceless labiodental fricative. In Ancient Greek it represented , an aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive...
(Φ) imprinted on their back appeared in promos for the show have significance within the context of the series, saying "it's part of the code of the show."
International broadcasters
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ArgentinaArgentinaArgentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico,...
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Warner Channel Warner Channel is a Latin American cable television channel owned by Time Warner's HBO Latin America Group that focuses on airing American-produced series and films...
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AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...
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GO! Go! is an Australian free-to-air standard definition digital television channel launched by the Nine Network on 9 August 2009.-Origins:...
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September 17, 2008 (Axed on NineThe Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian television network based in Willoughby, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney. For nearly 40 years between 1956 and 2005, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
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BelgiumBelgiumThe Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters, as well as those of other major international organizations, including NATO...
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La Deux La Deux is a Belgian national television channel, owned and operated by RTBF.-The RTbis era:On 23 September 1976, RTbis went on air until 1979.In 1977, RTB had become RTBF but RTbis still on air for 2 years.-The Télé 21 era:...
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BrazilBrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the fifth largest country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the fifth most populous country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean...
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Warner Channel Warner Channel is a Latin American cable television channel owned by Time Warner's HBO Latin America Group that focuses on airing American-produced series and films...
SBTSistema Brasileiro de Televisão , is a Brazilian television network. The network first aired in 1981, and its headquarters are based in Osasco. SBT is owned by Silvio Santos , a popular Brazilian TV host...
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BulgariaBulgariaBulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a country in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe. Bulgaria borders five other countries: Romania to the north , Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Greece and Turkey to the south...
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CanadaCanadaCanada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
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CTVCTV is a Canadian English language television network. It is Canada's largest privately owned network, the main television asset of CTVglobemedia, one of the country's largest media conglomerates...
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ChileChileChile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
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Warner Channel Warner Channel is a Latin American cable television channel owned by Time Warner's HBO Latin America Group that focuses on airing American-produced series and films...
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DenmarkDenmarkDenmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries; southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and it is bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark borders both the Baltic and the North Sea...
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6'eren 6'eren is a Danish subscription television channel operated by SBS TV A/S, part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG. It replaced SBS net at January 1, 2009...
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FinlandFinlandFinland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic country and democracy situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland...
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MTV3MTV3 is a Finnish commercial television station owned by Bonnier. Until recently it had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels when Finnish Broadcasting Company's YLE1 took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV , due to the channel getting its revenue from running commercials...
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EcuadorEcuadorEcuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador , literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America that...
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Warner Channel Warner Channel is a Latin American cable television channel owned by Time Warner's HBO Latin America Group that focuses on airing American-produced series and films...
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FranceFranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
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TF1 TF1 is a private French TV channel, controlled by TF1 Group, whose major share-holder is Bouygues. TF1's average market share of 25-35% makes it the most popular domestic network.TF1 is the largest European television channel by its audience...
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GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
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GreeceGreeceGreece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula....
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Star ChannelStar Channel is a Greek television network that broadcasts a mix of foreign and Greek programming. It launched in December 1993 and is owned by Nea Tileorasi A.E.. The main news bulletin is called Star Eidiseis, which used to be hosted by Ellie Stai , followed by Terence Quick and is currently...
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HungaryHungaryHungary , in English officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. Its capital is Budapest. Hungary is a member of OECD, NATO, EU, V4 and is a Schengen state...
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RTL KlubRTL Klub is a television station owned by RTL Group and broadcast in Hungary. It was one of Hungary's first commercial TV channels and was only two days after the main rival TV2 to begin broadcasting.-About RTL Klub:...
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Hong KongHong KongHong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a highly autonomous territory of the People's Republic of China, facing Guangdong to the north and the South China Sea to the east, west and south...
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TVB Pearl TVB Pearl is one of the two free television services in Hong Kong that mainly broadcast in the English language, the other being ATV World. It is owned and operated by Television Broadcasts Limited, and together with its sister Cantonese-language station TVB Jade, is broadcast from TVB City at 77...
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IndiaIndiaIndia, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal...
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WB WB is a cable and satellite TV channel launched by Time Warner and Turner International India Pvt Ltd exclusively for India. The channel features a mix of Hollywood movies and TV series from the WB Vault...
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IrelandIrelandIreland is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets. To the east of Ireland, separated by the Irish Sea, is the island of Great Britain...
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ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
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Steel Steel is an Italian entertainment TV channel, owned by Mediaset and NBC Universal and broadcast on Premium Gallery, a Digital terrestrial television service in Italy...
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South KoreaSouth KoreaSouth Korea, officially the Republic of Korea and often simply referred to as Korea, is a country in East Asia, located on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by China to the west, Japan to the east, and North Korea to the north. Its capital is Seoul, the second largest...
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OCN OCN is a three letter abbreviation that stands for:*Oncology Certified Nurse*Open Computer Network, a major Internet Service Provider in Japan*Open College Network*Opaskwayak Cree Nation...
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MalaysiaMalaysiaMalaysia is a country in Southeast Asia that consists of thirteen states and three Federal Territories, with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government. The population stands at over 28 million inhabitants...
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ntv7 Natseven TV Sdn Bhd or better known as ntv7 is a terrestrial television channel in Malaysia. It was launched nationwide on April 7 1998. Its mission is to promote a happier and more enlightened Malaysia...
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MexicoMexicoThe United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
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Warner Channel Warner Channel is a Latin American cable television channel owned by Time Warner's HBO Latin America Group that focuses on airing American-produced series and films...
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Middle EastThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, southeastern Europe, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East...
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MBC Action MBC Action is a free-to-air satellite TV channel that screens films and television programs from the action genre. Programs are subtitled in Arabic. It is available in the Arab World by satellites BADR4 and Nilesat 102. It launched on March 5 2007 at 6:00 P.M...
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NetherlandsNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a country in Northwestern Europe, constituting the major portion of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east...
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Net 5 NET 5 is a commercial Dutch television channel owned by ProSiebenSat.1 Media. Other channels of the group in the Netherlands are SBS6 and Veronica.- History :...
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September 6, 2009 |
New ZealandNew ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous smaller islands, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands. The indigenous Māori named New Zealand Aotearoa, commonly translated as The Land of the Long White Cloud...
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NorwayNorwayNorway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...
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TVNorge TVNorge is a Norwegian television channel.TVNorge went on the air December 5, 1988 and was the first advertising-supported Norwegian channel...
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PeruPeruPeru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.Peruvian territory was home to the Norte Chico...
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Warner Channel Warner Channel is a Latin American cable television channel owned by Time Warner's HBO Latin America Group that focuses on airing American-produced series and films...
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PhilippinesPhilippinesThe Philippines officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
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PolandPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe . Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
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TVNTVN is a major Polish commercial television network, founded by Polish businessman Mariusz Walter and launched on October 3 1997. TVN belongs to the TVN S.A...
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September 10, 2009 |
PortugalPortugalPortugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east...
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Puerto RicoPuerto RicoPuerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a self-governing unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands...
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WAPA-TVWAPA-TV is a full-power, independent television station located in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico transmitting over digital channel 27, virtual channel 4. The station is owned by InterMedia Partners and is branded as WAPA Television....
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RussiaRussiaRussia , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia . It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
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TV3 Russia TV-3 is a television channel Russia, focused on entertainment. It is part of Vladimir Potanin's Prof-Media company....
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SingaporeSingaporeSingapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island city-state located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, lying north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands. At , Singapore is a microstate and the smallest nation in Southeast...
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Channel 5 Channel 5, as a television channel, may refer to:* In America:**Channel 5 - Rosario, Argentine television station, founded in 1964, which broadcasts from the city of Rosario...
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August 10, 2009 |
SlovakiaSlovakiaThe Slovak Republic is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe with a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia borders the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south. The largest city is its capital, Bratislava...
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Markíza Markíza is the leading private television station in Slovakia. Shortly after its launch on 31 August 1996, it became the most watched TV channel in Slovakia and retains this position until today. Formerly, it was owned by the politician Pavol Rusko...
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SloveniaSloveniaSlovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north...
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POP TV POP TV is a private television network in Slovenia that began broadcasting on December 15, 1995. The station is known for broadcasting American TV series, such as Lost, Desperate Housewives, Prison Break, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, The Tudors, ER, Monk, Without a Trace,...
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South AfricaSouth AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland, while Lesotho is an independent country surrounded by South Africa.Modern...
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M-Net M-Net is a subscription-funded television channel in South Africa, established in 1986 by a consortium of newspaper companies, including Naspers....
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January 8, 2009 |
SpainSpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. [The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though España , Estado español and Nación española are used interchangeably...]
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Canal+ Canal+ is a Spanish pay television channel, launched in September 1990 on terrestrial television frequencies. The channel is operated by Sogecable. The main staples of Canal+ are Spanish football, bullfighting and recent movies....
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December 28, 2008 |
SwedenSwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...
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Kanal 5 Kanal 5 is the name of a number of television stations whose names translate into English as "Channel 5".* Kanal 5, a Croatian station* Kanal 5, a Danish station* Kanal 5, a Macedonian station* Kanal 5, a Swedish station...
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SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland , officially the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 states named cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities...
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ThailandThailandThe Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia.It is bordered to the north by Laos and Burma, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Burma...
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True Series True Series is a Thai television channel owned and produced by TrueVisions. It features series, lifestyle programs and reality shows from around the world. Most of the shows air in their original English language audio with subtitles in Thai but there are also some dubbed shows...
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February 7, 2009 |
TurkeyTurkeyTurkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe...
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DiziMax DiziMax is a channel available on the Turkish Satellite television provider Digiturk. DiziMax airs foreign tv series with subtitles.The current lineup consists of the following series:*3 lbs*90210*Kill Point*Alias*Babylon 5*Brothers & Sisters...
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January, 2009 |
UKUKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
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VenezuelaVenezuelaVenezuela , officially titled Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It is a continental mainland with numerous islands located off its coastline in the Caribbean Sea...
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Warner Channel Warner Channel is a Latin American cable television channel owned by Time Warner's HBO Latin America Group that focuses on airing American-produced series and films...
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UkraineUkraineUkraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south. The city of Kiev is both the capital and the largest city of...
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Novyi Kanal Novyi Kanal is a Ukrainian television channel.- History :The channel was launched on August 15 1998. At first, it was broadcast only in Kiev, but since 1999, it has extended its range to six other regions of Ukraine, and from 2000, is received in more than 17 major cities...
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