Fox Tuesday 9pm
debuts Tuesday, September 9, 8pm (90 minute premiere)
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From J.J. Abrams ("Lost"), Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, the team behind "Star Trek," "Mission: Impossible III" and "Alias," comes a new drama that will thrill, terrify and explore the blurring line between science fiction and reality.

When an international flight lands at Boston's Logan Airport and the passengers and crew have all died grisly deaths, FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham is called in to investigate. After her partner, Special Agent John Scott, is nearly killed during the investigation, a desperate Olivia searches frantically for someone to help, leading her to Dr. Walter Bishop, our generation's Einstein. There's only one catch: he's been institutionalized for the last 20 years, and the only way to question him requires pulling his estranged son Peter in to help.

When Olivia's investigation leads her to manipulative corporate executive Nina Sharp, our unlikely trio along with fellow FBI Agents Phillip Broyles, Charlie Francis and Astrid Farnsworth will discover that what happened on Flight 627 is only a small piece of a larger, more shocking truth. 
stars Anna Torv (The Secret Life of Us), Joshua Jackson (Dawson's Creek), John Noble (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), Lance Reddick (The Wire), Kirk Acevedo (The Black Donnellys .), Mark Valley (Boston Legal), Blair Brown (Days and Nights of Molly Dodd), Jasika Nicole
producers J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Bryan Burk, Jeff Pinkner
studio Bad Robot Productions, Warner Bros. Television
my take
Lost meets Alias and Eureka. With the J.J. Abrams pedigree, the bar is set pretty high. They can run into the serialization problem that plagued Lost and Alias and The X-Files before it. People who don't watch from Season 1, Episode 1 feel lost (sorry.) and won't ever sample the show. (Personally, I like programming that doesn't spoon feed its viewers or solve every problem in 44 minutes.) All that negativity aside, Fringe has a lot of possibilities...and the slot Fox has given it will give a a big chance to succeed. There won't be any middle ground here: it's going to be a hit or it's going to flame out fast.
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