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The second season of Fringe starts up tonight at 9pm on FOX network. Be there or be square. The first episode of the first season was exactly 53 weeks ago. How is that relevant? I just wanted to link to my post from a year ago. :-) I'm also recording The Office's season debut though I doubt I'll watch any other episodes this season. I like to see where this show starts off but I don't have the patience to watch it every week. Immediately following The Office a new show, Community, is being shown. I'll watch it since the reviews are highly positive but I don't think I'll like it. What do y'all think of The Jay Leno Show? I only watched the debut on Monday. I thought it was pretty typical of The Tonight Show when Leno was at the helm. Not good, not bad, just kinda in the middle. Not a good sign for a show that carries so much of NBC's future riding on its shoulders. UPDATE: I watched Community tonight, actually this morning, I guess, and was quite...

Tonight one of the shows in the new Fall lineup on Fox premiered. As you can probably surmise from the title of the post, the name of the show is Fringe . According to the co-creator of the series, J.J. Abrams, the influences for the show include Michael Crichton, The X-Files, Altered States, and The Twilight Zone. That's quite a pedigree and you could easily see each and every one of those influences in this first episode. And this show was up to those high standards, I might add. I anticipate a very heady continuing adventure on Tuesday nights this season as the research scientist Walter Bishop, his genius son, and FBI agent Olivia Dunham (ably played by the lovely Australian actress Anna Torv) try to track down the source of a series of inexplicable events that may prove to be humanity's scourge, AKA the Pattern. The parallels to the film Altered States occur several times and made me wonder if the casting of Blair Brown, lead actress in Altered States, was a coincidence. If...