Loaded Couch Potatoes

This was not exactly what I’d call a great episode of television, but it was good enough that I can now say I am officially onboard the Fringe season two bandwagon.  While not qualifying as great, this episode nonetheless has enough spark and vitality to it — elements that were, more often than not, missing during first-season episodes — that I’m starting to feel pretty good about saying that Fringe, in its sophomore season, has turned a corner.

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Okey doke, take a look at this:

Now, just you try and tell me you aren’t glad to see this show back for a second season.

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Master Black offers up his opinion on this week’s selection of new releases. (continue reading…)

Fox announced its fall schedule today, and one of the changes the network is making is a big one: it’s moving Fringe to the 8 p.m. CST slot, in direct competition with Grey’s Anatomy, CSI, and The Office.  This, of course, is one of the busiest, most important time slots in all of television.

Airing Fringe against those other heavyweights is likely a tremendous sign of faith in the J.J. Abrams-produced series.

In other Fox news, James Hibberd spoke with Joss Whedon about the renewal of Dollhouse.

Honk Mahfah reviews the season finales of Dollhouse and Fringe.  Read only if you want to know spoilers you don’t want to know.

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Honk Mahfah reviews the season’s penultimate episodes of Fringe and Lost.

Spoilers are throughout, but there is an especially big one for Fringe in the first paragraph, so if you don’t want to know, you might want to skip reading this.

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Jared Harris, who plays the mysterious terrorist David Robert Jones on Fringe, has joined the cast of Mad Men for its third season, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Harris will appear in ten episodes as Lane Pryce, the financial officer for Sterling Cooper.

Filming on the award-winning AMC series’s third season began yesterday.  New episodes will air beginning in August.

Variety reports that Fox has renewed Fringe for a second season.  The news comes as no particular surprise, but is nevertheless very welcome.

In other television news, NBC has announced part of its fall schedule, and the Amy Poehler sitcom Parks and Recreation – a new Honk Mahfah favorite — has scored a renewal for a second season.

Read the full press release here at ComingSoon.net.

The network also announced several new series, a couple of which caught my eye: Parenthood, a reworking of the Ron Howard/Steve Martin film (the series is from Friday Night Lights producer Jason Katims and stars Peter Krause, Maura Tierney, and Craig T. Nelson); and Day One, a drama which “tells the story of life on earth following a global catastrophe that has devastated the world’s infrastructures.”

NBC has not yet revealed the fate of some of its shows, such as Loaded Couch Potatoes darling Chuck.  The network is expected to announce additional series pickups (of both new and returning series) on May 19.

Honk Mahfah reviews “Midnight,” the latest episode of Fringe.

Spoilers fo sho.

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Fringe Television has up part one of their interview with Jasika Nicole, who is perpetually underutilized as resident gopher Astrid Farnsworth.

Nicole answers questions about such topics as her screen time, her favorite scene to film, whether Lance Reddick is a gigglebox, moving with the show to Vancouver, and, of course, Gene the cow.