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No polar bears, but plenty of weirdness.

“Fringe” is as creepy as “Lost,” but much easier to follow.

The most promising drama of the disheveled new season — and remember, many of the fall network series are not available for preview — “Fringe” looks like a potential Tuesday-night obsession.

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In a different world, “Fringe” might have crept quietly onto the TV schedule. It could have scored slowly.

Not this season, though. TV people need an instant hit.

So Kevin Reilly, the Fox programming chief, calls the show “an ‘X-Files,’ ‘Indiana Jones’ kind of thing.”

J.J. Abrams, the show’s producer, tries to duck such high expectations. Soon, however, he’s talking about his favorite fantasy shows.

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J.J. Abrams will literally shake things up on the big screen with a new disaster movie.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the “Lost” mastermind has teamed up with original “Omen” screenwriter David Seltzer to work on an earthquake movie for Universal Pictures.

Abrams is producing the project with his Bad Robot partners Bryan Burk and Sherryl Clark. As of now, Abrams is attached only to produce the movie, for which plot details are being kept tightly under wraps.

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The Fringe panel at Comic-Con Saturday ended up being far more noteworthy for what it didn’t have rather than for what it did offer: a half-full ballroom of lookee-loos and no footage from Star Trek.

For days, there had been lots of buzz that executive producers J.J. Abrams (pictured), Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman were going to use the panel to debut a few minutes from Trek (which was directed by Abrams and written by Orci and Kurtzman, and is set for release next May). Zachary Quinto, who plays a young Spock in the new movie was even in attendance. But almost 40 minutes into the session, it seemed certain that Abrams had no intention of unveiling the much-anticipated footage, despite comments from insiders around him who said he actually had three minutes from Trek ready to debut. (When asked on the panel about the progress of Trek, Abrams said that most of the special effects work hadn’t been completed, which is why he couldn’t show anything at Comic-Con).

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To set the tone for J.J. Abrams’ Fringe, Fox turned to teaser animations offering a glimpse of science’s spooky frontier.

Buster, a conceptual design and motion graphics studio, worked with Fox to design and create an on-air campaign featuring elements of nature twisted by unknown forces. The shorts, collected here, are based on the still image posters that invited would-be viewers to find the “pattern” over recent weeks. The animated ads are running now and should hover around through August as the Fringe premiere approaches.

In other show news, Abrams wrote the theme tune for his new show, just as he did for Alias and Lost. Reportedly, he’s relying on strings for a moody effect — and probably staying as far away from whistling as he can.

Source: Wired

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In case you have yet to see a preview of the pilot that has been running no stop on FOX click below to check it out. Also remember that the season kicks off Sept 9th.

BEVERLY HILLS — It might be easier to say what Fox’s new “Fringe” isn’t, rather than try to define what it is.

The show, which debuts Sept. 9, isn’t “Lost.” It isn’t “Alias.” According to its creative team, most of whom have worked on one or both of those shows, “Fringe” isn’t a show that requires you to see every episode to understand what is going on.

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STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s Kanal 5, owned by European broadcast group ProSiebenSat.1, has nabbed Swedish rights to J.J. Abrams’ produced series “Fringe.”

Kanal 5 has bought the first 13 episodes to air in the fall. The series, described as a mix of “Lost” and “The X-Files,” debuts in the U.S. on Fox in September.

Kanal 5 programmer Katarina Eriksson said: “This is a different genre for us, since we have a lot of series aimed at women, like ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and ‘Desperate Housewives.’ ‘Fringe’ is more aimed at younger men. But this does not mean that we are going to change our mix, we see this as an addition.”

Source: Variety