Exclusive: Fringe Stars Talk Finale ('We Shot Two Endings'), Drop Clue About Season 5 Storyline
Matt Webb Mitovich
Fox’s Fringe, which for four years now has traded in dual universes, doppelgängers and shape-shifting body doubles, is fittingly prepping alt versions of its Season 4 finale, as Fox and Warner Bros. TV continue to negotiate the possibility of a Season 5.
“We’ve shot two [endings],” John Noble told TVLine at the opening of the Beverly Hills Paley Center’s “Television: Out of the Box” exhibit, which was created in conjunction with Warner Bros. TV.
Noble says many “big questions” will be answered in the season finale airing May 11 — including the matter of Olivia being fated to die (and whether the animated episode’s “Mr. X” figures into it) and Walter shouldering the burden of responsibility for the warring universes. Viewers also can expect a surprise on the villainy front (David Robert Jones plays “a very big part, but not as big as you think,” Noble teased. “There’s something bigger.”)
But as Joshua Jackson told us Thursday night, “The writers have given themselves a device by which we can tell a fifth-season story without having to leave this season’s story open.”
Read Matt's entire, spoilery TVLine post here.
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Gaahh,
ReplyDeleteI want the news now. Please let there be a
season 5!!!!!
Ratings are terrible (down to series low 0.9 rating in the 18-49 Demo and based on that alone there wont be even a rumored 13 episode Season 5. Bill Gorman of tvbythenumbers.com says any hope for a season 5 rests with Warner Bros. reducing its fees to $0
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" Fringe ratings have bumped along at woeful levels since January. Fans' hopes for a fifth season seem to rise and fall with those tiny up or down ticks, and I don't think they should.
As I've been noting all season long. Fringe's terrible ratings under normal circumstances would certainly cause the show to be canceled. But the potential money fountain that is off network syndication sometimes causes producers to do things that don't fit "normal" like cutting their license fee to the network to nothing. That's what Warner Brothers will have to do to get another season of Fringe, and the chance that they might is what's keeping it a "toss up" for renewal or cancellation.
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Whether or not its gets a short season 5 to end it or it ends now I hope JJ Abrams some is thinking about a LOST/Fringe series - a 13 episode summer series on cable preferably - that would take place on the LOST Island and have 4 or 5 cast members of Lost Hugo, Ben and few others that left on Flight 316 and the main 4 Fringe characters (Walter, Peter, Olivia and Astrid go on a relaxing cruise only to wash up on the shores of the island. Probably wont happen but its fun to think about.
So if anyone Warner Bros. appears to be the key.