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TV’s British Invasion November 6th, 2008 HOUSE, THE MENTALIST, LIFE ON MARS, FRINGE and GOSSIP GIRL may star some of your favorite American sounding actors but do you really know who is passing themselves off as a Yank and is actually a Brit or Aussie? Filed under: Chuck, Fringe, Life on Mars, Sarah Connor Chron., TV, The Mentalist Article tags: Chuck, eleventh hour, fringe, life on mars, Sarah Connor Chron., the mentalist, tv's british invasion Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be...   [read the full post]

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By noreply@blogger.com (Adam Morgan) Best-known as the Academy Award-winning screenwriter for A Beautiful Mind, Goldsman's other writing credits include The Da Vinci Code and I Am Legend. On Fringe, he wrote and directed Bad Dreams, as well as contributing to the scripts for The Road Not Taken and There's More Than One of Eve...

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By Kate TV’s British Invasion November 6th, 2008 HOUSE, THE MENTALIST, LIFE ON MARS, FRINGE and GOSSIP GIRL may star some of your favorite American sounding actors but do you really know who is passing themselves off as a Yank and is actually a Brit or Aussie? Filed under: Chuck, Fringe, Life on Mars, Sarah Connor Chron., TV, The Mentalist Article tags: Chuck, eleventh hour, fringe, life on mars, Sarah Connor Chron., the mentalist, tv's british invasion Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Site Staff WEBMASTERS: Erika & Kate Reporters: Positions are Open - email inquiries HERE!. Date Activated: March 25th, 2008  Visitor Counter Map of our visitors in the last 24 Hours- can you see yourself? Site Awa...   [read the full post]

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Rate Opinion: House & Fringe: The personal vs. the professional

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By asepinwall@starledger.com (Alan Sepinwall) And, yes, we need to on some level be invested in Olivia if we're going to care about the show. We've learned a fair amount about Walter and Peter's backstory already, so it seems only fair to do it with the other lead. I just continue to find both Olivia and Anna Torv to be flat and uncompelling, w...

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By Charlie Jane Anders Sadly, Fringe had the weakest debut of any Abrams show since Felicity. The second episode did better thanks to the House premiere, and then the third episode dropped again. But the third episode scored better than the first, and as long as House remains reasonably popular, Fringe may be abl...

Rate Podcast: Secret Identity Issue #132.5--Second Helping

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By Brian LeTendre Topics Covered In This Issue: Movies / TV: Diesel coming back for XXX sequel The Thing remake is a prequel? Guggenheim gives Green Lantern update McGuire to get $50 million for Spidey sequels Boob Tube/Big Screen Blitzkrieg: The Shield Z-rock Sarah Connor Chronicles Fringe Anime-niac...

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Our time challenged dynamic duo chime in with a belated review of Tropic Thunder and debunk the misinformed protests surrounding the film's treatment of the disabled. Fringe continues its downward spiral into bad sci-fi television. Prison Break is gearing up for some blowout action. Sup...

Rate Fringe Podcast Enlightens, Annoys

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JJ Abrams new series, Fringe, is one of the most talked-about television fall television debuts, in part because it introduces as many mysteries as it answers.  Fox has also introduced a Fringe podcast, which addresses a lot of the questions raised by the pilot. It s a great idea: get people...

Rate Podcast: Secret Identity Issue #131.5--Second Helping

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By Brian LeTendre Topics Covered In This Issue: Movies / TV: Greatest American Hero movie in development; Fringe has good premiere; Ghostbusters 3 confirmed; Macguire and Raimi back for Spidey 4?; Dollhouse production stopped for script fixes; Sigmund and the Sea Monsters coming to the big screen Boob...

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By Meredith Woerner What do you think about Walter? He's slowly becoming a fan favorite out of the Fringe series. So are you saying that Science is the bad guy in Fringe? How are you going to top the "I just pissed myself" line? That was my favorite part of the pilot for Fringe.

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Fringe" creator, producer & writer J. J. Abrams was quoted recently with -- "I'm drawn to overarching, long-term stories..." Well guess what Jeff? Me too! And thank you. I am sure many of your long term aficionados feel the same and are grateful that the latest Bad Robot production is finall...

Rate Podcast: DVD Verdict 225 - The Friday Filibuster [09/12/08]

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Your favorite podcast devolves into "Friday Filibuster After Dark," as Dave and Mac welcome in Judge Erich Asperschlager and Chief Justice Michael Stailey for a detailed look at the premiere of JJ Abrams' Fringe, the difference between Harry and Henry Houdini, sultry Charlie Brown an...

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By Hugh Hart The two-hour Fringe pilot, debuting Tuesday on Fox, introduces federal investigator Olivia Dunham (played by Australian newcomer Anna Torv), her unlikely ally Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) and his mad scientist father, Walter (John Noble). They team up to investigate a horrific air...

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By Scott Thill In the Star Wars multiverse, there are few narratives as familiar as the one that plays out in The Clone Wars, the animated TV series that debuts, at last, Oct. 3 on Cartoon Network. Probably because it is. Fall television is anything but original. Heroes has been following its own footprints f...

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We threatened to never do another TV Talk Podcast if you didnât flock to iTunes and leave us commentsâ well Iâm happy to report that you love us as much as we love you! Thanks to your generosity, we are back and this weekâs podcast is a lot of fun! We revise our thoughts on Swingtown now that weâr...

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By Jenna Wortham The pilot episode for J.J. Abrams' supernatural sci-fi drama Fringe has surfaced on file-sharing network BitTorrent. Fringe, directed by Lost creator J.J. Abrams, has been getting mixed reviews on various community forums and fan sites.

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By Chris Klimek Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is something else. Yeah, it’s an established property, at least in Chicago, homebase of its creators, the Neo-Futurists. (Think the Groundlings, except less obsessed with getting on Saturday Night Live.) The hometown show been up and running for at le...

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