FRINGE Series Finale 10th Anniversary: J.H. Wyman Looks Back on ‘An Enemy of Fate’

[Warning: This post contains spoilers for FRINGE’s five-season run, with specific details about the series finale.]

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DEBRIS: What You Need to Know About the Series Premiere

DEBRIS, the new show from former FRINGE boss J.H. Wyman, debuts tonight on NBC.

If you’re counting down the minutes for the show’s bow, take a look at photos from tonight’s season premiere, and an episode tease…

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The DEBRIS Team Teases NBC’s New Mysterious Sci-Fi Drama

In the new NBC drama DEBRIS, the wreckage of a mysterious spaceship is scattered around the world—and causing inexplicable events.

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DEBRIS on NBC – First Look

Though it was an extraordinarily unusual pilot season—with most shows not getting far into the annual process before COVID-19 shut things down—NBC did order DEBRIS, which was able to do a decent amount of filming of its first episode.

Check out photos from the first episode of the series, which stars Jonathan Tucker and Riann Steele, and was created by former FRINGE boss J.H. Wyman…

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NBC Orders DEBRIS to Series

NBC has ordered sci-fi drama DEBRIS to series.

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SHOWRUNNERS: Des Doyle and Ryan Patrick McGuffey Preview Their Look Inside the World of Showrunning

SHOWRUNNERS — the first documentary shining the spotlight on the men and women responsible for putting our favorite television series on the air (and having them run as smoothly as possible) — is finally out today, and it promises to be a film any television fan will enjoy.

With SHOWRUNNERS, not only will fans get exclusive interviews with showrunners like Joss Whedon, J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, Bill Prady, Jane Espenson, but they’ll get glimpses into writing rooms, panels the showrunners participate in to promote their shows, a day in the life following one showrunner, and other access die-hard TV fans could have only dreamed about before now.

I spoke with SHOWRUNNERS director Des Doyle and co-producer Ryan Patrick McGuffey about the process to get the film made, what their challenges were, how this experience changed how they viewed their favorite shows, and more…

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In Case You Missed It…ALMOST HUMAN, PERSON OF INTEREST, THE VOICE, and More!

Were you too busy this week to keep up with everything that happened in TV news? Give Me My Remote‘s got you covered! We’re catching you up on anything exciting you might have missed here at GMMR!

This week on GMMR:

This week in previews:

This week in pictures:

This week in videos:

This week in news:

This week in ABOUT LAST NIGHT:

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ALMOST HUMAN: What You Need to Know About the New Fox Series

There are approximately one million new shows debuting this season*, and it’s going to get difficult to keep track of them all.

To help you out, for every new show, I’m going to basically create a hub of info on the day of the premiere — pilot photos, my quick take on the pilot (or what I’ve seen so far), what’s been written about it so far, and when you can watch it.

Next up, ALMOST HUMAN…

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ALMOST HUMAN: J.H. Wyman on Taking a Hopeful Look at the Future

ALMOST HUMAN premieres tonight, and the series takes us 35 years in the future — crime has skyrocketed, and to help combat it, humans have mandatory orders to work with android partners.

And yet, ALMOST HUMAN creator J.H. Wyman (who also showran FRINGE for multiple seasons) is hopeful about the future.

When I spoke with Wyman about his new show, I was curious about his thoughts about what set it apart from the other procedurals or pieces of futuristic fiction out there…and he had a very thoughtful answer for me:

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ALMOST HUMAN: Karl Urban on the Appeal of the Show, Working with Michael Ealy, and More

ALMOST HUMAN star Karl Urban has spent most of the last decade of his career working on movies (he previously was Caesar on XENA and HERCULES), so it took a very special project to draw him back into the television world.

“It was obviously, firstly, having the opportunity to work with J.J. [Abrams, Urban’s STAR TREK director and ALMOST HUMAN executive producer] again, whom I absolutely adore,” Urban told me of deciding to take the role of John Kennex on the Fox series, a futuristic buddy-cop drama. “I think he’s one of the most talented artists currently working in film and television. [And ALMOST HUMAN creator,] Joel Wyman, I was a huge fan of [his work on] FRINGE, so that was a huge draw.”

“And then it was, quite simply, reading the script and getting drawn into this world and getting drawn into the character of Kennex,” he continued. “A character who is damaged goods, a character who is trying to reclaim his life; a life that was stolen from him…living in a coma for two years [after an injury sustained during an ambush], and then coming back from that, trying to pick up the pieces. For me, that’s a really interesting starting point.”

And while ALMOST HUMAN is getting the latest start of all the new network fall dramas, Urban was gratified by the response the show’s first episode got at this summer’s Comic-Con panel.

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J.J. Abrams on What Sets ALMOST HUMAN Apart from the Other Bad Robot Shows

J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot production company has been behind some of the best (and nerdiest) shows of the past decade and a half (FELICITY, ALIAS, LOST, FRINGE are a few of the former shows, while PERSON OF INTEREST and REVOLUTION are currently on the air), and on Sunday, November 17th, Fox will debut the Bad Robot latest show: ALMOST HUMAN, a futuristic cop drama created by former FRINGE boss Joel Wyman.

Given the wide array of shows Bad Robot has produced, I asked Abrams during a conference call to promote ALMOST HUMAN what he felt set this show apart from all the other ones he’s had a hand in before.

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ALMOST HUMAN: Watch 8 Minutes of the Pilot

ALMOST HUMAN — the new futuristic cop drama from FRINGE boss J.H. Wyman and uber producer J.J. Abrams — is getting a big launch post-football on November 17th, but if you can’t wait until then, Fox and Hulu have released a snippet of the pilot online early.

These eight minutes aren’t actually the start of the pilot, but it does introduce you to a fair amount of characters in the world, including the first meeting of Karl Urban’s John Kennex and Michael Ealy’s Dorian.

Take a look!

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ALMOST HUMAN: Fox Debuts New Trailer with the New Premiere Date

ALMOST HUMAN (from FRINGE creator J.H. Wyman and exec produced by J.J. Abrams) got an unexpected series premiere change tonight (just two weeks before its intended debut), but on the bright side, it also got a new trailer.

Take a look at the latest promo for the Karl Urban/Michael Ealy-fronted series…

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ALMOST HUMAN debuts Sunday, November 17th at 8 PM before having its Monday night debut on November 18th at 8 PM.

Related:

Fox Delays ALMOST HUMAN, Pushes Back BONES’ Move to Fridays, Delays RAISING HOPE’s Season Premiere
ALMOST HUMAN’s Michael Ealy on Working with Karl Urban: ‘The Chemistry is Growing’
ALMOST HUMAN: J.J. Abrams and J.H. Wyman on Finding the Right Balance for Mythology Versus Procedural Elements

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ALMOST HUMAN’s Michael Ealy on Working with Karl Urban: ‘The Chemistry is Growing’

In two weeks (Update: Fox has opted to push the premiere back to Sunday, November 17th), Fox will debut its final new fall series, ALMOST HUMAN, a “buddy-cop” show set 35 years in the future — where crime rates have risen and every cop is partnered with an android — that explores what humanity really means. (To give you a sense of the tone/show, it was created by FRINGE showrunner J.H. Wyman and executive produced by J.J. Abrams who did FRINGE/LOST/ALIAS/STAR TREK, etc.)

At the center of the series are Karl Urban’s John Kennex, a newly reinstated detective who was injured in a massive police ambush and has only partnered with humans pre-injury, and Michael Ealy’s Dorian, an android (model DRN) whose kind was created to be as human as possible, but has since been taken off the streets…who have become reluctant new partners. And as with any show where there’s one key relationship, the actors are aware their chemistry needs to be on point.

“The chemistry is growing episode after episode,” Ealy told me last month (in the video below), after the duo had completed a handful of hours. “We still work every episode on how to make it better.”

What else did Ealy have to say about his working relationship with Urban? Take a look…

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In Case You Missed It…BONES, SLEEPY HOLLOW, ALMOST HUMAN, and More

Were you too busy this week to keep up with everything that happened in TV news? Give Me My Remote‘s got you covered! We’re catching you up on anything exciting you might have missed here at GMMR!

This week on GMMR:

• DEXTER: C.S. Lee, James Remar, and Sara Colleton Tease the Final Two Episodes
• BONES: Tamara Taylor Teases ‘The Secrets in the Proposal’
• SLEEPY HOLLOW: The Cast and Producers Tease Bringing Ichabod Crane to 2013
• Backstage at the Creative Arts Emmys 2013: Stories From Bob Newhart, Dan Bucatinsky, Carrie Preston, and More
• BONES: What You Missed on Your Summer Vacation
• SLEEPY HOLLOW: What You Need to Know About the New Fox Series
• DADS: Giovanni Ribisi, Martin Mull, Seth Green, and Peter Riegert Talk About Their New Fox Comedy
• BROOKLYN NINE-NINE: Andy Samberg and Andre Braugher on Their New Police Comedy
• NEW GIRL: Lamorne Morris Teases Season 3
• THE MINDY PROJECT: Ike Barinholtz on the Addition of James Franco’s Dr. Leotard
• BROOKLYN NINE-NINE: Terry Crews Talks About the On-Set Dynamic that Makes the Show Work
• CASTLE: Lisa Edelstein Teases Her Arc
• DADS: What You Need to Know About the New Fox Series
• BROOKLYN NINE-NINE: What You Need to Know About the New Fox Series
• NEW GIRL: What You Missed on Your Summer Vacation
• THE MINDY PROJECT: What You Missed on Your Summer Vacation
• THE VOICE Exclusive: Blake Shelton Shares What He Did on His Summer Break
• SCANDAL: Dan Bucatinsky on His Emmy Nod, His Hopes for James and Cyrus, and More
• PERSON OF INTEREST: Jonathan Nolan and Greg Plageman on Season 3, Moving to Tuesdays, and More
• LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT: Pablo Schreiber Teases the Season 15 Premiere
• HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: Cristin Milioti on Fan Reaction, Her First Day of Shooting, and Teases What She’s Excited for Fans to See
• ALMOST HUMAN First Look: Key Art and Photocast
• BONES: Tamara Taylor Teases Cam’s Identity Theft, Her Favorite Scenes to Film This Season (So Far), and More
• ALMOST HUMAN: J.J. Abrams and J.H. Wyman on Finding the Right Balance for Mythology Versus Procedural Elements
• THE VOICE Season 5 Premiere: A Few Thoughts, Plus Video of the Fastest Four-Chair Turn Ever!
• SLEEPY HOLLOW: Orlando Jones and Katia Winter Tease What’s to Come
• BONES Season 9: You Ask, I Answer
• DEXTER: C.S. Lee and James Remar Share Their Thoughts on the Series Finale

This week in previews:

• THE VAMPIRE DIARIES: Season 5 Promo
• The CW Fall Preview Sizzle
• SLEEPY HOLLOW Music Video: ‘Hell of a Season’
• THE BLACKLIST: Watch the Opening Scene Now!
• BONES: ‘The Cheat in the Retreat’ Preview Clips

This week in pictures:

• BONES: ‘El Carnicero en el Coche’ Photos
• THE VAMPIRE DIARIES: Season 5 Cast Photos
• SCANDAL Season 3 Premiere: ‘It’s Handled’ Photos
• GLEE: ‘Tina in The Sky With Diamonds’ Photos
• SLEEPY HOLLOW: ‘Blood Moon’ Photos
• SUPERNATURAL Season 9 Premiere: ‘I Think I’m Gonna Like It Here’ Photos
• GLEE, BONES, NEW GIRL, and More: Check Out Some Behind-the-Scenes Pictures!
• ARROW Season 2 Premiere: ‘City of Heroes’ Photos

This week in videos:

• Watch the Showtime Pilot MASTERS OF SEX Now!

This week in news:

• 2013 Creative Arts Emmy Award Winners Announced
• HBO Orders THE LEFTOVERS to Series
• THE MINDY PROJECT Promotes HAPPY ENDINGS’ Adam Pally to Series Regular
• SLEEPY HOLLOW: FRINGE’s John Noble to Recur

This week in ABOUT LAST NIGHT:

• About Last Night…BONES and SLEEPY HOLLOW
• About Last Night…BROOKLYN NINE-NINE, NEW GIRL, THE MINDY PROJECT, and More
• About Last Night…THE X FACTOR
• About Last Night…THE X FACTOR

This week in recaps and discussions:

• BONES Season 9 Premiere Recap: ‘The Secrets in the Proposal’

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