Fringe – John Noble

John Noble talks about his character Walter Bishop on FRINGE. I can see John Noble doing a great job with that part on Fringe. – FoxBroadcasting

Joshua Jackson: Beyond the Fringe

From ice-hockey-playing child star to Dawson’s Creek pin-up, Joshua Jackson has walked the streets of Hollywood in a back-to-front fashion. From movies to TV and theatre, and then back to movies, in recent years he has managed to avoid the mainstream hysteria courted by other actors of his age and caliber. But that could all be about to change. The 30-year-old Canadian is embarking on a TV series journey that could be the making of him, all over again. As the star of J.J. Abrams’ new pilot show, Fringe, he should be preparing for a media circus. Bryan Cairns caught up with him to find out how he got involved…

These days, most of your credits are for feature films. What attracted you to the TV series Fringe?

Very simply, the appeal is good work with good people. The script is excellent and the character is Indiana Jones-ish. The whole piece is slightly darker than that but the character is adventuresome and smart. Usually on TV, you can be the smart guy but you have to wear glasses and sit in the car or you can be the adventuresome guy and look like Superman and be a lunkhead. This is a nice change.

You can’t really get any better than J.J. Abrams as a producer on television or film. Alias was pretty damn good, Lost is excellent, and Felicity was good as well. He’s definitely made his mark on television. That is the difficulty of television, maintaining quality and being able to keep cranking these things out. That is the thing that has held me back over the last few years from working in television, is knowing the amount of work that goes into it and how difficult it is to keep something good, fresh and interesting for the audience.

Source

It seems to me like it will be a tough road for Joshua Jackson to go from Dawson’s Creek pin-up to star of Fox’s Fringe. Should be interesting to watch and see how Joshua does on Fringe.

Most Clever Award

Megan may be a manipulative liar, but she’s smart. The whole episode she used her shaky, little girl voice. She also played the paymaster part brilliantly, though somewhat sadistically. She announced that Princess Lily would be making the decision on who would be eliminated and made everyone “talk to my dog” and tell her why they should stay. That’s how passive-aggressive people play the game.

In the end, Megan made a smart decision. She had to choose between Toastee (show friend and alliance buddy), Hoopz (intimidating and part of the Stallionaire’s Alliance), and Rodeo (who has trash talked about her the entire show).

By keeping Toastee, she maintains her secret alliance.

By keeping Hoopz, she maintains a shaky alliance with the stallionaires which should keep her safe a few more rounds.

Rodeo and Hoopz are both very strong players, eliminating either was a good move, competition wise. It was obvious that Rodeo did not have any strong alliances, even the stallionaires were not demanding she be saved. There would have been no benefit to Megan if she kept her.

Brownnoser Award

One of the problems with trying to be liked by everyone is that sooner or later it will catch up to you. Rodeo tried to prove she was a friend to the Stallionaire Alliance by throwing her team challenge this week. Much to her surprise, her teammates were not impressed and voted her into the elimination round. Rodeo tried everything to win over Megan, this week’s paymaster. She even went so far as to have a heartfelt conversation, including tears, with Megan’s mentally challenged dog, Princess Lily. Lily was not impressed and voided Rodeo’s check.

Poor Rodeo, she saved the Green Team from another loss but none of them seemed upset to see her leave.

If you are interested in learning more about Rodeo’s products, check them out here:

Online Store

Thug Award

Until now, Real seemed like a really nice, fairly intelligent guy. But when his brother, Chance was eliminated, the gangsta came out. It was over the top and a little scary. I found it entertaining because this is how real people would compete in a competition for that kind of money. Most game shows are very PC with everyone acting “civilized” when you know they are thinking evil thoughts in their heads about their competition. This show lets people openly express themselves.

Check out the artist of this illustration at:

Von Glitschka

Honorable Mentions:

Best Confessional goes to Princess Lily.
In subtitles, Lily speaks about Rodeo – “That B*tch is crazy”

Best Editing Moment goes to the production team.
A raging Rodeo turns green like the incredible hulk.

We are now down to ten people.
No more teams, next week it’s everyone for themselves. Now the games can really begin.

The highly anticipated return of the Amazing Race is just a month away and CBS has released the bios of its Amazing Race cast. Let’s take a look at the competitors and see how close CBS stayed to their past formulas of choosing teams.

First we have Terence and Sarah, a dating couple whose biggest concerns are becoming too intense, fighting amongst themselves, and their dietary restrictions. Sounds like a formula for good TV if I ever heard one. You know the producers are thinking, “Yes! Get intense! Fight! Harder!” I’m interested to learn more about the dietary restrictions since I have a ton of those myself and have cited that as my main reason for never going on a reality show.

Next up are Marisa and Brooke AKA Team Hot Pink Velour Tracksuits. Haven’t we already seen this team on seasons 12 (Shana and Jennifer), 10, 11 (Dustin & Kandice), 9 (Danielle & Dani), and 7 (Megan and Heidi)? For some reason this typecast annoys me the most out of all of them.

Frat brothers Andrew and Dan look interesting. I expect them to bring the funny. Don’t disappoint, boys.

Aja and Ty are our token black couple on the race. For as diversely traveled of a show the Amazing Race is, they sure don’t carry that over to their casts, do they? I’m concerned about this team. They are in a long-distance relationship and Ty feels that Aja’s biggest weakness is that she gets upset easily. I foresee lots of distraught tears and miscommunication with these two as they struggle to stay on the same page.

Next up are Mark and Bill, the geeks for this season. These two are comic fan boys who met at a science fiction club almost a quarter century ago. How sweet. I predict their intellect will get them through certain challenges, but their lack of physical fitness will slow them down in others.

Mother and son team Toni and Dallas are all but guaranteed to be entertaining according to their CBS bio. Their breakdowns will (predictably) be when Toni tries to boss Dallas around.

Nick and Starr are a brother/sister team who I believe will get on my nerves by episode 2. Starr (how did she draw the short stick in the family name lottery?) is a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader and Nick performed in Off-Broadway, so lots of drama shall be sure to ensue. Their bios mention the siblings are best friends now but were bitter enemies in high school – let’s see which one holds more true as they travel around the world.

We’ve got hippies again! And an aging team! All in one tie-dyed package. Groovy. Anita and Arthur are a married couple in their 60s from Oregon. They run a farm and are all about the peace and love. I have high hopes for them.

Team Hot Pink Velour Tracksuits have company this season. Watch out, girls, Kelly and Christy are going to give you a run for your money. Both of these teams are from the south, but the latter are from Texas. And everybody knows you don’t mess with Texas.

Once again, we’ve got an estranged couple in the cast. Ken and Tina have been separated for 9 months, but are hoping to reconnect on the race. I hope that works better for them than it did for Frank and Margarita (Season 1), and Tara and Wil (Season 2). They separated because of Ken’s infidelity. I’m not sure going on the Amazing Race with two teams of Double Mint Twins is the best idea in the world, but that’s just me.

Finally, we have Anthony and Stephanie, another couple whose fate seems dubious. Anthony promises to propose to Stephanie if they win the race. So if they lose, will he dump her?

Since people can be so much different than they are “on paper”, it’s hard to choose favorites just yet. However, I’ll take that risk based on past Amazing Race experience. My picks – sight unseen – are Andrew & Dan and Anita and Arthur. I can’t wait to tune in on September 28th to see if my predictions hold!

Take a look at this great video of Johnny Cash joking around. It gave me a great laugh.

Isn’t it amazing that we can now watch performances like this that were recorded almost fifty years ago?

Dear Amazing Race and CBS,
I can’t wait!!

Ok, I can, but this wait is just killing me. CBS and Amazing Race should never do this to us again. I love this show far too much to have to wait for it to come on TV. Did you hear me Amazing Race? Don’t keep your adoring fans waiting.

Yes, I understand that you’ve been on for 12 seasons and that this is the Amazing Race 13. That doesn’t mean you should deprive us any longer of our travels around the world.

I’m not sure you realize this, but let me let you in on a little secret my dear Amazing Race. Are you listening? Good. The secret is that for most of us watching the Amazing Race that’s as close as we’re going to come to racing around the world. Sure, we might travel to Italy once in our life or we might just happen to make it to Japan at some point, but most of us won’t be able to race around the world.

Plus, even if we did get to go to those places, we don’t get to do nearly as cool things as you get to do. Seriously, do you think that if I went to New Zealand that I’d be able to roll down a beautiful green hill in a mouse ball (or whatever that orb thing was called). What about sledging in New Zealand? Nope, my guess is I wouldn’t be doing that either as much as I’d like to in the very depths of my heart. By the way, New Zealand’s orb and sledging (I hope that’s the name) are still probably my 2 favorite activities on any adventure of the Amazing Race.

I know I’ve waited this long for Amazing Race 13 and it’s only one month and 10 days until the season premier of Amazing Race, but I’m tired of waiting. Since I know you can’t change that date. I’ll settle for this. Never make your adoring Amazing Race fans wait this long ever again.

Thanks Amazing Race. We love you!