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Genre fans went 1-for-2 with Fox on Wednesday as one freshman show earned a second season, while another one is waiving good-bye. Fox pulled the plug on "Alcatraz" after a 13-episode run that started strong, but ended well below expectations. In fact, what is now the series premiere was just a 2. ...

"Fringe" celebrated its renewal by pulling in the best audience it's seen since March 25, 2011 for the first part of its season finale. The series, which featured a surprise special guest (that we ain't spoiling here) earned a 2.4 rating/5 share in Fast National overnight ratings from The Nielsen ...

Just ahead of Fox announcing a fifth and final season of "Fringe," entertainment news outlets reported that Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television were shooting two different endings for the cult series, just in case there was not any more time granted to the show. But that's not the case, showrun ...

If the fate of television shows were up to social media site GetGlue, "Fringe" would be on for a long, long time. "Fringe" was television's No. 8 show in terms of social media check-ins from GetGlue, a site and smart phone app that allows viewers to "check in" to the shows they are watching. Simi ...

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Fox is expected to make an announcement on the fate of 'Fringe' any day now. But based on the chatter we've heard, and analysis of potential paths Fox can take by our sister site, Inside Blip, there's a good chance a short-season renewal for "Fringe" could mean more life for the struggling "Alcatraz ...

Not that the chances for revival were that great to begin with. But anyone hoping to see Fox's short-lived dinosaur drama "Terra Nova" finding a new home on Netflix will be disappointed. Netflix has decided to pass on the costly series, believed to top about $10 million per episode. While the med ...

We begin this week on "Alcatraz" with former guard Guy Hastings (Jim Parrack) in his former quarters on Alcatraz. He has opened a spot in the baseboard that contains a gun and old photographs. A park ranger, whom he beats to death, surprises Hastings. Hastings replaces the baseboard and leaves the i ...

This week, "Fringe" had a great case revolving around a man who found an Observer device and worked out the math so that he see the world like they did -- past, present and future -- all at once. Neil Chung (Chin Han) was a former MIT professor who took a job with the TSA so he could meet people. ...

This week's criminal for "Alcatraz" is Cal Sweeney (Eric Johnson), a bank robber of the 1950s. He would seduce tellers to gain access to a bank's safety deposit boxes and rob them. If nothing goes wrong, no one gets hurt. But unfortunately something goes wrong. Madsen (Sarah Jones) and Diego (Jor ...