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Fox's upcoming midseason drama "Alcatraz" is getting a rough start. Two weeks after the network halted production on the series temporarily, it appears there are new people in charge of the time-traveling "Prison Break" style show. Elizabeth Sarnoff, a co-creator of the show who wrote the succ ...

"Terra Nova" had a strong week this week thanks to a good lead-in from playoff baseball, but other shows on the network genre schedule aren't doing too well. Here's hoping that the somewhat competing shows of "Once Upon a Time" on ABC on "Grimm" on NBC will help turn that around a little bit head ...

Could television really afford to lose "Family Guy" in favor of a new Star Trek series? If anyone was ever willing to take a chance, Seth MacFarlane says he would do just that. MacFarlane, the creator of such Fox series as "Family Guy," "American Dad" and "The Cleveland Show," told The Hollywood ...

"Fringe" is back, and so are a few other shows that fans have come to enjoy -- even if it's not a large number of fans. The fourth season of the cult favorite Fox series earned a 2.1 rating/4 share, according to Fast National overnight ratings from The Nielsen Co. That was 22 percent below what t ...

How important was Peter Bishop to the world? So much that when we visit 2026 again -- and trust me, it looks like we will -- it will be quite different than how we saw it last season on "Fringe." "The future that we saw in 2026 will now not have happened, because by altering the past, inevitably ...

Many actors would be unhappy to see their screentime reduced drastically. But not Joshua Jackson, who plays the suave and intelligent Peter Bishop in the Fox series "Fringe." That's because he understand where "Fringe" is coming from: It's a series about characters, and the strength of those char ...

"Fringe" won't be winning any awards for the largest television audience, but it doesn't need to for Fox to keep it on its schedule. Kevin Reilly, the president of Fox programming, said no one at Fox expects the audience for "Fringe" to grow next season. In fact, if the size of the audience remai ...

It's hard to argue the ratings -- serialized dramas with complex storylines struggle to hold on to audience, and replace departing viewers with new ones. That's probably why many new shows on the network 2011-12 slate are procedurals. But not the new series from "Star Trek" director J.J. Abrams, ...

There's a name for it: "broken pilot." They are hardly the minority in Hollywood. In fact, there are far more broken pilots lying around Hollywood than pilots picked up for television series. And once every network passes on a show, it's as good as dead. But don't tell that to Josh Friedman. ...

What will it take to bring peace to the Middle East, and stop the conflict between Israel and Palestine? Create two countries. That's what Leonard Nimoy is saying, the man best known for his green-blooded, pointy-eared Vulcan Spock in the original "Star Trek" series and a number of movies that fo ...