Bones & Fringe next season
Fox is really endearing itself to me lately. As a whole, I’m pretty happy with the network’s lineup for this fall. Not only is Fox the home of our beloved Bones, but our family has found a new favorite in the summer’s reality hit So You Think You Can Dance - just about the only reality show I’ll watch (if you can call it a “reality show.”) But, after a first great season, it’s keeping Fringe along with Dollhouse - the brainchild of fan fav Joss Whedon.
Although Dollhouse may not have drawn the viewers like they had hoped - in my opinion due to lack of publicity and a confusing opening (looked more like something risque than the almost sci-fi show it is) - I’m glad to see they’re giving it anther season to prove itself. Fox says that thanks to “having two scripted freshman hits this season - “Fringe” and “Lie to Me” [they had] more flexibility to be choosy and also to be more patient with a slow starter like “Dollhouse.”
(Somehow, I never saw this promo on TV, and after talking to several friends about the show, they had gotten the wrong impression from whatever it was they had seen, so hopefully this next season will draw a better crowd and get better ratings. I’d like to see where they take the show…)
And Fringe - which will pair up on Thursdays with Bones next season - is another show I’m glad to see sticking around. I enjoyed the X-Files but never got into it so that I was a big follower. Fringe, on the other hand, is a similar show that has truly pulled me in. Although the show is more scientific in origins instead of the extra-terrestrial that was X-Files, maybe that’s why it has more draw for me personally.
So far, the only disappointment I see for Fox is the discontinuation of Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles. Since I never was big on the movies, (although I liked the new one that just came out: Terminator Salvation), it’s been interesting to watch from a newbie’s point of view. But as long as I get to keep my ultimate favorites, I won’t complain too much…
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