The TV Addict 

I think it was my generations Plato, Homer Simpson who said it best. When he summed up his feelings in one succinctly brilliant word. “D’OH!”

Can someone tell me why exactly your very own TV Addict didn’t throw caution/responsibility/financial security to the wind and shell out the bucks to head to Los Angeles for last night’s FOX SUMMER TCA PARTY? I mean talk about your hindsight is 20/20. A mortgage payment would have been a small price to pay to spend the night hobnobbing with the likes of J.J. Abrams, Joss Whedon, Lena Heady, Thomas Dekker, Summer Glau, Hugh Laurie, Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Wentworth Miller, Brian Austin Green, Olivia Wilde… well you get the idea.

So a quick heads up friends. If you notice anything ‘wonky’ on theTVaddict.com throughout the day. And by ‘wonky’ I mean spelling and grammar mistakes above the usual levels. Please keep in mind that they’re simply a bi-product of the incredibly large amount of tears that are pouring down on my keyboard at this very moment.

Seriously, how did I NOT attend this party. I mean click the link below for more of what I missed.

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By: Kevin Kelly, Special TCA Correspondent

When your show opens with a mysterious plane on the verge of crashing, skin melting off passengers’ faces, not to mention a mystery that has you racing to the internet for clues — it’s safe to say you’re not watching your standard CBS procedural. In fact, odds are good that the show you’re watching involves none other than [TV Addict Favorite] J.J. Abrams, who was on hand at this morning’s Television Critics Press Tour alongside his entire creative team [and via satellite] stars Josh Jackson, Anna Torv and John Noble to talk about FOX’s highly anticipated new series FRINGE. Or as I like to call it, X-FILES with a bigger budget.

But shhhhh, let’s just keep that between us okay!

Turns out that J.J. Abrams, alongside co-executive producers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman visibly bristle whenever a member of the press compares the show to that other show about paranormal phenomena. Which makes for a heck of an akward question and answer period. Because (a) the comparison was made on more than one occasion and (b) one can’t help but compare the two shows to each other since they both feature male and female leads who just so happened to be FBI agents that coincidentally made their bread and butter by investigating the paranormal.

FRINGE, according to Abrams was inspired by ALTERED STATES, WESTWORLD, and even COMA. The creative team embraces David Cronenberg wholeheartedly and wanted a show that was similar to the X-FILES and NIGHT STALKER, but with an emphasis on brainy characters investigating strange occurrences. Again, nothing like the X-FILES.

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With a little over a month and a half to go until the launch of the new fall TV season, this TV Addict thought he’d lend a hand to those proverbial powers that be by offering up a few possible marketing slogans for some of our favorite new and returning shows. Today’s victim, FRINGE. Catchy No?

The reviews are in. FRINGE is officially the must see new show of the fall.

In fact, with over two months until the series’ September 9th premiere on FOX, Televisionary has already proclaimed that FRINGE is, “THE X-FILES for the new millennium.” With Ramblings of a TV Whore’s Rae chiming in via Twitter that, “I’m so in love with FRINGE that the thought of it makes me smile at random moments throughout the day.” Heck, even frequent TV Addict reader Tim G. reported via text message that “627 is the new 815!” But since I have yet to go the BitTorrent route and download the ‘leaked’ pilot, I’m going to have to take his word for it.

You see, this TV Addict is taking a stand.

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With the Up Fronts behind us, you’re probably wondering what new shows warrant a season’s pass on your DVR/PVR come this fall? Well, wonder no more. Because all week long theTVaddict.com will be posting our Super Early 2008 Fall TV Preview. Offering up ridiculously early and ill-informed snap judgments on a whole slate of network shows. Putting to rest those who say you can’t judge a book by it’s cover - or in this case a TV show by its one paragraph summary and cast photo.

SNAP JUDGMENTS

90210 [CW, 8PM]:
How excited are we for the return of the show that spawned our television addiction? We’re already prepping our ‘Annie Mills Graduate’ signs. Too soon?
>> Click here for a video preview

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Don’t get me wrong, I worship the ground J.J. Abrams walks on and have the utmost respect for writers Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci. But is ‘from the writers of TRANSFORMERS” really the way FOX wants to promote FRINGE — their most buzzed about new fall show? I mean we all saw TRANSFORMERS and let’s face it, I’m not so sure the writing was the film’s selling point.

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Further securing its status as the TV Addict’s most anticipated new show of the fall season, the Hollywood Reporter continues to live up to its namesake by reporting that J.J. Abrams has tapped LOST and ALIAS executive producer Jeff Pinkner to run FOX’s top-secret Sci-Fi drama FRINGE.

FRINGE centers on FBI agent (Anna Torv), who teams with a guy (Joshua Jackson) and his scientist father (John Noble), to confront the spread of unexplained phenomena.

Another thing they’ll soon be confronting, your very own TV Addict. Who will hopefully be visiting the set, which shoots in the TV Addict’s very own hometown of Toronto in the not-to-distant-future!

GOOD NEWS: Thursday’s winter finale of SUPERNATURAL scored its best demos of the season and attracted a season high of 3.22 million viewers. BAD NEWS: How many of those 3.22 million viewers will remember to tune in when SUPERNATURAL finally returns on April 24? Momentum killer much?!

GOOD NEWS: Joshua Jackson is currently being stalked by the TV Addict shooting the top secret J.J. Abrams pilot FRINGE in the TV Addict’s hometown of Toronto, Canada. BAD NEWS: Which means, according to Michael Ausiello, that he had to bow out of his highly anticipated guest starring role on GREY’S ANATOMY. Quick, give me three CC’s of James Van Der Beek Stat!

GOOD NEWS: The writer’s strike is over! BAD NEWS: Due to what one can only assume is some highly confusing issue over digital rights, the podcast version of REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER is no longer available for download (at least from Canada) on iTunes. What gives?!?!

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that J.J. Abrams has cast Pacey, err… Joshua Jackson as one of the leads in his new FOX Drama FRINGE. Jackson will play a member of a unit investigating sci-fi mysteries. And let’s face it, after the Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes kidnapping marriage, the tragic death of Michelle Williams’ ex Heath Ledger and the non-existent career of James Van Der Beek, it’s about time us DAWSON’S CREEK fans got some good news.

The 10 million dollar two-hour pilot is about to start shooting in the TV Addict’s hometown of Toronto Canada. Needless to say, the TV addict will hopefully be on the set stalking, err… reporting soon.