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KEEN EDDIE Veteran Valley To Star In Bad Robot’s Sci-Fi Fox Dramedy Pilot FRINGE!!

Whoa, sounds a little like J.J. Abrahms meets "X-Files" by Spamster	Jan 17th, 2008 02:27:54 AM
Can't wait!
If they're going to pull people from Boston Legal by Aloy	Jan 17th, 2008 02:41:42 AM
They should be giving work to the seasoned sci-fi guys like Quark and Odo instead of the generic, chiseled, handsome lead types.
Yes, those were memorable characters by skywalkerfamily	Jan 17th, 2008 02:53:41 AM
Who was that guy again?
The FBI is investigating paranomal incidents now? by newc0253	Jan 17th, 2008 03:08:06 AM
I'd have thought they have many cases in this area already. Filed under 'X', I understand.
Keen Eddie was great by Preacher_mg	Jan 17th, 2008 04:01:00 AM
But seriously, Describing Mark Valley as "Keen Eddie veteran" while he's like a hundred times more famous for his Boston Legal role is a bit like describing Sarah Michelle Gellar as an "All my Children veteran".
Keen eddie was great, miss moneypenny, j'taime! by ironic_name	Jan 17th, 2008 04:05:47 AM

This show sounds really interesting... by JimCurry	Jan 17th, 2008 04:06:44 AM
For me to... not be interested in...
Can you really be a veteran of a show... by Sledge Hammer	Jan 17th, 2008 04:39:18 AM
...that only lasted half a season? Particularly when you followed it by starring as one of the leads in a hugely popular show like Boston Public for four seasons or so. Anyway, personally I've always found Valley to be somewhat of a charisma vacuum, bland, dull and uninteresting, even when playing potentially interesting characters, so can't say I'm anything but underwhelmed by this bit of news.
FBI BLAH PARANORMAL BLAH ALIENS BLAH CONSPIRACY BLAH by duchuvney_post_x	Jan 17th, 2008 04:40:11 AM
thats so 1998.
Sounds just a bit boring a derivative by photoboy	Jan 17th, 2008 05:31:53 AM
Obviously the cast and quality of the scripts can make even a boring premise work, but even so this does sound like it will struggle to stand out from the crowd.
Keen Eddie. Another show Fox fucked up. by Penetron	Jan 17th, 2008 06:37:00 AM
I loved this show. Good acting. Good plots. Funny. And a 21 year old Sienna Miller. Awesome.
I'm all for a new Xfiles show, beats watching the usual by bongo123	Jan 17th, 2008 06:37:41 AM
shite you cunts put out..
Preacher_mg by Sebilrazen	Jan 17th, 2008 07:23:49 AM
But SMG got her daytime emmy before Susan Lucci for playing Kendall on AMC. And now I know what gay feels like.
Kirk Acevedo is awesome by methosb	Jan 17th, 2008 07:55:07 AM
By far the best of the Oz cast.
Check out the big brain on Brad...Chase! by SpyGuy	Jan 17th, 2008 08:04:16 AM
As referenced on BOSTON LEGAL, Valley looks a bit too "Ken doll" but he's a solid actor. I just wish this wasn't such a blatant X-FILES ripoff, but hopefully I'll be surprised...
Mark Valley by skimn	Jan 17th, 2008 08:18:49 AM
always came off to me as a TV version of Thomas Jane, which come to think of it, is kind of a movie version of Mark Valley.
They should get Joel Gretsch instead of Valley by ruven76	Jan 17th, 2008 08:28:31 AM
The dude is real good in the now defunct 4400, and was pretty awesome in his short sting on Journeyman. Coming from both shows he might bring in some added sci-fi audience that like him, specially 4400 fans.
gee, that doesn't sound AT ALL like XFiles... by TheSeeker7	Jan 17th, 2008 08:51:46 AM
eyeroll Jesus you're kidding me, right? With that synopsis? I would've expected more from JJ. eeeek.
If FOX is greenlighting during the strike... by INWOsuxRED	Jan 17th, 2008 08:52:13 AM
I have an idea for this hour long show where a group of people, each with their own haunted past crash land on a mysterious island. I call it STRANDED! What do you say FOX?
Alias-Files by palewook	Jan 17th, 2008 09:26:36 AM
yawn
Arcadian needs an explanation (again) by ArcadianDS	Jan 17th, 2008 09:42:01 AM
Can someone please explain to me how JJ Abrams is talented, again? All of his shows are derivative and rehash, devoid of any originality. Alias was just a rewrite of La Femme Nikita (the show), am i not right? So maybe he's finally exposed his petticoats with this whole Star Trek Reboot movie: JJ Abrams' whole bag of tricks is that he is just a rebooter of previously successful television programs (oh and movies. Can anyone say Godzookie Rebootie?). He has rebooted Godzilla, La Femme Nikita, and Star Trek. I suppose it only makes sense to reboot X-Files now. I wonder what he will reboot next, and then take all credit for - perhaps a show about teen werewolves who are all angsty and stressed out about their relationships and personal lives. Sorry Buffy fans - while a derivative of the movie, the TV show was a reboot of Friday The 13th: The Series, and you know this to be true. Stop lying to yourselves.
Mark Valley by The Alienist	Jan 17th, 2008 09:58:59 AM
I remember an episode of "Once and Again"...the lead's forlorn spinster sister hires this gorgeous, sensitive idealizd carpenter to help redo her bookstore...Valley played him and I was in love. Probably have been ever since...
Arcadian thats what we want. by Diagnostic	Jan 17th, 2008 10:39:28 AM
Secretly we are all hoping he does BSG next. C,--mo--n. Deep down in your heart of hearts, you want it too.
I'm starting to think 'Lost' is a fluke. by KillDozer	Jan 17th, 2008 10:55:49 AM
I haven't seen Cloverfield yet, but everything else I've seen/heard about from this guy (apart from Lost) has been not good. 'Fringe' appears to be no exception, at least from the lame, x-files-already-did-this description.
Even involved in Lost anymore? by genre.comeback	Jan 17th, 2008 11:12:12 AM
Abrams is never even mentioned in interviews, they're always talking to Lindelof and Cuse, who are obviously the creative forces behind the show. If he touches BSG, I will personally hire a hitman to stop his evil. Arcadian, I mostly agree with you. He's unoriginal and really not a good storyteller. His set-ups are always amazing and then disappoint massively (see Alias... pretty much everything after season 2 sucked old man balls).
No bueno at comedy by genre.comeback	Jan 17th, 2008 11:39:41 AM
Also, is anyone else concerned about the dramedy aspect? Abrams has never done comedy on his shows well.
I Like His Clone Better.... by Deandome	Jan 17th, 2008 11:59:54 AM
...you know, the lead in Eureka, Colin Ferguson? Same chiseled good looks (god, did I just say "chiseled"...well, it actually applies here), same mastery of the loveable wise-ass persona. Anyone know if there were any Eurekas in the can before the strike....will we get a mini-season of that soon?
Keen,,, this is my boy, Keen, by tough_times	Jan 17th, 2008 12:15:40 PM
That name is weird, and I don't know if I like it or not. Keen. Speaking of weird names, the endless parade of useless debris, aka "American Idol" was on last night. Note: I only watch this part of the show to see the morons sing who can't. Seriously, doesn't anyone love these people enough to beg them not to embarrass themselves on national TV? Anyway, I said all that to say, there was a black girl who had to leave the line to give birth. She named the kid Idol. Yup, Idol. Damn, really? BTW good call Deadome, I was thinking the same thing with Eureka.
I'm also curious by Shivv	Jan 17th, 2008 12:25:24 PM
about JJ's involvement in Lost. I think Damon mentions him briefly in the "Tale of Two Cities" commentary track, but it would seem that he has very little to do with the show at this point.
Dark Angel? by AlwaysThere	Jan 17th, 2008 01:36:18 PM

RE: ArcadianDS by ruven76	Jan 17th, 2008 01:45:11 PM
Del Sol ?
The X-Files Advertisement, Irony? by kdoc13	Jan 17th, 2008 03:45:52 PM
Because this sounds like a Torchwood-X-Files kind of rip off. Which is too bad, Keen Eddie was awesome. I actually hoped to find the Sticky Wicket in London. Keen Eddie, that's a show they should bring back!
Felicity by password.swordfish	Jan 17th, 2008 04:53:27 PM
I don't know if it was a rip-off. I thought it was bad, but as far as I know, it's original (as original as that schlock gets, anyway). Sorry to fans, I'm just not loving the angsty drama of the upper-class college student ("ooh, who should I be with, wah wah wah").
Fox will bounce it around the schedule by Dingbatty	Jan 17th, 2008 08:43:21 PM
and/or preempt it, so that it bids a hasty retreat due to no audience.
We Need News On 'The Diamond Age' Miniseries by skoobyx	Jan 17th, 2008 09:07:17 PM
Whenever you have some Herc. Us Neal Stephenson Fans make Browncoats look like uninvolved no-nothings. Thank You.
Is David Duchovny in this? by Ashok0	Jan 17th, 2008 09:18:56 PM
If DD and GA are in, I'm in!!!
X-Files is not forgotten: There's a new movie by Prof. Pop-Cult	Jan 17th, 2008 11:52:36 PM
With a new X-Files movie on the way, it's baffling why FOX would greenlight what sounds like a dramedy version of X-Files (and X-Files had episodes with comedic storylines). JJ Abrams "borrowed" quite a bit from Chris Carter in Alias, as well -- the whole Rimbaldi arc felt like a cheesy rip-off on the mytharcs of Carter's excellent (yet unappreciated) Millennium series.
by Maniaq	Jan 18th, 2008 02:06:36 AM

at first I thought it sounded a lot like X-files... by Maniaq	Jan 18th, 2008 02:08:22 AM
but then I thought it sounded a lot like Numbers... I can't decide... Which show is this one derivative of?
He'll always be Jack Deveraux to me. by Shermdawg	Jan 18th, 2008 03:38:30 AM

J.J. Abrams by Sidius	Jan 18th, 2008 01:32:00 PM
Could there be more people here talking about stuff they know nothing about? Typical fanboy B.S. Just because you as a male don't get the angst of the college age teenage girl doesn't mean Felicity was a bad show. Felicity wasn't aimed at you. For most of the girls it was aimed at it was right up there with the best teen angst TV dramas. I know several girls in college that were huge fans and devotees of the show. Secondly. J.J is not solely to blame for the demise of Alias. The first and second seasons of Alias were all J.J. After the second season because of threats from ABC that the show was going to be cancelled J.J. tried to restart the show in an attempt to draw in more viewers and had to scrap a lot of his original story arc. Doesn't anyone else remember the season 3 premiere that was scheduled for after the Super Bowl. ABC basically asked J.J. to start the show all over from a place new viewers would have been able to follow. Another great example of the studio meddling. Finally J.J. has had very little to do with Lost. He's the EP and basically got Carlton and Damon in front of the ABC execs to sell their pitch and idea. That's the extent of his involvement. His sole role was as the "From the creator/minds that brought you Alias" credit to launch the show. Personally I think J.J. ahs brought a lot of fresh energy and ideas to TV. I consider his Mission Impossible the best of the three action-wise and think it would have been even more widely accepted if it weren't for Tom Cruise's crazy Scientology rantings right before the release...
I guess they' by jimmy_009	Jan 18th, 2008 05:11:22 PM

I guess they're all out of original ideas by jimmy_009	Jan 18th, 2008 05:12:45 PM
Lost was so original, a series based on an FBI agent and scientist investigating the strange and paranormal. Talk about a step backwards. Aren't there any shows that don't involve doctors, lawyers, or law enforcement people? Fuck.
THE X FRINGE by spud mcspud	Jan 18th, 2008 06:20:36 PM
You know, JJ Abrams should collaborate with Al Gore soon. They've both got an obvious interest in recycling, and both aqren't afraid of foisting said recycling on us. Except in Gore's case, it may be justified :D Seriously, this is too fucking much. Is FOX trying to shoot itself in the foot? Don't launch an X-FILES movie in the same year you're launching an X-FILES rip off, you fucking loons!!#@*!!!
Aint it JJ Abrahms! by skywalkerfamily	Jan 18th, 2008 06:44:34 PM
Did this guy buy Aint it cool news?
skywalkerfamily - funny cause it's true by Miyamoto_Musashi	Jan 18th, 2008 07:40:48 PM
Just wondering if Harry is giving JJ head or something, then again surely he could do better than Harry
Go J.J. by Tourist	Jan 19th, 2008 06:41:29 AM
This guy has to be the most original and innovative creative producer in the history of the world. I mean, if Chris Carter hadn't done it first.
On Abrams... by Tourist	Jan 19th, 2008 06:46:27 AM
...Lot of dick suckers on this site and Talk Back. Yes, Lost, the first season, was fantastic. Then it died. He had a hand in Joyride, which was a lot of fun. But damn, everything else has veered from bad (Felicity and Alias) to Ed Wood levels of unwatchable shitness (MI3). The guys like, a step up from Aaron Spelling. Okay, thats mean. But shit, its not like were awaiting the new show from Ed Burns and David Simon (Generation Kill, by the way). But then again, like I said, dick suckers mostly await dick to suck, not quality product.
And... by Tourist	Jan 19th, 2008 06:49:07 AM
...If J.J. Had very little to do with lost, yet was heavily involved in Alias and Felicity...How do you reason he bought ANY fresh ideas or energy to TV? If you mean fresh and energetic like my feces...then yeah...
When's air date on this? by Fish Tank	Jan 19th, 2008 08:40:58 AM
Can't find it online. Thanks.
and don't forget his terrible Superman script by lynxpro	Jan 19th, 2008 11:46:52 AM
...then again, Smallville has been incorporating elements of it successfully this season...in small doses...not to say that anyone watches Smallville for the writing...ever...
bummer... by lynxpro	Jan 19th, 2008 11:50:52 AM
When I scanned the headline about a Keen Eddie veteran making it to genre work Stateside, I was hoping that the actor would be Julian Rhind-Tutt or Colin Salmon. Then again, Salmon has already done a lot of genre work. The other thing that blew me away about Keen Eddie was how good Sienna Miller was and how I still feel she should have been cast as "Rose Tyler" when Doctor Who got relaunched.
Hahahahahahah, SIdius by password.swordfish	Jan 19th, 2008 12:34:37 PM
The best part? I'm the one who slammed Felicity, and I'm a woman. In fact, when it was airing, I was a teenage girl, so I WAS the target audience. I still found it trite and shallow. Hey, don't get defensive; all I said before was that I thought it was bad - not that no one could like it. And blame the studios all you like for Alias. Did they tell him that every episode the team had to find a new Rambaldi device, that would then lead to another Rambaldi device to another... none of which actually do anything except lead to another fucking Rambaldi device? THAT's why I stopped watching, if I heard that name again I was going to poke my own eyes out. The fact that his involvement in Lost was only to get things going, kind of proves my point. And MI:3 was the worst of the bunch in my eyes; just another mediocre action flick. We may have to just agree to disagree on this one.
Torchwood by spud mcspud	Jan 19th, 2008 12:46:24 PM
Torchwood seems to be following the JJ Abrams way of stripmining an already good show and fucking it up. Whereas JJ will rip off THE X-FILES and call it FRINGE, the BBC have ripped off SCOOBY DOO and BADLY DUBBED PORN and called it TORCHWOOD. Next, I vote someone remakes BATTLESTAR GALACTICA by ripping off OVER HERE, and making it GOOD. Oh, hang on...
lynxpro by spud mcspud	Jan 19th, 2008 12:49:51 PM
Sienna Miller as Rose Tyler. My cock just exploded in agreement. RTD just walked out in outraged protest.
As a longtime Who fan by INWOsuxRED	Jan 19th, 2008 03:57:58 PM
I can't even watch Torchwood. I can't even watch it in HD when it is competing against nothing.
jj abrams is joss whedon. by dr.bulber	Jan 19th, 2008 05:33:59 PM
mystery solved.
Tourist... Oh... My... God! by password.swordfish	Jan 19th, 2008 05:53:25 PM
Simon and Burns have a new show? WTF? how did I not know about this? That brings me copious amounts of pleasure; I think I just came a little. Thank you, my good man.
No sir, I don't like it by Space Disc Jockey	Jan 19th, 2008 07:19:11 PM
I'm sorry, but this certainly sounds like another X-Files, and as someone mentioned, "X-Files 2" is already in production, so I don't know what the hell is going on. I think Abram's projects sound good on paper, but they are not totally, executed well. For example, Alias and Lost had some good/interesting episodes, but eventually, the writing just got boring/sloppy and many people stopped watching (I'm one of them). I will see Cloverfield this weekend, mainly because I love monster movies, but from what I've heard, Abrams and company have mostly, disappointed again. Here's hoping the new Star Trek film will be better than "Wrath of Khan".
Wait, why's Valley not on Boston Legal anymore? by Thalya	Jan 19th, 2008 09:16:13 PM
1) This is FOX, people. A show like this goes in the Friday deathslot, episodes aired out of order, cancelled after 5 eps are aired, we don't even get a full half-season out of it. Mark my words. 2) sigh Mark Valley is the only reason I can admit years after the fact that I watched DOOL as a teenaged girl (well, John de Lancie (Q from ST:TNG) was on there too, but before my time). This depresses the hell out of me. 3) It's a damn shame Keen Eddie was cancelled far before its time. I might still be watching tv to begin with. The horse semen episode alone was sheer brilliance.
Will they investigate that Cloverfield monster? by MrMysteryGuest	Jan 19th, 2008 09:35:02 PM

will there be a party scene by kabong	Jan 20th, 2008 10:35:40 AM
JarJar always has a party scene
Great, more material for Lost nerds to obsess over. by Royston Lodge	Jan 21st, 2008 10:49:09 AM
That synopsis sounds like a bad joke. If it runs while Lost is still on the air, the Lost nerds will have two tv shows to watch frame-by-frame to find instances of the number "22". If it runs after Lost is finished, it'll be seen as a continuation. I'd much rather see a show where agents Mulder and Scully go to a small town in Washington state to investigate the disappearance of Dale Cooper...

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