Fringe, the Vancouver-lensed science fiction TV series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, has been renewed for a third season.The show follows a Boston-based FBI 'Fringe Division' investigative team, under the supervision of US Homeland Security, using unorthodox science/techniques to probe into 'The Pattern', a series of unexplained, ghastly occurrences regularly happening throughout the world.After a Fox TV-pilot, budgeted at $10 million was shot in Toronto, Fringe moved to New York, producing 24 episodes for the first season, then moved to Vancouver for their second season as a 'cost-cutting' measure (and before Ontario implemented their new tax credits).Fringe follows the exploits of special agent 'Olivia Dunham', scientist 'Walter Bishop' and his son 'Peter Bishop', as they get involved in aspects of fringe science including chimeras, psychic abilities and teleportation, produced by Bad Robot in association with Warner Bros. Television.Co-creator Abrams freely admits that he took the show's 'inspiration' from a range of sources, including director Ken Russell's feature Altered States and the TV series The X-Files (which in turn grabbed ideas from Kolchak : The Night Stalker.
