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THANK YOU FRINGENUITY — You Made a Difference
“Fringe is a story about love strong enough to break the world, and strong enough to heal it.”
That’s the quote inside the Thank You cards given by the Frinegnity team to Fringe cast, crew and others who made a difference to their show. And we should be thanking them. After all, when Fringe was in danger of not being renewed for this fifth and final season, it was Fringenuity who organized thousands of fans around the world to fight for it through Friday night Twitter and Get Glue campaigns. And it worked. On this final Fringe Friday, let’s pay tribute to them. They made an incalculable difference: Annie, @birdandbear; Aimee, @aimeeinchains; Kelly, @fringeship; Emma @dalliel; Cheri @cheribot, and Tas, @tribeoftyrones plus special ops Nikolai, @nikolai3d and Sarah, @sarahproost, and the operatives on location in Vancouver who picked up the Thank You packages and distributed them, getting hugs from crew: Lyn, @runpaceyrun and Michelle.
The Fringe coin inside the Thank You card.
YVRSHOOTS Series – The FRINGE Event, Calling All Fringe Fans
Published August 3rd on Vancouver is Awesome.
A week today, about a hundred Fringe fans from around the world will gather in Vancouver at The Fringe Event to celebrate their TV show and its upcoming fifth and final season Local fans — of which there are many — are welcome to join in on a weekend of Fringe-themed activities: like bowling at Sam’s bowling alley or hiking up to Reiden Lake (at their real locations in North Vancouver) or challenging a true Fringie to a show mythology quiz (Warning: they are walking Fringepedias. Don’t believe me? Ask to be introduced to Vancouver’s own @naddycat).
I had the privilege of meeting some of the event’s key international organizers at Fringe shoots last summer in the West End and Chinatown. They’d come from as far away as Australia, England, Germany and other countries to see their show being filmed on location, spending hours together on set bonding in their love of all things Fringe – except maybe Anna Torv’s alt-universe red-haired doppleganger Fauxlivia, who’d come between the show’s most shipped couple POlivia in season three (fortunately Joshua Jackson’s Peter Bishop and Anna Torv’s Olivia Dunham reunited again in season four and can be seen filming a scene below for upcoming season five in Stanley Park).
The Fringe fandom is like no other: smart, creative and loud (according to showrunner Joel Wyman). But the loudness is really the joining together and amplification of fan power through hugely successful Fringe Friday Twitter and Get Glue campaigns organized by Fringenuity, whose entire team will be attending next weekend. American network FOX even featured Fringenuity’s unique hashtags on their broadcasts of Fringe last season.
Above all, Fringe fans are fun. So don’t miss out on all the red vines and white tulips. The Fringe Event starts Friday evening, August 10th, and runs until midnight Sunday, August 12th, with inside events at the West End’s Coast Plaza Hotel. Fringe fans also care. Tickets cost C$135 but a large chunk of the proceeds will go to Oxfam Canada. Click on Registration for tickets.
Fringe is expected to resume filming of season five next week after an unexpected two-week production shutdown due to cast illness.
#TheyAreComing – Fringe’s season five premiere airs Friday, September 28th, at 9 p.m. on FOX in the U.S. and City-TV in Canada.
Patrick Gilmore’s Getting-Ready-Tweets for the #LeoAwards Gala
When I caught up with nominee Patrick Gilmore’s tweets on Saturday ahead of the Leo Awards gala , I knew I wanted to do a short post about him primping and prepping for his big night. Like his wickedly-funny lead role in puppets and porn mockumentary Sunflower Hour, this read like a debauched twist on the traditional celeb diary:
9:46am – First task today is to lay out my lucky underwear. Granted I get more lucky when I don’t wear underwear, I’m hedging my bets. #Leos [He attached a photo of rows of swim wear/briefs? hanging on racks]
10:12am – Why screw with fate? It’s more likely I’ll lose my pants tonight. #Leos
11:34am – 1 hour of studying, I now have Stallone’s reaction to Peter Finch winning down pat. I’m gonna nail it. #Leos [He attached a link to a youtube video]
3:19pm – My attempt to get an authentic JBF Hair look has only led to Pillow Crease Face & an entire day spent sleeping. #Leos
4:49pm – 11mins from Red Carpet. Practicing my taking points, “P-a-t-r-i-c-k, Gilmore…that’s G-i-l…nevermind.” #Leos
5:42pm- Free champagne & autographs. [This tweet attached a photo taken by Sunflower Hour buddy Ben Cotton of Gilmore drinking champagne and signing grapher Justin's chest at the top of the stairs to the convention floor of the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver.]
That’s the photo I wish I’d taken. The combination of a dimly-lit Media Wall and a non-professional camera defeated me. I did learn to adjust and got lucky once or twice but not in time for the Sunflower Hour boys — Ben Cotton, Patrick Gilmore and Peter New.
Inside the gala, the tweets continued:
7:16pm- Beer count-3. Pants drop count-1. Show hasn’t started. #Leos
#Fringe Season Finale Brave New World
I’m so relieved that tonight is not the start of Fringe Division’s last stand. We have a whole new season of thirteen episodes for that. Instead, Fringe Division only has to face off against this season’s Big Bad, David Robert Jones, to save two worlds in the season four finale Brave New World.
At some point in the two-part finale, we will get to see the full might of Olivia Dunham’s cortexiphan powers, hopefully aimed straight at David Robert Jones. But first she helps Rebecca Mader’s Jessica, a victim of another of Mr. Jones’s experiments. I photographed Anna Torv’s Olivia Dunham saying goodbye to Lost’s Charlotte in downtown Vancouver’s Cathedral Park on Friday, March 23rd.
The following week, I spotted Fringe filming a fight scene between Joshua Jackson’s Peter Bishop and Jared Harris’s David Robert Jones in the pouring rain on the roof of a building in east Vancouver, near the old British Columbia Sugar Refinery. I have not shared these photos until today, but noticed a clip of Anna Torv’s Olivia Dunham with a satellite antenna like the one below in a FOX promo.
This was just one in a week of night shoots for Fringe all over the Vancouver area.
Twitter Trends: #Supernatural vs #Fringe – Updated
Supernatural and Fringe fans tweeted their unique episode hash tags so hard last Friday that both topped Twitter Trends worldwide, with Supernatural’s #PartyonGarth trending at number two and Fringe’s #ChangeYourWorld at number three around the globe during the east coast broadcasts. Are there any fans more savvy about social media than these ones?
It’s a pity that their shows compete in the same time slot on Friday nights. I watch both Vancouver-filmed TV series, but have been live-tweeting Fringe only during the west coast broadcasts. I have to say, though, that I would have really enjoyed live-tweeting Supernatural’s Party On, Garth last Friday night It was a booze-fueled episode with quirky hunter Garth (DJ Qualls) calling on Sam and Dean Winchester (Jared Padalecki & Jensen Ackles) for help with a creature who can only be seen and fought when a hunter is drunk. That led to so many funny lines and drunken moments like Dean calling Thighslapper Premium Ale a “beverage for douchebags” and Sam asking Dean, “Can you even get drunk anymore?” Apparently Dean can get drunk, as we saw during his Samuri sword fight where he careened around the brewery trying to stab the Shojo, a ”Japanese booze monster”. Later a sober Dean wondered “what jedi-ed that sword [back] into my hand?” We didn’t know how that happened until the great reveal in the final scene of a frustrated ghost Bobby (Jim Beaver) telling Dean, ”I’m right here, you idjit” and then ruefully muttering “Balls” after it’s clear that Dean can’t see him. Supernatural did a masterful job of keeping Bobby’s return a secret, with Jim Beaver helping to perpetuate the ruse by telling people that he was back in town to film a movie at Whistler not for Supernatural.
Both the Supernatural and Fringe episode hashtags trended on Twitter in Vancouver early on Friday night, but the Fringe fandom – organized by Fringenuity and backed by FOX – proved to have more stamina, live-tweeting right through to the end of their show’s west coast broadcast. #ChangeYourWorld remained in the Top Ten Trending worldwide, in the U.S. and in Vancouver long after the east coast broadcasts when #PartyonGarth had dropped out of sight.
During the west coast broadcasts, #ChangeYourWorld trended at number 2, right behind the #Canucks at number 1 in Vancouver, proving yet again that this is a hockey/Fringe town. Vancouver’s own Joshua Jackson even tweeted about this dilemma: “Having a very Canadian crisis. 3rd prd. Starts @ 9pm. Choices choices…. ” but added the Fringe hashtag #ChangeYourWorld not the Canucks one to prove where his real loyalty (and pay cheque) lies.
Fringe’s Nothing as it Seems didn’t boast a Japanese booze monster like Supernatural, but it did feature giant porcupine men with bat wings or wereupines as they were dubbed on set. I think I would have spotted them flying overhead so this was one of those episodes where I didn’t see much of the filming, except a brief glimpse of a car-rig in the pouring rain, with Joshua Jackson and Seth Gabel inside, passing me downtown near MacLeod’s Books, where they later filmed a night shoot. Jackson actually rolled down his window, giving me a glimpse of Peter Bishop and our Lincoln Lee, but I was too slow with my camera to photograph them. As always, the Fringe scenes in Walter’s lab delivered, with Walter presenting this Peter with a box of wrapped birthday presents he’d bought every year since his Peter’s death. So touching. Of all my live-tweets, this got the most response: ”Walter’s peanut butter and bacon sandwich actually sounds tasty if deadly.” Someone suggested that if Walter threw in bananas he’d be ‘in Elvis territory”. Fringe has a fun fandom too.
To sum up: Supernatural and ‘Fringe fandoms rule Twitter like no other but do things like Twitter Trends really matter? On April Fool’s Day, TV by the Numbers mocked fans who try to get their shows trending with this tweet: “Nielsen To Rate TV Shows Based On Facebook Likes & Twitter Trends, Will Abandon People Meters.”
But fans reaching out to millions of people through hashtags sure can’t hurt. Since Supernatural won’t have a new episode until April 20th, Friday night Twitter Trends belong to Fringies for the next two weeks. Be sure to look for and live-tweet this Friday’s unique Fringe episode hashtag #FaceYourself, no sooner than an hour before the east coast broadcast.
UPDATE: Someone tells me that Supernatural fans got Mr. Fizzles and Me Likey trending too. Sometimes SPN hash tags are so popular that Twitter blocks them after a while. Am surprised Bobby or Balls! didn’t trend too.
#WhereYouBelong – Tonight’s #Fringe Hashtag from Fringenuity
If you’re in the U.S. watching Fringe live tonight, check out the lower right hand corner of the screen and you’ll see this Friday’s Fringenuity hashtag #WhereYouBelong, created in honour of the Spring premiere, instead of the usual #Fringe.
That’s a shoutout from broadcaster FOX and Fringe producers to a viral social media campaign, launched by Fringe fans at Fringenuity and adopted by Fringies the world over, which saw unique hashtags for the seven Winter episodes trend on Twitter worldwide, in the U.S. and in Vancouver.
You may have seen #crosstheline, #enemyofmyenemy, #observeitlive, #takethelead, #breakingout, #beabetterman and #loveistheanswer trending and wondered what they were. Please join in with live-tweeting during tonight’s episode, A Short Story About Love, using the unique hashtag only not #Fringe (because of the way the Twitter algorithym determines trending topics) no sooner than one hour before the east coast broadcast.
And keep an eye out for tweets from Twitter newbie @VancityJax, aka Joshua Jackson, on the hashtag. Local Vancouver Fringenuity agents approached him at a location shoot a week and a half ago to explain the fan campaign on Twitter.
Remember audience isn’t just about Nielsen ratings anymore. This ongoing campaign helps decision-makers see how much reach the unmeasured Fringe fandom has coming up on discussions between FOX and production company Warner Bros TV about whether or not to renew the cult show for a fifth and final season.
Follow @Fringenuity and its agents @BirdandBear, @aimeeinchains, @Fringeship, @Dalliel on Twitter.
#WelcomePadaBaby
#WelcomePadaBaby trended worldwide Monday overnight to celebrate the birth of a son (Thomas Colton) to Supernatural’s Jared Padalecki and his wife Genevieve Cortese. It trended so big that Twitter blocked it. So Supernatural fans tweeted #PapaPadalecki for Jared Padalecki and then #UncleJensen for Jensen Ackles, topping the worldwide trending charts again. There might have been more SPN hashtags overnight, but I had to get some sleep.
It’s big news in the Supernatural-verse for one of their “boys” to become a father. Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles are all grown up with wives and now a family for Padalecki. Theirs was a “setmance”: Padalecki met her on set when she played Ruby. Below is a photo I took of six-months pregnant Genevieve on set outside The Century House in downtown Vancouver watching her husband film a scene for The Slice Girls, episode thirteen in season seven. He drove up in a not-the-Impala (license plate SMD) to rescue Dean, aka Jensen Ackles, from being killed by his instant daughter.
Supernatural filmed some of this episode in the CHEM building at the University of British Columbia, where Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles taped a hilarious, pantless plea for People’s Choice Awards votes in the iconic hallway. And the fans came through, voting by the thousands to win their show Favorite Network TV Drama (over Grey’s Anatomy, The Good Wife, House and The Vampire Diaries) and Favorite Sci fi/Fantasy (over Fringe, The Walking Dead, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries). Amazing.
Supernatural fandom rules Twitter like no other.
YVRShoots Series – FRINGE is Trending in Vancouver and Worldwide
Published February 17, 2012 on Vancouver is Awesome
A Skype discussion early this year led to an amazing social media campaign by Fringe fans to make sure people knew their ratings-challenged show was returning in mid-January with a Winter Premiere after a long two-month hiatus. For five consecutive Friday nights, their unique episode hashtags have trended on Twitter worldwide, in the U.S. and in Vancouver. You may have seen #crosstheline, #enemyofmyenemy, #observeitlive, #takethelead and #breakingout trending and wondered what they were. Feel free to join in tonight by tweeting this week’s hashtag #BeaBetterMan after 5 p.m. our time.
The Fringe Campaign organized by @Fringenuity is smart. Audience isn’t just about Nielsen ratings anymore. Fringe has proved itself a social media success with a big presence on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. I’ve participated in all five Twitter campaigns to date by live-tweeting during the west coast broadcast but not in the GetGlue campaign, where fans check in to Fringe and the show’s sponsors — Nissan Leaf and Sprint — live during commercials. Fringe is topping the trending charts at GetGlue too on Friday nights, with over ten thousand checking in. The ongoing campaign helps decision-makers see how much reach the unmeasured Fringe fandom has coming up on discussions between broadcaster FOX and production company Warner Bros TV about whether or not to renew the cult show for a fifth and final season.
Season Four began dramatically with one of the show’s trio of main characters — Peter Bishop — erased from existence and the absence of Joshua Jackson, the actor who plays him, from his hometown. See my YVRShoots series post Where is Peter Bishop? He returned to existence with a big splash at Reiden Lake in the Fall but as a stranger to his beloved Olivia Dunham played by Anna Torv and to his “father” Walter Bishop played by John Noble. See my YVRShoots series post Here is Peter Bishop. Peter remembers them but they don’t remember him in this altered timeline. Are they not his Olivia and his Walter?
We still don’t know about this Olivia and Walter but it was wonderful to catch a glimpse of the Fringe trio acting more like themselves this week at a CBC Vancouver shoot for an upcoming Spring episode, along with junior Fringe agent Astrid Farnsworth played by Jasika Nicole.
Fringe’s fourth season is divided into three acts — the Fall, Winter and Spring episodes. When World Series baseball on FOX unexpectedly pre-empted the eighth episode showrunners planned as their big Fall Finale it hurt the dramatic arc of the show and disappointed viewers.
So the Fall Finale became the Winter Premiere. In Back to Where You’ve Never Been, Peter Bishop decides to
#YVRShoots Series – Twitter Riot over The Killing Finale
Published June 23, 2011 on Vancouver is Awesome
For reasons I don’t need to explain, I’m no fan of riots, even Twitter riots which are benign with no cars overturned or set on fire. But a Twitter riot is still a mob and a frenzied one at that: spewing F-U tweets at Vancouver-filmed The Killing and capital letter advisories to anyone planning to watch, DON’T DO IT! SAVE YOURSELVES!!! There’s even a web site: f—thekilling.com which says “Dear The Killing: F— you!!! Sincerely, Everyone Who Used to Watch Your Show.”
What set if off? Here come the spoilers. The finale didn’t solve the central mystery and show’s marketed tagline: Who Killed Rosie Larsen? And in a surprise if clumsy twist, it turned detective Stephen Holder, one of the few likable characters, into a seeming villain, who betrayed lead detective Sarah Linden and set up Seattle mayoral candidate Darren Richmond for arrest.
AOL TV critic Maureen Ryan (@MoRyan) pronounced it the “worst finale ever” on Twitter. Really? Ever? She elaborated in her linked review, saying she hated it with the “burning intensity of 10,000 white-hot suns” and held first-time showrunner Veena Sud responsible for not telling viewers who killed Rosie Larsen, turning Holder into a villain and a “number of other stupidly melodramatic, preposterously manipulative things.” She then retroactively called the 13-episode series a “crapfest” and hoped the actors wouldn’t return for a second season. Later she tweeted that it would be smart if AMC withdrew its renewal. It’s stuff like this from many critics as well as countless furious ex-fans which prompted Show Patrol to tweet: “I’m laughing at over-the-top reactions to season finale of [The Killing] as if, um, Veena Sud killed someone. Breathe, folks, breathe.”
Full dislosure: I am not blind to the show’s weaknesses, but won’t join the braying mob. I remain a fan of The Killing, having spent too many hours in real rain watching it film here for four months (while imagining how much worse it was for lead actors Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman being hosed with fake rain from the show’s rain towers). There’s more than a little hometown pride involved, even though this is an American series set in Seattle.
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