"Fringe, the new paranormal Fox drama series from J.J. Abrams and company, finally was screened for TV critics, long after an incomplete rough cut surfaced on the Internet.

After seeing the finished pilot and interviewing the show's creators and cast, I can report the good news that Fringe is off to a fabulous start, and seems to know precisely where it's headed.

The bad news? There is no bad news... Fringe, is fabulous. Starring Joshua Jackson and Australian actress Anna Torv (pictured), it's the story of a team of researchers dealing with cases and phenomena that would have been right at home on The X-Files.

Abrams and the show's other co-creators cite such other key influences as the TV series Twin Peaks and the movies Altered States and Real Genius -- and Abrams, creator of Alias and co-creator of Lost, hasn't turned his back on television at all since doing big-screen work (on, ironically, such taken-from-TV properties as Mission: Impossible and Star Trek)."

I love this show, 24, and want to see the new"V" everyone's talking about...

http://www.fox.com/fringe/