Happy news for all the Neal/Emma fans out there, because Once Upon a Time has promoted Michael Raymond-James to series regular.

This was kind of a shocker for me, but it’s a go for NBC’s Dracula…

As we stated earlier in the pilot season, Dracula is based on Bram Stoker’s novel of the same name, the 10-episode series finds Dracula preparing to unleash hell on the Victorian society responsible for ruining his life. But he’s thrown when he falls for a woman who’s a dead ringer for his beloved, long-deceased wife.

The show stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jessica De Gouw, Katie McGrath, and Nonso Anozie.

Will Dracula be coupled with Grimm for a “Supernatural: Tuesday night? We shall see.

The 100, starring: Eliza Taylor, Henry Ian Cusick (Lost), Kelly Hu (Arrow), Isaiah Washington (Grey’s Anatomy), Eli Goree, Bob Morley, Marie Avgeropoulos (Cult), Paige Turco, Thomas McDonell, Christopher Larkin. The series is set 97 years after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization. A spaceship housing the lone human survivors sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth to investigate the possibility of re-colonizing the planet. The project is based on upcoming Alloy books written by Kass Morgan and published by Little, Brown. Warner Bros TV, which owns Alloy Entertainment, is producing, with Rothenberg and Alloy’s Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo executive producing.

EPs: Jason Rothenberg & Leslie Morgenstein.

Star-Crossed (nee Oxygen), starring: Aimee Teegarden, Matt Lanter (90210), Malese Jow, Titus Mankin Jr., Grey Damon, Natalie Hall, Chelsea Gilligan, Greg Finley, Maggie Elizabeth Jones. The series is described as follows: Passion and politics threaten the peace and an epic romance ignites between a human girl and an alien boy when he and eight others of his kind are integrated into a suburban high school ten years after they and hundreds of others landed on Earth and were immediately consigned to an internment camp where they’ve been imprisoned ever since.

EPs: Meredith Averill, Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, Scott Rosenberg, Richard Shepard, Bryan Furst, Sean Furst, Daniel Gutman; D Gary Fleder

The Tomorrow People, starring: Robbie Amell, Peyton List (Mad Men), Luke Mitchell, MarkPellegrino, Madeleine Mantock, Aaron Yoo. The show is based on the U.K. series created by Roger Price, the drama tells the story of several young people from around the world who represent the next stage in human evolution, possessing special powers, including the ability to teleport and communicate with each other telepathically. Together they work to defeat the forces of evil.

EPs: Phil Klemmer; EP Greg Berlanti; Julie Plec; co-EP Melissa Kellner Berman; D Danny Cannon

Believe: Starring Johnny Sequoyah as Bo and Jake McLaughlin as Tate. The series revolves around a little orphan girl named Bo. Since Bo turned two she has mastered levitation, telekinesis, and the ability to control nature and even predict the future. She’s been raised by a small group known as True Believers, who safeguarded her from “harmful outsiders who would use her forces for personal gain.”

It seems like team LOST has set-up shop in FOX.

The following shows have been given a series order:

Almost Human: Starring Karl Urban, Michael Ealy, Lili Taylor, Minka Kelly, Michael Irby, Mackenzie Crook, & Mekia Cox. The series is an action-packed buddy cop show set in the near future when all LAPD officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids.

The EPs for Almost Human are J.H. Wyman, J.J. Abrams, and Bryan Burk.

Sleepy Hollow: Starring Orlando Jones, Katia Winter, Nicole Beharie, Tom Mison, & guest star John Cho. This show is a modern-day supernatural thriller based on the legend of the titular Westchester Country, N.Y. town.

The EPs are Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci.

Lifetime has given a 10-episode series order to Witches of East End, an hour-long drama based on Melissa de la Cruz’s best-selling novel.

Cannot wait!

The Zombieland revamp will feature the four main characters from the original film. Amazon Studios will be distributing the series as 30-minute installments as part of its Instant Video Service.

Will you watch this series?

It has taken me an hour and a half to literally compose myself to write this recap. If you follow me on Getglue, than you know what I wrote after Peter opened the envelope from his father.

“Fringe was the shiny beacon in a sea of less than stellar TV. It showed us what a show can and should be, entertaining, action-packed, heartfelt, humorous and intelligent. There is nothing else on TV like it and that is an utter shame. Fringe will be missed, but thank god the reruns are on the science channel.”

We were told that this shortened season would be like an epic movie and during the two hour finale we went through a roller coaster of emotions as we watched this beloved and highly thought of show barrel to the end.

We watched Olivia, not once, but multiple times step up to the plate to take care of business. She risked her life to snatch Michael before the observers dissected him, took on a slew of observers with Peter and Astrid to get items that would enable Michael to go to the future and finally she took out Windmark like the bad-ass she is.

Peter learned of his father’s plan to sacrifice his life to transport Michael to the future. When September tells him that he will be the one taking Michael, but then seeing September die… he knew what was going to happen. There he stood, watching his father about to escort the little observer boy to the future and he mouths to his father who considered Peter to be his favorite thing, “I love you, Dad.”
Just thinking about it makes me cry.

By Walter and Michael jumping to the future and prohibiting the creation of these observers, we see Peter calling out to his three year old daughter, Etta. This time she runs to him and they hug.

Bawling here.

In hindsight, this show was never about Olivia and the fringe events that sucked her into this crazy time traveling, universe hopping world… this show was about parental love. If you are a parent, you get it. You will sacrifice everything… even your own life for your child. That is what we heard from Walter, September and Peter. It was clearly stated in the following in a discussion between September and Walter after he realized that September had used the last time travel shot on himself, this would enable him to lead Michael to the future. September described how he felt when he was reunited with Michael. This coupled with seeing how Walter is with Peter made him realize that by escorting Michael to the future it would show Michael how much he loved him.

“When I saw what Peter meant to you, then I understood why [my feelings] were important,” he said. “When I take his hand and I lead him, he’ll know that I love him.”

Walter followed with, “That’s being a father.”

Walter had the most heart wrenching scenes. Yes, there were his moments with Peter, but it was the moment with Astrid that had me burst out into tears. This is a relationship where Astrid was the one constant in Walter’s life that could soothe him. She was almost maternal towards him. Astrid held on to hope, even if she knew that there was a good chance that this was not going to end the way she wanted, with the two of them drinking strawberry shakes in the lab. Walter hugged her and told her that her name was beautiful and he said it correctly for the last time.

Flash forward to the very end. Peter, Olivia and Etta are home. Peter picks up the stack of mail and he sees a plain envelope addressed to him from a “W. Bishop.” Inside, a card with a white tulip on it.

A fitting end to a wonderful show.

There were other high points to the episode:

We got to visit the alternate universe and we saw the other Olivia and Lincoln happily married and they had a son. This universe also seems to be faring well.

Broyles survived.

We got to see almost all the Fringe events happen in one hallway. It took out all the Observers and their sympathizers.

The last highlight happened when Peter looked at the stack of mail. Fringe thanked all their fans for their support.

We crossed the finish line indeed…

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THE THRILLING WORLDS OF “FRINGE” COME TO A MIND-BLOWING END ON THE TWO-HOUR SERIES FINALE FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, ON FOX

Series Celebrates 100 Episodes

The acclaimed series that has explored the human condition through the prism of parallel universes, unexplainable phenomena and unimaginable threats, reaches a milestone 100th episode and comes to an epic and climatic conclusion. First, the Fringe team engages a desperate plan as Olivia embarks on a dangerous and otherworldly journey into the unknown. Then, Peter, Olivia, Walter, Astrid and Broyles face off against the Observers in one final and extraordinary battle for the fate of mankind. The five-season saga comes to an epic and emotional end in the special two-hour “Liberty/An Enemy of Fate” series finale episode of FRINGE airing Friday, Jan. 18 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). (FR-512/513) (TV-14 V)

Cast: Anna Torv as Olivia Dunham; Joshua Jackson as Peter Bishop; John Noble as Walter Bishop; Lance Reddick as Phillip Broyles; Blair Brown as Nina Sharp; Jasika Nicole as Astrid Farnsworth