Fringe Season Five Character Portraits

These character portrait collections are very popular this season; we’ve had sets for 666 Park Avenue, and the third season of The Walking Dead.

Now, it’s Fringe‘s turn.  Fringe enters its fifth and final season this Friday.  The 13 episode run will take place primarily in the year 2036, in the aftermath of an Observer invasion.  Though as you can see from these pictures, no one save Nina seems to have aged that much.

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Fringe Renewed For Fifth Season

Defying all conventional logic, Fox has renewed Fringe for a 13 episode fifth season, after successfully negotiating a lower licensing fee.

The JJ Abrams series is popular amongst critics and a small cult of fans, but receives very low ratings, averaging about 3 million viewers a week, which is bad even by Friday standards (Grimm, which airs in the same time slot, pulls 4.5 mil.).

The 13 new episodes will bring the total episode count past 100, which will allow the producers to shop it around for syndication.