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"  The Event      Series premiere Monday, Sept. 20 at 9 pm on NBC Try to get producers of The Event, debuting on NBC this September, to tell you what the event actually is, and they go mum. &amp;quot;All we can tell you,&amp;quot; said executive producer Evan Katz at the Comic Con panel for the show, &amp;quot;is that this [panel] is not the event.&amp;quot; We&amp;#039;ve seen the pilot and what we can tell you is this: If you liked Lost, you&amp;#039;ll probably like The Event. Not only does the show boast a strong ensemble cast, but its format will be similar, complete with flashbacks. And the pilot ends with a shocking sci-fi twist. &amp;quot;To NBC&amp;#039;s credit, they&amp;#039;re the ones who inspired us to come up with a twist at the end that was perhaps outside of the realm of human understanding,&amp;quot; says executive producer Steve Stark. &amp;quot;We went back and totally reconfigured the whole mythology of this little mini event in the pilot.&amp;quot; Producer James Wong (who used to work on beloved sci-fi show The X-Files) wouldn&amp;#039;t comment on when audiences would actually get to see the event. &amp;quot;We really have to see how it&amp;#039;s playing with people,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s not any set plan. We have an idea when we want to do it right now, but things could change.&amp;quot; One thing he would say: The event, whatever it is, has global implications. But just when we asked if the show was more scientific or more supernatural, Wong and Stark were pulled away. Looks like we&amp;#039;ll have to wait until this fall to find out. No Ordinary Family      Series premiere Tuesday, Sept. 28 at 8 pm on ABC The Powells are your typical family. Dad Jim (Michael Chiklis) works as a police sketch artist, Mom Stephanie (Julie Benz) has a demanding career as a scientist, and their two kids, Daphne (Kay Panabaker) and JJ (Jimmy Bennett) are struggling with regular teenage problems. It&amp;#039;s all business as usual\u2014until their plane crashes in a Brazilian river and suddenly, they&amp;#039;ve all got superpowers. This is the plot of No Ordinary Family, which will explore how the Powells are affected and changed by their new abilities.  &amp;quot;I thought [a TV show like this] was long overdue, frankly,&amp;quot; Chiklis says. &amp;quot;I can only think of one [superhero show on TV in] the last 20 years, and that&amp;#039;s Heroes, which is a decidedly different show. You know, I guess the most similar thing we see to this show was probably The Incredibles\u2014but not really. That&amp;#039;s a Pixar film. It&amp;#039;s a straight comedy. That we&amp;#039;re a family of supers is pretty much where that ends.&amp;quot; Creator Greg Berlanti says the first season of the show will be all about the Powells exploring their powers. &amp;quot;My favorite part of comic book movies is the first 45 minutes when they get their powers, and their life is just starting to change,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;For me, that is this whole first season. It&amp;#039;s all a training period for them, and there is so much they don&amp;#039;t know, and I really do not want to miss a beat with any of that.&amp;quot;  But Berlanti wants to assure the audiences that No Ordinary Family won&amp;#039;t be just a straight comedy. &amp;quot;We have some more dark moments still,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;In the pilot, when [Jim] gets shot in the head, [it&amp;#039;s that] kind of darkness. In the world of superhero films, there is The Dark Knight and there is Spider-man. They&amp;#039;re very different. We are probably closer to Spider-man than we are to The Dark Knight, in that way.&amp;quot;  Fringe      Season premiere Thursday, Sept. 23 at 9 pm on Fox Things weren&amp;#039;t looking so good for our favorite FBI agent, Olivia Dunham, at the end of Fringe&amp;#039;s second season. A botched operation in the alternate universe allowed Walter Bishop&amp;#039;s alt-universe doppelg\u00E4nger (or Walternate) to capture Olivia and hold her in a sensory-deprivation cell, while Dunham&amp;#039;s double (nicknamed &amp;quot;Bolivia&amp;quot; by fans) traveled with Peter to the regular universe. According to Jaskia Nicole, who plays Astrid, the action picks up right at the beginning of season three. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re diving right in, and it&amp;#039;s really good,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;From the very first episode of season three, they take off with it. They really start going immediately and it&amp;#039;s really, really cool to see it.&amp;quot; So what can we expect from the third season? Plenty of Astrid and Walter interaction, for one. And you get to see the two Fringe teams\u2014one in the regular universe, one in the alternate\u2014at work. &amp;quot;Each season takes a bit of a different format,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;And this season is no different. What I really like about it is that there are still really bizarre things that are happening that the Fringe team is investigating, but now you&amp;#039;ve got two completely separate Fringe teams doing the investigating. So you get to see how they work differently.&amp;quot; Nicole says that there will also be the standalone, monster-of-the-week episodes Fringe fans love so much. &amp;quot;There are definitely episodes where there&amp;#039;s a start and an end to what&amp;#039;s happening that&amp;#039;s still related to the Pattern on its own.&amp;quot; The Walking Dead      Series premiere in October on AMC If the line at Comic Con was any indication, one of the year&amp;#039;s most anticipated television shows is The Walking Dead, based on Robert Kirkman&amp;#039;s graphic novel about the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse. The first season\u2014which will have six episodes\u2014follows former police officer Rick Grimes (played by Andrew Lincoln) and a small group of survivors as they try to find a place safe from the zombies. It also explores just what they&amp;#039;ll do to stay alive. The pilot episode is helmed by Frank Darabont, who directed The Shawshank Redemption.  The TV series will be loyal to the comics, at least to an extent. &amp;quot;The series is going to have its own blueprint,&amp;quot; says KNB makeup designer Greg Nicotero, who not only does the show&amp;#039;s zombie makeup, but also helps cast the actors who will play the walking dead. &amp;quot;Obviously Frank is tremendously loyal to the material, but it will stand on its own, which is what I love about it.&amp;quot;  Nicotero has used the graphic novel as a reference to help create the look of the show&amp;#039;s zombies. The actors must also attend zombie school; there they learn to shamble and otherwise move like the undead. But he&amp;#039;s also a fan, which can be fun for him when they&amp;#039;re filming. &amp;quot;We were shooting a scene where they come across a zombie eating a deer,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;And it&amp;#039;s like, &amp;#039;Oh, I remember that! That&amp;#039;s a good one!&amp;#039;&amp;quot; V      Season premiere in November on ABC V fans who were afraid that ABC would split up the show&amp;#039;s second season the way they split up the first have nothing to fear. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re going to play [the second season&amp;#039;s episodes] all in a row,&amp;quot; says Morena Baccarin, who plays evil V Anna. &amp;quot;We laid the groundwork in the first season, and we&amp;#039;re coming back strong.&amp;quot; At the end of last season, it was revealed that a massive fleet of alien ships was waiting in space, and Earth&amp;#039;s sky turned red, signaling that something very bad was about to happen. Baccarin doesn&amp;#039;t know much about season two, but she did say that she thinks the world will be even more dangerous than it was in the first season\u2014and that audiences will get to see more of the Vs&amp;#039; true nature. But how her character will rebound from losing her ship (and her alien offspring) is still a mystery to Baccarin. &amp;quot;From what I&amp;#039;ve been hearing, it sounds like there&amp;#039;s going to be a lot of surprises and alliances shifting,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;ll be interesting to see how Anna gets it all back together.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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