iOS app Android app More  Lelia Nebeker   Fringe Proves That a
Devoted Fan Base Is Worth More Than Ratings  Posted: 04/27/2012
3:34 pm  Now that I've finished dancing around the house singing
"We Are the Champions" and openly weeping with joy, I can
finally begin to put into words how excited, relieved, and
overjoyed I am to hear that Fringe has been renewed for a fifth
season. In terms of numbers, in terms of ratings, in terms of
money, there's no logical reason Fringe should have lasted this
long, and yet somehow it has been granted not only four whole
seasons, but a final 13-episode run in order to give the show
the proper conclusion it deserves, as reported by Entertainment
Weekly yesterday evening. Fringe has never been like other
shows. OK, that's not entirely true -- when it started off,
Fringe was very much like its sci-fi predecessor The X-Files,
but since then it has morphed into something unlike any other
show on television. It defies ratings; it defies convention; it
defies the standards and expec