Looks like a winner has emerged in that bidding war I told you about yesterday for JJ Abrams‘ next hour-long series. NBC will work with Abrams for the first time, along with Abrams’ co-creator Josh Reims, airing the yet-to-be-titled show probably in the 2010 fall season (just my guess, no evidence on that last part).
Personally, I don’t have a ton of faith that this is good news. NBC does not have a solid track record when it comes to genre television. This new show is described as something akin to Mr. & Mrs. Smith, with a husband & wife duo …read more

According to Herc at Ain’t It Cool News, ABC, CBS, and NBC are currently engaged in a bidding war over a new series developed by Lost co-creator JJ Abrams and Josh Reims. Not much is known about the series — not even its name — except that it involves a husband & wife pair of secret agents. The notion of Abrams tackling the spy genre again makes me downright giddy, though this new show will need a heck of an angle to keep its premise fresh. (Even die hard Alias fans like myself must admit that the show jumped the …read more

On newsstands nowish is the May 2009 issue of Wired, which was put together with the help of Guest Editor JJ Abrams. You won’t find any spoilers for Lost, but you will find plenty of teasers and cheeky references to all of Abrams’ works, including our favorite island-based show, Alias, Fringe, Cloverfield, and of course, Star Trek. The issue is chocked full of the kinds of stuff that Lost fans and Abrams fans go ga-ga over (there are even hidden easter eggs in the issue), and I highly recommend picking it up.
Probably the best part of the issue is the …read more

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J.J. Abrams recently chatted with the Suicide Girls about the success of Fringe and whether he’ll run things the same as Lost.
First off he clarifies that it is not just HE that did Lost. “It’s not me alone … In cases like Lost, it’s not me now at all. It’s Damon and Carlton [Cuse] running that show. In the case of something like Fringe, Alex and Bob and I sat in a room and came up with this together.”
Abrams continues, saying that a main difference between Lost and Fringe is the “complication” factor. He …read more

Lance Reddick (who plays Matthew Abbadon in Lost) has recently signed on as a series regular for J.J. Abrams’ Fringe – so that’s a good indication that he’ll return to Lost! In fact, J.J. said it’s a safe bet he’ll reappear on the Island. “When we were casting him, we hesitated because of his Lost character,” J.J. admitted. “But then I realized if he goes and does another show, he’ll be less likely to do Lost, so let’s get him on this one, because I know the producer.”
There’s currently a ton of press and hype for the series premiere …read more

IGN recently chatted with J.J. Abrams about his upcoming new science fiction series, Fringe.
Abrams chatted about the inspiration for the show. “It was really just Alex Kurtzman, Bob Orci and myself just hanging out and talking about the kind of show we’d love to see on the air. For better or worse, like most of the things I do, it just comes from stuff that I’d love to watch. It’s sort of a boring answer, but that’s kind of what the truth is!”

Check out the promotional trailer for the new JJ Abrams’ Fox series Fringe that is set to premiere this fall on Tuesday nights. What do you think?

T.J. Miller talks to David Letterman about the plot secrecy in Cloverfield, his role in the film, and life before acting!

There’s a new picture up at Cloverfield’s website – 1-18-08.com. I can’t wait to see this movie on Friday!

It looks like we’ll be having an update on Cloverfield/1-18-08 this month… What will we get?
The official title

A new trailer
All has been relatively quiet on the 1-18-08 front for the last few months since the San Diego Comic-Con, but a source for ComingSoon.net has revealed to us that the J.J. Abrams-produced monster movie will get a new trailer AND its title will finally be revealed on November 16 in front of Robert Zemeckis’ animated Beowulf.
So far, we know very little about the movie beyond what we’ve seen in the teaser this past summer, the pictures on the official site, …read more