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J.J. Abrams may be doing post-production on the next "Star Trek" movie, but he's still staying quite busy in television. Fox has given a series greenlight to Abrams' latest project "Fringe," according to The Hollywood Reporter, which will join "Dollhouse" from Joss Whedon on the network's schedule.

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The following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the "Love Hurts" season finale episode of the Fox series, "New Amsterdam." It's an odd thing when someone comes back from the dead and is unhappy about it. In the season finale of Fox's "New Amsterdam," we start out basically where we were in the first episode ... John's just rising from the dead. However, this time he's concerned because he has thought that Sara was the love of his elongated life, and that he was convinced she would turn him mortal. He should be dead, by that reasoning. All this goes out the window when John makes yet another mysterious recovery from being shot. It leaves John uncertain of everything he's thought about Sara all season long. Of course, John starts to pull away from Sara, who was enjoying the knee-knocking ...

The following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the "Reclassified" episode of the Fox series, "New Amsterdam." Buffy, the Vampire Slayer's mother is not dead! She's just making guest appearances on Fox programs. (And no, that's not the same thing!) For a show that supposedly prides itself on no-name stars, this week's episode sure had its share or recognizable guest stars. Here's what took place this time: We meet Andy Gleason, John's first partner when he becomes a Homicide cop in New York. Turns out Andy, who transferred out of Homicide, was shot during an attempted arrest. Even worse, the bullet lodged near his heart and has apparently given him leukemia, which is killing him. Andy approaches John, and makes a final request of him -- find Nasir, the punk he believes shot him. The flashbacks ...

There may not be a long life in the cards for "New Amsterdam." The show has now officially lost more than half of its premiere audience after posting a 3.9 rating/6 share, according to Fast National ratings from Nielsen Media Research. That is a significant drop from the 8.3/12 the show premiered with on Fox less than a month ago, and could spell the eventual doom of a show that actually finished behind sagging ratings from "Dexter" on CBS. Granted, "New Amsterdam" didn't have a tremendous amount of material to work with as its lead-in was a "House" repeat, but it still lost a significant portion of the 4.8/8 the hospital drama was able to garner for Fox, according to Zap2it. Among the major networks, "New Amsterdam" finished last for its timeslot well behind "Dancing With the Stars" ...

Show: New Amsterdam
Airs: Mondays at 9 p.m. (E/P) on FOX
Episode: “Keep the Change” (Season 1, Episode 5)

John and Eva investigate the death of a homeless man whose best friend believes that his overdose was actually a homicide.

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