Toronto Film Studios is hosting the two-hour pilot for Fringe, putting up the big-budget effort from J.J. Abrams until March. The supernatural series for Fox arrives with a reported budget of US$10 million, exec produced by Abrams (Lost) with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, his cohorts in the new Star Trek movie, plus Bryan Burk (Cloverfield) and Alex Graves (The West Wing). Graves will also direct.

Fringe follows the paranormal adventures of a brilliant but unstable scientist, his estranged son and an FBI agent. It is one of very few pilots to find its way north this season, due to the WGA strike.