Fringe was the script as contended by the U.S. networks in 2008 and was ultimately Fox to win. The new science fiction series was created by JJ Abrams ("Alias" and "Lost") with Alex Kurtzman (executive producer in the past seasons of the series "West Wing", then director of the pilot episodes of "The Nine" for ABC and of "Journeyman" on NBC) and Roberto Orci. The budget for the pilot for 90 minutes amounted to about $ 10 million (the cost was the pilot for "Lost"), with a cost per episode close to 2 million dollars. The series, produced by Abrams' Bad Robot with Warner Bros. Television, will focus on a young FBI agent is forced to investigate unexplained phenomena increasingly powerful and pervasive. For individual display a scientist whose past studies may be at the center of the imminent catastrophe and the son of man, a man so brilliant as it is difficult to treat. The series is described by Abrams as something similar in spirit to "X-Files" and "The Twilight Zone. The episodes of the series will explore different individual paranormal mysteries, but also the evolution of relations between the three characters. The work of the pilot episode of the show was held in the city of Toronto, Canada.