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After four days of shooting, production on the final season of Fox’s cult sci-fi drama Fringe has been shut down for two weeks so co-star John Noble can get treatment for a sleep disorder. Filming on the final 13 episodes of the Warner Bros. TV-produced series began last Wednesday with Noble. On Monday, Noble was MIA at the show’s TCA panel when producers explained that he was not feeling well. The series resumed production yesterday without Noble, and a decision was made later in the day to go on hiatus while the 63-year-old actor receives treatment. Word is that Noble has had the condition, first reported by TMZ, for awhile. It was aggravated by his recent intense schedule that had him flying back from his native Australia right into Comic-Con then right into production on Season 5 of Fringe. Filming is now slated to resume on Aug. 7. The delay won’t affect the show’s Sept. 28 final season premiere.
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If he’s having trouble sleeping he might want to catch an episode of Fringe.
its sad that this was the first comment…
Get well, John! Fringe is all Fox has on the drama side.
Hope Mr Noble feels better soon. He’s the best character on the entire show! Love him. I’m half his age and working 16-20 hour days with little sleep is horrible.
First of all , good recovery to John Noble and also Blair Brown.
But 3 months off for vacation, and having a sleeping problem for a long time, and all of the sudden now a treatment?
I know that Anna Torv , who has the most working hours, has been working on near exhaustion for a period (revealed by Jasika Nicole at Comic Con), no wonder with all that double acting she did.
I guess the enddate of filming will now be mid-december.
Must be difficult for the other cast members to wait and hang around when you just started.
You get the feeling there’s more to the story. Hope John is ok
Oh, Man. I hope he gets better!
Scott
@BarbarianComic
Hope he gets well soon. He seemed very tired at the end of Comic-Con, where he was doing events for two different shows for at least 3 days straight. (A few months ago, his daughter shared an anecdote about him being a sleepwalker. It was amusing at the time, but maybe not so funny in real life?)
I think it’s sad that this news had to be reported by a gossip site first. When you have to shut down your production because your lead actor is incapacitated, you’d better have a statement ready. You don’t handle something like this by allowing stuff to leak daily to the Hollywood Reporter and TMZ.
Hopefully, John Noble will be back working on the show soon.
However, I think the season premiere may be deferred until after the World Series.