Game Of Thrones Houses: TIMESCAPE! 'FRINGE' SEASON FOUR RESUMES...

Time is relative! The cast of FRINGE return. Images: FOX/WARNER BROTHERS.

That intriguing and intoxicating mixture of character drama and alternate universes sci-fi thrills FRINGE, co-created by wunderkid J.J. Abrams, resumes its fourth season on SKY ONE HD in the UK next Wednesday, and its seemed like ages since timeslipped, no longer in non-existence Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson), madcap scientist daddy Walter (John Noble) and spunky FBI heroine Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) were last on our screens. And die-hard fans watch out, this new batch looks likely to pummel our heroes emotionally once again. If you think Peter had a bad time of it recently, and almost giving Walter a self induced lobotomy in the process, wait and see what the series writers and producers have planned for poor Olivia this year. There's also the return of those pesky and highly dangerous Shapeshifters in their new combustible configurations, plus a welcome Season One enemy back to frustrate and bewilder: MAD MEN and SHERLOCK HOLMES Professor Moriarty, the always reliable Brit star Jared Harris as the time war waging David Robert Jones, possibly alongside 24's first Bauer baddie Michael Massee. And, in counter-balance, let's not forget our always party crashing friends who transform chaos into order (and get it right most of the time): the baldy men known as The Observers. Plus, the lovely and cute Astrid (Jasika Nicole) finally gets a chance to shine in her own story alongside all the other multiple versions of our series main characters, too - who says TV series writers can't have fun!-like the black gloved scientist Nina Sharp (Blair Brown), finally getting more evil, and some fun chin-wagging rivalry between Peter and his FRINGE division 'replacement', Lincoln Lee (Seth Gabel).

Here's a few images from upcoming episodes (make the most of these new stories as a fifth season for FRINGE has not yet been guaranteed by its makers FOX, so there is the possibility that this may be our final run (sniff..)), in a half season of complex and absorbing adventures which include a time-trapped town you can't escape from (GROUNDHOG DAY times a thousand!), the search for a killer who uses a toxin not yet created on Earth, and an on-the-run mental patient with important links to Olivia's past....