Creator J.J. Abrams and executive producers Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Bryan Burk and Jeff Pinkner spoke in a news conference in New York’s meatpacking district on Aug. 26 about the series before attending a premiere party in Manhattan later that evening.

We think we’re in the perfect position–i.e., out on a limb–to proclaim that Fox’s upcoming SF drama Fringe will be this fall’s breakout success: The show that will knock Heroes out of the sky and bury Lost like Nikki and Paulo on that irritatingly populated desert island.