One of the greatest things about Comic-Con is definitely getting a sneak peek at what our future television obsessions could be, and it seems like there's plenty of excitement about Fox's new show Almost Human.

The series - set 35 years in the future - stars Karl Urban as disgruntled cop John Kennex and Michael Ealy as his brand new android partner Dorian. The whole cast showed up to promote the show at Comic-Con, so read on to find out what we learned from the panel...

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If you miss Fringe, maybe this will keep you going

Almost Human comes from Fringe exec Joel Wyman, who joked that he started the show "to keep Fringe fans still happy". But you might spot some similarities between the two: "This [cast] is a group of like-minded people who are really concerned with the same things we're all concerned about, at least Fringe fans are," Joel said. "Humanity and where we all stand and what it looks like for us in the future. So that's what you have to look forward to.

"It's got a lot of the great things that Fringe had in it, but we think it's going to be just a little bit different - but also something special." Oh, and he confirmed that he'd love Fringe stars to appear on the show: "We would be honoured."

The cast is kind of great.

As well as Karl and Michael, the show stars Lili Taylor, Minka Kelly, Mackenzie Crook and Michael Irby. In other words, as Joel said, they're pretty "talented". But how did he get them all together? "We had to sacrifice our souls," Joel confessed. "And that was hard to part with, but it worked out in the end, because look at this."

Michael has some very specific influences he's bringing to his android Dorian

Michael admitted that Dorian is a "very delicate character" to play, but he's got some help - he's modelled him on "Jason Bourne, Robert Patrick as Terminator 2 and Jeff Bridges as Starman". Intriguing, right? Oh, and he promised that he's had "numerous" chats with Joel about "the fine line between making Dorian real and making him cliché".

You might not want to trust Minka Kelly's character Valerie

Minka was super tight-lipped when she was asked if we can trust Valerie, but she did say: "I think that you will discover there are maybe sides of her that you may be wary of." Baffled yet?

On the other hand, Lili promised that we can trust her character Maldonado - and suggested that we should watch out for her relationship with Kennex. "They're almost like brother and sister, and there's something special and warm about their relationship," she said. "It's not typical at all." (Also interesting? That Maldonado was originally envisaged as a man!)

Robot-human romance is not completely off the table

"Anything's possible, right?" Karl said. "I mean, man, whatever floats your boat, honestly."

We'll be seeing cases of the week... but the show's also about humanity

Exec Naren Shankar confirmed that there's "definitely" a procedural aspect to Almost Human, though he refused to tease any of the cases ("a robot will have me killed"). But he did say that the characters are the "continuing elements" of the show: "It's about relationships and people, human beings dealing with the world of the future."

And don't expect your bog standard crimes, either - Joel promised that they'll be solved "in ways that you've never seen before". "We have several criteria," he added. "If it's not a crime of the future or hasn't been created by some technology that we don't know yet, or the reasons it was committed are not something futuristic, then we're not going to tell that story. So we're going to tell great stories that are identifiable, but we're still going to have a futurism that is cool."

Joel joked that he sent the cast to "future boot camp" for seven months

"We used the Fringe thing to put them to the future," he claimed. Karl did not seem happy. "I had to buy an iPad," he sighed.

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Dorian and Kennex are going to have a bromance

And if you needed any convincing, Karl and Michael shared a very cute on-stage hug. Get your fanfic pens ready now.

This show is going to be dealing with some deep issues

At the end of the panel, things all got very serious as Joel promised that the show will be delving into some pretty deep questions about "humanity". "It's very interesting where technology's going - it's on a lot of people's minds," he said. "What's going to happen? How are we losing a little bit of our humanity every day because of the onslaught of technology?

"We've sort of been promised this utopia of computers and tech, but there's another side to that, there's a dark side to that, there's a 'what if' side, there's a 'we have to be cautious' side."

Joel added that he thinks the "best" science fiction is always about "what it's like to be human", adding: "So it's just very unique - new ways to talk about the human condition, to examine why we're here, what are we doing here, what is the world, what is our place in it, why are we here?" Sounds pretty impressive to us...

Almost Human will premiere on Fox on Monday, November 4.

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