Watching Jericho

Slashdot - “Jericho” Fans Send Over Nine Tons of Nuts to CBS.

While the link lends itself to most Slashdot articles by not showing anything in just one light, I find it amusing that this “little” show is making such a big splash.

Y’all keep sending in your nuts, ok?

I’ve actually been avoiding the Message Board over on the Official Site lately, more because I just don’t have the kind of time it would take to really take to read through all of the comments. But, I did notice that there’s a section of the board that has many comments left from the cast and crew of Jericho, talking about the cancellation and I think left in a way to placate the rabid fans over on the board. Some of the comments have been left by Jon Steinberg, Skeet Ulrich, Lennie James, Alicia Coppola, Shoshannah Stern, Brad Beyer, Candace Bailey and Michael Gaston, and I do hope to see even more of the cast and crew to comment on the board.

See the listing of comments here.

On an administrative note, I’ll be posting only once or twice a week here from now on, until there is no more news to be had on the show or I just start seeing a drastic reduction in visitors. I don’t want to give up on Jericho, but there’s only so many times I can tell y’all where to send the nuts, ya know?

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Have You Sent Nuts to CBS for Jericho yet? Never fear, because NutsOnline.com have risen to the occasion to help out anyone who wants to send in some to CBS’s offices.

In addition to sending individual orders to CBS programming executives, as a Jericho fan you can now contribute money to massive shipments of nuts. NutsOnline will do our part by pooling monies and supplying nuts at a steep discount! At the end of each day we will tally dollars collected and ship out huge quantities of roasted peanuts in the shell!

You can contribute to the “pool” with as little as $5 up to $100, if you’re interested. I’ve already sent in one batch on my own, but I’ve contributed to the over $15000 worth of nuts at the time of this writing.

Send in your “pool” money here to NutsOnline and help inundate CBS with Nuts!

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I love the Popwatch Blog over on EW.com, and you know that they made themselves even higher on my list by writing an article entitled “‘Jericho’: One Week Later“. They’ve been pretty amazing on their coverage from the fallout of the cancellation of the show, and one thing really struck me as I was reading their timeline, and that was a comment given by Ashley Scott at the Pirates of the Caribbean Premiere recently.

May 19: At the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End premiere in Hollywood, Ashley Scott, who played Emily Sullivan, told EW’s Carrie Bell how she felt about Jericho’s cancellation: “It infuriates me. It is not fair to people who watched because we didn’t wrap it up because we thought we were coming back. Now viewers will never get a chance to know the whole story of the bombs and what happened or what is going to happen to these townspeople. It is just rude and I think people are going to stop watching shows like that because they keep getting shafted by these serials that they get into, then they get canceled and they never get any closure.”

My favorite part of the quote, of course, is calling it “just rude”. While I’ve never been a Emily/Jake ’shipper, Ashley Scott is currently my favorite actor on the show because of this.

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Obviously, we’ve been doing something right…

To the fans of Jericho:

We have read your emails over the past few days and have been touched by the depth and passion with which you have expressed your disappointment. Please know that canceling a television series is a very difficult decision. Hundreds of people at the Network, the production company and the incredibly-talented creative team worked very hard to build and serve the community for this show — both on-air and online. It is a show we loved too.

Thank you for supporting Jericho with such passion. We truly appreciate the commitment you made to the series and we are humbled by your disappointment. In the coming weeks, we hope to develop a way to provide closure to the compelling drama that was the Jericho story.

Sincerely,

Nina Tassler, President of CBS Entertainment

Now, my only question is are they actually going to follow-through, or are they going to let the furor die down and then completely ignore us?

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In the midst of all the talk of cancellation and possible pick-up by TNT, here’s a little bit of news that makes me smile.

One of our friends in the industry, who’s always proved to be very reliable with their info, is telling us to mark our calendars for September 11th for Jericho on DVD. The indication is that right now the studio, Paramount Home Entertainment, isn’t sure if they’re calling this “Season 1″ or “The Complete Series”, because the folks at CBS television haven’t quite determined if the series will continue or not after this season. Also, that decision may affect the release date. So pencil it in, because it might be subject to change.

Of course, we all know the answer to at least CBS’s release of the series on DVD, but we can still hold out hope that rumors will prove true.

EDITED to add: Yeah, it might help to put in the link to the site.

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Wow. It amazes me how the great and powerful interwebs can band together when there’s something out there that they care about. I’ve had the emails pouring in, my comments have tripled in the past week, and every single thing that I’m receiving are all of the different ways that people out there are doing whatever they can to get the word out and get the show noticed out there.

Here are some of the sites that I’ve been sent links to that I think you should pay attention to:

• Jericho Rally Point
• Jericho Lives
• Save Jericho
• Save Jericho Campaign - CafePress.com
• Save Jericho Now on MySpace.com
• Save Jericho Wiki

Do you know of any other sites out there that should be on the list above? Leave a link in the comments.

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TNT Knows Drama, but do they know how badly fans want Jericho to be picked up by them? Rumors have been running rampant over at the Jericho Message Boards that TNT may be interested in picking up Jericho from the pits of CBS cancellation. There’s even a thread started in the TNT message boards devoted to Jericho fans invading their forum. There are some wonderful comments from people who are as impressed with the show as I am.

As a fan of the now ex-CBS show, Jericho, I’ve been sitting and waiting with dread for the announcement that that show was cancelled, while a small part of me hoped that CBS would be smart and keep it around. Another fan posted on the boards that you (TNT) are monitoring the fan reaction, and are considering the feasibility of picking up the show for your network. I would like to take this time to urge you to do so. Jericho has a large and VERY dedicated fanbase behind it, who will follow it to whatever network or station picks it up. Many of us are hurt and disillusioned by what CBS has done, and are looking for somebody to have the intelligence to realize what a gem Jericho is, even if CBS couldnt see it. (…) Bringing Jericho into your lineup would only endear your network to us more. So from the bottom of my heart, and the hearts of the fans, we are asking you to….

SAVE JERICHO!
(tamibrown)

How can you contact TNT to tell them your thoughts on picking up Jericho? Leave a message on their message board, or use the information below to contact them.

Please send comments and questions via email to tnt@turner.com or you can write us at:

1010 Techwood Dr. NW
Atlanta GA 30318

The number for the TNT Viewer Comment and Question Line is 404-885-4538.

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Only on the interwebs…

Someone’s started up a blog called “Save Jericho” on blogger, and I can’t but wish them well. Their first post states:

“Jericho” started out strong last fall for CBS. However, like “Lost” on ABC and “Heroes” on NBC, many viewers abandoned the show after it went on a long midseason hiatus.

“We lost a lot of steam,” said Kelly Kahl, CBS’ chief scheduling executive. “I know we had loyal viewers … but the show sort of lost its engine and wasn’t performing.”

If CBS is not willing to bring back the show then at least let us know what would happen.

Go on over there and say hello. I hope that they’ll make a difference, and I’ll be here to help them out.

Save Jericho

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It’s official.

After a promising start and rocky second half of the season following a hiatus, serialized apocalyptic drama “Jericho” won’t return for a second season. However, the show’s executive producer/showrunner Carol Barbee is expected to stay at CBS and CBS Paramount Network TV as executive producer/showrunner on new drama series “Swingtown,” sources said.

Simply for the fact that Carol Barbee will be working on Swingtown means that I will be watching it, and I’m glad that someone who is so passionate about her shows will be doing some great things.

But it doesn’t make it any better that CBS carried on with shows that I could never get involved in, no matter how hard I tried, but wouldn’t give Jericho a shot.

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• Watch With Kristen - E Online
• Ausiello Report - TV Guide
• Variety.com

There aren’t any words, really. I think that CBS is making a horrible mistake in canceling the show, which is truly completely separate from me writing on this blog. I wouldn’t have taken this writing position had I not already had an interest in the show.

While CBS hasn’t put out any official word yet, and wasn’t supposed to anyway until tomorrow, there are too many different news sources to take lightly.

Sign the Save Jericho position. Silly, really, but it made me feel better to put my name on this.

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I received a question a while back that I have been meaning to post about, and that was about all of the different songs that you hear on the show.

There are two places that I know of to be able to see listings of the songs used in the show.

• Jericho Wiki Entry - Music of Jericho
• Heard On TV.com’s Jericho listing

While both survive off of user-submitted information, I really like heardontv.com’s interface, and the ability to get help identifying a song that you’ve heard, along with the links to where to purchase the song that you’ve heard.

Do you know of any other places that are on the great and powerful interwebs to find out the music used in the shows?

And, don’t forget to send in your peanuts.

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I received an email from the contact form on this site from someone named Bob, who sent me a link to this site, along with someone leaving comments in previous posts. If you scroll through the listing of times for season openers on CBS, there’s a little bit at the bottom to grab your attention.

It is also rumored Jericho has been renewed for 13 episodes and will run midseason or on Fridays and that the sitcom 1321 Clover has been given staffing orders (does not mean it is picked up, means it is moving to the next level before an official go).

As the good l’il blogger that I am, I’ve been googling my brains out trying to find anything to support this rumor on the Northern Kentucky University’s site, run by Jimmie Manning, who teaches Communication Studies there.

Can anybody help me out here? I’d love to get some kind of corroboration from somewhere.

Meanwhile, don’t forget to send in your peanuts.

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Don’t know what I’m talking about? I’ll just pull Shaun’s comment from an earlier post.

We are battling for a renewal for JERICHO..

Several fronts: We are sending various versions of “nuts” to CBS. Peanuts, styrofoam peanuts, pictures of peanuts and yes a case of peanuts to CBS TV.

CBS ATTN: Nina Tassler 51 West 52nd Street New York New York 10019 RE: JERICHO

Calling CBS programming 212 975 3247 Going to CBS.com and sending in feedback.

Emailing: TVGuide, Entertainment Weekly etc..

If you like JERICHO act today…if your sick of the crime shows..act today..if your sick of reality and game shows..by all means act today.

So, get out there and help!!

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As usual, I had a blast on Shaun OMac Radio last night, chatting about the season finale, and the whole first season in general. Shaun had some great clips from the show, along with some absolutely wonderful callers for the show. Clark, we’ll have to have a chat about the Biggest Heather Fan one of these days!

What did y’all think of the season finale, or of the season in general? When (not if, as Shaun reminded me) it gets renewed, will you come back to it? Even outside of writing for this blog, I would be coming back again and again, as long as it’s on the air, in the news, in fan fiction, anything and everything. Do you feel the same?

If so, write to CBS, call up CBS, email them, blog about them renewing Jericho, send them peanuts, whatever it takes to keep this show on the air, ok? Also, head on over to BlogTalkRadio and let them know that they should have a regular Jericho chat, which I enjoy almost as much as watching the show itself.

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