Watching Jericho

You know I had to jump on the Paris bandwagon…

Ashley Scott caught the attention of Splash News Online by going to visit with Paris, as in Hilton, not the city, not too long before she was released from jail.

Paris Hilton had one final visitor at the Lynwood jail, friend and actress Ashley Scott, who stars on the TV show ‘Jericho.’Ashley spent 45 minutes inside the jail, saying it was an emotional visit because she couldn’t touch or hug Paris as she’s behind glass but that Paris “looks great� and can’t wait to eat a good meal once she’s released.

While the article speculates that Ashley Scott may have been surfing for some free publicity instead of going to visit with her friend, but I know that there have been enough articles in the past on Ashley’s friendship with Paris that I’m not buying that as the reason she showed up at the jail.

Read the whole article here (with photos).

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I really, truly have no words for this, other than I think that this is the best fan video that has ever been.

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Stephen Battaglio over at TVGuide.com has a great interview with Skeet Ulrich, talking about how surprised he was at the fan response to the cancellation of Jericho, prompting CBS to renew the series for out “mini-season”.

TVGuide.com: Which was inspired by the line in the season finale in which you say “nuts” to New Bern’s demands that Jericho give up in the war for food.
Ulrich: Which to me is just bizarre because that line was the toughest one I had to deliver all season. It’s such a non sequitur. To see it turn into this rallying cry of petitioning and fighting for the show is really interesting. It was insane following it and then for it to have an effect.

TVGuide.com: Were you reading any of the fan reaction online?
Ulrich: I was hearing most of it word of mouth, but I would check in periodically and see what was going on on the message boards. I saw the cast start thanking everybody and that’s when I jumped in. I don’t know how to describe it all. I find myself giggling alone in corners every once and a while.

I adore the idea of Skeet, off in some corner, giggling over the response that his show garnered.

Read the whole thing here.

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Have you ever watched an advert and just get chills down your spine? This time, though, it wasn’t anything spectacular within the content of the advert, but it’s just the fact that the advert is there at all. I love the not-really-so-subtle nod to the Nuts campaign, saying without really saying it.

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Mark it on your calenders, set your Outlook Calender for a reminder, because your Friday nights at 9 p.m. have just become busy!

Zap2it.com is reporting that CBS has released that starting July 6, Fridays at 9 p.m. ET will be devoted to showing the repeats of Jericho to help drum up support for the resurrection of the show, with some shows starting at special times and dates.

On Friday, July 6 at 9 p.m. ET, CBS will reair the original “Jericho” pilot, in which the residents of a small Kansas town begin to deal with the effects of a nuclear attack. The following week, at 8 p.m., the network will air a clipshow recapping the season’s first 11 episodes, followed by episode 12, “The Day Before,” which began the show’s spring season.

Through the rest of the summer, CBS will use the Friday 9 p.m. time slot to show episodes 13-22.

Read the whole article here.

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While the joy of the Saving of Jericho is still high, Gary Bourgeaultat the Biz of Showbiz makes a valid point by asking who will be coming back now that Jericho has been renewed?

To begin with, the writers had already departed, and not all of them will be able to get back into the project, although several look like they will be returning.

Executive producer for the show, Carol Barbee has already been transferred to another project as well, now working on another CBS midseason drama “Swingtown.”

The network confirmed that it has options on all the actors involved with the series, but there will have to be a number of changes to meet budget requirements: in other words, not all of the original characters will be returning for the shorter second season.

This is something that does worry me, because I really don’t want the dynamic that has worked so well this past season to be broken apart because the cast and crew needed to find work in other shows or venues.

What do you think? Even without the availability of all of the cast and crew a guarantee, do you think that the show will be able to live up to the most amazing season that they just had?

Read the whole article here.

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If anyone is up tonight at 11pm ET, or if you’re in more Western climes, tune into ShaunOMacRadio tonight and listen to me chat with Shaun and others about all the news that’s fit to write on a blog in regards to Jericho, the saving of the show due to fans like you that are reading this, and everything else that we can fit into his program. While it’s a tad late for me, I know that I’m excited enough to stay energized when it comes to talking about this wonderful show.

Now if I can just be patient enough to wait until they release the dates for when those lovely seven episodes are going to air.

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Dragoncon, which has become a force of nature in the Science Fiction Convention circles in the last few years, is at it again over Labor Day Weekend (August 31 - September 3, 2007), and I’m proud to say that I’m on staff this year, helping out the Apocalypse Rising Staff in regards to all things Jericho. We’re still working out the kinks on our Jericho Panel, but I’m hoping to make it everything and anything that a Jericho fan will be interested in. The big thing for Jericho will be the Life As We Knew It: Jericho Season 1 Review, which I’m hoping will be interesting to all comers.

Interested in helping me out this Labor Day in Atlanta, Georgia? Use the Contact Me form on this blog to get a hold of me for more information.

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And CBS Says…. SEVEN MORE EPISODES!

From Nina Tassler on the Jericho Message Boards:

June 6, 2007

To the Fans of Jericho:

Wow!

Over the past few weeks you have put forth an impressive and probably unprecedented display of passion in support of a prime time television series. You got our attention; your emails and collective voice have been heard.

As a result, CBS has ordered seven episodes of “Jericho� for mid-season next year. In success, there is the potential for more. But, for there to be more “Jericho,� we will need more viewers.

At the end of the letter, just to show that even at CBS they’ve got a sense of humor, Ms. Tassler asks the fans to “please stop sending nuts”.

Watch with Kristen over at EOnline.com pretty much sums up my reaction to this news:

I couldn’t be more thrilled, and I do believe this is thawing out my cold, cynical reporter’s heart. I never thought I’d see the day!

Read the whole letter from CBS here.

Read Watch with Kristen’s article summing it up here.

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Wow, y’all… I spend most of the day in meetings, and I come back to an overflowing mailbox telling me that rumors on TVGuide.com and EOnline.com are saying that CBS may have just gotten the message from all those nuts being shipped to their offices by having a proposed eight episodes show Mid-season next year.

From Watch with Kristen:

How’s this for the biggest stunner you’ve heard all day: Sources close to CBS tell me it is extremely likely the Armageddonish drama Jericho–which did not make the CBS ‘07-’08 schedule a few weeks ago, meaning it was effectilvely canceled—has been revived from the dead and will return for eight episodes for midseason.

Boo-yah!

From the Ausiello Report:

My spies caution that this is in no way official, but it certainly sounds like it could be by day’s end. It’s now just a matter of signing the actors to new deals and, according to one insider, finding a new soundstage to house the show’s sets.

To say this would be a huge victory for crazy TV fans everywhere would be the understatement of the frakkin’ millennium.

Boo-yah, indeed!

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With all of the news on the Save Jericho campaigns that are out there, it’s good to see that some fans are taking an additional step in trying to gain attention to the show.

Convention Ideas

We’ve got some AWESOME ideas for our convention, but we need more! Get the thinking caps on folks, hopefully the list I have provided will get the gray matter in motion!

* ‘FEMA’ camp - which will be our campgrounds for those that want to really experience the convention in a different way!
* Black Jack Fairgrounds - a place to buy and sell things, most vendors will be placed there.
* Bailey’s - Turning a local bar into Bailey’s for the duration of the convention and have a television set to all Jericho throughout the bar’s business hours. I love this idea, you guys will find me there, I’ll be in the corner waiting for Stanley, Mimi and Jake to show up to play cards until the wee hours of the morning!

As I’m on staff for Dragoncon’s Apocalypse Rising Track this year, centering on Jericho, I really love to see some cons getting their feet wet with a whole weekend dedicated to a wonderful television show.

Keep up with new information in regards to the Jericho Con here.

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