Carol Barbee, Jon Steinberg and Saving Jericho
To be honest, I felt like a complete fish out of water when I realized that I was talking with Carol Barbee, executive producer of the show, but also one of the creators and writers, Jon Steinberg. There were some great questions for them, and I’d like to say that I didn’t make a complete fool of myself. A popular commenter’s question here (Hi Grace!) was read by Shaun, even. While they were tight-lipped on spoilers for the Season Finale (You are watching it tonight, aren’t you?), they did give a really wonderful feel for how the show’s focus is going and where it will lead. I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing that Jon Steinberg went, “Oh, Amber from Watching Jericho, right?” when I first rang in to the show, though.
As Shaun said, and Carol and Jon tried to impress on all the listeners, if you want to make sure that CBS hears our voice to save Jericho, get on the Official Site, write letters, stand on the rooftop and scream it out. They’re in a pow-wow right now up in New York to decide the show’s fate, along with others, and we need to keep pushing them.
You can hear the whole podcast here, and if you like it, go and tell BlogTalkRadio that they should have a weekly Jericho chat, along with sending some feedback Shaun’s way over on his blog. I’d love to have that happen, and maybe I could get rid of my Southern accent if I was on the air more often.
Jericho, shaunomacradio, Carol Barbee, Jon Steinberg, interview, TV, television, CBS
May 9th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Amber, I heard you on the radio last night!
I didn’t hear them read my comments though.
You did a great job and they did a great job at avoiding your question.
As I said before, I will NOT be watching JERICHO again if Johnston (Gerald McRaney) is killed off.
May 10th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
“The great unpleasantness”???
“NUTS”!!