Watching Jericho

Jericho Message Board User Rubber Poultry has put together a beautiful graphic Thank You Card to the Cast and Crew of Jericho for all of their wonderful work on the show, and has asked anyone who would like to add their own personal message to comment in the post over there on the message board. I really love this idea, and since today is the Official Release Date for the Season One DVDs, I think it’s perfect for today’s post.

Rubber Poultry mentions in his post that he apologizes in advance for missing any names, as he pulled the information from IMDB (see the full cast and crew notation here) and my screen grab of it, reduced down for the content size restrictions of this blog, really doesn’t do it justice. Go see the full size version over on the message board, and see what a gorgeous job he’s done with it. Sometimes I wish I was more active on the message board over there, as there are some lovely people who I’ve talked with on Shaun’s Radio Show, Rubber Poultry included. But as with most of the message boards, once you miss just a day or two over there, you can be completely lost as to new threads and just sheer quantity of posts, which make it hard at least for me to keep up with.

Sign the card here. (You must have an account with the Jericho Message Board - CBS Official Site to post)

Hat-tip to Jericho~On~CBS.

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Tomorrow is the next Red-Letter Day for helping to Save Jericho! Don’t know what I’m talking about? Well, tomorrow is the release date for Jericho:The First Season on DVD, and just like during the Nuts Campaign, We Need You!

I do apologize for all the capitalization in this post, but this is just as important as the Nuts Campaign in showing Nina Tassler and the rest of CBS that we are serious in wanting to save our show. I’ve already pre-ordered two copies of the DVD, one for myself, and one to give away on this here blog in the coming month. I’m also looking at maybe an every-other-month giveaway with a fresh copy of the DVD, just to add to the sales numbers, though I’ve got to figure out how much my budget will allow for this.

And, if you’d rather not wait for my contests (and even if you do want to wait for the contests), don’t forget that every sale of this is as good as having a Nielsen Box in your house in sending out a message that just because we won our seven episodes during the Nuts Campaign doesn’t mean that we are going to rest on our laurels for getting a third season.

Get one for yourself, get one for your friends who watched the show with you, get one for your friends that should be watching the show!

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Note: I’ve been battling a monstrous cold this week, and I’ve been neglecting my blogs. I’m so sorry about that. I’m on an up-swing, finally, so I hope to start going back to a more regular posting schedule.

But, because of the Cold that is Kicking Me All Over The Place, here are some links that will be more interesting than counting out all the tissues I’ve run through this week.

• Want to win a copy of the Jericho: Season One on DVD? TheManRoom has you covered.
• Speaking of the Jericho: Season One on DVD, JerichoBlog.net has the official Press Release from CBS on their site.
• Jericho On CBS has found a great photo set on flickr from Banacek11 which just makes me squeal in fan-girl delight!
• It looks as though Kid Nation isn’t doing so well in Jericho’s old time slot, as the Miami Herald’s Changing Channels is reporting.
• Over on the Jericho Wiki, dawkici asks why Jericho doesn’t pull the “Dallas Dream” with Johnston?
• SprintTV will start showing Jericho in early 2008, Reiter’s Mobile TV is reporting.

Well, I’ll let you go and read some of those links below, while I try to figure out how I can make Theraflu taste better than lemonade that has been sitting in your car all day in the middle of summer. Have you seen any good stories or articles around the Great and Powerful Interwebs about Jericho recently? Leave a note and a URL in the comments.

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SciFiWire has some great spoiler-y visions of the sets being built up for the upcoming 7-episode second season.

John Steinberg, co-creator and producer of the show, said in interviews that the seven episodes of the season will focus primarily on the introduction of these new outside elements to the town of Jericho and how its citizens respond to them.

“The first season was about that sort of invisible force, the government, the law, the financial system, all those things, disappearing, and living in a vacuum,” Steinberg said in an interview on the set. “And season two is about what happens when something comes back to replace that vacuum, and it’s not what you remembered being there when you left. And so that’s kind of the big arc of it, and how we respond to that and resist it or learn to deal with it.”

Read the whole article here.

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Finally, something I can cross-post with Watching 4400.

Scott Peters, creator and executive producer for the 4400 (you might remember him from the video Set Tours on the Official Site) is set to direct the next-to-last episode of the seven-episode second season for Jericho, BuddyTV.com is reporting.

As The 4400’s small but extremely loyal following knows, Peters is capable of delivering intense television action.

The title and plot of Peters’ episode is not known yet, but bearing in mind that his credits are almost entirely composed of science fiction credits, one has to wonder: Is Jericho going to be taking a turn for the weird?

While Peters’ role in the production has not been completely fleshed out, it is possible that he is being brought in as a consulting producer.

Read the whole article here.

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When I was on Shaun’s show last Friday, one of the callers was Jeff, the wonderful man who runs Jericho Times, a weekly newsletter (and lots of other stuff - check out the site), which I thought was an absolutely wonderful idea, and I’m glad he called in, otherwise I probably would have missed it.

What’s it all about?

REPORTING FOR JERICHO TIMES CENTER

There are three ways to report!

Email: poll@jerichoarmory.com
(YOUR EMAIL WILL NOT SOLD OR SHARED)

Forum: See below!

CBS Message Board: CLICK HERE

So, if you’ve got any news to report, or see something on here that hasn’t been submitted to them (hint, hint) feel free to use their handy form on the site to send in news or links of interest to Jericho fans.

Jericho Times

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Just to let y’all know, I’ll be on Shaun’s Radio Show tonight at 10pm ET (7pm PT), talking all about Jericho and Dragoncon. If you want to, feel free to call in, or catch up with it later on the podcast.

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Guardians of Jericho is hosting Jerichcon 2007 in Oakley, Kansas on September 14-16, 2007. Are you going?

Shaun, of Shaunomatic Radio, seems to say it all:

Lets join together in Oakley Kansas for a once in a lifetime event..the first JERICHON !!!!

Lets cherish the time we will spend together and know that we have made history and will be making history in Oakley.

The eyes of the TV world will be upon Oakley, so please do what you can and try to attend even one day of the JERICHON..

Or if you cannot make it, please give a donation to help make this more of a success.

So lets shrug off the coming fall TV blues as we wait for Jericho to start and join together to put names and faces to the screen names..

I for one cannot wait to meet you all in Oakley….

With the expense of Dragoncon not even hitting my budget yet, there’s just no way that I can go to this, though I would love to in particular, meet Shaun in person.

So, who’s going?

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MovieWeb.com is reporting that Chris Kramer (who knew there were so many Chris Kramers in the entertainment industry, as the IMDB search brought up so many returns), who I hope is the guy to the left, which, after reading his IMDB Profile seems to make the most amount of sense. I’ve also found a fansite for him, and reading through the filmography and other links provided on the site, also seems to make me think that this is the guy that will be playing the role, not some of the other Chris Kramers that are listed on IMDB. Who is he playing, I hear you asking? Well, MovieWeb.com doesn’t have a lot of information to go on, but what they do have is extremely intriguing.

In other casting news, Chris Kramer has signed onto CBS’ Jericho. He will be playing Chavez, an old friend of Robert Hawkins (Lennie James).

An old friend of Hawkins? My first question is he an old friend like Sarah was an old friend, or could he might possibly be someone on the “White Hat” side of Hawkins’ past? What do you think?

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DragonCon 2007 Parade_143, originally uploaded by Hueyatl.

I just finished a phone call with Shaun’s BlogTalkRadio Show, talking about how wonderful (and exhausting) the con was, and how the panels went (amazingly well), and how I got to chat with Scott Heathcote, who played a deputy on Jericho in a few episodes. I’ll be cleaning up my audio files from my panels and my chat with Scott and Shaun said that he’ll play some of it on Friday night’s Jericho talk. For now, though, I need lots and lots of sleep.

I received an email from Lynn asking me to post this, and I REALLY want to go.

Shoshannah Stern is live and in person coming in October 2007 to Nashville TN.
For more information, visit the event website:
http://www.gatecommunications.org/gatecomm/celsign07/celsign07entry.htm
She will be available for pictures and to Sign autographs.

Because of Dragoncon, I really haven’t thought beyond Labor Day weekend in a long, long time. Anyone in the Nashville area going?

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While I had neglected to mention it here on the blog, I was a guest on Shaun’s show last night, pimping out the panels at Dragoncon that I’m running about Jericho and talking about the upcoming Fall Season in general. I had a blast, as usual, but also because I finally got to actually talk with wonderful Margi who writes for Watching Battlestar Galactica and the brand spanking new Watching Bionic Woman. Along with Margi, Kenn Gold from MediaBlvd.com and the BlogTalkRadio’s show, The Two Doctors, which I don’t get to listen live to due to the time difference, but I adore their podcasts while I’m at work.

Don’t forget, if you’re going to Dragoncon this Labor Day weekend, stop into the Hilton and look for the Apocalypse Rising Track. Final schedule has my Jericho Season One Review at 2:30pm ET and Jericho: Where Do We Go From Here? on Monday at 11:30am ET. I’d really love to meet some of y’all!

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SyFyPortal is reporting that John Turletaub’s studio, Junction Entertainment, and CBS have signed a new first-look deal, which also brings along Jericho co-executive producers Karim Zreik and Dan Shots.

“They are smart, collaborative and have been extremely instrumental in making the show a cult favorite,” said David Stapf, president of CBS Paramount, according to Variety. “They had a clear vision of the direction of the show both in look and story. We’re fortunate that Jon not only brought his sense of humor, but his cinematic style to television.”

Read the whole thing here.

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I’m in a bit of a bind, guys. Are any of y’all heading out to Dragoncon at the end of the month? If so, I could use some help with the panels that I’m running for the Apocalypse Rising Track, where I’m in charge of the two Jericho panels.

So, if you adore the show as much as I do, and feel like you have something to say about the first season of the show, and where you think they’re going to be taking us this coming season, feel free to use the contact form or email me directly at amber.hansford@gmail.com with the words DragonCon in the subject, and why you think you’d like to be on either panel.

Thanks!

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Did you see? Go to the Official CBS Jericho site and scroll down to “Jericho Links”. I’ll wait here while you go look.

SQUEEEE!

This blog got linked by the official site. I’m completely and totally flabbergasted!!

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