Jericho Cancelled - Round Two
And here we are again… CBS has canceled Jericho, the Hollywood Reporter is reporting.
To be perfectly honest, it doesn’t really surprise me at all. The post on the cancellation over at TV Squad brings up some of the reasons why I’m not surprised.
I guess this was inevitable. CBS only OK’d seven episodes for the second season, and it was probably going to take enormous ratings for the show to see a third season, and we knew that wasn’t going to happen. The ratings for the second season were lower than ratings for the first season. Which is really too bad, since this was a quite a good little drama.
They also bring up the fact that this time, sending out the nuts probably won’t be helping… which I agree with. Maybe it’s just that I’m a little jaded at this point, but the only thing that I really see as a survival for this show at this point is simply moving to a new network. Let’s just make sure that the first episodes over at its new home are a little more interesting than the ones on our short season, ya hear, Powers That Be?
March 22nd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
It’s such a shame that CBS does not have the intelligence to harness the power of Jericho and turn it into the monster it is. They sit and look at Nielsen ratings when they clearly see that millions of fans aren’t being counted. From now on, my network of choice is all of them except CBS.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:19 am
at least we still have tmz, huh? it had to happen; the one series in years that truly interested me (other than house) doesn’t make it in the reality/dance/karaoke era.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
I think that the renewal of Jericho will become a moot point tonight when the bomb is recovered and accidently explodes in Jericho.
March 28th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
SAVING JERICHO: The Final Word
Here’s 10 things to keep in mind for the people who will stop at absolutely nothing to save the TV show Jericho.
1- AVOID JERICHONET’S FORUM; hormonal teenagers who think they are the ruling class leading a “Revolution” aren’t really people you wish to be associated with.
2- SAVE THE SHOW’S DIGNITY, BEFORE THE SHOW; Season 2 made for a different show, not the one millions of fans enjoyed to begin with. Don’t make it even worse, let it die in dignity and be remembered for its initial quality.
3- IF PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO JOIN, HARRASSING THEM WON’T HELP; flooding emails and message boards with the same “orders” to write and protest makes you a troll, not a nice person.
4- BE A FAN, NOT A PAIN IN THE ASS. The latter gives the former a bad name.
5- BE PATIENT; “Forever Knight” came back as “Moonlight”, “Angel” and “New Amsterdam”. “Cupid” will come back as…”Cupid”! Hollywood as a limit to its creative well; wait 5 years, the show will come back, in one form or another.
6- REPEAT AFTER ME - IT.IS.JUST.A.TV.SHOW. 500 channels, millions of books in print, magazines, webcasts, radio shows, major league games, PORN for crying out loud! It’s entertainement, the same as all those.
7- NETWORKS ARE NOT CHARITIES; greed aside, when a product costs more to manufacture than the profit it generates, no business in its right mind would keep making it. Jericho didn’t make any money, CBS tried TWICE, now it’s dead. Simple equation, really.
8- IF IT DROWNS, IT’S NOT A WITCH; people who liked season one and not season two might want to discuss the show, engage in challenging conversations. CALLING THEM TROLLS FOR THAT MAKES YOU ONE, DOUCHE!
9- IF YOU HAVE SO MUCH ENERGY, DEDICATION AND MONEY TO SPEND, SPEND IT ON CHARITY. Again, ’nuff said.
10- AVOID JERICHONET’S FORUM; it deserved repeating. They get on everyone’s nerves, on any board where a Jericho discussion takes place. Here’s a tip - give it up. YOU people are killing your show.
March 29th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Nooo!! I heard about this but I thought it was just a rumor… Jericho was a good series =’(
March 29th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
The fight to save Jericho is not over!
If you want more Jericho please write to: Ms. Nancy Tellem, President, CBS Paramount Network Television Entertainment Group, 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, CA 91604-2190.
Ask her to continue to produce Jericho and sell it to another network. These letters need to go out now, if we wish to save Jericho.
For more information go to: http://www.jericho-kansas.com/Community/SaveJerichoCampaign/tabid/195/Default.aspx