May 20th, 2007 | 3 Comments
CBS canceled Jericho earlier this month despite the show looking very promising for a second season pickup. The public outcry surrounding shows cancellation prompted CBS’ entertainment president Nina Tassler to post the following message at CBS.com over the weekend:
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
Will this closure be in the form of a TV movie? A miniseries? I would think that if the network got that much feedback in favor of the show that instead of just closure, CBS could give the fans what they want and go ahead and greenlight Jericho for a second season. This statement is nothing more than corporate double talk to try and save face for cancelling a show that built a pretty large following in it’s freshman season. I think this closure is probably going to end up being something online through CBS.com and Jericho will never see the light of day on CBS again.
May 15th, 2007 | 17 Comments
Variety says that CBS has declared Jericho a bomb and opted not to renew it for a second season. The struggling drama Close to Home and the sitcom The Class have also been dropped, meanwhile Rules of Engagement lives on. How I Met Your Mother will see a third season. Previous pickups include The Unit, Numbers, Ghost Whisperer, all three CSIs, NCIS and Shark.
April 17th, 2007 | 0 Comments
SyFyPortal reported a rumor that CBS will renew its post-apocalyptic drama Jericho for a full second season. Citing an anonymous source, the site reported that CBS may also move the show to a new night next fall. Jericho currently airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m., where it has had to face off against Fox’s ratings juggernaut American Idol. Last week, Jericho beat out the season finale of Til Death. CBS has made no formal announcements about series pickups yet and isn’t expected to until May. Jericho stars Skeet Ulrich, Ashley Scott and Gerald McRaney and centers on a small Kansas town, whose residents are coping with the aftermath of a nuclear attack on the United States.
March 28th, 2007 | 0 Comments
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November 9th, 2006 | 0 Comments
CBS will split the first season of its nuclear-holocaust drama Jericho into two half-seasons of all-original episodes, following a similar programming strategy by ABC’s Lost. The Hollywood Reporter said that the first half of Jericho’s freshman season will end November 29 with a cliffhanger finale. The series, starring Skeet Ulrich, will return Feb. 14, 2007, with a recap of the first 11 episodes, followed by a new episode every Wednesday for the rest of the season. The split is designed to avoid repeating episodes, a la Lost, which ended the first half of its season on November 8 and will disappear from the airwaves before returning in February. The pattern also mirrors the fall/spring season scheduling for Fox’s Prison Break, which was introduced last year. During Jericho’s 10-week hiatus, CBS will continue the show’s first 11 episodes on the network’s broadband channel, Innertube, where Jericho has been the most-streamed CBS program.
October 12th, 2006 | 0 Comments
CBS has given Jericho, its freshman hit drama about the aftermath of a nuclear explosion on a small, peaceful Kansas town, a full season order. Jericho, averaging 11.3 million viewers, 3.4/10 in adults 18-49 and 4.6/12 in adults 25-54, has boosted CBS’s performance in the Wednesday, 8:00-9:00 PM time period by +48% in viewers, +36% in adults 18-49 and +48% in adults 25-54 compared to last year. As part of a three-hour drama block that includes Criminal Minds and CSI: NY, CBS has seen its Wednesday ratings increase year-to-year by +34% in viewers, +22% in adults 18-49 and +30% in adults 25-54, the Network’s biggest night of ratings growth. CBS is first on Wednesday in viewers and adults 25-54 and a close second in adults 18-49.
Jericho stars Skeet Ulrich, Gerald McRaney, Ashley Scott, Pamela Reed, Kenneth Mitchell, Lennie James, Sprague Gradon, Michael Gaston, Erik Knudsen, Brad Beyer and Shoshannah Stern. Jon Turtletaub, Stephen Chbosky and Carol Barbee are executive producers for CBS Paramount Network Television.
