Jericho
 

Does anyone here watch Jericho? My boyfriend and I have gotten really into it.

Good show. Getting really interesting.

DaffyKD

Yep. We have watched it from the beginning. I get the constant cliffhanger thing (like Lost), but it kind of annoys me every now and then. I like resolution. The story is great though. I just feel like we haven't gotten anywhere yet. They still don't know what happened. I have to believe that if something like this were to actually take place, we would know what happened by now. I guess I get into my entertainment too much!

I thought we did find out what happened on the first episode of this new season? The one called "The day before" where they went over events for all the characters, but mainly Hawkins and his shady gf, made it look like a small renegade terrorist cell set off the bombs. Hawkins was one of the people in that cell, and that's why he's got "the package" in his house in Jericho now...he couldn't bring himself to trigger his bomb. Now we're waiting to find out who is killing the other cell members, what Hawkins is going to do now with his life and with The Package, and how the town is going to move on and repair itself.

The show has made me wonder what it would be like in my town if something like those events actually happened. If that's what Kansas is like, what would a metropolitan area resemble?

You are right - I do remember that one. For some reason it just didn't stick with me as being the whole story. I really don't know why though! I guess it's because WE as viewers know, but the people in Jericho / the US in the show don't know. Outside of Hawkins and the others who were in on the package thing. Last week they believed the "Marines" who said it was Iran and North Korea. I guess I just figured some sort of "government official" would have figured it out and/or figured out how to communicate with everyone out there.

Also - assuming the bombs were radioactive from the mushroom clouds and all the radiation sickness - wouldn't the fallout / nuclear winter be much worse than it is? I seriously don't know anything about nuclear physics, so I'm clueless as to the reality of nuclear bombs going off in the US like that.

Plus - did we ever figure out where the electromagnetic pulse came from that threw off all the electricity, etc? I may have missed that somewhere.

For all my stupid criticism and thinking about the reality of it, I do really like the show. I have ALWAYS thought Skeet was HOTT so staring at him for an hour a week is quite nice!

WWSUD?

What would Skeet Ulrich do?

There is a brief scene in an earlier episode depicting some ICBMs launching before the EMP hits. (Though in reality there are no ICBM fields anywhere close to Kansas - you'd hafta go to NE Colorado and the Nebraska panhandle to find 'em, cause those are part of 'Frankie's Rocket Ranch' (aka F.E. Warren AFB, home to the 90th Space Wing.)

All it would take is a nuke of sufficient power detonated high up in the atmosphere to produce an EMP effect that covers the USA.

The nukes were probably small, but enough to do some serious damage and disrupt the US infrastructure. The days of city-busting nukes (such as the 10 megaton behemoth once carried on the Titan II missile) are history. Most missile-launched and bomber-borne nukes are less than 1 megaton (around 200-500 kilotons, as the 'yield' (read: destructive power) can be adjusted.

BUMP because the show keeps getting better and better.

Last night's episode was great! Hawkins is IN charge!

Sad news for those who may have missed it-CBS spiked the show this week:eek::(:mad:.
While CBS said that the show did have a fan base, the numbers of the show fell at the end of the season. BECAUSE of the long pause between shows!!!!!!

Just have to love TV Net EO's circular logic!!!

NOOOO! I love Jericho, although I have to admit, it creeped me out a bit sometimes.

I stopped watching because of the long pause in between shows. Sorry but there is too much competition out there to have a few months off.

I too stopped watching it while it was not on the are. But I waited for its return as I was 1) Still interested in the show and 2) Nothing else in time slot interested me at all. And if it did, there is always the summer to pay catch up

Heros figured away around this problem for next year-30 shows! A "full" season of 24 plus 6 extra shows. Back in the day, a full season was over 30 shows. Just costs too much these days to do that.

Yeah, Boyfriend and I are mad. Jericho was the only show that both of us liked. Mid-season hiatuses are not good for shows...Lost suffered badly because of it this year, too.

There is rumor that another network (think cable) might pick up Jericho. It would do well on cable, where 5-7 million viewers each episode is great.

CBS Changes their Mind!
 

LOS ANGELES (AP) - "Jericho" fans who slammed CBS with protests over the drama's cancellation have won the battle: It will return next season, the network said Wednesday.

It was an unusual display of viewer might since networks usually put ratings ahead of even the most passionate, well-organized fan base. But CBS said the show deserved another chance, while cautioning that it must prove it has wider appeal.

"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," CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler said in a letter to "Jericho" boosters.

The letter was released to The Associated Press.

"You got our attention; your emails and collective voice have been heard," Tassler wrote, and seven episodes have been ordered for midseason 2007-08. "In success, there is the potential for more. But, for there to be more 'Jericho,' we will need more viewers."

Fans must do their part to rally interest while the network does its job, she said.

CBS is planning a campaign to reintroduce "Jericho," including rerunning the show on CBS this summer, streaming episodes and clips online and releasing the first season on DVD on Sept. 25. The show's return date and scheduling has yet to be determined.

CBS had to complete deals with cast members, including star Skeet Ulrich, before announcing its decision.

Networks rarely reverse a show's axing but CBS has proven its flexibility at least once before. In 1983, after "Cagney & Lacey" was canceled and the network was bombarded with protests, the police drama was brought back in 1984 - and ran successfully to 1988.

Since "Jericho" was canceled last month the network has been deluged with calls, messages and shipments of nuts signifying viewer displeasure.

"We are tired of the networks (not just CBS) tossing aside quality programming," was the message carried by jericholives.com, one of several web sites protesting the cancellation. "Enough! We're going to fight for this one."

Clarke Ingram, a "Jericho" fan from Pittsburgh, Pa., and a spokesman for jericholives, said Tuesday that the drama about a Kansas town isolated by a nuclear terrorist attack deserved renewal for its daring premise, writing and acting.

"People would paint this as teenagers in tinfoil hats" rallying behind the show, said Ingram, 50, an operations manager for two radio stations. "That's not what this is. These are educated professionals."

Several factors worked in the show's favor: It appealed to the young adult viewers sought by advertisers and was one of CBS' most popular shows streamed online, indicating an audience beyond that measured by traditional ratings.

CBS also likely took into consideration the dent a long hiatus put in the show's viewership, the same scheduling misstep that hurt ABC's "Lost" and NBC's "Heroes."

Last fall, "Jericho" was averaging 10.5 million viewers; when it returned in the spring, it drew about 8.1 million, about a 23 percent decline from the first half of the season.

The display of fan enthusiasm included the delivery of 50,000 pounds of peanuts to its New York offices. In the season finale, a character replies "Nuts!" to a demand that the beleaguered town of Jericho surrender.

That's the same response that a U.S. general in World War II made to a German demand for surrender at the Battle of the Bulge.

Another positive outcome of the fan campaign: CBS is donating the protest peanuts to charities, including one that sends care packages to troops overseas.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20070606/D8PJISL80.html

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DaffyKD

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AWESOME!

Nice PR move by CBS in donating all the nuts to charities.