Jericho To Re-Run On CBS, Jericho Fans Beg You To Watch It

By June 21, 2007

Jericho fans sent 50,000 lbs of nuts to CBS in an effort to get them to bring back the show… and they won. CBS will add new episodes of Jericho into their line-up this fall as a mid-season replacement.

In the meantime, they’ve asked fans to get more people to watch the show…

“You got our attention; your emails and collective voice have been heard,” CBS Entertainment President Nina 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.”

…and so the Consumerist has been asked to ask you to watch Jericho.

CBS will be running the show on Fridays this summer, starting with the pilot on July 6. They donated the nuts to charity. —MEGHANN MARCO

CBS To Bring Back ‘Jericho’ [CBS 4]
Fans won battle of ‘Jericho,’ CBS sets schedule [Denver Post]

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  1. zolielo says:
    June 22, 2007 at 5:21 pm

    I thought Jericho was the anti gov show where “farmers” fight against a twisted gov splinter?

  2. Steve_Holt says:
    June 22, 2007 at 6:01 pm

    Can somebody ask these guys to do a nut-assault on FOX to bring back Arrested Development? I think we would need more like 100K lbs. But there are countless fans out there who will pony up and buy some nuts.

    Let’s make it happen.

  3. JLJerichoFan says:
    June 22, 2007 at 10:17 pm

    something_amazing: you asked to be sold on this. Turn on your speakers and click this link:

    [www.youtube.com]

    Intrigued? I thought so…

  4. Ponygirl says:
    June 24, 2007 at 5:30 am

    HOORAH!!1!! I loves me some Jericho!

  5. Ponygirl says:
    June 24, 2007 at 5:31 am

    @Steve_Holt:

    I would say, do, or pay anything to get Arrested Development back.

    STEVE HOLT!

  6. Ponygirl says:
    June 24, 2007 at 5:35 am

    @virgilstar:

    That is not at all what Jericho is about.

    Sure Jericho is not the greatest show on TV, and suffers from stock characters. I’ll admitt it hasn’t found its legs yet, but I found it’s “Farmers fending for themselves in a world gone mad” communalism fascinating and potentially very subversive.

    It is also nice to see a show set somewhere other than the coasts.

  7. Michael says:
    June 25, 2007 at 7:09 am

    A rather disappointing show. It has its moments, but is too careful not to offend anyone on the left or right, resulting in a show that is somewhat bland and not as provacative as a post-apocalyptic show should be. Yet it does have an eerie quality that makes it worth watching, even if the acting and writing are horrible.

  8. something_amazing says:
    June 25, 2007 at 11:36 pm

    OK to everyone who “pitched” the show to me, Amsterdaam and JLJerichofan, you got me, I bought the first few episodes on iTunes and I’m going to watch the rest on cbs.com.

    It’s too early to call myself a fan. There haven’t been many moments where I’ve gone “Wow”, neither from the acting, nor from the writing, but, it has such an intriguing premise that it sort of perpetuates itself on the leftover nuclear clouds. In that respect it is fascinating, and I’m looking forward to seeing how this all carries out.

    Though sometimes watching the petty townspeople fight amongst themselves I sometimes can’t help but think that maybe the bad guys weren’t aiming for Denver. I also sometimes find myself very frustrated by the ineptitude of the local government.

    @virgilstar:

    Dude, did you even watch the show? Not much government love in there. In many ways it’s sort of a documentary on how inept the government can be in those situations (and how petty the people who rely on the government become reduced to.)

    I often times found myself frustrated with many of the characters, like the grocery store owner complaining that her store is going out of business because all of the food has been taken. Listen lady, I’m not sure if anyone told you that those green pieces of federal tender are likely to be null and void. I digress…

    As other commenters have pointed out though, it would appear that the Government is likely to be the great villain in this show.

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