In a positively stunning and wonderful development, it appears that the fan campaign to save Jericho actually worked! According to the L.A. Times, “CBS executives are in discussions with the show’s producers and actors to resuscitate the show — killed just last month — for an eight-episode run in mid-season.” And it wouldn’t necessarily end there. According to executive producer Carol Barbee, “The idea would not be to bring it for eight and out, but to bring it back for eight with the hope that it would keep going.”
In TV Guide’s words, “To say this would be a huge victory for crazy TV fans everywhere would be the understatement of the frakkin’ millennium.” Barbee, for her part, sees those crazy fans as the wave of the future: “I really think that what has been learned here is that networks are going to have to look at numbers and who is watching their show and who is downloading their show in a different way from here on out. I think they have to understand that the Nielsens are not telling the story anymore and that the 18-49 demographic they’re all so keen on is online and that’s how increasingly they are getting their news and entertainment.”
SyFy Portal has more, as does EW.
P.S. There will most definitely be no Gerald McRaney, however: “he actually quit the show before it was canceled (which is why his character was killed in the finale), and he will not be returning to Jericho, regardless of the show’s status.” Nuts. I was hoping for some flashbacks or something.
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June 5th, 2007 at 11:01:41 pm
this show is terrible…imho
June 5th, 2007 at 11:09:47 pm
Lol…did you hear that lightning struck at the exact moment guiliani was responding to a question about abortion and cut off his microphone?
June 6th, 2007 at 12:11:15 am
[…] Brendan Loy […]
June 6th, 2007 at 1:01:22 am
You’re shitting me! The floodgates are open, Joe Loy, and it’s your turn to bring back the Black Donnellys
June 6th, 2007 at 1:36:19 am
Heh. But, what symbolic item will Black Donnellys fans send to the network (where Jericho fans sent peanuts, a reference to the “Nuts!” battle cry in the finale)? Guinness empties?
June 6th, 2007 at 4:04:49 am
There actually is a movement afoot to bring back the Black Donnellys.
June 6th, 2007 at 10:00:49 am
thanks for the spoiler. a lot of us hadnt seen this who yet and were gonna watch the DVD. damnit.
June 6th, 2007 at 12:25:03 pm
“But, what symbolic item will Black Donnellys fans send to the network…Guinness empties?”
Empties, schmempties. We are sending little dismembered effigies of (shall we say :) “retired” NBC programming executives stuffed into miniature oil drums ;> with fancy notecards reading “Wish you were Here / ~ love, Looie Downtown” ;> I think we’re making Progress :}
June 6th, 2007 at 1:57:48 pm
Did you send peanuts?
June 7th, 2007 at 6:02:35 pm
thanks for the spoiler. a lot of us hadnt seen this who yet and were gonna watch the DVD. damnit.
It’s one thing to ask for someone nto to spoil it for you right after the finale, but its been a couple weeks now, i think the reasonable expectation of non-spoiler statute of limitations has passed :P