• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

CBS cancels "Jericho"

F

FightingIrish

CBS has nuked "Jericho."

Producers were told Thursday the show is ending its run on the broadcast network, sources said.

CBS will air the season finale next week with a resolution that helps give closure to fans.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i16295f10f8187429e441cad4e9f56e12

A damn shame. it's a damn addicting show, perhaps the best show on broadcast TV, IMO. While it hasn't gotten stellar ratings, likely due to it's complicated continuing storyline concept, it does extremely well with online viewing and DVD sales. If only CBS realized how to make money off online viewing. Or realized that having a meager-rated show with a cult following is a good thing, particularly when they're running mindless crap like "Kid Nation" and "Big Brother," the umpteenth version of "CSI' and nighttime versions of "The Price Is Right." Hell, it's better than that cliche cop dreck "Criminal Minds," which I can't imagine why anyone watches it.

Supposedly, the producers have kept the door open to shopping it around to another network or cable. Sci-Fi Channel has been showing reruns of the first season. Perhaps it could land on CW, since the show gets double the ratings of anything else there and probably costs the same amount as a show like "Smallville." I certainly hope somebody brings it back for a third season.
 
I had read where this was likely to happen a few weeks back although it wasn't official yet. I'm not surprised, but at least they're going to be able to wrap up the story line this time.
 
I might be in the minority here but I was not that impressed with this year's episodes of Jericho, compared to when the series first aired.

A great deal of time has passed since the return of Jericho, which could have resulted in the low ratings.

However I see a bigger picture here. Has anyone else noticed that for some years now the regular TV season gets shorter and shorter? At one time a new season started in September and ended in March. Now shows are on for just four months, sometimes less, then either go on hiatus until spring, or don't come back until the following year.

Granted the writers strike is one reason many shows are not airing new episodes, but then again this "short TV season" started long before the writers walked the picket lines.
 
Mark_Giardina said:
I might be in the minority here but I was not that impressed with this year's episodes of Jericho, compared to when the series first aired.

A great deal of time has passed since the return of Jericho, which could have resulted in the low ratings.

However I see a bigger picture here. Has anyone else noticed that for some years now the regular TV season gets shorter and shorter? At one time a new season started in September and ended in March. Now shows are on for just four months, sometimes less, then either go on hiatus until spring, or don't come back until the following year.

Granted the writers strike is one reason many shows are not airing new episodes, but then again this "short TV season" started long before the writers walked the picket lines.
Click to expand...

This season, the storyline moved much faster, due to there only being seven episodes ordered, and the show's budget was slashed. Most of the opinions I've read were in favor of the quicker pace, though some felt it didn't lend itself as much to character and story development. I would have liked to see what they would have done with a longer season, but they didn't have much time to do a whole season's worth of episodes.

Still, there was a lot more intensity on this season's shows. I liked it.
 
johnnyu said:
i HAVE NEVER SEEN JERICO. WHAT IS IT ABOUT??????????
Click to expand...

The plot of the show was about the residents of a town called Jericho, which survived a nuclear attack against the United States in which several major cities were destroyed. The show dealt with how everyone in Jericho tried to survive under adverse conditions and later had to deal with armed residents of another town who wanted to take over Jericho.

One of the main characters was a guy named Hawkins, who supposedly worked for the U.S government undercover to catch terrorists. For a time one isn’t certain if Hawkins is who says he is.

At first the show led the audience to believe that terrorists were behind the nuke attacks. In the second season we learned that someone who had worked for a major US company (Jennings and Rawl) actually designed the attack and carried it out. The final episode reportedly will be Hawkins, and Jericho’s Sheriff Jake Green heading to Wyoming to recover a stolen nuclear device Hawkins had before it blows up the city of Cheyenne.
 
The only reason CBS brought the show back was to bring closure. It had been announced when they decided to bring it back that it would be for one season only (6-8 episodes). There were a lot of people that hoped that the ratings would be better and the show would be back for a third season, but that wasn't the case.

The producers planned three versions. Two in case the show was granted a third season, and one if it wasn't.
 
In the past few weeks CBS has been advertising Jericho with "X episodes before the season finale." Now that it's official that it's being cancelled, have the ads been saying it will be the final episode, and not just the season finale? I haven't seen an ad for it on CBS since it was made official.
 
Actually before this past week's episodes ran, the promos were saying "the final 2" instead of "the final 2 of the season" as had been the case with the "final 3 of the season promos."

A very good show, and I'm sad to see it go. The pacing definitely picked up this year, but the moment I saw where CBS had dumped it on the schedule, I suspected there would be no second miracle. Nevertheless, it was nice to have it back for an abbreviated second season.

For the rabid fans though, save the expense of mailing nuts to CBS--it's lost. It's over. It's done.
 
I liked this show. The attention the fans gave it when it was canceled the first time had me check out the 1st season when CBS re-ran it during the summer. I agree with a previous poster, when I saw when it was scheduled for the second season, I knew it was doomed. I was also guessing it wasn't getting the ratings that were hoped. But I did like the faster pace of the second season.

Unless Sci-Fi or another network is willing to pick it up, it's done. No need sending letters -- unless it's to thank CBS for giving the show another shot (that would be a smart move).
 
It really goes to show that if you don't draw the ratings, you're not going to make it.

I also felt that CBS didn't give Jericho a fair return by putting it on when people stop watching after American Idol, and it's lead in is that

AWFUL BIG BROTHER PROGRAM :mad:!

To me they drop the ball twice.

If it was on NBC, this would never happened.
 
On tonight's Jericho there was a commercial for next weeks final episode. Was this a mistake broadcast nationwide?
 
As a die-hard fan, I’m tempted to take the easy path and blame CBS: first, for the long hiatus last season, then the short season this year, then for a scheduling move that seemed destined to fail. Even scheduling its return after the writers’ strike had been dragging on for some time seems like a sure-fire bet for disaster—though one could argue an original scripted show on broadcast should have done well in the ocean of strike-induced reruns and reality, far few viewers were there to seek it out, isolated after the utterly incompatible Big Brother.

But then I face reality. You can’t predict with certainty what would have happened if there hadn’t been a long pause in season 1, or if they had put it back in the fall (or spring) this season, or given it a stronger lead in (and not placed it in CBS’s version of the Bermuda Triangle). CBS did give it a second chance, told the rabid fans what needed to happen, and it didn’t.

While I didn’t like “Arrested Development,” I understand how its fans felt (with the possible difference that FOX did give it a boost by trying to put it on the demographically compatible Sunday night lineup). Sometimes what you like just doesn’t work. The storytelling was compelling, the central mystery compelling, the plot twists interesting, and the acting fairly strong. (I quibble with killing off the Gerald McRaney character, but see what they were trying to do.)

There’s just one thing to say: nuts!
 
Re: Jericho seeks a new home

Great news :)

From http://digg.com/television/Jericho_Seeks_A_New_Home

scifi.com — Carol Barbee, executive producer of CBS' canceled post-apocalyptic series Jericho, told SCI FI Wire that talks are ongoing to find the show another home, perhaps on a cable network.

Now, the question would be where, if they do find a home hopefully they do. I was going to say Sci-Fi but I've read they passed up on it saying they that they already have a Jericho like show in production and can't afford to produce another one. I can't believe what I've read. I mean, seriously? ??? :eek:

Update: OK, scratch out the above about a Jericho like show production. Thats not true at all.


http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2303231&st=0&start=0
 
I had the thought that the way the show ended, although was set up with a conclusion to the storyline of Jake and Hawkins trying to expose the Cheyenne government, there was enough left hanging with the potential of a new civil war and what will happen to Jericho now that Major Beck had resigned and sided with them, that they could continue with new episodes if another network picks them up.
 
Shopping the show around is a long way from having a shot at getting it picked up.

Look at the possible homes:

Sci-Fi: Already passed.

USA: Doesn’t fit with their success of developing original shows around one or two strong characters, and it’s a bit darker than they’ve gone. The 4400, which they have since cancelled, was the closest to Jericho in its use of an ensemble cast and sprawling story. (Law & Order: Criminal Intent is a weird all-in-the-family situation, and can’t really be used as a parallel for Jericho.) Compared to shows like Monk, Psych, The Starter Wife and Burn Notice, Jericho doesn’t fit the mold. What’s more, it’s been reported that USA is doing well enough that the shows they DO have in development take a long time to get to air, because they don’t have that many slots for them…so where would a Jericho go?

TNT: They’ve already laid out an ambitious programming development slate. You could argue Jericho could fit in with their increased focus on originals, but would they be interested in a cast-off as an original?

FX: As good as I would argue Jericho is, it doesn’t have the FX “edge” to it, a la Nip/Tuck or The Shield.

And that’s about it for the networks with the budget to support a show like Jericho.

Here’s the rub—the series finale still failed to ignite higher ratings. I’ve read the argument elsewhere that a cable network would love to get Jericho’s six million viewers. True enough, but there’s no reason to believe all six million would follow it over to cable, especially with the show losing viewers each week. Had it shown some kind of uptick, something positive, there would be a stronger selling point, but there’s not even that to use as a hook.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom