Aw Nuts: CBS Pulls Plug On Jericho

[RamboLiberal]

"Jericho" has been canceled, and no amount of peanuts will bring it back.

"The March 25th episode of Jericho will be the series finale," CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler said in a statement. "Without question, there are passionate viewers watching this program; we simply wish there were more."

The show was canceled after its first season, but was resurrected when fans joined together and sent tens of thousands of pounds of nuts to get the network to change its mind.

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Producers hedged their bets by shooting two alternate endings to the final show, which airs Tuesday.

One is a cliffhanger that could have led to a third season and the other ending is said to bring "closure" to fans.

http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/21/tv/main3958376.shtml

This season they sure had some interesting parallels to what happened to this country during Bush Admin! I'm going to miss it. Glad they are giving a closure ending and I wouldn't mind seeing it picked up by a cable net.

[babylonsister]

1. My DH LOVES that show and tapes it; he'll be so bummed. nt

[Clear Blue Sky]

2. Good show, too bad.

[Faux pas]

3. Super crap! I imagine that it cut to close to the bone, maybe

they were giving away too many 'secrets'.

[JitterbugPerfume]

4. DAMN-Jericho

Boston legal, and Ugly Betty are the only thing(s) I watch.


well ok---Battlestar Gallicta too

[Greyskye]

5. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I swear I'm a TV show jinx. :cry: One of the few shows that both my wife and I liked. :(

[undeterred]

6. Great concept, great acting, excellent script

of course it gets cancelled.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. I just discovered it a few weeks ago, and watched most of the series streaming online. This was such

a good show.

[Ilsa]

13. Yeah, I started watching recently also. Mostly on the HD channel

where they "air" the episode the following Sunday morning. Enjoyed it tremendously. I can't imagine a better show taking that time slot.

[Echo In Light]

19. I caught some of it when Sci-Fi Channel ran it this winter - found it rather propaganda-ish

I recall one character aligning the "terrorist's" military powers with that of China and Iran ... :wtf: ...and just seemed to be acclimating the public mind to the idea of rag-tag "terrorists" being perfectly capable of carrying out a multi-nuke attack against the U.S. Also, from what I watched, there was almost zero military/govt intell/alphabet org presence within the scenario, which, something tells me that if another false flag is carried out, there'll be plenty of such presence abound. To be fair though, I didn't watch all of it, nor that closely. Something tells me The Day After remains a more accurate film version of what the next war will look like.

[mduffy31]

23. If you had continued to watch

You would have seen that it was proven that it was a rogue element inside the government that actually did it and blamed North Korea and Iran as an excuse to nuke them and create a new "Neo-Con" government.

[Echo In Light]

32. Well then, very easy to understand why the show was yanked

[aikoaiko]

8. Its a good show -- it was nice to have a compelling noncop, nondoctor, nonlawyer drama

But then again, thats why its not being watched more.

[Nickster]

9. Damn. Must have been to close to the truth for comfort. Can't have anyone putting Iraq into

terms that they could easily understand.

[Subdivisions]

10. The only show on TV I love, not just like. This really sucks. There

is some hope though that Sci-Fi will pick it up.

[Strelnikov_]

11. "Jenning and Rall", "Ravenwood", right-wing corporate run government rewriting history books

I think the writers/producers knew what the ultimate verdict would be, so they decided to really stick it to 'the man'.

[Echo In Light]

20. I only saw some of the first season - how does the story unfold/"stick it to the man?"

[Strelnikov_]

21. No spoilers

As is typical here, someone will take umbrage. I am sure you can find some writeups online.

"We have met the enemy, and they are us"

[Echo In Light]

22. Gotchya...cause from little I saw early on, it seemed like propaganda geared the other way

[kevinbgoode]

35. You can see the season two episodes on their web site

in their entirety...with far fewer commercials...:-).

Just go to http://www.cbs.com and look for the show...

[El Pinko]

12. It really is a great show. - RIP Jericho.

NT

[williesgirl]

14. I'm really pissed. Watched it from the start, wrote when cancelled. My guess: Repukes stopped it

too close to the truth or what's in the works.. They brought it back for what, 4 episodes and expected viewership to increase. That's bullshit.

[Kool Kitty]

15. Maybe they told a story a little too close to the truth, right?

I'm so mad. I love this show. :grr:

[Riddler]

30. "This isn't a government, it's a corporation, and you're nothing but the middle man"

when Skeet Ulrich looked at Esai Morales, the Army colonel, and said that, it hit home and described what's going on now better than anything I've ever seen on TV. Perhaps the truth is too bitter to behold and CBS couldn't take the heat from the repukes.

[mduffy31]

17. With no steady timeslot

and up against American Idol, what did they expect the show to beat Idol?

[Ilsa]

18. CBS didn't give it a good night to run, IMO.

It's a great show and makes people a little uncomfortable. MAybe that's why it didn't do as well: it makes peole have to think through their alliegances and how unprepared they are for any disaster on this scale. What would they do without their American Idol?

[mduffy31]

24. Well CBS needs more time to run

another version of Survivor, or maybe another Big Brother, or how about the Amazing Race.....

[Codedonkey]

28. You gotta wonder wtf they were thinking...

[StarryNite]

16. Ahhh shit!

[edhopper]

25. At least CBS

did give them the time to bring it to a close. It averaged about 6 million viewers, not enough for prime-time. I do understand that the producers are looking for a cable outlet, so maybe...

BTW, I'm a big fan and love the anti-Bush slant to the show.

[williesgirl]

26. Let's hope cable picks it up and takes CBS' advertisers with them.

[Seabiscuit]

27. This was one of the most interesting shows on TV that I have seen in a long time

and you can count me in on being a Jericho fan. Damn!

[Codedonkey]

29. Now only if ABC will cancle LOST...

then I can finally save another hour of my life... :P



This sucks though... Jericho is one of the few shows I watch...

[txwhitedove]

31. OH NO! I love Jericho but have missed the last couple of weeks

while on vacation. Let's hope they find a way to keep it on the air.

[edhopper]

33. Check the listings on

the SciFi channel. They are rerunning a lot of the episodes.

[kevinbgoode]

34. I tried to push it a few times in here. . .I'm sad. . .

It was one of the very few programs I actually sat through on television....