Jericho TV Show(Some Spoilers)

[Maple Leafs]

I was watching this for the first six episodes or so, but then stopped.

Have they revealed a.) what/who caused all the explosions, and b.) what's up with the black ex-cop guy?

[Bee]

Originally Posted by Maple Leafs

I was watching this for the first six episodes or so, but then stopped.

Have they revealed a.) what/who caused all the explosions, and b.) what's up with the black ex-cop guy?

They've given more information, but not hard and fast answers.

[st.cronin]

Originally Posted by lordscarlet

Spoiler

The 9/11 attacks were in NYC and Virginia. DC security is very high. You can't leave a lunchbox on the metro without shutting down a station for 45 minutes.

Spoiler

The pentagon is not in DC? news to me

btw, this is groundbreaking use of the spoiler tag

[Maple Leafs]

Originally Posted by Bee

They've given more information, but not hard and fast answers.

Wonderful.

But the big question, of course, is did the high school loser kid get to mack on the popular girl? And what about Peyton Manning's wife, does she know he's cheating on her?

[Bee]

Originally Posted by Maple Leafs

Wonderful.

But the big question, of course, is did the high school loser kid get to mack on the popular girl? And what about Peyton Manning's wife, does she know he's cheating on her?

The loser hasn't tapped it yet, but it's looking good since he inherited the grocery store after the old lady bit the big one. The wife knows and Peyton moved out but the wife is pregnant and still living with Archie.

[lordscarlet]

Originally Posted by st.cronin

Spoiler

The pentagon is not in DC? news to me

Spoiler

I though that might be the case. It is in Arlington, VA, just across the Potomac River, about 3.5 miles from the White House.

Originally Posted by st.cronin

btw, this is groundbreaking use of the spoiler tag

assuredly.

[SackAttack]

I'm up through episode 11 now, which I guess was the hiatus point. For those who are further along, did the recap episode have anything worth seeing, or was it basically a ~40 minute version of the "Previously on Jericho" segments?

Also...

Spoiler

Why do I get the feeling that, whoever the mysterious folk are on the other end of Hawkins' e-mail, they're trying to flush somebody?

Episode 11, there's a message about 'traitor identified, contact ASAP,' and then there's that sort of vague menace pointed at him after he blows them off to try to bond with his son.

Whatever Hawkins is or isn't, I think the more important revelation is going to be what his handlers are or aren't.

[SackAttack]

Am I the only one still watching this?

[kingfc22]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

Am I the only one still watching this?

Nope. This is one of my top 5 favorite shows right now.

[-apoc-]

I still watch it also its kinda my guilty pleasure but I really think it is starting to get alot better with them finally involving more outside storylines and killing off one of the annoying people. Now only if they could kill off Mrs Green things would be perfect

[SackAttack]

Mrs. Green is one of my favorite characters right now, seriously. Instead of being just sort of the token married female character in the show, she has been, IMO, a huge part of Johnston Green's character. He wouldn't be nearly as three-dimensional as he is without her.

[Bee]

I'm still watching and I heard a rumor that they were planning on killing off a main character during May sweeps (no idea who though).

[bosshogg23]

I still watch.

A few weeks ago the producers were asked if they would prepare a series finale along with a season finale, and air whichever was appropriate. The answer was that only a season finale would be made. Hopefully the series is renewed so we all aren't left with so many plots hanging. Either way we will know within 3 weeks or so at most.

[SackAttack]

How many episodes are left in the season? The whole thing that's really blown up with Hawkins in the last couple episodes, I guess it could be resolved by season's end given the progress he's made, but that would feel a little cheap, for him to discover what's going on and nail it down in just a half-dozen episodes' time.

Yeah, I realize that time isn't passing on a 1:1 basis with each episode, but still.

[bosshogg23]

May 9th last I checked is the finale, so including tonight, 3 episodes left. I don't really understand why CBS didn't push more episodes into May sweeps. They trust the show enough for 2 new showings but not 3 or 4? Seems 0 or 4 would be more prudent.

[bosshogg23]

Link

Cancelled.

Talk about a show being cancelled without any plots wrapped up at all.

[Maple Leafs]

Oh no, now I'll never know whether the high school loser will get to make out with the popular chick.

[JPhillips]

The last episode was completely ridiculous. They should have at least consulted someone with a military background before writing it.

[Joe]

horrible show

[WVUFAN]

At least The Unit is coming back. That's a great show.

[BigMak]

I thought this was a very entertaining show with a unique premise. Disappointed they are not bringing it back.

[chrisj]

Agreed.

I think, with the drop in quality of 24, I may not have any TV shows that I really look forward to each week.

That may not be a bad thing.

edit: You know, part of me wonders if another network will try and pick up the show and give it another shot. It lost steam when it came back from its two month break - maybe if they tried to air in in a row (similar to 24)...

[stevew]

I hate how they always cancel shows so quickly. I'm suprised they didn't replace it with some CSI:LA type spinoff.

[cougarfreak]

Disappointed, I enjoyed the show.

[SackAttack]

Kiss of death. Any show I get into gets cancelled after one season.

CBS is on my blacklist moving forward, and I think from now on I'm going to target the most obnoxious tripe I can find to watch in the first season, just to rid our airwaves of the crap they'd rather broadcast than shows that are actually, you know, good.

[spleen1015]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

Kiss of death. Any show I get into gets cancelled after one season.

CBS is on my blacklist moving forward, and I think from now on I'm going to target the most obnoxious tripe I can find to watch in the first season, just to rid our airwaves of the crap they'd rather broadcast than shows that are actually, you know, good.

Please start watching American Idol.

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by spleen1015

Please start watching American Idol.

I missed that boat about 8 seasons ago.

You have my deepest, most profound apologies.

[Bearcat729]

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...dlines-entnews

CBS responds to 'Jericho' fans: We'll let you know how it would have ended
By Maria Elena Fernandez, Times Staff Writer
May 22, 2007

How will it end?
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We were on to the "Lost" legion and "Heroes" worshippers, but who knew there were also "Jericho" junkies?

A "Jericho" online movement is afoot to bring back the just-canceled CBS drama, starring Skeet Ulrich. The show, which explored the aftermath of nuclear attacks in the U.S., seemed like it was going to be one of the TV season's hits, but a large chunk of its audience disappeared during its winter hiatus.

CBS, like the rest of the networks, announced its fall lineup last week, and the network decided to cancel "Jericho" because the show had "lost its engine," CBS President of Entertainment Nina Tassler said.

Since then, passionate "Jericho" fans have organized and bombarded the network with letters and e-mails that state feelings, such as, "This show has touched us like no other before" and "CBS has cast aside a gem in Jericho." An online petition, http://www.jericholives.com , already has 60,000 signatures. One fan even wrote a Bring Back Jericho poem and posted it at http://jericholives.com/fight.htm .

Tassler was so moved by the response that she posted a letter to the fans on http://www.cbs.com , her spokesman, Chris Ender, said.

"She was touched by the letters and e-mails she's received because they each had independent voices," Ender said. "It was not an organized cookie-cutter type campaign. She was touched by the thoughtfulness of the response and wanted to directly respond to them."

In the letter, Tassler told the fans that she also loved the show: "We truly appreciate the commitment you made to the series and we are humbled by your disappointment. In the coming weeks, we hope to develop a way to provide closure to the compelling drama that was the 'Jericho' story."

CBS executives will meet this week to discuss how the network can let the fans know how the "Jericho" story would have ended.

[Galaril]

I like the show too and was bummed it was axed but.............I got this feels pretty pathetic. It's like when you were in high school and got dumped by a hot girl before "doing it" , so you go and the next day ask her to give some closure by explain how the sex would of been.

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by Bearcat729

In the letter, Tassler told the fans that she also loved the show: "We truly appreciate the commitment you made to the series and we are humbled by your disappointment. In the coming weeks, we hope to develop a way to provide closure to the compelling drama that was the 'Jericho' story."

CBS executives will meet this week to discuss how the network can let the fans know how the "Jericho" story would have ended.

Not good enough. Either stick to your guns, or bring it back right.

A reunion show that tried to wrap up the 37 different threads in one hour would basically be a like a visit to your proctologist for an hour-long probing session without the benefit of lube.

Maybe it's necessary on some level, but it's really not going to be all that memorable in any way you'd WANT to remember.

[bosshogg23]

Guess some Jericho fans were bored....

http://www.syfyportal.com/news423677.html

Half-Ton Of Nuts Heading To CBS
The first of many shipments already on its way to New York

By MICHAEL HINMAN
Source: SyFy Portal
May-21-2007

When the first orders for nuts started to trickle in to his family's 78-year-old business Friday, Jeffrey Braverman had no idea what he was getting himself into.

About 50 orders had been placed in a short time to New Jersey retailer Nuts Online, all in reference to a television show called "Jericho," a show that Braverman said he barely had heard of, let alone watch.

"When we first started getting these orders, and we realized what was going on, my first thought was, 'What are these weirdos doing?' It was bizarre," Braverman told SyFy Portal's Michael Hinman. "But you know what? These are real people. These are normal people. They have been calling up, and these are some real nice people and I understood where they were coming from."

Braverman thought about one of his favorite television shows, "Lost," and how he would feel if suddenly ABC pulled it off the air like CBS did with "Jericho." That's when he realized his company would do whatever they could to help fans of "Jericho" make a statement with its "Nuts to You, CBS!" campaign. And Tuesday morning, the network's New York offices will have more than 1,000 pounds of peanuts -- enough to make more than 2,000 people quite satisfied -- sitting in its mailroom.

"These people are really hoping that this will make an impact, and I don't think they'll be disappointed," Braverman said. "In this first order alone, we have 40 25-pound boxes of nuts being shipped. It's kind of hard to ignore that."

Sending nuts is not cheap, and usually involves quite a bit more than a few dollars to order and ship, Braverman said. But as the individual orders grew from a handful to hundreds, he knew Nuts Online had to open things up for more fans to participate. So the company, through its new "Nuts for Jericho" page, decided to take the bold step of offering nuts sales in bulk wholesale, meaning even if fans were just donating $5, they could contribute to an overall pool of nuts that would then be sent to CBS as they were being prepared. At last count early Monday evening, fans had ordered more than 1,801 pounds of nuts through the wholesale method, spending about $2,440. And that number continues to grow, Braverman said.

"It's not necessarily profitable to us," Braverman said. "But in the long term, we really hope people appreciate it. It was crazy for us trying to fill orders. Normally, our shipper leaves at 5 p.m. but we still had about 450 pounds of nuts to go, so they stayed late and let us get it done."

The issues raised from taking the orders went beyond whether the venture would be profitable or not, however, Braverman said. There also was a concern that CBS might reject the shipments, and cost Nuts Online -- a family-owned business steeped in tradition -- even more money.

"That would be bad, because we would have to pay for it to come back, and we would have all this product that people had already paid for," Braverman said. "But we put notes on the cases asking them to please don't discard the cases. They are all freshly roasted peanuts, so give them to co-workers, or donate them to a good cause. Put them to good use."

Nuts Online is one of several companies fans had targeted to ship nuts, a play on some of the final dialogue of the "Jericho" series that Jake Green (Skeet Ulrich) says to the sheriff of New Bern when asked to surrender. It was his way of telling the advancing soldiers from that town to go to hell. Fans have since adopted that as their own mantra, and hope to do for Jericho what tabasco sauce a few years ago did for UPN's "Roswell."

With the orders have come hundreds of pieces of e-mail to the nuts company, something Braverman said he has been spending a great deal of time personally responding to.

"I'm literally sending hundreds of e-mails back to people," he said. "It's an amazing thing. You have all these people coming out of the woodwork, and they are thanking us. People are telling us that we had made their day, and that they are really happy."

And CBS might want to take note, because Braverman wants CBS to give "Jericho" a chance, so that he can give it a chance as a viewer.

"People were calling up and placing orders on the phone, and when they were doing it, they were giving us the lowdown on the show," Braverman said. "Now I want to go watch it on the [CBS] Web site. This has a chance to bring in so many more viewers, people who have never seen the show before who see all this and now want to watch the show. It's great how something like this can be passed along to brothers and sisters and friends, and how it can really grow an audience."

To take part in the "Nuts to You, CBS" campaign, visit the Nuts Online "Jericho" page by clicking here.

[chrisj]

http://www.nutsonline.com/gifts/jeri...KeD9Fbl9hNlcKj

They are up to 5539 lbs... wow!

[SackAttack]

They've added almost another 500 pounds in the last two hours.

I love that they're sending these care of Kelly Kahl, the same executive who blamed the fans for the performance of the show after a three-month hiatus.

Nuts to you, Kahl. I'm dropping ten bucks in just so I can have the pleasure of imagining the look on her face when three tons of nuts show up on her doorstep.

[chrisj]

And now it's over 2,600 in the past 14 or so hours. That's amazing.

FWIW, videos of the first shipment (~ 1,000 pounds received Tuesday) are available on the website: http://www.nutsonline.com/jericho

[BrianD]

I always thought the ratings drop was due more to the fact that the show was getting stale and wasn't really going anywhere, but maybe that wasn't really it. Shortly before the hiatus I was hoping that this was going to be a one-season show which wrapped itself up nicely at the end.

[spleen1015]

This whole situation is just nuts!

Hehehe!

[Bee]

Originally Posted by BrianD

I always thought the ratings drop was due more to the fact that the show was getting stale and wasn't really going anywhere, but maybe that wasn't really it. Shortly before the hiatus I was hoping that this was going to be a one-season show which wrapped itself up nicely at the end.

I believe all the serial shows had a drop with the mid-season hiatus. With a borderline show like Jericho, I'd think that impact was probably more significant.

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by spleen1015

This whole situation is just nuts!

Hehehe!

Almost 100 pounds added just in the 20 minutes or so I've been at the computer.

This thing is going to hit the 5 ton mark today.

[SackAttack]

Incidentally, I was browsing the list of contributors, and apparently about a half-hour ago, somebody at CBS placed an order. Has to be, since the 'pooled' order page, you only enter your billing address (incl. name), and it's automatically shipped to the CBS offices.

That might be the funniest part of this whole saga to me, is the idea that somebody at CBS said "you tell those bastards! I'm with you!" and chipped in on the nuts.

[chrisj]

They are almost at 5,000 for todays shipment. And I had figured yesterday would have been where they topped out at.

[SackAttack]

They shipped 4,000 pounds of nuts to NYC today. There's another 1,000+ pounds that apparently were ordered after the deadline to ship the nuts.

So, yeah, over 5,000 pounds ordered since YESTERDAY'S delivery, and no signs of slowing down yet.

Oh, and that's just from NutsOnline. Who knows how much extraneous product has been purchased/delivered by individuals.

Apparently the proprietors of the NutsOnline site have, on their own, sent packets to the Howard Stern show, Letterman, and some other places as well. This might be just the beginning.

[chrisj]

CBS is donating the nuts to food banks, the zoo, homeless shelters, etc - a good move on their part.

Another interesting development - the save Jericho campaign is also purchasing an ad in Variety magazine on the show.

[SackAttack]

The zoo is my favorite part.

The elephants are going to be thrilled.

[Tiphnie]

Just an update but so far fans have bought over 18,000 pounds of nuts to send to CBS!

[SackAttack]

Just about 39,000 pounds of nuts shipped, and some tantalizing rumor hitting the airwaves:

Jericho to be renewed as a mid-season pickup?

[gstelmack]

I'm just amused that "Nuts!" is no longer a WWII term...

[chrisj]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

Just about 39,000 pounds of nuts shipped, and some tantalizing rumor hitting the airwaves:

Jericho to be renewed as a mid-season pickup?

And another link from the LA Times.

Resurrection: The fans save Jericho

Honestly, I think it makes for a pretty neat story overall.

[Ksyrup]

First nuts, then a Jerich Olives website? What's with all the food?

[SackAttack]

Whatever's with the food, it sure worked.

Originally Posted by Nina Tassler

To the Fans of Jericho:

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. You got our attention; your emails and collective voice have been heard.

As a result, CBS has ordered seven episodes of "Jericho" for mid-season next year. In success, there is the potential for more. But, for there to be more "Jericho," we will need more viewers.

A loyal and passionate community has clearly formed around the show. But that community needs to grow. It needs to grow on the CBS Television Network, as well as on the many digital platforms where we make the show available.

We will count on you to rally around the show, to recruit new viewers with the same grass-roots energy, intensity and volume you have displayed in recent weeks.

At this time, I cannot tell you the specific date or time period that "Jericho" will return to our schedule. However, in the interim, we are working on several initiatives to help introduce the show to new audiences. This includes re-broadcasting "Jericho" on CBS this summer, streaming episodes and clips from these episodes across the CBS Audience Network (online), releasing the first season DVD on September 25 and continuing the story of Jericho in the digital world until the new episodes return. We will let you know specifics when we have them so you can pass them on.

On behalf of everyone at CBS, thank you for expressing your support of "Jericho" in such an extraordinary manner. Your protest was creative, sustained and very thoughtful and respectful in tone. You made a difference.

Sincerely,

Nina Tassler
President, CBS Entertainment

P.S. Please stop sending us nuts :-)

So, yeah. I'm dancing!

Gotta remember to pick up season one on September 25.