CBS Renews Jericho

CBS Renews Jericho

It's official: CBS has renewed the post-apocalyptic drama Jericho for 
another seven episodes, to air sometime mid-season. Nina Tassler, 
president, CBS Entertainment, made the announcement on the official 
Jericho message board on June 6.

"Wow!" Tassler wrote. "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 e-mails and 
collective voice have been heard. As a result, CBS has ordered seven 
episodes of Jericho for mid-season next year."

Tassler added that the show, about the residents of a small Kansas town 
who struggle to survive in the wake of a nuclear disaster, would still 
need to bring in viewers. "A loyal and passionate community has clearly 
formed around the show," she said. "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."

CBS offered no date or timeslot for the show's return. But it said that 
it would rebroadcast Jericho reruns over the summer, stream them online 
and release the first season on DVD on Sept. 25. The network also plans 
on "continuing the story of Jericho in the digital world until the new 
episodes return," Tassler wrote. "We will let you know specifics when we 
have them so you can pass them on."

Tassler added: "Please stop sending us nuts :)"

The latter was a reference to the tons of peanuts that fans have sent to 
the network to protest its earlier cancellation, a campaign that CBS 
credited for its change of heart.


 
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SFGR/

<*> Your email settings:
    Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SFGR/join
    (Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
    mailto:[email protected] 
    mailto:[email protected]

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    [email protected]

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/