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Sorry, fans: 'Jericho' has been canceled

cnn.com — Jericho, whose devoted fans rallied to save it from cancellation, has met its end.

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  • watzz, on 03/25/2008, -17/+30I only seen one episode and I have to say with such a great story i was expecting more of a action show.
    • Aanr, on 03/25/2008, -16/+4I lost interest because of the horrid technical aspect. I don't expect a show to be 100% right but good grief, the tech aspect to this show is really bad.
      • darkmotion, on 03/25/2008, -1/+4what the hell is "techincal aspect" supposed to mean? Is it you trying to slot in a fancy phrase to sound like you are an expert of something we are not aware of?
    • kipmartin, on 03/25/2008, -3/+9maybe you should rent the 'Diehard' series instead?
    • deadbaby, on 03/25/2008, -9/+4I felt the exact opposite way. I wanted it to be more of a political thriller and less of an action show. They didn't execute the action scenes very well at all -- probably due to the small budget. Out of the 3 or 4 episodes I saw it seemed like they all sort of degraded into A-Team After the Apocalypse.
      • jsmith39, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3Umm, they actually 'for real' killed people off on Jericho, there were no pimped out vans, and the token black family didn't wear much gold.
    • mdonato, on 03/25/2008, -7/+9I think the show is a little too close to the truth to let the masses consume. CBS is picking the politically correct path for this one.
    • CitizenSimplex, on 03/25/2008, -14/+4Boring ass show, necessarily cancelled. Bring back FIREFLY!
      • woodychris, on 03/25/2008, -0/+4Although I disagree with Jericho being boring, I completely agree with bringing back Firefly. Fox never wanted to give that show a chance. Who the hell would put a show, for males between the ages of 16 - 28, on Friday night at 10pm? That's what leads me to believe Fox never really want to give the show a chance.
  • thaindian, on 03/25/2008, -16/+21aww that sux it used to be an excellent show!
    • elipabst, on 03/25/2008, -7/+3In the beginning it used to be a pretty good show and had a lot of potential. After it came back, the writing got worse and it started to suck. In a way I'm glad they put it out of its misery.
      • AsSubtleAsABrik, on 03/25/2008, -3/+17I have to disagree. I thought the show was pretty weak for at least the first half of the first season. I think if the show didn't focus on the soap opera-y melodrama so much in its first season it would have done much better. The second season they figured out what it should be. It focused more on the implications of a corrupt government. The little sub-plot of the government re-writing the history text book for the school raised some great questions. I would have liked the show a lot more if it tried to do things like this more often in the first season.
      • centran, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5You are both right!
        In the beginning it was a good show as to how they where dealing with the characters. They where really developing their stories out. The initial idea of the show was to show how a small town deals with a large scale national attack. It was supposed to be about the interactions of the people in the town and neighboring towns. The actual cause of the attack was supposed to be a slow progression and not come about till late in season two.
        However, the viewing public where not having any of it. They wanted more of the nitty gritty dirt action show. They wanted the main story of what was going on with attack. You can see that the show flipped into that gear towards the middle as they where desperate to try and save the show and turn it into something joe shmoe wants to watch.
        If Jericho was on the WB 5-8 years ago it would have been a huge success.
  • bblande, on 03/25/2008, -6/+90Just goes to show you that Internet protests don't count for much and that ratings are The Great Decider. Here's hoping a cable network like Spike or TNT picks it up.
    • Matteos, on 03/25/2008, -4/+31Or Sci-Fi?
      • SpectreFire, on 03/25/2008, -2/+9Ha, Sci-Fi would cancel it even faster than CBS did.

        Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1. Sci-Fi hates good scifi shows.
        • Onyxblaze, on 03/25/2008, -5/+5It hates them? I'm sorry, but Stargate: SG-1 is the best show ever made. I don't really like Farscape or Battlestar Galactica too much though.
          • newdigger, on 03/25/2008, -8/+4How that show survived for as long as it did is beyond me... I cant help but laugh overtime I see it on...
          • Darksoul, on 03/25/2008, -4/+4Your kidding me right I liked SG1. But to say its the best ever made is a laugh to me and alot of of other people it should of been off tv along time ago even though its off now they are still on dvd I can name many better series farscape, battlestar galactica, firefly all much better and not given even half the chance. And I agree with SpectreFire scifi channel is a joke they do hate good scifi shows they cancel everything good I agree with bblande Spike or TNT would be a better choice.
        • Klinky, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1Exactly! If it doesn't have George Takei flying a plane with a secret russian cyborg snake from an alien planet on it then SciFi doesn't want anything to do with it.
        • Cl1mh4224rd, on 03/25/2008, -3/+5> "[...] Stargate SG-1 [...]"

          That show lasted 10 years! I really don't think it belongs in your list...

          Wait... I think I might be misunderstanding you: were those examples of bad sci-fi?
        • netant, on 03/25/2008, -0/+21) Farscape is the only show you can arguably say was "robbed"
          2) SG-1 is freaking 10 years old. There's no character dynamic anymore with Daniel Jackson because O'Neill, his counterpoint, is gone and...
          3) THE WRITING SUUUUUUCKS!
          4) BSG is self-terminating. The show producers feel it can wrap up its story arc in one more season. GRANTED, Sci-Fi wasn't beating the door down to keep the show going for more than another year. But Sci-Fi not a RICH network, and the advertising money is just not there.

          Now, if you want a butcher of ANYTHING good, you have to point the finger at FOX. They killed Dark Angel, Firefly, The Inside, and a few others I don't immediately recall.
          • ChoiceMad, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1Excellent point on SG-1. It's like watching the Ghost-busters with Bill Murray being replaced by, idk, late eighties Steve Martin or something (gimme a break, I'm not a caster)... btw, SG-1's success probably stemmed from the fact that it was based on a successful formula:

            Venkman=O'Neill (Charismatic, down-to-earth, leader)
            Spengler=Jackson (Scientific, most intelligent, voice of reason)
            Stantz=Carter (Nerdy, effeminate member of group, 'think before acting' type)
            Zeddmore=Teal'c (Quiet, Enigma, hidden knowledge, last to join group)

            I've seen this used in a couple of other things but don't remember what.
    • paintist, on 03/25/2008, -20/+7Nah it doesn't really mean that. Family Guy was canceled and internet protests effectively brought it back - and it's been back ever since. This just goes to show you that internet protests can't bring back a ***** show for good.
      • Voightkampff, on 03/25/2008, -0/+43DVD sales brought Family Guy back, not internet protests.
    • Voightkampff, on 03/25/2008, -11/+5DVD sales brought Family Guy back, not internet protests.
    • tony23, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3Of course - it's all about $$$, and higher ratings means that they can sell the advertising for more. Lower ratings = less $$.
    • elarie, on 03/25/2008, -0/+11Sci-Fi did get rights to it, or am I missing something? No *****, I was talking to a drug rep at work last Friday and he told me about this show, I went and picked it up, couldn't stop watching. Now I'm hooked, and what the hell, just like FireFly, I like something and they cancel it. Are there any good geek shows out there anymore or are they all gone b/c they (networks) don't cater to intellectuals anymore?
      • Durrok, on 03/25/2008, -1/+5What was that? I'm sorry I was watching the latest news about Paris Hilton.
      • mrood, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1I agree, they make something I like and as soon as I'm hooked, it gets canceled. I started watching on-line to catch up so that I could start recording it and poof, gone. I did both seasons in 4 days cause I couldn't let go of the story (CBS' website is nothing to brag about though). Unlike Heroes, the second season was better than the first. A great job of episodic story telling. I liked that they followed a natural order of things starting with a focus on individual and family survival and then panning back to community and country.
    • AzureRise, on 03/25/2008, -0/+6What happened? Heard it was insanely popular on CBS's streaming site. They couldn't figure out a way to monetize that? Ads, iTunes, etc?
      • hexydes, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5Come on, you're talking about the entertainment industry. They're literally lost in 2008. They couldn't find a way to make a $100 bill profitable...
    • Bartboy919, on 03/25/2008, -2/+5How about just goes to show that internet mob mentality almost always never pans out (Ron Paul, Jericho, Snakes On A Plane, and countless other fads)
    • bingobongony, on 03/25/2008, -7/+2The producers better be prapred to make the show for about half as much money if that happens.
  • blueskydiver76, on 03/25/2008, -4/+60Perhaps CBS is getting a little low on their peanut supply...
    • lmf49, on 03/25/2008, -1/+8Maybe thats why the CBS website isn't reporting this like CNN is. They don't want anymore f*cking P-Nuts! Well i say if 40,000 pounds of peanuts wasn't enough the first time, lets send them 400,000 pounds. Don't forget to tell them that they're viewership hasn't left, they've just gone to the internet.
      • dbalaski, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5I think we need to send some really big nuts this time
        I'm thinking Coconuts -- big nuts for big nutty tv execs :)
    • MarrowMan, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5Send 100 trillion tons, this show has potential, godamnit
  • cornfedbiff, on 03/25/2008, -31/+14If the show is doing so badly, then why is it on CBS's home page under "Most Viewed Videos"? It would not surprise me at all if the government pressured them into canceling the show, because of how the show depicts the American government as a government that is controlled by a secret company that is behind the bombings (in the show).
    • directrix13, on 03/25/2008, -0/+22Not likely. It probably has far more to do with the late night airings which nobody even knew about.
    • HOTM, on 03/25/2008, -4/+21Get the tinfoil hats out!
    • onetimer, on 03/25/2008, -4/+10Yeah, THAT'S the most likely scenario. That's why they cancelled season five of 24, amiright?

      Why are you being dugg up, again?
    • UtahApocalyse, on 03/25/2008, -2/+16That IS the problem, everyone watched it online.... which don't pay for advertisers.
      • jsmith39, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2I'll admit it, I watched it online. Even my DVR couldn't figure out when the damn show was playing, I kind of miss the good old days when a season started in the fall, ended in the spring, and ran every single week at the same damn time.
  • mdinstuhl, on 03/25/2008, -12/+1I think that they kinda doomed themselves when they killed off Shoshanna Stern's character.
    • nogayskthx, on 03/25/2008, -14/+3that deaf *****?
    • MarCrawford, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3That was, um, three episodes ago.
      That is what inevitably brought the ratings down, because everyone just wants to watch Bonnie.
  • allengeer, on 03/25/2008, -3/+18hmmm.... and to think after the first stunt I downloaded the season from iTunes and got hooked. Now I got blue balls. Or Nuts rather.
  • iainc, on 03/25/2008, -7/+49I really can't see why anyone should invest their precious time watching anything that comes out of the CBS stable. I mean, what would be the point? Any truly great idea could, in all likelihood, be canned after the first season.
    • xTRUMANx, on 03/25/2008, -0/+31Worse off is Fox. First they let you fall in love with the show for a few season then they cancel it.
      • iainc, on 03/25/2008, -0/+9Aye, they're all at it. I love the way they try to force us to watch this stuff (and the commercials) instead of just releasing it (globally) on DVD so we can skip the *****. Their model is broke. They need to fix that.
        • bingobongony, on 03/25/2008, -8/+5They make FAR more money on TV than DVDs. Again.,..just because YOU think you are smarter than they are (when in fact, you have never been smarter than anyone) doesn't mean that TV is dying.

          Sorry typical Digg teenager, but you are not an expert on anything.
        • iainc, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3Typical Digg teenager, eh? At 39 years of age, I don't think so. And since when did *you* get to become the arbiter of someone else's intellect? You weren't smart enough to open my profile before insulting me you skeletal and dribbling *****.

          Oh, and TV *is* dying. Why do you think shows are getting canned?

          *****!
    • centran, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3I agree that Fox is bad as well....
      However here is my general take on it. If the show is on regular broadcast television and said show has a major multi-episode/season arching plot then it is in grave danger.
      The general public is too stupid to want to think about their shows. They want likable characters but don't want to have a vested intrest in the character. If you develop your characters too much or have a complicated story forget about it.
      • hexydes, on 03/25/2008, -1/+3The real problem is hour-long shows. Seriously, think about it. Firefly. Jericho. Journeyman. Bionic Woman. Sarah Connor Chronicles (not yet canceled, but sadly, on the chopping block). The list goes on. Even go back in time and you have things like Brisco County Jr. that were very good shows, with a very loyal fan-base, but they were canceled.

        In general, people have a very, very short attention span. That is why sitcoms (22 minutes length) and reality shows (lots of flashing lights and loud noises) stick around because 1) they're easy for casual viewers to jump in and out of, and 2) they cost much less to make.

        There is a market for the hour-length, sci-fi-drama show, but honestly, it isn't network television. Sadly, the medium of television was never made to support extravagant shows with high budgets, long run-times, and audiences that, though VERY dedicated, don't make up the mass-market. The problem is, there are four major networks, and stupidly, they all bring out shows and place them on the same night to compete with one another. The net result is that the audience base is so small to begin with, it fractionalizes it to the point that Nielsen shows it to be unpopular.

        I think in all honesty, the real solution is to find a way to move these types of shows online. It would take a very concerted effort, backed by good venture capital, but I think it could be very successful. The website would produce, say 4-5 shows, and just release the episodes online, either for streaming or torrent downloading (preferably both), with short ads stuck in, as well as ads on the site. That would cull the niche market into one spot where you wouldn't be limited by time or bandwidth like you are with network television.

        I think it would be very successful, but again, you'd probably need $50-100m up-front to start said network, so unless some company like Google or Microsoft feels like they want to push a few new paradigms...
        • BNash577, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3NBC, CBS, And ABC already stream all their new shows online. I'm not sure about Fox, someone could check but I don't feel like it. The thing is, the online ads don't count for nearly as much as broadcast ads. Mass media is all about money made, not potential. Stupid shows stay on because there is a vast majority of stupid people. I don't know if this is true, but I'm making the assumption that the diehards are the only ones who will follow the shows online if they miss an episode. Online does seem like the way to go if they could make it profitable. Viewer tracking could/would be more accurate than the current system, but the trick is to get the advertisers on board.
          • hexydes, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3The problem is, they're doing online content all wrong. The first problem is what you mentioned in your post, there is a place for ABC, then a place for CBS, then a place for NBC, and you don't even bother to find out if there is one for FOX, and why should you? It's a pain in the ass to have to go to different places to watch various shows, and that's just the broadcast networks. This is the exact problem that we're trying to eliminate, namely many different channels, all competing with one-another.

            Hulu is a step in the right direction; one central location for the content (granted, it's only part of the media companies, but again, it's a start). Also, while streaming is fantastic and absolutely necessary, they are mostly missing HD at this point (save a few trailers), and there is no way to download the content. Both of these options need to be made available.

            Regarding ads not generating revenue, tell that to Google. Yes, I know they have a different place in the ad business, but at the end of the day, a lot of traffic is a lot of traffic. That's exactly why Google bought YouTube (and because they didn't feel like re-inventing the wheel with Google Video), and the media companies stand to make a lot of money off of the ad revenues generated from online content. That money may be supplementary at first, but grow it for a few years, and pretty soon, you're serving ten million page views per day. It's not going to take off overnight, but for them to poo-poo it outright because it isn't an instant money-maker (which is exactly what they are doing for these shows, by the way), is very short-sighted.

            The media industry (movies, music, and television) are VERY stuck in their ways, and are scared to death to shake up the business model that they have found to work over the last 40-70 years. At the end of the day, I don't blame them for being nervous, but something has to change. Suing users, DRM-ing your content to the point of complete uselessness, pittling out low-quality online content...this is all the reaction of the dinosaur corporates that head these companies. I think within the next ten years, we're going to see them go away, and some new hands that I'm sure are frustrated watching these guys (and gals) screw it all up take over the reigns and start finding intelligent ways to both deliver content that users want (in a way that they want), and still be very profitable. At the end of the day, we like being entertained, and there's ways to make money off of that fact; these companies (or new companies) simply need to find a way to link that fact with the new technology that everyone else is beginning to embrace.
    • bingobongony, on 03/25/2008, -11/+2Yes...just because YOU like the hsow, that means it is great and they should keep making it despite it losing millions of dollars a year.
    • Scaryclouds, on 03/25/2008, -1/+1I'm thinking of "The Class" right now. But ABC can be pretty bad as well, I though "Line of Fire" (back in 2003 or 04 I forget) was EXCELLENT. But they cancelled it! I was so *****.
      • netant, on 03/25/2008, -1/+1I disagree. Line of Fire was another lame cop show. The cardinal baby murder of the ABC Network: Cupid.
    • MarCrawford, on 03/25/2008, -1/+2Which network canceled "Fastlane"?
      I hate that one, too.
      • netant, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2FOX. It was a lame piece of garbage. I'm glad they killed it. I'm pretty ***** they kept it over Firefly.
    • reggiedarden, on 03/25/2008, -1/+1Yeah, I miss Cane.
  • directrix13, on 03/25/2008, -3/+25This is so frustrating. It takes idiotic execs like this to turn me off of TV entirely.
  • Magee1205, on 03/25/2008, -16/+8Too many pirates & not enough "actual" viewers. Good job, Internet.
    • iainc, on 03/25/2008, -3/+7So, release to DVD and release globally. Then we can all buy or rent it without having to (a) wait years for it to come to our network, (b) sit through commercials every 10 minutes.

      I watch pretty much everything on DVD now (serials included) because *I* like to control my viewing schedule. I really can't be arsed with network TV since 90% of it is *****.
      • rey1867, on 03/25/2008, -11/+7Replace "DVD" with "torrent" to explain why Jericho got cancelled
        • iainc, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1Yeah, I know it happens. So how are they going to fix that? Spend their lifetimes chasing and shutting down pirates (and decent shows) or fix their anachronistic distribution model? People don't wait for stuff any more; and why should we in this global economy where instant gratification is king (sorry, they helped created this monster).

          Releasing to DVD and doing a global release will go a long way to NOT irritating their potential audiences. Pricing it right might also help to undermine the pirates.

          Business as usual will not work. We're not *all* freeloading bootleggers.
        • thepotatoman, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1Or they can create more reality tv type shows that has an audience that wont pirate the show. And dont they release pretty much everything on dvd's anymore? It seems like I can get almost any show I want off netflix.

          Anyhow I'm more inclined to blame neilson then anything.
    • HeatVision, on 03/25/2008, -2/+10Wow, you blame pirates AND the internet. 1) Unless you have a Nielsen box, what you watch and how you watch it doesn't affect ratings at all. 2) The fans on the internet was the reason the show received another season.
    • thinkdez, on 03/25/2008, -0/+4I have to say piracy is a big issue when it comes to sci-fi and shows like Jericho. Unfortunately I work with 5 guys who don't subscribe to cable and/or satellite and they get all their TV from the Internet, without ads. Advertising is what funds the shows in the end and if the advertisers aren't willing to place there ad during a particular time slot then the show is going to get axed.

      Due to more technical people downloading their favorite shows instead of watching them over a normal broadcast has caused a number of shows to be canceled, however it is not the only reason shows are canceled.
      • netant, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2The same argument can be made for mp3s. The reality is that the money making strategies that worked for the media industries 20 years ago, CANNOT WORK TODAY without banning technology that hurts the model.

        Screw the RIAA/MPAA. There is going to be entertainment production long after the networks go bankrupt.
      • HeatVision, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1Advertisers place ads based on ratings, Nielsen ratings. The higher the rating, the more the networks charge for an ad. Unless your 5 friends have Nielsen boxes/surveys, it doesn't matter if they watch their shows through a cable subscription, satellite, torrent, or VHS tapes from Africa. The reason sci-fi shows get the ax more often is because they generally cost more to make than other types of shows, such as game shows, reality shows, or sitcoms. Also, serialized dramas, like Jericho, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, etc, are always at a risk for losing viewers since it requires people to follow every episode, which is harder for people with careers and families to do. People with careers and families are also the people advertisers want, since they have more money, so these are generally the people who receive most of the Nielsen boxes. Do you see a pattern emerging?
    • KidNiki, on 03/25/2008, -0/+0I watched it through their website..., just so it would count for something.
  • dbalaski, on 03/25/2008, -6/+50

    Once CBS once gave us shows like: M.A.S.H. , All in the Family.... (and others)

    Now just wants to give us endless CSI spin offs, Survivor & Big Brother

    LAME CBS


    ps: Nielsen Ratings aren't worth crap and show be obvious the way they classified the show
    • dbalaski, on 03/25/2008, -4/+16typo: I mean to say:
      ps: Nielsen Ratings aren't worth crap and this SHOULD be obvious the way they classified the show Jericho
  • HOTM, on 03/25/2008, -2/+17GET THE NUTS READY!
  • mecole21, on 03/25/2008, -5/+69Come on SciFi... You're already playing reruns... pick up the series...
    • KnifeOrSpoon, on 03/25/2008, -3/+7Or at least give Stargate SG1 another season to properly finish up the lame ass Season 10 they attempted (you know the whole season was wrapped up rather flakeily with the second movie right?)
    • jstem1994, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1Are they? It hasn't been on for awhile, I was just getting interested and avoided the new season to get caught up on #1 first.
    • xanaxaddict, on 03/25/2008, -0/+7http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=47551

      SCI FI Channel announced that it has acquired off-network cable rights to the post-apocalyptic series Jericho from CBS Television Distribution. The deal gives SCI FI the rights to seasons one and two of the series.
      Jericho will make its debut on SCI FI with a four-episode marathon on Feb. 11, from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET/PT. Jericho will begin airing in its regular timeslot on Mondays at 10 p.m. on Feb. 18.
      SCI FI will simulcast Jericho in HD on SCI FI HD. Jericho returns to CBS with an all-new, seven-episode second season on Feb. 12 at 10 p.m.
    • Kruse, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3Start doppin' SciFi emails to pick the show up.

      feedback@scifi.com
  • ShibbieZ, on 03/25/2008, -44/+5I guess Jericho got..."LOST"

    MWAHAHAHAHA.

    Epic lulz.
  • kraka40, on 03/25/2008, -33/+14Woohooo .. show sucked!
  • DonJohnTom, on 03/25/2008, -34/+16Jericho had fans?
  • slashbot, on 03/25/2008, -35/+13What a crappy series. I am glad they canceled it. It frees up airtime for another series which has a shot at actually being good.
    • str1fe, on 03/25/2008, -5/+13See, there's expressing your distaste for a show you don't like, and then there's a point where you're trolling.
  • colincornaby, on 03/25/2008, -21/+27I was never a big Jericho fan. It always felt to me like a post-apocalyptic Gray's Anatomy. (And I hate Gray's Anatomy with a passion.)
    • defectDS, on 03/25/2008, -7/+6Just saying, the last thing I would be worrying about in a post-apocalyptic world is who stole the 6 pack from old Mrs. Jenkin's corner store.
      • elipabst, on 03/25/2008, -1/+10Depends on how many six packs were left. If it was the last one, then it could be considered a catastrophe.
    • MarrowMan, on 03/25/2008, -5/+2Grey's Anatomy? That's the best you can come up with? EPIC FAIL Did you even ***** watch Jericho????
    • positron, on 03/25/2008, -1/+5My friends and I call it Dawson's Holocaust.
      I love Jericho.
      • netant, on 03/25/2008, -1/+2I dugg it up for the cute malapropism.

        But I hated Jericho and Dawson's Creek.
  • Ozzsanity, on 03/25/2008, -3/+24Never invest your time on a network show until they have a few seasons wrapped up.
    • nonsequitor, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3Yeah, just look how well the 4400 did.
  • alastria, on 03/25/2008, -1/+11Nuts to that!
  • kenvsryu, on 03/25/2008, -4/+17The orginal hiatus ruined the show. Not sure why you would take a break when you're trying to establish a fan base.
  • marmotman, on 03/25/2008, -19/+2BSG FTW WOOT!!!1!
  • noseeme, on 03/25/2008, -30/+8I think that all Jericho fans should participate in a mass-suicide in protest! How awesome would that be! Think of the message you would get across!
    • JustAn0th3rFace, on 03/25/2008, -1/+7how about a mass stoning starting with you? sound better?

      there was no need for that comment, we are all friends here.
  • 00z003, on 03/25/2008, -14/+1I still miss "THREE"
  • socoolisme, on 03/25/2008, -31/+15Finally, that show sucked.
  • kipmartin, on 03/25/2008, -16/+8thanks for the heads up, Digg, but fans have known this for a while now.

    by the way, i heard someone just shot President Lincoln.
  • hdice, on 03/25/2008, -25/+10well the show was crap. they had a decent enough storyline but the actors sucked.
  • drjekelmrhyde, on 03/25/2008, -13/+2I can swear they only said they was only going to make 8 new episodes this season and end it
    /They got up to seven with tomorrows episode
    //I bet the missing/lost 8th will be on the DVD
    • bersh31, on 03/25/2008, -0/+6If I remember right they made 8. They made an ending episode in case ratings were bad, and a continuation episode in case it did well.
  • lukas88, on 03/25/2008, -19/+5It was a pretty bad show, but still better than 90% of the other drudge they have on television.
  • cubicledropout, on 03/25/2008, -6/+20Whoa, i just checked the frontpage and was shocked to see my submission. Awww yeah.
    • slashbot, on 03/25/2008, -7/+3Amazing front page of a CNN article.

      How did you do it?
  • kuppoppo, on 03/25/2008, -10/+57Let's be honest. The show had an awesome concept and some really cool moments, but overall, it was very poorly executed. Half of the first season was like a soap opera with that bitch mom worrying about everyone. They shoulda chilled that bitch out and had Hawkins doing a lot more cool *****, like flipping out and killing people.
    • KINGGS, on 03/25/2008, -1/+5not to mention all the times that the girls of the show just had to go ride out with Jake. God the same "I'm going too!" scenario went down at least 15 times.
    • neoporcupine, on 03/25/2008, -1/+6Totally agree, awesome concept with an appallingly contrived script padded with irrelevant uninteresting relationship drivel. It did well to last as long as it did.
  • jjpertusch, on 03/25/2008, -18/+10everyone who fought for this show to come back should be ashamed of themselves. it was terrible.
  • Dumbledorito, on 03/25/2008, -7/+42It was the Apocalypse by way of the Hallmark channel for too much of the first season.

    They seemed to completely forget the radiation angle after two episodes. The show was more concerned about who was sleeping with who and having the town rally for things like Halloween than it was about civilization ending. The dialog was straight out of some "patriotic cliche" guidebook.

    It was also painfully written by someone who had never been to Kansas. You can't see the Rocky Mountains from anywhere in Kansas, much less a mushroom cloud over Denver. The "blow up the only bridge into town" ep really hurt my brain: It's Kansas. It's FLAT. If one bridge into town gets blown up, the bad guys had military vehicles that could, oh, I don't know, drive through a corn field.

    Showtime's "Jeremiah" was a better post-apocalyptic show than this was, and that's even with the hackneyed compressed second season.
    • centran, on 03/25/2008, -5/+2The radiation was handled properly. The town freaked out about it.... and that is how anyone would react. However, it isn't a problem with modern nukes. The radiation contamination is concentrated at the blast zone with minimal fallout.
      How I understood the blow up the bridge was that there was a small river on that side of town. By blowing up the river the "bad guys" would have to travel a long way around to the other side of town where they could manage it better. Basically they didn't have to cover two entrances into town but could put most of their forces at a single point.
      • Dumbledorito, on 03/25/2008, -1/+3Nothing was said about radiation being "solved" before the "harvest" where the town pulled together (cue patriotic music) to bring in the corn, which, for all they knew, should have been quite deadly.

        And you're telling me that in a time of scarcity, "driving the long way around" would stop bloodthirsty mercs with guns? What, was Jericho on Kansas' only plateau?
        • zeromous, on 03/25/2008, -1/+2irradiated food probably wont kill you.
      • netant, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3Modern nukes?!?!?! What kind of IDIOT are you?!?!?

        The last time operational nukes have been rolled out was in the 1970's. That's the technology you're calling MODERN. Granted, there's research done on exotic nuke applications to reduce radiation spread, but its hardly the nuke that is sitting on top of a Minuteman.

        The common nukes that have been mass produced throw out a lot of radioactive material. Its not as much as the maximal yields of its previous generation bombs, but they are still MEGATON devices. The devices the world saw in Nagasaki and Hiroshima were only KILOTON devices.

        Presuming only 10-30 devices were unleashed, we wouldn't see the utter apocalyptic visions of popular genre. But the tragedy of the crappy TV show is that its not going to present the situation 20 years later, when a good 50% of the population have died or dying due to cancer. Oddly enough, a limited nuclear exchange probably wouldn't end civilization as we know it, it would more resemble a deadly pandemic. Then again, you have scientists claiming global warming would not be such a big deal.
  • hdeck, on 03/25/2008, -8/+3this news is at least a week old.
  • Krodis, on 03/25/2008, -11/+4The only thing that ever comes to my mind when I hear Jericho is Chris Jericho.

    Luckily, that won't be a problem anymore.
  • daxsymbiont, on 03/25/2008, -15/+6it sucked balls anyway.

    it sucked them so good it felt it was underneath their ballsack leaking their sweaty hairy balls of dirt.
  • kfedZ, on 03/25/2008, -7/+1RED DAWN redone
    • elipabst, on 03/25/2008, -6/+2Please don't *EVER* make that comparison again. Red Dawn was an awesome flick, Jericho not so much.
    • Cl1mh4224rd, on 03/25/2008, -1/+5> "RED DAWN redone"

      Wow. Spoken like someone who apparently hasn't seen either Jericho *or* Red Dawn...
  • Beatmiser, on 03/25/2008, -8/+3Whatever will Skeet Ulrich do now?
    • PhillyMJS, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2Chill Factor 2.

      And since Cuba Gooding Jr's been reduced to doing lame-ass Disney flicks and Hanes ads now, so I'm sure he'd be on board with that, too.
    • MarCrawford, on 03/25/2008, -3/+1Skeet?
  • brokencode, on 03/25/2008, -9/+4I never heard of it.
  • Grimlock82, on 03/25/2008, -7/+2Maybe they ran out of nuts?
  • TheWriteGuy, on 03/25/2008, -1/+36They need to reboot the series as CSI: Jericho
    • Naturalistic, on 03/25/2008, -2/+12Episode 1: Well it appears this victim has died from radiation poisioning!

      Episode 2: Well It appears this victim has died from radiation poisioning!

      Episode 3: It appears we have uncovered a government conspiracy to poision people with radiation!

      Episode 4: This lady died from pregnancy complications! and she had radiation poisioning!

      Repeat as needed.


    • Kzoo, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3And it would probably be very popular... for some odd reason...
  • Agreb91, on 03/25/2008, -5/+18SCI FI Channel. Please save Jericho.
    • fani, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2They won't..... Those bastards canned Stargate SG1 when it was so popular... what makes you think they're interested in Jericho
  • goober8008, on 03/25/2008, -10/+4Watched 1 episode because of all the buzz on the net about the show. So conventional, so overdramatic, so lame. A prime time soap in a post apocalyptic future, how wonderful. Seriously guys, with McCain the presumptive nominee and the democrats self destructing, you may get the real thing soon enough.
  • DarkDx, on 03/25/2008, -18/+21***** ***** ***** ***** I hate how CBS ***** CANCELS JERICHO BUT i'm ***** sure we'll see CSI kansas, csi alaska, csi iraq, csi your ***** mother's ***** in the future.
  • PamalaLauren, on 03/25/2008, -8/+13Well honestly I have to say that this season just plain sucked so I'm not surprised it was cancelled. They really didn't "finish" up last season, they skipped finishing it and went straight into a new story line which frankly sucks as well. Too bad because it really was a great show in it's first season. It's obvious that CBS wasn't going to invest the money they should have into the show.
  • SolitarySoviet, on 03/25/2008, -19/+6well Im sure "THE" fan will be saddened... seriously good riddance
    • SergeantToad, on 03/25/2008, -2/+7I am but one... of millions...
    • EvilLobster, on 03/25/2008, -1/+0Networks always bring back shows with one fan...
  • Brethil, on 03/25/2008, -5/+7Nooooooooooo!
  • CaptainWeasel, on 03/25/2008, -11/+22Jerichowned.
    • jeo77, on 03/25/2008, -5/+4You know, I see what you did there, but I'm not just gonna leave it at that. That was the ***** comment I've read since SolitarySoviet's comment 2 up from this. You should be ashamed of yourself. Put some effort into your insults.
      • Soor, on 03/25/2008, -2/+4I liked it.
      • Remmy, on 03/25/2008, -1/+1CBS fit the battle of Jericho, Jericho, Jericho. CBS fit the battle of Jericho and the walls came tumbling down.
  • haxmire, on 03/25/2008, -2/+10CBS should come out and make a statement saying its their fault the show is being canceled. The first season was all split up gave it crappy times the second half and left it out to dry. Then the devout fans get angry and they bring it back again without much advertising and didn't get it a budget at all. Oh well I have enjoyed the show. I hope some smaller network will pick it up. Its a great suspenseful show.
    • Tman08, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1I second that. This show needs to be on a channel it will be appreciated on.
    • kreatre2007, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2I think it would be awesome if another network picked up the show. It's clear with the loyal following that the show has developed, it would be profitable. I'm not sure where they can take the show now that Hawkins and Jake got the bomb safely to Texas. That's another thing... I love how Texas helps save the country :) I'm a native born Texan from Dallas. Of course, my city gets one of the bombs.
  • Yage2006, on 03/25/2008, -3/+5TBH. I never really understood why people liked this show. I'm a sucker for disaster series and I could not find anything to keep me watching it. It was like little it was a post nuclear version of little house on the prairie but without a budget.
    • SpudgeBoy, on 03/25/2008, -3/+1I should have added my comments to yours.
      I could never get it either. Why were people still like taking the class to the library for their field trip, WHEN NUKES WENT OFF!
      • jeo77, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3The more you keep the day to day life routine the same, the less of a widespread panic there is? I'm only speculating, but I wouldn't spend the next two years hiding in a hole after something like this.
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