Looks like CBS will just tell everyone how it would have ended:

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

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, www.jericholives.com, already has 60,000 signatures. One fan even wrote a Bring Back Jericho poem and posted it at jericholives.com/fight.htm.

Tassler was so moved by the response that she posted a letter to the fans on 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.

This movement is going to face a huge hurdle as the actors, and crew aren't going to wait around for a CBS phone call to green light another season/mini-series. Most likely if nothing happens very soon, pretty much all or none of the people associated with this show will be available.

Hey if Skeet is busy they could always get Johnny Depp.

I really hope that cbs either does a mini series or by some chance in hell another network picks this up but i have a funny feeling we'll just end up with a "Lost Experience" like web site at best. Oh well, like when you break up with your girlfriend, chalk it up as just not meant to be.

True but it's not like any of these actors are name actors in high demand.

I'm curious about Roswell. A few people have mentioned that show. Was it officially cancelled (like Jericho) and then brought back after cancellation?

Wow, some nut company is taking donations and sending CBS thousands of pounds of nuts.

http://www.nutsonline.com/gifts/jericho.html

With good reason too, since that network doesn't exist anymore.

3,533 lbs - That's a lot of nuts!

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b9...pherchucks.jpg

Well the network doesn't exist, but the channel does, and its owned by CBS (at least in my market).

Because network execs open their own mail.

In for $5. BTW - there was no shipping. :) I think they're "pooling" the orders and just delivering bulk boxes of nuts.

I doubt we will get a mini series or anything like that, more like a website with a rough idea of what happens next season, kinda like what they did for Smith

So what you meant to say was "throw it on CBS"? It was already on CBS.

Contracts for the show expire on June 15. So basically, the fight is on until then.

Didn't Veronica Mars, back in season 1, get brought back through letters? Or maybe it was the threat of cancellation that never went through because of letters.

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This YouTube link turned up on the CBS board. Apparently the video was prepared by the producers of the show before the cancellation notice came out. I hope the "Season 2" at the end turns out to be prophetic and not just wishful thinking.

And for those keeping score, nutsonline.com has now delivered over 11,000 lbs. of nuts to CBS. Why has David Letterman not jumped into this one already ? :)

Veronica Mars never got brought back from anything. There were fears of cancellation in both spring 2005 and 2006, but VM had the head of UPN solidly behind it. It was never in much real danger until this year.

By the way, the nutsonline thing is going gangbusters - they've sold over 16,000 lbs of nuts... They've even got videos of the nuts being delivered.

http://www.nutsonline.com/jericho

Starting to get media attention and all kinds of traction.

No word yet from CBS. Keep the pressure on.

I don't know about not being in much real danger . . . I just remember Kristen Bell on one of those talk shows (probably Kimmel) talking about how they were going to cancel it but there were a bunch of rabid fans which prevented that from happening.

I'm suprised one of you geeks hasn't tried to mail ME to CBS. ;)

If this doesn't work, round two should be to send bull testicles to CBS.

As much as I love KB, I don't think her answer acknowledging the fans on Kimmel can be taken as an accurate account of the danger the show may have been in. It was a nice way for her to say nice things about the faithful.

Throw it on the channel previously known as UPN, CBS was Ch 2 in NY, UPN was ch 9, it is now???? unknown network name.

I do know It is a consortium of stations owned by CBS and company, its just not called CBS.

In NY it is referred to as WWOR Ch 9 , and was known as the previously defunct UPN, I don't visit the station anymore, but it exists on my dial, I am sure its the same with everywhere else UPN used to exists. They showed misc sucky telenovels over the past season

It's a good spot to thrown Jericho and other nurturing shows that don't make CBS' 10 million viewer quota.

That is what I am trying to say.

You're confusing your networks. WWOR is now an affiliate of MyNetworkTV (and owned by NewsCorp/FOX), the network that airs the telenovelas.

CBS co-owns (along with Warner Bros.) The CW, which in NYC is on WPIX ch. 11 (owned by Tribune).

Neither station is owned by CBS. The only NYC station owned by CBS is the actual CBS affiliate.

could this actually work? Could these petitions and crazy stunts actually net us at least a wrap-up movie?

I hope so - it has worked before... Keep contacting CBS:

http://www.jericholives.com/cbs.htm

EMAIL CBS
General Audience Services Mailbox
[email protected]

CALL CBS
If you get a real person, be polite and ask them to reconsider their decision and how miss the show. If you get voicemail, let's keep that mailbox full.

212-975-3247
212-975-4321
212-975-3241
212-975-3245

Send NUTS Campaign
www.nutsonline.com/jericho

Contact CBS Executives Directly


CBS-NY
51 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019

CBS Paramount
5555 Melrose Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90038

Mr. Kelly Kahl, Senior Executive Vice President of Programming Operations
51 West 52nd Street
NY, NY 10019
323-575-2442

Ms. Nina Tassler, President
CBS Entertainment
7800 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036-2112
(323) 575-2747

Leslie Moonves, President and CEO
CBS Corporation
7800 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(212) 975-4321 OR (323)575-2345
Fax: 323-653-8276
[email protected]

Sumner Redstone and Shari Redstone:
(323) 956-5000 or you can also
send messages to Shari at 773.961.2222

David Andelman:
(617)742-6720

Joseph A. Califano Jr:
(202)841-5210 or
[email protected]

Gary L. Countryman:
(617)357-9500 or (704)386-5681

Charles Gifford:
(781)441-8338

CBS has cancelled a few decently rated shows in the last few years. But what suprised me is why another network doesn't pick up some of these shows. I mean, couldn't Fox or NBC make more money on Jericho than developing some show they'll just cancel in three weeks (actually only Fox will likely cancel the show that soon, NBC will try harder).

I'd like to see Sci-Fi, USA, TNT, someone, pick this show up.

Yeah. Jericho had no CGI, live stunts, and rented a tank once a season. This show could not cost that much to make. Why not let a less fussy station try it on for size?

Someone on another forum brought up a good point. Why are they sending nuts? Would sending salt be more appropriate?

because of skeet's built-up line in the finale. NUTS!

Why not go over to -

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/jericho/videos.php

- and watch the season finale (episode 22) ?

In fact, while you're there go ahead and watch all 22 episodes in order and find out for yourself what all the fuss is about ? You'll be writing CBS some hate mail and sending them peanuts before Memorial Day :)

Geez..I am an idiot. I have watched every episode. And just did not put two and two together until I remembered the last few episodes. My bad.

On a side note...I am sure the nutsonline guys are having a very good month. ;)

Highly doubt network execs are going to be opening any mail.
And the packages are being shipped by nutsonline.com, not upset jericho fans. Unless teh nutsonline guys enjoyed the show.

That's a nice video. What song is that and who sings it it's a good song.

That's probably because UPN hasn't existed for almost a year.

<u>from NY Times - May 29, 2007:</u>

<i>Soon after CBS said this month that it had canceled the drama series "Jericho," angry fans started sending individual bags of nuts to executives at the network's offices in New York and Los Angeles as a protest.
Then the nuts started arriving in bulk, sometimes by the truckload. It turned out that fans, some of whom started a "Save Jericho" petition drive, had also found an Internet nut seller called NutsOnline.
"When I saw the first several orders, I thought it might be credit card fraud or a prank," said Jeffrey Braverman, head of NutsOnline. "Then I checked it out and found it was real, so I changed the site to give the fans a chance to pool their money for an order."
With the help of a "Save Jericho" section on the NutsOnline Web site, fans began combining their contributions (which averaged $10) and last Wednesday alone more than two tons of nuts were sent to CBS. The next day, Mr. Braverman, 26, and his uncle drove the company's black van from Linden, N.J., to Manhattan to personally deliver 1,000 pounds. By the weekend, nearly 10 tons of roasted peanuts and other nuts had arrived on CBS's doorstep.
"We are impressed by the creativity of their campaign," said Chris Ender, a CBS spokesman in Los Angeles (which received far fewer nuts than Manhattan). But so far executives haven't changed their decision about the show, he said.
The nuts are meant not only as a commentary on the mindset of the executives who canceled "Jericho," but also as a reference to one of the show's closing lines. In the May 16 finale, lead character Jake Green, played by the actor Skeet Ulrich, was told to surrender his rural Kansas town to a hostile neighboring settlement. His one-word response, "Nuts," is similar to the defiant retort uttered by General Anthony McAuliffe to a German demand for surrender during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944.
This isn't the first time disgruntled fans have used food to protest a canceled series. In 2002, viewers of the science fiction series "Roswell" sent WB executives thousands of bottles of Tabasco sauce, a condiment favored by the show's aliens.
Mr. Ender said that CBS would donate the nuts to food banks, the Bronx Zoo and Staten Island Project Homefront, which sends care packages to troops overseas.
That outcome pleases Mr. Braverman, who has never seen "Jericho," but has been struggling to roast enough peanuts to fill the orders. When he is done, he said, "I'm going to find the back episodes and watch them."</i> ELIZABETH OLSON

I just don't get what CBS is thinking... Ratings were good before the obligatory winter hiatus...They bring it back (after about 12 weeks I might add) with no advertisement and put it against of all shows American Idol... What did they expect it to do ??? The ratings fell off and they are saying 8.5 million viewers are not enough. But they turn around and put another damn reality show involving kids in a Lord of The Flies scenario. I am so pissed it isn't even funny. This was one of the 2 shows I watched on a consistent basis (Lost being the other). I hope the Jerichoholics clog up CBS with so many phonecalls, letters, and peanuts they reconsider...

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