For the first week of May, Jericho had more viewers than the following shows...

Family Guy
Simpsons
American Dad
Medium
The Entire NBC Thursday Comedy Lineup
How I Met Your Mother
New Adventures of Old Christine
ER
The Unit
Dateline
20/20
America's Funniest Home Videos
Notes From the Underbelly
All the Law and Order shows

All these shows renewed, Jericho cancelled.

I hope that new kids show that is replacing Jericho completely and utterly bombs.

Yeah, but you can't compare it like that - the timeslot matters and the competition it goes up against it matters. For example, look at the competition that the NBC Thursday comedy lineup goes up against.

The fact is that Jericho couldn't pull 10M viewers in a weak timeslot - very little competition. If it aired in Survivor's timeslot, it would likely get crushed.

Very little competition... That's a JOKE !!! It ran against the number one show on TV head to head the whole second half of the season- I believe the show is called "American Idol"...Not one show would have beat it on any network...So get your facts straight before you say it was in a weak timeslot and was going against no one...

What did it pull in pre-Idol?

The whole second half of the season? The Idol results show aired from 9-10 on many Wednesdays.

In the spring, Jericho ran against Bones, Friday Night Lights, America's Next Top Model, and whatever ABC failed comedies.

Thank you, Patman. You must clearly not have your facts straight either. -rolleyes-

AI results show airing at 9 is what made ABC move Lost to 10.

After drawing a pretty solid 10.7 million viewers over its first 11 episodes in the fall, it fell off sharply after a long hiatus. The long hiatus, CBS not advertising at all for it, and American Idol simply killed it. It was starting to come around the last few episodes though.

It seems to me that even with all the publicity, nuts etc, CBS just isn't relenting on their stance in cancelling the show. Maybe they have already budgeted their fall season and just don't want to spend the millions of dollars to produce another season.

I think it did run against American Idol in some time zones, but not in others.

Not Eastern/Central. I imagine Pacific is all taped. Maybe Mountain, which is probably the least populated timezone and would have the least effect on ratings.

I'm waiting for some fan to suggest starting raising money to pay for Season 2...ala what was tried for "Enterprise". :)

:lol: That was funny.

What is it with the sci-fi or sci-fi-ish shows that seem to draw the most cancellation outrage?

The genre does not matter to me. I always hate it when something is canceled with an unresolved cliffhanger still dangling. I wouldn't have minded Jericho being canceled if the series had not ended on a cliffhanger and most of the loose ends tied up. Unresolved cliffhangers suck ass.

I think it has more to do with the personality type of people that watch sci-fi and has little to do with the genre.

I think I'm going to puke.

It's comparable to if somebody "canceled" the girlfriend of a regular person. They'd be outraged too (or so I imagine...sigh).

rotfl

Something about "fans of sci-fi" and "girlfriend" just doesn't seem to mesh.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl...reat/img/3.jpg

ha ha, might want to spoilerize that though with Twin Peaks Season 2's only very recent DVD release.

Has anyone seen the online effort to save this show??? I see almost 40000 lbs in nuts shipped, a 100000 signature petition, and over $10000 raised for a tornado ravaged town in Kansas. Pretty impressive for a show supposedly no one watched.... I wish CBS would pull there head out of there you know what and renew this show...

makes me wish Viacom/CBS had a cable network suited for this show (i.e. NBC Universal and Scifi) as I think this would be a shoe in for being moved to cable.
Take Battlestar Galactica, it would never survive on NBC but it does well on Scifi and is a quality show. Still hoping that an interested 3rd party will pick up the show but we shall see.

not cable but they do have The CW. if it pulled in anything close to ratings it did on CBS it would bury everything else on that network.

Aww, Nuts. Why CBS Can’t Save ‘Jericho’
http://blogs.wsj.com/dnotebook/2007/...-save-jericho/