“Jericho” Stars Fine With Movie Idea
June 26, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Jericho || 6 Comments
At least two of the stars of the now defunct CBS “Jericho” series said that they would be up for doing a full-length, big screen feature film based on the television show. “Jericho” was canceled after one season by CBS but fans inundated network headquarters with 20 tons of peanuts sparking execs to bring the show back for a...
Are Jericho fans the new Browncoats? Certainly the two fanbases share the same passion for their shows and the dogged persistance to make sure their favorite series won’t be relegated to a passing answer in a future edition of Trivial Pursuit. Twice-cancelled by CBS, Jericho’s fans aren’t giving up on the hope of seeing their show...
Don’t Tread On Me - New Call to Get Back Jericho
April 1, 2008 || Category: TV News || Tags: Jericho || 10 Comments
First net savvy, intelligent SF fans inundated CBS with 40,000 pounds of peanuts after CBS execs canceled “Jericho.” They got their inspiration from the lead character, Jake Green’s response to a call to surrender from a stronger force that was rising against the small Kansas town. That major sign of protest on the part of fans got...
“Jericho” Ends on a High Note
March 26, 2008 || Category: Editorial, TV News || Tags: Jericho || 4 Comments
Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (FarPoint Media Executive News Director) If you failed to catch last night’s series finale of “Jericho” then you missed an opportunity to see what dramatic television should be all about. The show that sparked a massive uprising by fans last year after CBS decided to cancel it after only one season, returned...
Barbee Works to Extend Jericho’s Lifeâ€
March 25, 2008 || Category: TV News || Tags: Jericho || 3 Comments
The second season finale of “Jericho” airs tonight at 10 p.m. EST on CBS and while CBS has given the show the axe for a second time, fans of the post-apocolyptic thriller shouldn’t lose hope that this will be the last time they’ll see the series. Executive producer Carol Barbee confirmed that there are negotiations in place with...
No amount of fan letters, emails, phone calls or campaigns would make CBS execs listen this time around and give Jericho a full third season, so don’t expect a cliffhanger next week when the series ends its run on the eye network. The excuse given by the honchos at CBS is the show simply couldn’t generate large enough ratings beyond its...
“Jericho” Fans Plan Pre-emptive Strikeâ€
March 10, 2008 || Category: TV News || Tags: Jericho || 3 Comments
Last season, “Jericho” fans bombarded CBS with tons of nuts to get their favorite series back on the air after it was pre-maturely cancelled. This time around, fans aren’t waiting for the renewal or cancellation announcement to mobilize. With three weeks left in the second season and the overall ratings for the show shrinking, fans...
TV Guide’s Bubble Poll - A Vote for “Journeyman” or “Jericho” Is A Vote for Humanity
March 10, 2008 || Category: TV News || Tags: Jericho, Journeyman || Leave a Comment
Submitted by: Kevin Bachelder (SoSF Fan) Thought you’d all want to put your “Journeyman” or “Jericho” vote in on this TVGuide.com poll on well know critic Michael Ausiello’s blog page… Which “bubble” show deserves another season the most? GO VOTE HERE: http://www.tvguide.com/News-Views/Columnists/Ausiello.aspx Read More →
New Amsterdam Wins Timeslot — Jericho Does…OK
March 6, 2008 || Category: TV News || Tags: Jericho || 8 Comments
The debut episode of the Fox drama “New Amsterdam” won the 9PM timeslot on Tuesday with a solid premiere rating aided by a typically massive “American Idol” lead-in, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “New Amsterdam,” is the new weekly SF show that follows the life of an immortal named Amsterdam (the original name...
Jericho 2nd Season Opener Stats
February 15, 2008 || Category: TV News || Tags: Jericho || 1 Comment
CBS may not have done a good enough job getting the word out about “Jericho,” its famously uncanceled show’s return. While Tuesday night’s season two premiere fared better than the first-season finale, it was still off from the show’s first-season average and finished second in its new timeslot. The show’s second...
Stars of “Jericho” Hit L.A. Comic Book/Sci-fi CON
February 12, 2008 || Category: Events || Tags: Jericho || Leave a Comment
Press Release: UPDATE: NAMES OF STARS AND PRODUCERS FROM CBS-TV’S JERICHO TO APPEAR AT LOS ANGELES COMIC BOOK AND SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17,2008 ANNOUNCED Appearing on the CBS-TV JERICHO panel at 2:00 P.M. will be stars ESAI MORALES (joining the series in season two as Major Beck), KENNETH MITCHELL (Eric Green), BRAD BEYER...
“Jericho” Season Premiere Setâ€
December 4, 2007 || Category: TV News || Tags: Jericho || 4 Comments
CBS yesterday announced that the second season of “Jericho” will begin on February 12, 2008. The series will air Tuesdays at 10 p.m. EST for its seven-episode second season. CBS will lead into the post-apocalyptic series with the show that some see as one of the signs of the upcoming apocalypse, “Big Brother.” Fans of “Jericho”...
“Jericho” Season Two Sneak Peek
October 24, 2007 || Category: TV News || Tags: Jericho || 4 Comments
Our friends and partners over at TVGuide.com have given us some exclusive stills from the set of season two of the highly anticipated return of “Jericho” to CBS. We can now share those with all of you here on Slice of SciFi. The big question on the minds of fans is: “now that CBS has cancelled “Viva Laughlin” will ‘Jericho’...
“JERICHO†CAST MEMBERS AND PRODUCERS CELEBRATE THE CBS DVD RELEASE OF “JERICHO THE FIRST SEASON†AT NEW HOLLYWOOD HOT SPOT CRIMSON [Pictured are: Karim Zreik (co-executive producer), Skeet Ulrich, John Turtletaub (executive producer), Carol Barbee (executive producer), Jon Steinberg (co-creator/producer), Dan Shotz (co-executive...
“Jericho” Could Get An Early Second Season
October 5, 2007 || Category: TV News || Tags: Jericho || Leave a Comment
Fans of “Jericho,” the post-apocalyptic show saved by 40,000 pounds of peanuts may see its return to the small screen sooner than was originaly slated. The show was to return with an abbreviated 7-episode second season as a mid-season replacement in 2008. While that still could be the case, Kelly Kahl, the head of CBS program scheduling,...
“Jericho” Forced Into Condensed 2nd Season but Hope Remains Alive
July 20, 2007 || Category: TV News || Tags: Jericho || Leave a Comment
At a recent news conference “Jericho” executive producer Carol Barbee, said she was forced to try and squeeze the storyline that would normally take a full season into just seven episodes, and she is pleased with the overall outcome of the effort. If the show, which fans successfully “encouraged” the CBS Network to bring back...
“Jericho” will return tonight, Friday, July 6 for rebroadcasts from the first season of the series that literally brought the nuts back into Hollywood. After the show was cancelled by CBS earlier this year fans got in an uproar and flooded the LA and NY offices of CBS with over 40,000 pounds of peanuts, bringing the studio to their knees...
Obsessed fans and several thousand tons of nuts brought back the CBS drama “Jericho” for seven episodes to wrap-up the series. But it appears that producer Carol Barbee has plans for the show to continue beyond those seven episodes. “We are not closing this story out,” Barbee told Broadcast and Cable. “We have a story to...
Fans and newbies alike will get a chance to check out some of the episodes from Season One of “Jericho” this summer. Here is the official CBS press release that explains it all. “JERICHO” RETURNS TO CBS ON JULY 6 Rebroadcasts From the First Season to Air Fridays at 9:00 PM, ET/PT For the Remainder of the Summer JERICHO, CBS’s...
CBS to “Jericho” Fans — Watch It In Real-time When It Returns
June 10, 2007 || Category: TV News || Tags: Jericho || 8 Comments
The fan campaign to bring back “Jericho” worked. Now CBS has a request for fans of the show–watch it when it’s on. In a story published in the New York Times, president of CBS Entertainment Nina Tassler said, because CBS finances its shows based on measures of viewership of regularly scheduled broadcasts, “it’s of...
After tons of nuts and millions of fan responses, the powers that be over at Viacom/CBS have bowed to the wishes of the faithful viewers of “Jericho” and will bring it back during the network’s 2007/2008 midseason for 7 concluding episodes of an abbreviated Season Two. More news on this breaking story on our Slice of SciFi Show this...
Fans of the now defunct CBS apocalyptic thriller “Jericho” have been blitzing the programming offices of CBS with peanuts, petitions, phone calls, letters and emails by the hundreds of thousands, almost from the very second the network announced the show would not be returning for a second season. The show never did garner the kind of ratings...
Reports of the demise of “Jericho” may have been a bit pre-mature. While it’s a long-shot, producer Carol Barbee said Thursday that other networks may be interested in picking up the post-apocolyptic drama that was recently given a pink-slip by CBS. “We heard there were some rumors, that some of the [network] affiliates had been...
On this Wednesday’s (May 23) Slice of SciFi Show #110, we will be talking a great deal about many of the new SF shows coming to network television and sadly, about some that have been canceled. One of those removed programs will be “Jericho.” Today we have learned that because of the huge fan support and outcry over CBS doing away...
In another one of those “say it isn’t so” moments, after starting off to strong ratings in the fall, the CBS series “Jericho” might not make it to a second season. Variety listed several shows on the various networks that were on the bubble for not being renewed this week and the post-apocalyptic CBS drama was among them....
“Jericho” Waiting On Word for Season Two
March 8, 2007 || Category: Editorial || Tags: Jericho || 9 Comments
Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (SoSF Producer & Managing News Director) The CBS SF series “Jericho” has done incredibly well in its infamous timeslot since its return from the show’s mid-season hiatus. It is up against Fox’s juggernaut “American Idol” but, unlike the competition on NBC and ABC, “Jericho”...
“Jericho” Past Secrets Come To Light
January 19, 2007 || Category: TV News || Tags: Jericho || 2 Comments
It’s been a very busy week at the annual Television Critics Assn. Press Tour. We’ve heard from those in the know about what to expect from several SF vehicles, from “Battlestar Galactica” to “Heroes” and now “Jericho” star Skeet Ulrich, who plays Jake Green on the series, spills some of the beans on what...
Two New Dedicated Fan-Made SF Websites
December 5, 2006 || Category: On the Net || Tags: Jericho || Leave a Comment
At Slice of SciFi we are constantly on the lookout for new and interesting fan produced websites dedicated to our fan’s favorite scifi/fantasy and horror movies, and particulary, television programs. We have found two such sites that have only recently come on the scene. The first is a site dedicated to everything Battlestar Galactica and is...
Good News, Bad News for Jericho Fans
November 8, 2006 || Category: TV News || Tags: Jericho || 8 Comments
Source: TV Guide According to a CBS press release, Jericho will be airing repeat-free in this, its freshman season, albeit with a major hitch: the drama will take a 10-week breather after staging a cliffhanger finale on Nov. 29, then return with all-new (and nothing-but-new) episodes on Feb. 21, 2007, starting with a flashback to how life was in Jericho...
Sociology of “Jericho” Intrigued TV Producer
October 31, 2006 || Category: TV News || Tags: Jericho || Leave a Comment
Source: Reuters Written by: Kimberly Nordyke LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - With world attention focused on the nuclear ambitions of rogue states like North Korea, one might assume that the producers of CBS’ promising new drama “Jericho,” which deals with the aftermath of a nuclear attack, are merely playing on Americans’...
