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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 primary [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 fans [...]