While it may not be the much-hoped-for third season, the CW is bringing “Jericho” back to prime-time television.Â
This fall, the network farmed out its Sunday night programming to the Media Rights Capital group. The two series produced were non-starters for the CW, leading the network to yank the series and will now begin showing repeats of “Jericho” and libraries from the MGM library on Sunday evenings.
Episodes of “Jericho” will air on Sunday evenings at 7 p.m. EST starting this Sunday, November 30.
The network will also air repeats of “Everybody Hates Chris” and “The Drew Carey Show” in earlier time periods on Sunday. Movies from MGM’s library will air at 8 p.m. EST.
The CW decided to farm out its Sunday night programming last year to concentrate on building ratings on other nights. The building ratings for other nights part of the equation has worked while the Sunday night side of the equation has been less successful. The CW partnered with MRC for the evening’s programming. Now CW has cancelled the contract after the two series MRC produced failed to attract viewers on the competitive Sunday evenings.
CW has said the repeats of “Jericho” will air through at least the end of the season, meaning fans can relive the post-apocolyptic story again.Â
If the CW can show great ratings for these repeats it could spell a season 3 of all new episodes of the network for the fall or 2009-2010 mid-season. All the primarys involved with the show said they would be willing to return to the Jericho story if a network promised a full season’s worth of new episodes or if a studio wanted to delve into a big screen film franchise.
I agree. Jericho was an incredible story with characters you cared about, and didn’t beat you up with to much of the intrigue.
I hope the best for this show.
The CW is great but It can do Better(the network,I mean, not with picking up Jericho but, better viewer ship all together). Over the years The WB, UPN, and The CW have only kept shows that stayed in the networks target audience. for example Kevin Hill,which was accually doing better than 12 (Big 4) show but was cancellled because it didnt really fit the demo. Also get ER a tv show that still has between 9 and 10 million viewers is being cancelled and no one wants it retards!!!
This is good and disappointing at the same time. While I’m glad Jericho is getting more airtime, I was kinda curious to see where Valentine would go with the storyline of someone trying to kill off the Greek Gods living in modern times.
I’ve been renting the first season of Jericho and LOVE IT! I’d tune into another season. I really hope that they make the show come back for another season, that would rock. (My sister thinks so too.)
If we want season 3 we got to get the word out about the show. I didn’t even start watching this show until the show aired on the CW.
This show was literally the only reason my TV was turned on, once a week. Jericho was the only series that truly grabs ahold of its viewing audience with possible/plausible instances, in a real-world theatre (our homes!).
I would love to have a third season (and more following).