No Nuts To You!
Well, Jericho has been disencancelled! This is a message from Nina Tassler, president of CBS.
She warns that once it returns for seven midseason episodes next year, viewership will have to be higher than before, and current fans will have to recruit new ones. I wouldn’t do that. Too shy.
To be honest, it almost lost me midseason when they were concentrating on the ordinary people of Jericho trying to adapt pre-war normal lives to the realities of the current situation. I admit I drifted. But the last few episodes got me back because they started getting contact from the outside world, as the various federal governments (at one point six claiming the title) tried to aid the recovery, and we found out more about who was responsible in flashbacks. That was when I appreciated the folksy, homey tone of the ‘personal lives’ episodes more. These were small farm-town Kansans, not ‘Red Dawn’ action hero teens, with God Scriptwriter on their side from the start.
Now if the fans would only send nuts (or, you know, muffins or cheese baskets) to the devils who cancelled Studio 60 and Veronica Mars.