[Movie] CBS's Nuclear Apocalypse Drama: Jericho

I don't believe it, I still don't believe it. A petition that worked?! Doesn’t that violate a law of nature or some thing?

Anyway, regarding the show itself, I came to watch the show near the end of the season I was flipping through my video demand menu and started watching a few episodes. I was intrigued and entertained. From those episodes I gathered that the criticism towards the show was not unjustified. The show requires a lot of suspension of disbelief and puts touchy-feely emotion ahead of realism at times common sense but the show was doing it well enough (and Hawkins is just plain awesome) that I kept watching the episodes up in till the season final and I must say that made me officially a Jericho fan. Given that I had accepted the show for what it was low realism high emotion the final worked fantastically. Really the only point that drew me out of it was them using their only tank round on a small group of retreating enemies but other then that it was honestly the best seasons final I’ve seen this year (not really saying much as I have been thoroughly disappointed with the way all the other shows I have watched this season have ended).

After this I went back and started watching the episode online and wow after the first episode of two there is definitely a massive drop in quality up in till it the point were it returned from it hiatus. If they can maintain the quality of the second half I’ll watch. I find it interesting the article mention how basically people are watching show via other means and not when it airs, since Jericho is the first show I have watched entirely in such a fashion. So if nothing else I’ll remember Jericho for that.

And I’ll say it again a save the show petition actually worked? Ok on a more serious note the send nuts idea was actually pretty clever and thoughtful so that likely what made this the rare one that hit its mark.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

First, off TWOP has posted a hilarious “transcript” of how the decision to bring back Jericho might have gone down:
http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com...content/a13167

Secondly, I have never really thought about this until now but could someone more in the know about these things fill me in. Are Nelson ratings the only relevant variable when executives determe cancellation or do they factor in things such as DVR, On Demand, and online viewer ship. Most of the article I have read regarding Jericho's cancelation seems to imply that these means of view aren’t part of the decision making or are least not weighed as heavily as the perhaps should be.

There's nowhere I can't reach.