[Movie] CBS's Nuclear Apocalypse Drama: Jericho

I just got through watching the pilot a few minutes ago, and I'll say I was impressed. I didn't really think too much of it before I saw it (which is why I forgot to watch it when it originally came on last week), but now I'm definitely gonna keep looking out for this one. If the rest of the series can stay on par with the pilot, I can see this being one of the better shows this season.

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Originally Posted by nazpyro

So Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Diego, and at least 3 other cities have been mushroom-clouded.

Yeah, and wasn't San Diego where Jake said he was going to go back to at first, before all this stuff started happening? Sucks for him now, because whatever was waiting for him there just got blowed the fuck up.

But yeah, I'm now officially watching this show as well. It's not like there's anything else to watch at this time anyway, so CBS pretty much has a slam dunk in my opinion. And starting next week, I'll be watching this along with Lost and The Nine, which seem like good fits to go with this show.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Bradylama

Apparently somebody at CBS was informed on what a bunch of campy B-grade shit Beyond Jericho was and they've pulled the plug on the project. The companion site no longer exists.

I never even checked it out myself, but I read that it was pretty stupid. Them pulling it just pretty much confirms this, so I feel no loss from never going.

The whole concept in general just seems kinda stupid, though. Lost did it kinda good at first, but now they just went overboard with the whole thing. And now Prison Break is trying to do it as well, and that's just terrible to start with.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Man, I'm still like three episodes behind on this show. Honestly, it wasn't really keeping my attention, which is why I never bothered to catch up. I may try to watch those last three episodes, or maybe the recap episode, but I don't know how much longer I'll stick with it, especially now that the awesome Friday Night Lights (and The Knights of Prosperity) comes on at the same time.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I never caught back up with this show once it came back, so how was the second half of the season compared to the first? I know the ratings weren't that good, but that doesn't necessarily reflect the quality. I don't know what it was, but I just couldn't keep my attention on this show when it was on TV, so I may catch it on DVD.

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I honestly wouldn't be that surprised if CBS dropped this show. I mean, even though they called it a hit, it was only getting around 11 million viewers or so for the first half. It was probably better than their expectations for it, but I honestly wouldn't call that a hit (reruns of some shows get more viewers than that).

And since its return from the hiatus, the show's only been getting around 7 million viewers, which is a pretty big dropoff. Smith was getting around this many viewers when it first came on, and it got canned after three episodes. They probably had bigger expectations for that show though, and it was probably more expensive to make as well.

But yeah, Jericho could go either way. Depending on how many other shows they bring back and how many new shows they pick up, it can easily be picked up or dropped.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Hmm, not the first petition to actually work (I know La Femme Nikita was one of the first shows to have a succesful petition, which resulted in an eight-episode fifth season), but it is a small number nonetheless. This may give me incentive to keep watching, which will be easier to do now that the first season will be coming out on DVD this fall.

It will definitely be interesting to see how well this show will do when it does come back. Will it do good enough to get a longer pickup, or will it do terrible and put the final nail in the show's coffin? Because no matter how successful this petition was, I can't imagine CBS renewing it again in the face of similar or worse ratings.

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Originally Posted by Dan

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.

Well, I think recently DVR ratings were added to the Neilson ratings, but there was some other factor added on to it (like only viewings that took place within 24 hours of the original airing counted, or something like that). Other than that, I'm not sure about the rest of those things. I'm sure they count for something (not for Neilson ratings, but I'm sure CBS still pays attention to them), but there's no telling how much influence they actually have. That's as much as I know.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?