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Re: Jericho Season 2 thread
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Originally Posted by NeilO
They can still shop it around and rebroadcast this episode with the alternate cliffhanger ending before the first new episode. I doubt that will happen. In any case, I wouldn't be surprised if both versions appear on the DVD set.
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Skeet Ulrich talked to Matt Webb Mitvoich recently before today's announcement that if "Jericho" is renewed and they used the cliffhanger ending, he said there's some stuff in there that's never been done on television. I really want to see this ending, so if another network doesn't pick it up and re-air it with this, I agree, I would love to see the full episode with it on the DVD.
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Well, I would've liked more and I AM sad because a show this good deserves to continue its' run on TV. With the endless sea of crap on the airwaves these days it really sucks that one of the only decent shows out there is given an untimely death. I can only hope Sci-Fi sees the built-in fan audience for Jericho and picks it up for their network.
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Nuts!!!
There, it had to be said.
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I'd say it's the fault of being a specialty show - a somewhat dark and depressing show that requires actual thinking and a real attention span. It is a serial story coming off an almost year's layoff then add a horrible time slot somewhat thrust upon it by the American Idol drones.
I'd say a shortsighted TV industry who couldn't really care less about the actual shows and who appear to be entirely driven by their marketing departments. They'd rather have crap and pablum rather than unique shows with thought provoking writing -- American Idol, Survivor, America's Model/Next Boyfriend, scripted reality shows made to appear as reality, yet another Apprentice, LO/CSI/NCIS clones, another useless game show, etc that can be marketed to the lowest common denominators of society. Maybe the Cylons are right.
Please let the cable networks have it and hopefully let the show explore the depths. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any network drama I've liked in years other than the first few seasons of the original CSI and LO:SVU. Every other show I have watched regularly originated on a Cable Network.
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CBS should have re-titled the show: CSI: Jericho, at least it would have had a chance then.
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CBS should have re-titled the show: CSI: Jericho, at least it would have had a chance then. |
Good call.
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Wow, it's every "the networks stink" rant ever. Includes standard "reality TV" rants, complaints about shows which lasted four years getting unfairly yanked, and stopping just short of complaining of both networks shuffling shows' timeslots and leaving them in slots where they don't do well!
And his comment on X-Files is dead wrong - that would make a second season today because it was actually gaining audience during its first season, which practically nothing does.
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Originally Posted by joshEH
Bill Hunt has a nice rant about the Jericho cancellation up over at The Bits right now, and the points he raises are totally spot-on-the-mark.
Too much reality TV horseshit is taking over the audience base -- you can only slice that pie so many ways -- with these same people being far too fickle and intellectually lazy to give a series like Jericho a chance on a major network like CBS.
Cable would've been a far better fit for this show right from Day One.
The best part was Bill's dead-on (and sobering) observation that a show like The X-Files would have never even made it to a second season in today's tweenybopper-driven audience climate.
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I disagreed with a lot of Bill's comments on the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray debate, but I'm 100% in agreement with him on this issue. The same thing he said about X-Files holds true for Seinfeld. It was a disaster in the ratings for the first two seasons, but Warren Littlefield believed in the show enough to keep it on the air and we all know how that turned out. It's a shame Jericho doesn't have someone at CBS fighting for it the way he fought for Seinfeld. The sad fact is that, like it or not, all the suits at networks are looking for now is another cheap, brain-dead reality crap-a-thon to put on the air in place of real television shows and that's a damn shame.
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X-Files Ratings graphed
There was an initial drop, which these days might be a little more worrisome, but I think that very low first-to-second week drop would buy a lot of patience, as would the fact that it was building on a lead-in (
The Adventures of Brisco County, Junior) that Fox had figured was going to be their big hit. A few years later, the same thing would happen on Friday night with
The Fugitive and
CSI.
This isn't to say that the networks are always right, but in truth, their job is something I don't envy - they're competing with many more outlets for an audience that expects much more polished (that is to say, expensive) programs than previous generations. Having to make quick decisions is part of the territory now.
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Originally Posted by Ric Easton
That must be some weird ending then. I would have thought fans would be more upset with a never concluded cliffhanger.
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TV Guide's Matt Webb Mitovich talked to Carol Barbee, which she assured that tonight's ending will be "
very emotionally satisfying."
Exclusive: Jericho Boss Eyes "Other Life" for Show - TV Matt'rs | TVGuide.com
Now I feeling better, though I still hope they can pull off a third season on cable.
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Originally Posted by NeilO
She confirms that Skeet's comment meant that we wouldn't want to see that it really was the end.
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Thanks Neil. Somehow that got edited out of my post.
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Originally Posted by Louis Cornell
Some may be satisfied with that bone, but don't count me among them.
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It's a pretty nice bone they've thrown us: six (probably seven) hours of some of the finest serialized television drama, ever, and an ending to a story we've all enjoyed watching. Considering that this is WAY better than
NOTHING, I think CBS has been more than kind to the fans.
I'm sorry it's coming to an end, but I'm nothing but grateful to CBS for not only giving it another go, but for giving the story closure as well. There's little more they could have done (it is a business, after all), and they could have done far less.
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Re: Jericho Season 2 thread
It was aight, not a total cliffhanger, but definitely leaves the door cracked just barely should another nutty miracle happen for "Jericho".
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