Jericho Lives!

Jericho was one of my favorite shows and a great example of the sad tendency of my favorite shows to be quickly cancelled by the reality TV-loving networks. Jericho was the show that did well in the ratings, was killed, came back, and was killed again, and it may be, well, back again (cinemarealm - Forget the odds, Jericho lives!):

Jericho, the twice-cancelled CBS series best known for the most passionate fanbase seen and felt in recent decades, is officially back from the dead - for the third time. Executive producer Jon Turteltaub broke the news to iFMagazine earlier today while promoting his upcoming horror/mystery series Harper’s Island, which is expected to premiere on CBS in April. “We’re developing a feature for Jericho“, he said. “It would not require you to have seen the TV show, but it [would] get into life after an event like this on a national scale. It would be the bigger, full on American version of what’s going on beyond the town in Jericho.”

The show is in reruns on the CW network and there is also the potential, after the feature, that the series itself could return to prime time. I've discussed the merits of Jericho before and so I just want to take this opportunity to recommend this series to you as a quality drama featuring a great ensemble cast given some thought provoking material to bring to life every week. The show was badly mistreated by their original network and deserved much more promotion and advertising than they received. I hope things will work out better this time.