CBS may be showing the series finale of "Jericho" on Tuesday, but no one can blame the fans for not doing their part. At least not in the eyes of showrunner Carol Barbee."I think our fans have been amazing," Barbee recently told Matt Webb Mitovich of TV Guide. "Our fans are not professional marketers. They are people with lives who gave so much of their time and energy and money to keep us on the air. They did more than enough, more than their share. We could not be more grateful to them. There's a limit to what a fan base can do when you're trying to reverse a slide in ratings."Barbee said she had a 24-hour head start to inform the cast and crew about the cancellation before it was announced publicly on Friday, and she was assured by CBS that they were measuring "Jericho's" audience much differently than they did in the first season after it was cancelled for the first time."Even though we added a couple million viewers when you added those [timeshifted and online] numbers in, it looks to me like we're not in a network world where those numbers make dollars sense," Barbee said. "The legacy of 'Jericho' first of all will be the nuts campaign and this amazing fan revolt, but also that we are not at a moment in time where the networks realize they have to start counting people on the Internet."There is a small chance that a cable channel could be interested in continuing "Jericho," but doing that would mean a significant reduction in budget, something that was already difficult to do with less money in the second season, Barbee said."We might be able to get it a little lower, depending on where we are shooting," she said of the production budget. "I would imagine, though, that people would be thrilled to get our audience. We had 8 million for our premiere, and even if we retained 3 [million] or 4 million for a cable station, that'd be a good audience. I'm hoping these talks work out, but you never know.""Jericho" airs its series finale Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET on CBS.
Save Jericho Again/2/The SequelUntil the information is firm enough to go on a separate webpage, I’ll be using this thread to put the main ideas in one location. The list will change as further information is obtained.PLEASE be polite in your letters/cards, and if you choose to call then be EXTRA polite. The negative phone calls/letters are hurting the effort to secure a future for Jericho.1. Continue to watch Jericho.
Watch episode 207, online at CBS.com (those numbers are counted) Episode207
Two episodes on Friday, 3/28 on Sci Fi.
Join the Jericho fans on the Sci Fi forum2. Send a thank you note/letter to:
Ms. Carol Barbee
Executive Producer, Jericho
CBS/Paramount
4024 Radford Avenue
Studio City, CA 91604-2190Be sure to include your encouragement to continue to look for a new home for Jericho.If you wish you may also write to:
Jon Turteltaub, Producer/Director
Junction Entertainment
500 South Buena Vista St.
Animation Building
Burbank, CA 91521-1616Karim Zreik, VP, Development
Junction Entertainment
(Same address as above)3. The person to write to at CBS to ask them to shop Jericho to a different network is:
Nancy Tellem
President
CBS Paramount Network Television Entertainment Group
4024 Radford Avenue
Studio City, CA 91604-2190
Note new address, the old one is only in use through 3/28.4. Write to the networks considering Jericho:http://www.scifi.com/help/feedback/
Sci Fi link takes you to the page which gives you e-mails for different types of feedback.SCI FI Channel
21st Floor
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112Names:
Mr. David Howe, President
Mr. Mark Stern, Vice President of Programming
Mr. Thomas Vitale, Senior Vice President of ProgrammingInfo for letters to Sci FiNote: Although we were intially told Sci Fi isn’t interested, they apparantly are.DirecTV, Inc.
2230 E. Imperial Hwy.
El Segundo, CA 90245
Fax 310-535-5225Names:
Mr. Chase Carey, President and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Michael W. Palkovic, Executive Vice President Operations
Mr. Paul Guyardo, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing OfficerNote: Although DirecTV is a sataellite provider, some of the shows they produce are shown via pay-to- view internet streaming.Here’s an email address for the CW: [email protected] CW Television Network
4000 Warner Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91522
Fax 818-954-7667Names:
Ms. Dawn Ostroff, President of Entertainment
Mr. Thom Sherman, Executive President Drama DevelopmentInfo for letters to The CW5. Get on the Amazon notficaiton list for the season 2 DVD’s. This doesn’t mean you have to buy from Amazon.
This is just a notification list, but it helps figure out how many people are still interested in Jericho.
Notification ListUpdated on 3/26 at 5:15 pm PT, many thanks to the folks at Jerichonet for providing some of the information.
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