**UPDATE** CBS cancels hit show ‘Jericho’ - fans respond by saying ‘NUTS! to CBS’
Posted by Kevin on May 24th, 2007
UPDATE: Well perisistence pays off. When I spoke with Daren Bobb from KFSM 5 News today, I linked him to the NUTSONLINE.COM website, the WCBS-TV article by the CBS 2 New York affiliate, and also gave him the number for Nutsonline CEO Jeffrey Braverman to interview about the Save Jericho Campaign. Many thanks to Daren Bobb for airing this story tonight (05/24/07) on the 10pm nightly news in their Top Stories. Help join the fight at http://www.jericholives.com.
Also meant to mention, I was interviewed and quoted by the national website ABCNews.com by reporter Scott Mayerowitz regarding the ‘Save Jericho’ Nuts Campaign. Check out that article here:
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/FunMoney/story?id=3214156&page=1&Business=true
Here is the Youtube video of the ‘Save Jericho’ Nuts story on our local KFSM 5 News posted by a fellow Jericho fan ‘Keith Hocott’ from our area. Enjoy!
Hey everyone,
I know it’s been awhile since we’ve posted any pictures of Logan or the family - but I felt like I had to say something about this topic.
Whether you’ve heard or not, or have seen the show, the hit CBS television show ‘Jericho’ was cancelled on May 16th after running for 22 amazing episodes this season. It is a show about a post-apocalyptic town of Jericho, Kansas - that has to survive and come together after someone has attacked multiple major US cities with nuclear bombs. CBS claims that viewership ‘dropped’ after it returned from a mid-season hiatus that left it off the air for over 10 weeks with no re-runs or advertisement.
To make a long story short, millions of fans - including myself and my wife - are very upset that they’ve pulled the show off the air - even though it still had 9 million plus viewers according to the ‘Nielsen’ ratings system - versus it’s original 11 million plus viewers it had before the 10-week mid-season break. However, as many fans have noted, the Nielsen ratings don’t take well into account the number of viewers that either watched the show after recording it to DVR - or by watching it online through Innertube for free at CBS’s website or through iTunes.
CBS also left the show in it’s original timeslot of Wednesday at 8pm EST/7pm CST against tv juggernaut American Idol - even though they showed ‘declining ratings’ - and didn’t attempt to change it’s schedule to avoid this. ABC’s show ‘LOST’ was also running against American Idol after their mid-season break - but ABC decided to move the show to avoid a ratings blunder and help the show.
To make matters worse, CBS left fans thinking that the last episode of the season was a ’season finale’ - and not a ’series finale’ - and left everyone with a major cliffhanging ending with the town of Jericho in a gunfight between a rival town - with the current military sweeping in with helicoptors and tanks to aid or break-up the fight.
Fans of the show, including myself, are outraged that CBS has done this - and have joined in a campaign to send actual NUTS to CBS Headquarters in New York - in protest of the show being cancelled. ‘Nuts’ is a phrase the main character Jake Green played by Skeet Ulrich used in the last episode of the season in reference to a World War II battle cry from the Battle of the Bulge. Their response to the enemy - and Jake’s response to the rival town - of surrendering was ‘NUTS’ - meaning - ‘you’re nuts - we’re not going down without a fight’.
First day of nut deliveries, check out the 1000 pounds of nuts on 05/22 (Tue):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoxePewKK8o
Then check out the third delivery of over 5000 pounds (yes 5000!) of nuts via UPS and hand-delivered by Nutsonline.com CEO Jeffrey Braverman again to CBS Headquarters in New York on 05/24 (Thu):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL6a4GmN5rw
Daren Bobb from KFSM 5 news in Fort Smith contacted me earlier today about the story - and 5newsonline.com is running a web poll about the ‘Cancellation of Jericho’.
Please help show your support by going on their website at http://www.5newsonline.com and voting for the show!
You can also read all about the NUTS story directly on http://www.nutsonline.com/jericho - and also by reading the article that WCBS Channel 2 of New York posted on their wesbite fully explaining the campaign: http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_143105458.html
Help join in the Save Jericho fight by visiting http://www.jericholives.com and http://www.jerichorallypoint.com. Also check out and participate in the CBS message boards at http://www.cbs.com/jericho - and click on the link that says ‘Message Boards’. Tell network TV that you’re tired of it canceling the shows that WE, the viewers, want to watch!
If you haven’t seen this great show, you can go on CBS’s website at http://www.cbs.com/jericho and watch full episodes of the show. I suggest you watch the last episode ‘Why We Fight’ for some very compelling story.
Thanks in advance for your support - and help us SAVE JERICHO - and bring it back for a second season!
Kevin Russell
Fort Smith, Arkansas