And Jericho dies again!!

[Sinner]

'Jericho' Is Gone Again

Published: March 22, 2008

CBS has canceled the postapocalyptic drama “Jericho” for the second time in two years. Tuesday’s season finale will also be the series finale, the network said Friday. The series, which starred Skeet Ulrich and followed the events in a small Kansas town after nuclear attacks devastated cities across the United States, was first canceled in May 2007. A campaign by fans combined with data showing that the show was being recorded and watched outside its broadcast time persuaded CBS to order a short second season. But the show has performed poorly since the new episodes began appearing last month. The most recent episode attracted fewer than six million viewers and a 1.9 rating in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic


More likely the Bush government doesn't like the way the show portrays a Major US corporation that has a free run of the country during time of insurrection and is above and beyond the law... hmmm sounds like Haliburton in Iraq!

[beermyster]

Originally Posted by Sinner

More likely the Bush government doesn't like the way the show portrays a Major US corporation that has a free run of the country during time of insurrection and is above and beyond the law... hmmm sounds like Haliburton in Iraq!

or it could be that the demographic that wanted to watch it didn't like the idea of the "blame America and Big Biz" that the plot started to turn on. I truly believe if it had taken a "RED DAWN" approach to the story-line rather than the Micheal Moore self-loathing "WE did it to ourselves" plot twists it would have survived. It was the character of the townspeople that made me want to watch in the beginning. Gerald McRaney was an heroic figure of the american veteran, Erik Knudsen, as the Bad kid that has to adapt to a "Brave New World" and even Alicia Coppola as the displaced bureaucrat for humorous juxtapositions was well done.
At first it was unclear who attacked and if there would be more, but as soon as Hawkins had a bomb and it was a the U. S. did it to themselves I could see the writing on the wall for the series.

Sad really, it had great potential, just fell victim to Hollywood behaviour be it labour strife, greed or the heavy-handed shoving of out of touch ideological bents on an unwilling public. I shall miss show or more I will miss what it could have been.