Jericho, the little post-apocalyptic drama that could, winds up tonight, at least in theory. CBS has cancelled it a second time and this time I think that no amount of peanuts will get a reprieve.

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…I don’t think that all the peanuts in the world will save you this time.

[note to folks who campaign to keep TV shows on the air: you have to actually watch them!]

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Jericho is back, with conflicting reports as to its health. On the bright side, Ain’t It Cool News reports that Jericho had a strong debut, easily improving on the ratings of ‘Cane’, which it is replacing. On the dark side, IO9 described Jericho’s ratings as average and not strong enough to get it a third season renewal. It seems a little early to tell; if the show is profitable and CBS doesn’t think they can do better with an unknown show, it could easily be renewed.

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Jericho, rescued from oblivion by a fan-driven campaign that shipped 40,445 pounds of peanuts to CBS in protest of the show’s cancellation, is finally returning to the air in less than a day to begin its abbreviated seven episode second season.

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The first two seasons of Jericho have gained an afterlife on the SciFi Channel. Jericho season one will begin airing with a four-episode marathon on February 11th at 7PM. After that it will air weekly at 10PM on Mondays.

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CBS has announced the schedule for the seven new episodes of Jericho. They’ll air on Tuesdays, starting February 12th, at 10PM. That should keep them out of American Idol’s way and give them some chance of success. Normally February is “sweeps month”, when ratings count the most for the networks and advertising rates are set; with the writer’s strike and lack of new shows for this February I have no idea if that will still hold.

In the meantime, Jericho Sesason one is out on DVD and available for download via iTunes and also for download to your Windows computer, supported mobile device, or networked Series 2 or Series 3/HD Tivo via Amazon Unbox.

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I imagine that at this point you’re aware of the writer’s strike which is affecting television and eventually movie production. The first impact from the strike has been late night television and soap operas, but prime time TV will also be feeling it soon as shows run out of new episodes to air.

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Ain’t It Cool News reports on TV Week’s article about the return of CBS’s post-nuclear show “Jericho”. After the big fan-based “nuts” protest, CBS renewed Jericho for a seven episode second season which they plan to run as a mid-season replacement. The problem with “mid-season replacement” is that it depends entirely on the success or failure of CBS’ current crop of shows, like “Kid Nation”, “Cane” and “Moonlight”. The sooner one of them gets cancelled, the sooner Jericho is likely to return to the tube.

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Jericho’s second season is still not scheduled, but it has been written and is being produced. The writers have condensed their original 22-episode plan into seven episodes. SciFi Wire covers it at the link below; despite their statement about spoilers, they discuss the season in only the most general terms.

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Since the “nuts” campaign saved Jericho for at least seven more episodes, CBS has put mildly renewed effort into promoting it, including rerunning it skipping most of the slow first part of the season and making the pilot available for free at the iTunes Store.

CBS Entertainment’s president, Nina Tassler, has also admitted that the long winter hiatus for Jericho likely contributed to its decline. I still think that if the episodes preceding this break had been stronger, the break wouldn’t have hurt it as badly. Being scheduled against American Idol couldn’t have helped much, either. She remains clear that if fans want CBS to continue running the show that they need to bring in more viewers.

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