Apple’s iTunes Store has made the pilot episode for Jericho available for free download. Just follow this link to get it.

Free downloads on iTunes don’t stay free forever, and I can’t predict how long this one will stay free, so you might want to grab it while you can.

If you’re not familiar with downloading from iTunes, the first thing you’ll need is iTunes itself. You can download iTunes for free from Apple. It runs under MacOS X or under Microsoft Windows, and you don’t need an iPod or any other Apple hardware in order to use it to play music or watch videos.
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Just a note that reruns of Jericho begin tonight, Friday July 6th on CBS. Tonight CBS airs the first episode of Jericho, followed next week by the recap episode that summarizes the boring first half of its season, followed wisely by the less boring second half of its first season. If you want CBS to run more Jericho after its seven-episode second season order, watching it (and buying it on DVD when it comes out will probably make more of an impression than continuing to send them nuts.

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CBS is airing reruns of the pilot and second half of the first season of Jericho starting on July 6th. I suspect that before deciding on its limited renewal they weren’t going to rerun it at all. Keeping with the second half of the first season seems a wise idea… that’s when the story picked up and became more interesting.

Ain’t It Cool News’ article on the subject (link below) talks about the implausibility and general boringness of the first half of the season - which, combined with the winter break, is probably what sank the show - and how the show improved when it stopped being about life in a small post-nuclear-war town.

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I didn’t mean for this to be “Jericho Week” but apparently it is.

First - wonder what CBS is going to do with twenty tons of nuts? They’re donating them to charity, including a charity that will likely send some of them overseas to US troops.

With the most pressing issue dealt with, CBS has announced that they’ve struck a deal with the makers of Jericho to bring it back mid-season for at least 7 episodes.

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Possible congratulations, Jericho fans… rumor has it that CBS is caving to the pressure applied by almost 20 tons of nuts being sent to CBS in protest of the show’s cancellation.

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Nuts Online has now received orders for almost 19 tons of nuts to be sent to CBS. They’re now donating part of the proceeds to Greensburg, Kansas, the town that was destroyed by a tornado recently. While I’m sure that this “save Jericho by sending nuts to CBS” campaign has been a windfall to Nuts Online, it’s great to see them helping out others as well.

I haven’t seen any hint of a response from CBS yet. There may never be one.

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Every time I check how many nuts Nuts Online has shipped to CBS for Jericho fans I find I’m a ton or two out of date. The total as of morning on Memorial Day is a little over twelve tons ordered, and they’re about 3 tons behind on shipping right now. They’re in on the holiday working to ship more peanuts out. These guys have really found a niche…

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Nothing says “I want my favorite TV show un-cancelled” like sending a TV network two and a half tons of nuts, which is exactly what fans of Jericho are doing via Nuts Online. Check them out; if you refresh the page you’ll get updated stats on the amount of nuts ordered by fans.

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Ain’t It Cool News has reported on an online effort by Jericho fans to persuade CBS not to cancel the show, including sending nuts to CBS (a reference to a story and a line of dialog in the final episode of the show). Apparently CBS has taken some notice and said “We’ll try to figure out a way to wrap it up” - which is not the same as saying “Gee, maybe you all will start watching it more so I guess we’ll bring it back”.

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Jericho’s audience drop-off after its winter break proved to be too much for CBS, and they’ve cancelled the show. I imagine that being up against American Idol didn’t help, either.

Battlestar Galactica and Lost have also seen significant drop-off after taking a hiatus. While Battlestar Galactica had some of the best shows of its season before its haitus, both Lost and Jericho (more…)