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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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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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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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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With global warming all the rage, we don’t hear much about that other bugaboo of the 70’s - nuclear winter. The engine of global warming is the dumping of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere - these gases absorb more heat from the sun and raise the general temperature of the planet. Nuclear winter works the other way - exploding nuclear devices throw carbon soot into the atmosphere which shields us from the sun’s warmth and lowers temperatures around the globe.

With Russia’s Vladimir Putin accusing the US of trying to restart the cold war and the US’ proposed missile defense shield for Europe all over the news recently, perhaps we’re not as far away from nuclear winter as we might have thought.

In the 60’s and 70’s the only countries capable of a nuclear exchange that could bring on nuclear winter were the US and the USSR… recent rhetoric aside, fortunately that scenario has seemed unlikely for many years now, but it’s no longer the only possibility.
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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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If the bombs fell today, would you be ready? Do you have clean water put aside? Supplies of dry food? Is your fallout shelter dug?

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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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