Jericho Fan Central

JERICHO is back on TV on The CW !!

Once more Jericho is returning to network television !!!

This time The CW has called in Jericho to help with its Sunday lineup.

With the message boards down on the Jericho/CBS site, its up to the fans to spread the word far and wide !!!

The announcement was made today by CW Chief Operating Officer John Maatta:

November 20, 2008

Dear Affiliate:

We are now two and a half months into our new season and some terrific progress has been made.

Our strategy this year was to focus on Monday-Friday, particularly the early part of the week. Clearly that strategy has worked, as we are up in our key demographic of women 18-34 by 150% Monday and 41% on Tuesday. “Top Model” continues to shine Wednesdays, winning its time period on a regular basis, while “Smallville” and “Supernatural” continue to keep us in the game on Thursday versus tough competition. Additionally, we have improved our 18-49 demos by 78% Monday and 8% Monday-Thursday.

In the process, we are building a distinct and powerful brand of young-female skewing programming with new shows like “Gossip Girl” and “90210” complementing veteran hits “One Tree Hill” and “Top Model.”

As you know, to focus our efforts on the earlier part of the week, we entered into a time buy agreement with Media Rights Capital to program Sunday night. While this move has clearly paid dividends for the overall schedule, the results on Sunday night have been below expectations. The MRC shows are simply not working.

To that end, we have made a business and programming decision to protect our network and your local interests on Sunday for the remainder of the season.

The programs from Media Rights Capital will have their final airing this Sunday, November 23, 2008. Effective November 30, 2008, The CW will resume programming Sunday nights.

Our plan is to program Sunday with distinctive, first-rate programming that can quickly stabilize the night. We will work with you to promote and market this new night, with a lineup that will include quality scripted series and contemporary theatrical titles. Here is the lineup:

5:00 – 6:00 p.m.: EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS/THE GAME
6:00 – 7:00 p.m.: THE DREW CAREY SHOW
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.: JERICHO
8:00 – 10:00 p.m.: MOVIE

Our Affiliate Relations and Affiliate Marketing teams will be in immediate touch with your personnel regarding this important schedule change.

We will continue to work diligently and find success via the best means possible and move quickly to shore up troubled timeslots. We will continue to invest in new programming that will evolve into valued primetime assets for you, our affiliates, and our parent companies, CBS and Warner Bros.

We appreciate the partnership we have with you, our affiliates, and we will continue to work closely to take our success to the next level.

Sincerely,

John D. Maatta

Enjoy this bit of good news right in time for the Holiday season !!!

Shaun Daily

TVTALK

Social Viewing Rooms

What a great way to watch episodes of our favorite series together and at the same time !!

CBS is really stepping up with its newest feature !!

Its so easy to go into a social viewing room and its fun !!

Of course, I saw an episode of Jericho and then I went to see an episode of How I Met Your Mother and I was able to interact with others who were watching the episodes at the same time, its great !!!

The CBS Social Viewing Rooms is now THE place to watch episodes of our favorite shows with fellow fans and at the same time, you can chat during the episode and share thoughts etc..

Thank you CBS !!!

Shaun Daily

TVTalk

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A new season dawns...

As we continue to mourn the loss (temporarily) of JERICHO, the networks are presenting us with an array of potentially great shows !!

Eleventh Hour looks good for CBS, Fringe is fantastic on FOX, 90210 has potential on The CW  and more..

Nothing will compare to Jericho, but if you look hard enough, I am sure you will find a good scripted show for you to enjoy this coming season.

Of course the Jericho team is on shows, Loomer is working on Raising The Bar on TNT, Sprague Grayden is on Sons of Anarchy on FX and will be seen on 24 on FOX, Claire Carey will be seen on the series Crash on Starz, Michael Gaston will be on a pilot called Last of the Ninth for premium cable, Junction is working on Harper’s Island mid season on CBS and dont forget Carol Barbee, she has been hard at work on Swingtown and I am sure she is going to have another great series for us to enjoy soon !!!

Lets create a spot on the Jericho board, where we can put notices of our Jericho friends and their upcoming works.

There is a little radio show that talks prime time TV for the most part. We are on weekdays at 3pm PT, its called TV Talk.  Join us and talk about your returning shows and your new favorites.

Shaun

TVTALK

Save Jericho..again !!

The pressure has been building since the last episode of the second season of Jericho, the pressure is to find a new home for Jericho.

Fans have called CBS/Paramount, Comcast, Scifi etc..

Fans have sent letters and postcards in as well…

Fans have raised money for ads in the Hollywood trade papers once more..

Fans have raised money for an enormous billboard in the shadows of the broadcast and cable network headquarters and studios…

Fans have even raised the money and created a TV ad that is bombarding the area around Hollywood…

The never say die attitude is alive and well in the Jericho fandom !!

Who will see the passion of the Jericho fans and decide, lets do it again??

The show that changed TV, is still very much alive !!!

Shaun “OMac” Daily

TV TALK

Find Jericho A New Home Billboard is UP !!!

Looming larger than life over the Studio City Mobil gas station,

located at 11001 Venturaa Blvd Studio City, CA 91604. 

The sign went up earlier today.  

We hope to get some pictures and a video up soon.

A great effort by all of us, again working together to pull off the impossible.

I am sure other shows producers are sitting back and saying "how do we get fans 

like Jericho's?"

To the ones that worked out the logistics and to all of us who donated what we could, 

WE DID IT !!!

Lets hope the billboard triggers some good news from CBS/Paramount and 

Nancy Tellem soon!!

Shaun Daily

Las Vegas 

The JERICHO effect and scripted TV

With the news on Friday, it may be hard to look beyond the sadness and anger.

But I urge you to while fighting for more Jericho, to look beyond those feelings.

The Jericho effect has forever changed TV.

The internet, iTUNES and etc are now elements that the networks and cable networks will have to take into account at a higher level than ever before when figuring out a TV series popularity.

Jericho showed all of TV that if you have a compelling show with a unique web presence, the viewers will come.

Dan and Karim said on my radio show Friday night, that the new shows they are working on will all have a similar web presence and interactivity with the viewers, that Jericho has. I would say every new TV show will follow the Jericho model.

Returning shows like Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles, undoubtedly will ramp up its web presence and fan interactions.

Also, we must not shy away from scripted TV, either on the networks or on cable. As long as the balance between scripted and reality is still tilting towards scripted TV, the fight is still on.

Great minds are creating some terrific new shows for us to fall in love with. It is incumbant upon all of us to support scripted TV. Watch the new shows in the fall, dont be afraid to fall in love with a new show. Support your new favorites and get active on their websites and forums.

Every TV show on the air risks getting cancelled, its just the way things are with TV.

We must hang in there and support these new shows coming on in the summer and fall as well as our returning favorites.

The minute we give up on scripted tv, we and all of TV will be the losers.

I for one do not want to look at TV in 5 years and see a wasteland of reality shows.

So while the fight for Jericho rages on, lets continue to fight for good quality scripted TV. Keep your eyes out for familiar names involved with new shows and give them a chance, I know I will.

We owe it to everyone on Jericho to stay in the fight for good scripted tv series.

Thank you

Shaun Daily

TV Talk with Shaun OMac Radio

Why We Fight...for more JERICHO ?

We fight on for a third season of Jericho, because its the best show on TV !!

The story is so engaging that you cannot help but to be drawn in..

Of course the characters have all been brought to life by a great cast in such a way, that we truly down to our core believe in these characters and hope for the best for them.

The music is so complimentary to the show..that too pulls you in even more.

And the way the show is filmed, it is of theatrical quality.  

To me each episode of Jericho is a movie of the week.. each episode is like a chapter in a book.  The first book was great, this abridged second book is as good if not better than the first book and I for one cannot wait for the third book.

Jericho is a show that is worth fighting for..for the cast, the crew, the producers, support staff and for us the fans.  We are all in this fight together.

Win or lose, TV will never be the same because of Jericho and Jericho will live on forever in our hearts and minds forever…

Shaun Daily

TV Talk with Shaun OMac 

South by Southwest and JERICHO ???

Very true…

I am writing this, from the press room at the South By Southwest Interactive, Film and Music Expo in Austin Texas.

You would think that Jericho would be as far from peoples minds here as humanly possible..

However, when I walked into the BlogHaus the first day..I bumped into the Chief blogger for Dell and he knew me from the Jericho campaign..

And during our conversation another person, asked me if I was who I said I was..he has prepared a presentation for MTV about social media and its effect on “old” media.  Guess what the case study is?? JERICHO and the nuts campaign of course.

Images of the old CBS/Jericho site, the message board and a picture and profile of yours truly.

And later, when I walked back into the BlogHaus, the bloggers clapped and gave me a standing ovation..humbling but nice as the same time.

And walking through the hall way this morning, I heard last night’s episode playing on someones laptop computer..

So again, let your heart not be troubled.  There are more fans of Jericho than anyone realizes..

Hopefully CBS or another network sees or will see this and keep Jericho on our TV screens in a couple more seasons to come..

Shaun Daily

TVTalk with Shaun OMac