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A date has not been set for "Jericho's" second season, but production begins on Monday. It will be seven episodes. Star Skeet Ulrich tells me he suspects the show will not return until at least November -- or possibly in early 2008. First season's DVD hits stores in early October.
Here's what we do know about the second season:
"The story we pitched to (CBS) for season two was going to take place in three different locations -- Jericho, this new Cheyenne government, and coming from New York, which survived," says Carol Barbee, executive producer.
"When we got the short order, we said, 'Okay. We'll focus on Jericho.' So we're telling that story, and yes, we're still burning through more story than we would normally because it would have been a 22-episode arc, and now it's seven, but I think that's going to be very satisfying to the fans because it's going to go like that."
Here's what Barbee says the short season will play upon. "At the end of season one, right before the battle, Stanley tells Jake he's going to ask Mimi to marry him, and it doesn't exactly go down that way, but, yeah, they become engaged. So that's part of the personal story of the year. The big story for the year is the mission that Hawkins and Jake have to do to save the world, so that's what they'll be doing."