Jessica, maybe the immortality-granting Magical Indians shared your assessment of the character's personality and gave him eternal life as a curse knowing just how likely it was that he could get his soullmate to tolerate him for the length of an evening? I saw a promo last night in a bar but the sound was off, so I could only evaluate the program on the basis of how pretty the lead actor was (quite).

Below is a statement from CBS Entertainment (May 18):

To the fans of Jericho:

We have read your emails over the past few days and have been touched by the depth and passion with which you have expressed your disappointment. Please know that canceling a television series is a very difficult decision. Hundreds of people at the Network, the production company and the incredibly-talented creative team worked very hard to build and serve the community for this show -- both on-air and online. It is a show we loved too.

Thank you for supporting Jericho with such passion. We truly appreciate the commitment you made to the series and we are humbled by your disappointment. In the coming weeks, we hope to develop a way to provide closure to the compelling drama that was the Jericho story.

Sincerely,

Nina Tassler, President of CBS Entertainment

I'm a little curious about this closure thing.

I just got around to watching the second to the last episode of Jericho, and, damn, I'm sorry it didn't make it. After the break, it really racheted up the drama and the tension and the excessive use of ammunition. Plus, it had Skeet Ulrich with his determined face. (He doesn't have many expressions, but that's a good one.)

I know. We just started watching again, from the beginning so we could note the improvement. Dh is a little bitter about the cancellation (poor love -- he's also bitter about Drive and VM) so he watches sort of grudgingly.

I'm a little curious about this closure thing.

Me, too. I keep thinking they ought to move it to the CW. It's the same parent corporation, and even if Jericho only brought a fraction of its audience, it would probably be the closest thing to a hit (at least among scripted shows) the CW has had, yet.

no shit. God knows CW needs some help given the fall upfronts schedule.

I didn't know that the CW was owned by the same people who own CBS. Interesting. (That would explain the person who saw an ad for Supernatural during Jericho.)

I thought that "closure" meant a tv movie or mini-series.

Apparently, Jericho's "poor ratings" are still twice the amount that the CW has been getting. So - it could work. (Of course, the CW reaches fewer households than CBS does.)

I didn't know that the CW was owned by the same people who own CBS. Interesting. (That would explain the person who saw an ad for Supernatural during Jericho.)

I thought that "closure" meant a tv movie or mini-series.

It does to the network. The fans want a whole season though, and are campaigning for CBS to sell the show to TNT or USA or whatever, if they won't change their minds and pick it up for another season. The CW makes way more sense to me than to TNT or USA.

If Jericho only brought half its average audience (9.5 mil) from the 2006-2007 season, it would still get bigger ratings than every CW show, save America's Top Model (5.4 mil). People might actually figure out the CW exists.

Here's hoping no one starts up a "save Jericho" campaign that involves sending weapons-grade plutonium/uranium to the network.

They're sending nuts.

I'm not kidding.

Yeah. Lots and lots of nuts. (Which CBS is distributing to charity and the military.)