Hey, CBS! I'm Nuts For 'Jericho'

I didn't get into "Jericho" until well into the first season, and that was after it was told to us that the chances looked very good that the Big Eye Network was going to renew the show. I am like a lot of people -- I don't want to get into a show until I'm pretty sure that it will not be a one-hit wonder. You know, like "Desperate Housewives" or something.

Anyway, I watched the first episode of the show, and it held my interest enough to watch a second episode. That was good enough for me to watch a third.

Before I knew it, I was spending an entire weekend doing nothing but watching "Jericho" episodes, making sure I was all set to go when the series made its spring return.

I can't really say anything nasty about CBS, because its decision to cancel the show made sense. Ratings had dropped off after a somewhat lengthy hiatus, and results like that have a way of putting a show on the dreaded bubble, which "Jericho" sat on pratically the entire season.

But I think there is far more interest in the show than CBS may realize. I think judging by the very quick response by fans in a highly organized fashion that even caught me by surprise, the following for this show should be quite evident.

The funny thing about all this isn't the fact that CBS decided at the last minute to kill this show, or even the clever marketing of some of the show's supporter who sent peanuts and such to the network as part of its "Nuts To You, CBS!" What's funny to me is that I happen to mention that I was watching this show to my mom in Pennsylvania, and I was totally shocked when she told me that she watches that show every week. My mother, who hasn't watched the same show as me since I was sick at home with mono 18 years ago and got hooked on "The Young and the Restless," not only watched "Jericho," but was literally angry when I told her that CBS had pulled the plug. She then told me about how much she cried when Johnston Green died at the end of the final episode, and it was funny, because even though we were a thousand miles away, we both shared tears.

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