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"Jericho" Fans Send Over Nine Tons of Nuts to CBS
nuts-to-CBS writes "After presenting 'Jericho' fans with a cliffhanging season finale, CBS promptly cancelled the program. The shocked fans quickly banded together, many using CBS' own public "Jericho" discussion forum, and began brainstorming on ways to convince the network to bring back the show for a second season. A plot point in the final episode of "Jericho" involving the expletive "Nuts!" (in reference to an historic conversation between generals) was turned into a campaign to send large quantities of nuts to CBS' NY, LA, and affiliate offices. Fans have sent a total of $26,000 for a pooled campaign hosted at Nuts Online to ship over 19,000 pounds of peanuts to CBS.
Other efforts acquired over $9,000 to publish full page advertisements in
Variety (National Edition)
and The Hollywood Reporter for Tuesday, May 29th. This is expected to become the largest ever fan campaign to bring a television show back from cancellation." There's more about the massive fan rollout below.
CBS created rich, interactive content online to accompany their show "Jericho," in order to extend its fan base
to the Internet-savvy, TiVo-owning generations. Despite suffering through the all-too-familiar mid-season
hiatus employed by many shows, the "Jericho" fan base remained strong throughout the break, partially due to the episodes being posted both for free on the CBS site as well as for purchase on iTunes. "Jericho" returned from the hiatus in the same timeslot occupied by "American Idol." CBS — which apparently still
determines programming primarily on Nielsen ratings — decided to drop the show, regardless of the ever-growing
and loyal fan base. Nuts Online includes live blogging from Jeffrey Braverman, the
company's 26-year old CEO. Jeffrey's company has been shipping up to 5,000 pounds of peanuts a day to the CBS New
York headquarters, and has been using their site to describe his experience along the way. Three other fan sites are documenting the progress:
CBS Jericho Message Board,
Jericho Lives, and
Jericho Rally Point. Fans of Roswell were successful in bringing back their favorite program by sending mass quantities of
tiny bottles of Tabasco sauce."
Did you know peanuts are actually completely deadly, quite contrary to their more mainstream position as being considered an edible and tasty snack/spread/ingredient?
Jericho had fans?
...it was "Nuts!" and not "Crap!"
This is a thinly veiled biological attack made by terrorists.
The producers of Jericho are allergic to peanuts!
Aargh, the more I sit and think the more annoyed I get all over again.
I just can't imagine sitting around a table in the writer's room and listening to somebody say "Okay, we've blown up all the major cities in the USA, the country is in Civil War, looting and riots are rampant, normal citizens are totally isolated, thrown back into the 19th century ways of living overnight -- but what people want to know is, will Jake hook up with the blonde or the brunette? And what impact would post-apocalyptic panic have on rural thanksgiving celebrations?"
Recursive: Adj. See Recursive.
yet the show was being "the O.C. after the bomb".
Don't call it that.
Green Monkey
...isn't that CBS cancelled the show, but that it's being axed to make room for New Insipid Reality Show #462 and "Ooh! Pirates!"
The "Tiffany Network," eh?
Sam! If you will let me be,
I will try them.
You will see.
>6) Getting a dog for companionship instead of a television
You can get dogs for televisions, now? Wow. Those new flexible LCDs are cool!
On the other hand - one series that I'm missing is Max Headroom, it's dark, it's about a near future and it's all about money, media companies, viewer figures and shady affairs. (Sounds familiar?)
It may be time to pick up the show again - the old episodes are a little outdated; no internet, no flat-screen TV:s etc.
But on the other hand RIAA and MPAA may not want to see this...
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Oh. Sorry.
How about, "90210 meets Little Boy and the Fat Man"?
Peanuts are legumes!
:(
The TV industry will never take us seriously now.
Do you really want these people trying to fix government?
Current US Government under 9 tonnes of peanuts? .... Not A Bad Idea methinks
/Nc
Also, whilst tanning, read a fucking book. On skin cancer.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
Oh sure, In Soviet Russia, nuts send CBS to you!
There's a Starman, waiting in the sky / He'd like to come and meet us, but he hasn't got the time.
So how long until a homeless guy who is allergic to peanuts sues CBS?
OK, the 1970s was known as the sexual revolution but I have a lot of arguments about this craziness. First, the demographics CBS is trying to reach by canceling Jericho - most weren't even born in the '70s yet! I was born in the early 70s and there is no way I could've been involved in any type of sexual revolution at the time!
Um... you could be a product of it
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Remember the cliffhanger from the season 2 finale of Weeds? Maybe Showtime will cancel Weeds to see what the fans will send in....
Chosen one: I'll take a pound of nuts. Shopkeeper: *yelling* That's a lot of nuts! That'll be four bucks, baby! You want fries with that?!?