Bobkatz

www.nutsonline.com/jericho

www.jericholives.com

Very amusing way to pressure an inconsiderate network.....if you watched Jericho or just like a fun campaign against a big corporation, get in there and send some nuts to the CBS CEO

NY TImes today:

May 21, 2007, 12:03 pm

Misery Chastain Cannot Be Dead!! Or, A Way to Save “Jericho”

Every compelling story produces its own brand of fans, with their own distinct style of story-worship.

But a group of fans really shows its colors when it gets the news that the story it loves is over.

When “Everwood,” the misty teen-flavored television drama about love and loss, was canceled last year, its fans grew tearful and elegiac. When Fox shut down “Arrested Development,” its fancy and clever sitcom, the fans acted tough and above it: I guess real comedy was too cool for network losers.

And now, since “Jericho” was officially dropped from CBS on May 16, its fans are having their nationwide wake. And what a dark, mushroom-cloud-blocks-the-sun event it is.

When I wrote a live blog from the television upfronts last week on the new culture-events blog ArtsBeat, the entry that drew the most comments by far was the CBS wrap-up. Almost all of the commenters on that post, possibly by design, had “Jericho” on their minds. Phrases like “CBS should be ashamed” and “O.K., now I’m really ticked off” were commonplace.

You know, CBS should perhaps just have known better than to convene a group of ardent fans for a nuclear-apocalypse show (note suspiciously locked Wikipedia entry) if they were going to jilt those fans so suddenly. Turns out the “Jericho” audience is a volatile, uneasy lot. (Just Google “save jericho”).

Having started just last fall, and played unsuccessfully against “American Idol,” “Jericho” is an adventure series about a group of tough Kansans trying to survive after nukes have taken out America’s major cities.

Fans of the drama — in which survivalism, vigilantism and a measure of anarchism are not only tolerated but necessary — are, like its characters, a hardcore and flinty bunch. Take one look at their message boards and you’d see they were unlikely to take bad news from jackbooted network thugs lying down.

The male fans resolved: “They nuked Jericho … we’ll nuke them!” And they poached the show’s rough-and-ready characters for their own video spinoff: a hit on CBS’s headquarters.

Female viewers also felt abused. Below, one resolved not to be Tina to CBS’s Ike anymore. Her parting line? “I hope your ratings shrivel up and fall off.”

The phenomenon of fans wreaking havoc on those who abort their favorite stories — think Kathy Bates in “Misery” — is at least as old as the novel. The crowd that allegedly begged Dickens to tell them whether Little Nell had died in “The Old Curiosity Shop” somehow believed he also grieved her death, though he was of course her murderer.

Other readers are less forgiving or naive. In the 19th century, some readers even tried to sue authors who “abused” or “killed” their favorite characters.

So “Jericho” fans: your videos are great, but what about taking

LA Times.....

CBS responds to 'Jericho' fans: We'll let you know how it would have ended

By Maria Elena Fernandez, Times Staff Writer

May 22, 2007

How will it end?

click to enlargeWe were on to the "Lost" legion and "Heroes" worshippers, but who knew there were also "Jericho" junkies?

A "Jericho" online movement is afoot to bring back the just-canceled CBS drama, starring Skeet Ulrich. The show, which explored the aftermath of nuclear attacks in the U.S., seemed like it was going to be one of the TV season's hits, but a large chunk of its audience disappeared during its winter hiatus.

CBS, like the rest of the networks, announced its fall lineup last week, and the network decided to cancel "Jericho" because the show had "lost its engine," CBS President of Entertainment Nina Tassler said.

Since then, passionate "Jericho" fans have organized and bombarded the network with letters and e-mails that state feelings, such as, "This show has touched us like no other before" and "CBS has cast aside a gem in Jericho." An online petition, http://www.jericholives.com , already has 60,000 signatures. One fan even wrote a Bring Back Jericho poem and posted it at http://jericholives.com/fight.htm .

Tassler was so moved by the response that she posted a letter to the fans on http://www.cbs.com , her spokesman, Chris Ender, said.

"She was touched by the letters and e-mails she's received because they each had independent voices," Ender said. "It was not an organized cookie-cutter type campaign. She was touched by the thoughtfulness of the response and wanted to directly respond to them."

In the letter, Tassler told the fans that she also loved the show: "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."

CBS executives will meet this week to discuss how the network can let the fans know how the "Jericho" story would have ended.

I had an ultrasound but had no stones a few years ago.

Michelle please don't leave this even if you feel better tomorrow, as others have said you could quite suddenly get another attack and serious pain like that needs checking.

We were nice today but the yelling might start tomorrow c'os we all care

No

You deserve to be proud - great job

I am the same as I am online. When I meet people online or in person, I always go the extra mile to be respectful. Simply because I don't know the other person well and because we all come from different backgrounds with different experiences, and most importantly, different opinions, I try not to offend anyone.

I am glad someone posted this, because when I first joined and posted on VJ, some comments I received were very rude. No, ridiculously rude. And I strongly had to convince myself that this is ONLINE NOT IN PERSON, because I wanted to kick some a**. (Yes, while I’m pregnant.)

I have noticed two people in particular who post their smart mouth comments on every one else’s page. Although they have experience, they take pleasure in making people feel stupid. I strongly believe these individuals, as others, would not address someone the way they do online. All I can say is keep it real. Don’t use the internet as “protection” from an a** whoopin’, seriously. It’s not funny. And it makes people like me cross my fingers and pray that your personal information come up on my computer somewhere, because I will hill-billy my pregnant a** to your place of residence and slap you to sleep. Obviously, I have no tolerance for people who are rude to others.

(If anyone finds something offending in this reply, then please send me a PM, thank you.)

~Miss Jones

You and I need to become a team, if that info ever does pop up on your pc let me know - there are a few on here that need to learn some manners and I have no doubt they wouldn't be that outspoken in real life, because if they were they would not succeed in their chosen profession or life in general - well not with many friends anyway.

stumped - and I don't mean that's the movie - I'll get Kat to have a look!

Forgot to add...

For those who aren't sure - it is instinct, you either will or you won't.

The fact that most people don't these days is why the world is becoming a more hostile, selfish place - going to church regularly I think makes you someone who probably would give your life, as Jesus did to save us

Yes I'd have been one of the ones to hold a door shut at VTech - but I once jumped into the sea in choppy waters to save a man who had jumped in after his dog. Between us we made it and the dog saved himself - but for me it wasn't even a decision I just reacted.

Wow this surprised me, never entered our heads, but then again we are middle aged!!

Impressed

We did it as soon as we could

Consoleman!

Yeh well I am not at all sure many of us fancy Pizza this week!!! Someone left a 'tip' of a different kind (see the Peter with your Pizza post)

Jack Nicholson - the man

Eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwww . He's got to be nuts

hmmm.. i guess so, since that is all he has left now

best comment so far

We have a cat that sheds really badly and the vet gave us some capsules with an oil in containing various vitamins - we started her a week ago and it is definitely helping.

Captain Ewok - "Only I would know if this was true. For the record it is not. Please stop the bickering. Thank you"

Thanks Capt Ewok for stating this - sadly it seems others don't believe you anymore, despite you being the all seeing eye so to speak.

I just think it's crazy that my list kicked this all off, smacks of paranoia as does LisaD commenting on our profile we were someone else, which I chose to ignore as it was not worthy of an answer. I am guessing her & tmma loved the x-files.

Thanks for trying to clear it up anyway - it won't stop us posting, most folks on here seem nice.

I have no idea how I even got into this - all I did was make a list of annoying things which are common annoyances for many! I mean Will Ferrell is annoying and so are rude people on the net (I don't think I named anyone)...lol

And I know LisaD is under the impression our id is someone we don't know - she left me a message to that effect - what she doesn't seem to realise is we both share this id, so it could be me, it could be my wife or a joint effort!! That's the puzzler for you, if you can really be bothered

Good job he didn't go for Pizza later!!!!!

wow I am defo back to the Lakes now!!!

I guess he didn't like the 'Meat Lovers'

Matchbox & Corgi make some great ones - well you did say a 'small' car

Man cuts off his ####### in pizza parlour

Last updated at 16:22pm on 25th April 2007

Surgeons battling to save a man's ####### after he hacked it off in a restaurant have sewn it back on - in the first operation of its kind in the UK.

Stunned witnesses told how the man jumped up onto a table, dropped his trousers and cut his ####### off in front of horrified diners in a packed pizza restaurant.

A man cut off his ####### in front of horrified customers in Zizzi's, London

Police sprayed the deranged man with CS gas before recovering his lost organ from the restaurant floor. ( best line of 07 so far!!)

Surgeons at St Thomas's Hospital have attempted to reattach his missing appendage, but have not yet confirmed whether it was a success.

The Royal College of Surgeons said that it was the first time that the operation had been attempted in this country.

The 35 year-old Polish man seized a knife from the kitchen before slicing off his manhood in Zizzi's pizza restaurant on the Strand on Sunday evening, stunning the runners and spectators who had flocked to the eaterie after the London marathon.

A witness described how diners who had been enjoying meal screamed and fled as the man waved the knife in the air, and several people were treated for shock after witnessing the horrific spectacle.

'Blood everywhere'

Stuart McMahon, a sales rep who was in the restaurant, said: "This guy came running in then charged into the kitchen, got a massive knife and started waving it about.

"Everyone was screaming and running out as he jumped on a table, dropped his trousers and popped his ####### out. Then he cut it off. I couldn't believe it.

"The staff were really upset and there was blood everywhere."

Police are still trying to identify the man, who will be assessed by psychiatrists and is expected to be detained under the Mental Health Act for his own safety.

A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said: "We were called at 9.00pm on Sunday to a restaurant on the Strand to reports of a man in possession of a knife.

"Officers attended to discover a man believed to be 30-40 years old suffering from an injury. He was taken to a south London hospital in a stable condition. No one else was injured and his injuries are believed to be self inflicted

Rachel Ray - she's like a splenda overdose, you know it's just fake sweetness

Will Ferrell - just incredibly annoying and trying to be Jim Carey unsuccessfully

Donald Trump - ego, wig, bimbo wife, tacky

Immigration & Customs Officers - they just all have this holier than thou attitude

The Government - for all the TV censorship of the Iraq war

Brad Pitt - for letting Angelina take him away from sweet little Jen & letting her maintain her 100% I can always get my lead man ego!!

The President if he just gives citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants

People online who think they know it all or are so far up their own asses they are rude to others and don't give a damn - lets see that face to face!

Paris Hilton - makes me wonder about God for giving someone that useless so much power and no clue how to use it to benefit others

Robbie Williams - so much talent totally wasted - in more ways thn one!

Entertainment Tonight - for still running Anna Nicole stories daily almost!!!

Women who are a size 8 or less and complain they are fat and need to watch their weight

People who say they are Christians, attend church and then act in a way that is anything but Christian

Women/men who are obviously just after a spouse for the money & status, or a visa to a better life

New Walmart checkout staff to cover the holiday rush

Heather Mills - ####### nuff said

Paula Abdul - too nice, waste of space on AI, spaced all through the auditions!!

I'll keep thinking........maybe I need to head back into the Canadian Lakes!!