Jericho Fans Send Nuts to CBS Executives to Protest Show's Cancellation

With CBS canceling its mild hit, Jericho, fans are in an uproar over the CBS decision about their favorite show. This isn't anything new, since the show's cancellation has been all over the internet recently; even other Associated Content writers, besides myself, are joining in the Save Jericho campaign, and going NUTS, to do so.

For those of you who have not heard what the show is about yet, I will give you a brief overview: America has been hit by nuclear bombs from an unknown assailant. The government is in shambles. The people are scared and confused. It has become an everyman for himself, kind of country. The small town of Jericho, Kansas, has to find a way to stay together and survive. Obviously, along the way, many mysterious doors have been opened, and many questions asked - and unanswered.

Like most mystery, who-dunnit shows - Lost is a prime example - it takes much longer to establish a fan base. Jericho started out with higher ratings in its time slots than previous occupants, but thanks to the mid-season hiatus, a big number of viewers forgot about wanting to know who dropped the bomb on Jericho.

Now, in the age of internet awareness, and sci-fi geekdom, many internet campaigns have been brought about to Save Jericho. The biggest of which being the largest, of many, internet petition campaigns to save the CBS show. When I signed the petition (May 26^th), there were exactly 85,109 signatures already on the petition. I urge everybody to sign this petition, but the only way it is going to do any good is if we also urge the creator to spend the extra money in order to get the petition printed and delivered to CBS. A petition out in cyberspace doesn't do nearly as much good; and this is coming from a man who spent a lot of time trying to save another doomed show last summer, Windfall.

Another, much more creative and effective, way to help save Jericho is by going NUTS. In the season, well, actually the series, finale, Grandpa Green tells a Battle of the Bulge story, which Stanley mistakenly calls the 'peanut story', in which the Allied commander replied, "Nuts!" when asked if he wanted to surrender to the Nazis. In the final scene of Jericho, when Constantino, leader of the town that is attacking and bombing Jericho, asks Jake if they are going to surrender, he replies, "Nuts." With this comment, Jericho producers may have given die-hard fans their chance to save their beloved town of Jericho... By sending in nuts. Lots and lots of them. Viewers have been buying packages of nuts, and sending them to CBS Studios, to show them that there will be no surrender. An online nut store, Nuts Online: Nuts for Jericho, has even entered into the Save Jericho battle. For a donation to the cause - ranging from $5 all the way up to $100 - Nuts Online will pool the money, and send large sums of nuts to CBS in the name of Jericho. This has resulted in an excess of $27K worth of nuts, for a total of 20,048 pounds of nuts sent to CBS Studios, thus far. There is even a video for this peanut cause up on YouTube.

For those of you who worry that all this sending of food just to save a television show, seems a bit wasteful, no need to worry. The Nuts Online Ground Team has spoken with CBS Studio executives, and they have been told where these nuts will end up. They will be distributed to the troops via the Staten Island Homefront Project, and other charities via City Harvest. So not only can viewers save their favorite show, they can help out a greater cause.

So, for those of you that are upset to see CBS cancel Jericho, consider this a call to action. It's time to step up and say 'Nuts!' to CBS.