Jericho producers have plans for a long run
As we all know, Jericho will live on next season, thanks to a concerted lobbying effort by the show's fans. According to CBS, seven episodes will be created, with the assumption that those episodes will tie up loose ends and conclude the series.But as far as Carol Barbee, one the show's executive producers, fans shouldn't be making that assumption. "We are not closing this story out. We have a story to tell. It's a really rich story, and we've got it mapped out for quite a while." she told Broadcasting & Cable magazine. "The network suggested doing a two-hour movie to wrap up this story. We weren't in any way interested in closing it down."
The reason why they're only doing seven episodes, then? According to Barbee, CBS only had enough free sound stage time for a limited number of episodes. Interesting. So, if the fans of the show put their money where their nuts and e-mails are and actually watch the show, we may see it beyond those seven second-season episodes. That's a big "if", of course...
[via Mediabistro and the New York Post]

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