"Nuts!" was the rally battle cry of Jericho fans after the popular series was cancelled. Stemming from the episode that aired before cancellation was announced, fans clung to the word and CBS and Paramount in a deluge of peanuts, trying to get their point across. The measure won 7 more episodes, only for the show to succumb once again to network hierarchy who claimed ratings were not good enough to sustain the cost of production.
The ratings, however, were not the true reason for the killing of Jericho.
The real reason Jericho will not be renewed or purchased for continuation is the same that is running this country into the ground - corporate greed and lack of concern for the "regular" person.
Jericho's content, while loved by its regular viewers, struck too much of a chord with the corporate mongrels it outed through the fictional Jennings and Rall. "It didn't take them long to create their own private country," Jake Green said. That's exactly what corporate America is trying to do - create it's own private country. Especially considering Washington now has over a $700 billion interest in the corporate and banking industries with this so called bail out.
It would not be in the least bit surprising to learn the government played a part in the cancellation of the show, since the next step was a revolution to retake the country from the greedy, corrupt mutts that had taken over the government and country. Those same mutts were responsible for the terrorist attack, claiming the country for their own profit and gain and removing any claim of it from middle America and the values that Jericho represented.
The current economic situation can be seen as a fight between that upper, monied tier and those just getting by, the regular person who doesn't have millions stashed in the bank, who will more than likely never have millions stashed in the bank because those in the top brackets are hoarding it all for themselves because they are afraid they will be reduced to the level of the average person, a thought inconceivable to them.
The upper echelon, afraid of the average persons love for the show and realization of how true the issues rang with today's economic crisis, assumed middle America would follow the lead of the Jericho citizens and begin their own revolution for rebirth. The mongrels didn't want to fuel the fire of those who are tired of the top 10% thinking they are better than the average American just because they have found a way to take all of the money.
In the end, corporate television prevails, for the moment. They hold the purse strings. The government and the FCC own the airwaves. They don't like being outed through the Jericho storyline because they know middle America figured them out. They are afraid of a revolution. So, they think they will take away the hope of revolution by removing the show.
THAT is why neither CBS, nor anyone else will return the show. It's not the production cost that inhibits the shows rekindling. Costs could be adjusted. The budget could be reworked so that it would be less expensive to make, if the true desire to bring it back were there. Corporate mutts are afraid and won't let it come back. It's that simple.