Jericho to Hit the Big Screen?

Jericho, the fantastic CBS series that was canceled, brought back, then canceled again, may end up going to the big screen, according to Sci Fi Wire and iF Magazine.

Jericho premiered more than two years ago on CBS. The show was about a small Kansas town called Jericho and what happened to the people there after a mysterious nuclear attack on the United States. 

The show was not only about the mystery behind the nature and details of this attack, but had 3-dimensional characters that were very easy to like and care about.  There were usually several interesting personal plot-lines running along at the same time the main plot was advancing.

Unfortunately CBS gave this show the supreme raw deal from the beginning.  The show began in the fall as most shows still do, but went on hiatus for several months during the winter…providing plenty of time for people to become involved in other shows while it was off the air.  Not surprisingly, when it came back in the spring, ratings were low. So it was cancelled.

After a huge outcry from fans and several tons of peanuts were sent to CBS execs (there’s a story behind that), the network decided to bring it back.

However, putting the show under the axe put production behind schedule, so the show didn’t begin again in the fall when most shows do–yet again giving the show a whack to the head.  It came back for an exciting but abbreviated season…only to be canceled yet again.

 But Jericho fans are committed, and they are die-hard. Posts concerning Jericho always generate tons of hits.  People love the show, and for good reason.

So it was welcome news to read today that Executive Producer/Director Jon Turteltau is working on Jericho feature film.

“We’re developing a feature for JERICHO,” says Turteltaub. “It would not require you to have seen the TV show, but it get into life after an event like this on a national scale. It would be the bigger, full on American version of what’s going on beyond the town in Jericho.”

That would fit right in where the show left off at the end of the last abbreviated season.  

As the United States is pulling itself back together after several major cities across the country–including Washington D.C.–have been nuked off the map, the country has split into two or more regional states that are somewhat acting as independent countries.  

Some people across the former United States want to bring things back together…but others want to carve out their own fresh little empire…and those people are connected to the ones behind the nuclear attacks.

And in that final episode, the show moves out of the little Kansas town of Jericho and into the national scene as two of the main characters fly a nuclear weapon–one that proves the nuclear conspiracy–to the Texas Republic to keep the bad guys from getting away with consolidating their empire.  

I hope  Turteltaub is successful in bringing this awesome story to the big-screen. What a shame the morons at CBS squandered a good story, good actors, and a good show.

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