Tuned In+Uncategorized | April 7, 2008

How Can FNL Fans Save Jericho?

By James Poniewozik

Answer: by getting DirecTV, at least in a roundabout way. According to today’s New York Times, the deal by which NBC got the satellite provider to pony up for a third season of Friday Night Lights could be a model for saving other shows with small but passionate followings—if it succeeds. Says the NYT’s Brian [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | March 26, 2008

Jericho Watch: A Little Bang, A Little Whimper

By James Poniewozik

So long, and thanks for all the peanuts. / Michael Desmond/CBS SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, rush home in a stolen ambulance and watch the series finale of Jericho.

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Tuned In+March 21, 2008

Buy Peanuts Futures

By James Poniewozik

CBS has canceled Jericho, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Tuesday’s season finale will also be the series finale. Expect fans to rail, gnash their teeth and organize protest, but given the lower ratings than last season and CBS’s pretty clear statements that season 2 would have to draw more fans for the show to survive, [...]

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Tuned In+January 15, 2008

Jericho May Possibly Be Good Now

By James Poniewozik

Last year, I wrote a blog post confessing my faithfulness to the show Jericho, despite the fact that I could not say the show was, in any critically defensible sense of the word, good. Well, I’ve just watched three of the six episodes CBS sent me (out of seven total) for season 2, and it [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | January 10, 2008

Will the Strike Save the Panthers?

By James Poniewozik

In the earlier Strike Watch thread, chaddogg asks: In the arena of silver linings to dark storm clouds, I thought I’d share the link to this article in Variety, which discusses the improbable fact that the writers’ strike (and a few other factors) has arguably INCREASED the chance that Friday Night Lights survives for a [...]