Filed under: Industry, Programming, Jericho, Cancellations, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
I know, I know, we’ve all heard those words before. It seems that every other show that gets canceled these days has a “could it come back on another network?” addendum, a glimmer of hope that somehow, some way, a show that had a small but loyal following will actually survive. Unfortunately, 9.9 times out of 10 it doesn’t happen.
But it could happen to Jericho. According to Brian Stelter at The New York Times, CBS/Paramount execs have been having secret speaks with Comcast (yes, Comcast) about doing something with the show for a third season. Now, this might seem like an odd, desperate play for another season if it wasn’t for the fact that NBC has already done something very similar to this with DirecTV, twice. First they had a deal with the satellite provider to air Passions, but that was a large bust (sorry, Passions fans), but they’ve a new deal to air another season of Friday Night Lights. The new season will start airing on DirecTV in October, and then repeats will air on NBC in early 2009.
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