CBS to "Jericho" Fans: It Will Return Next Season

If you're a fan of social bookmarking sites, chances are you've seen the petition going around to bring back the CBS television series "Jericho". Last season when CBS canceled the series because of a low amount of viewers, fans revolted.

In what was a very unexpected announcement today, CBS put out a release letting fans know that they were heard and a listened to, "Jericho" will return next season according to CNN.

In a letter released to the Associated Press, CBS says:

"You got our attention; your emails and collective voice have been heard," Tassler wrote, and seven episodes have been ordered for midseason 2007-08. "In success, there is the potential for more. But, for there to be more 'Jericho,' we will need more viewers."

However, the win doesn't come without an ultimatum. For "Jericho" to remain on the air this time, fans must do their part to help out, they must help spread the word. CBS will be rerunning the first season this summer, as well as allowing full episode streaming videos on their website and releasing the first season on DVD.

Networks have only brought back shows a handful of times in the past due to fan protests. CBS attributes the return of "Jericho" to the well organized fans. Jericholives.com has been ground zero for most of the organization.

"We are tired of the networks (not just CBS) tossing aside quality programming," the website stated. "Enough! We're going to fight for this one." And fight they did, all the way to the winning end. Today Jericholives.com issued the following statement to everyone who helped resurrect the series:

"It is now obvious to those of us who have been writing, calling, and bombbarding the network with nuts (referring to 50,000 pounds of peanuts that fans sent the head offices in New York) that the network cares about us. The employees have been polite, funny and patient with caller after caller. The mailrooms have distributed our letters and found places for the nuts day after day. And most importantly the executives have labored to find a way to make this happen for their viewers. We know that Nina Tassler and Kellu Kahl spent a great deal of time and effort to bring this to pass."