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Resurrection of `Jericho' wins one for the viewers

Article from: The Boston Globe Article date: February 11, 2008 Author: Joanna Weiss

Television Review

Jericho

Season two premiere

When: Tomorrow at 10 p.m.

On: Channel 4

Season one mini-marathon

When: Tonight at 7

On: Sci-Fi

TV fans don't always have much power when it comes to saving canceled shows. (And you thought the networks cared about you? Sorry.) But in the case of "Jericho," a post-apocalyptic CBS drama that was axed last spring, salvation came at the hands of vocal viewers and 40,000 pounds of nuts.

That's what rabid "Jericho" fans sent to the network offices, in reference to a line - "Nuts!" - uttered in the season ...

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