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Jericho
Jericho television series
Genre	Drama
Running time	60 minutes
Starring	Skeet Ulrich Ashley Scott Sprague Grayden Kenneth Mitchell Lennie James Michael Gaston Eric Knudsen Gerald McRaney Pamela Reed
Country of origin	United States
Original channel	CBS
Original run	September 20, 2006–not yet premiered
No. of episodes	1 (to date)
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

This article is about the CBS drama. For the ITV drama see Jericho (2005 TV series).

Jericho is a CBS drama premiering in the fall of 2006, produced by CBS Paramount Network Television, with executive producers Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure), Stephen Chbosky and Carol Barbee. The show will premiere on September 20, 2006 on CBS.

The show is scheduled for Wednesday nights at 8 PM (ET/PT), airing before the CBS dramas Criminal Minds (at 9 PM ET/PT) and CSI: NY (at 10 PM ET/PT). It will compete with two sitcoms on NBC (Twenty Good Years and 30 Rock) ABC's Dancing with the Stars results show, Fox's drama Bones, and The CW's competitive reality series America's Next Top Model.

In Canada, the series will air on CHUM Limited's OTA (over the air) Citytv and A-Channel stations, along with co-owned cable outlet Space: The Imagination Station. In Australia, the series will air on Network Ten and the premiere will coincide with its U.S. debut, a first for an Australian network. In the UK the show will air on the UK Hallmark Channel.

Plot synopsis

Thirty-two year old Jake Green (Skeet Ulrich) makes a brief return to his childhood home in rural and isolated Jericho, Kansas, to much fanfare from his mother and friends, who have only had intermittent contact with him. Jake appears to be hiding something, as each of his interactions with one of the town's citizens elicits different explanations of why he was out of touch for so long, which include playing minor league baseball and serving in both the Army and Navy. Despite objections from his mother, Jake plans to leave Jericho as quickly as he arrived.

During Jake's exit from town, the electronic equipment in and around Jericho begins to fail. At the same time, a mysterious, possibly nuclear explosion occurs to the west (presumably at Denver, Colorado), and a mushroom cloud suddenly becomes visible above the Rocky Mountains. Distracted by the explosion, Jake is involved in a car accident and is forced to walk back to Jericho. On his way back to town, Jake becomes an unlikely hero as he tends to a bus full of schoolchildren (and their teacher) stranded by the blast. As he returns to town, evening falls...and word spreads that a second explosion has occurred in Atlanta, Georgia.

With communications and power out, Jake and the small town of Jericho face the challenge of being physically and psychologically isolated from the outside world - not knowing what is left of that world, or how many others are still alive - and of finding a means of survival in the midst of panic and chaos.

Episodes

Main article: List of Jericho episodes

Characters

• Skeet Ulrich as Jake Green
• Ashley Scott as Emily Sullivan
• Sprague Grayden as Heather Lisinski
• Kenneth Mitchell as Eric Green
• Lennie James as Robert Hawkins
• Michael Gaston as Gray Anderson
• Eric Knudsen as Dale Turner
• Gerald McRaney as Mayor Green
• Pamela Reed as Gail Green

Online companion

In an online interview, executive producer Carol Barbee announced that there will be a "digital connection" to Jericho through an online companion.

Trivia

• The pilot episode was filmed on location in Fillmore, California. The standing sets for the town of Jericho were built at Calvert Studios in Van Nuys, California.
• During the pilot episode, as Jake Green is driving to Jericho on a two-lane highway, a road sign reads, "Jericho 47, Wichita 196, Kansas City 362." Although the precise location of Jericho is not specified except for being in Kansas, the people of the town witness a nuclear explosion "from the west" (according to the mayor), which is believed to have occurred at Denver, Colorado, and is clearly visible over a nearby mountain ridge.
• There is presently no town named Jericho in Kansas, but a real Jericho once existed in Gove County, Kansas at the turn of the 20th century. Its post office closed in 1923.
• The notable apocalyptic TV movie "The Day After" dealt with the effects of a nuclear war in relation to the city of Lawrence, Kansas. Some exterior shots for Jericho were filmed in both Lawrence and North Lawrence, and the mayor of North Lawrence issued a declaration renaming his town "Jericho" for the day. [1]

External links

• Official site
• Jericho at TV Squad