Scattershot Second Half for 2007-2008 Season
Wednesday January 2, 2008
Jericho star Skeet Ulrich with some of the boxes of nuts fans sent to CBS to save the show. The boxes say "Nuts to CBS!"
© Monty Brinton/CBS
Even the shows carrying over from the fall with episodes left are mostly in limbo. Only three shows have specific, announced start dates: Stargate Atlantis and Flash Gordon, both of which will have new episodes starting this Friday (Jan. 4), and Moonlight, set for next Friday, Jan. 11. The remaining shows with episodes left – including Chuck, Reaper, Smallville, and Supernatural – are up in the air as to exactly when they're coming back with fresh episodes.
Shows that are out of gas and therefore probably off the grids entirely for this season include Bionic Woman, Heroes, Journeyman, Pushing Daisies. Only Journeyman is vulnerable to not being renewed, and given that the strike is killing off pilots as well as current shows, even Journeyman might well be renewed.
Meanwhile, we can enjoy a handful of shows that are new or premiering a new season: Sarah Connor Chronicles (1/13), Kyle XY (1/14), Torchwood (1/26), Jericho (2/12), New Amsterdam (2/22), and Battlestar Galactica (April), with Doctor Who coming this summer.
Check out my overview of the premieres and my estimates of where we are with the returning shows.
Comments
Yea. Journeyman is such a good show. I wish it gets renewed.
I’m so glad JERICHO is coming back and with 7 new episodes, its complete 2nd season. The promo on utube looks awesome!
Journeyman should most definitely come back ! it is without a doubt a great show with immense potential.
Could the strike actually save Journeyman? I support the writers, but if their strike could inadvertently save the best new show on television, I wonder if we could influence them to hold out just a while longer? I realize ratings haven’t been where they should be, but can anyone actually remember this show being promoted by NBC in the first place? The viewers had to stumble across it or be pulled in by word of mouth.
Lets start a new campaign as well: “Keep the writers on strike”. Well send them boxes of Ho Hos and anything else they might like. If it would keep Journeyman on the air then it is worth it.
Journeyman was by far the best show of the season and it only got better as time went on. Journeyman was a show that left you on the edge of your seat wondering what just happended and what is going to happen next. Journeyman should be renewed and to all out there who feel the same way please join the fight to save journeyman. go to the journeyman websites, sign the petitions do whatever you can! Lets save the show we love!
I totally support the Writer’s Strike and if the strike lasts long enough to give NBC that push that it needs to bring Journeyman back, all the better in my opinion. Journeyman is one of the best new shows this season. I have been captivated by each episode, and I’m left scratching my head as to the decision not to pick up the rest of the season. Quality storytelling has been few and far between the past few years. I remember that Heroes was re-aired on Sci-Fi during its first season in order to give new viewers a chance to find the show. Why on earth isn’t the same option being given to Journeyman? It has had little promotion from what I have seen. If NBC had spent even half the time that CBS has spent promoting Moonlight (my 2nd favorite new show this fall), then they would have a winner in the ratings!
well it seems our hopes have been answered, as sky one has just advertised today of journey man season 2 from what i can see, and it will be on Thursdays, and i say 2nd season because i didn’t recognize a single scene that they played. Thank god they renewed it
Wahoo!! …. I was so bummed to find out that NBC was not intending to pick up this show… I agree with the comment about lack of promotion for this show.. We stumbled across it and became hooked after our second show… I came upon this blog because I am scheduling night classes and wanted to check when Journeyman will be on before chosing which evening I would attend class! .. its become a tradition to watch this show together..