Jericho (TV series)
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 (2004)),
Stephen Chbosky and
Carol Barbee.
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 (at 10 PM ET/PT). It will compete with the
NBC comedies
Twenty Good Years and
30 Rock, the
ABC Dancing with the Stars results show, and the
Fox drama
Bones.
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.
Thirty-two year old Jake Green (
Skeet Ulrich) plans a brief return to his childhood home in rural and isolated Jericho,
Kansas, to much fanfare from his mother and friends, who have had only 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 joining the
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. As he returns to the town, evening falls - and news 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.
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Skeet Ulrich as
Jake Green*
Ashley Scott*
Sprague Grayden*
Kenneth Mitchell*
Lennie James*
Michael Gaston*
Eric Knudsen*
Gerald McRaney*
Pamela Reed* 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 was 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.
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