Monday, October 26, 2009

Outside Jericho

Jericho Birthdays for October 25-21 thanks to Mud62 for the list! Relationship to Jericho listed in bold font:

Christopher Wiehl (Roger Hammond) - 10/29
Michael Broderick (Cheyenne Soldier) - 10/30

Kitty's News Corner

Aasif Mandvi (Kenchy Dhuwalia) in "Today's Special" an independent comedy film at NY film festival; Aasif is a writer and actor in this film. Link, Link

Aasif Mandvi (Kenchy Dhuwalia) at the screening of "The Response" in NYC on 27 October at 7 pm. He will be a member of a panel. Link

Jericho mentioned in an article about NBC's canceled show Southland.... NUTS anyone? Link

Michael Gaston (Gray Anderson) film "Sugar" nominated for best ensemble performance at Gotham Independent Film Awards. Winners will be announced November 30. Link

Review of last week's Lie to Me with a mention of Lennie James' (Robert Hawkins) episode... Link
Lennie did a "Chavez"!! check out pics from Lie To Me: Link

On the set of Caprica, Esai Morales (Maj Beck): Link

Jazz Raycole (Allison Hawkins) on Eastwick Wednesday October 21: Link
Jazz Raycole's name is listed on Eastwick's cast list (after you click "more") ... guess we will see more of her there?

Press release for Skeet Ulrich's (Jake Green) next appearance on CSI: NY. Link

Richard Speight Jr (Deputy Bill) returns to Supernatural (on CW) November 5: Link
Another article about the upcoming episodes of Supernatural (spoilers and cool clip): Link

Jon Turteltaub (Executive Producer) Article on new project "The Sorcerer's Apprentice": Link

Sprague Grayden (Heather Lisinski) DVD release of "The Last Lullaby": Link

Interesting interview with Tim Omundson (Phil Costantino) about Psych. (Little outdated... taped at Comic Con) CAREFUL --Tim is really funny in this interview...=0): Link

Siena Goines (Sarah Mason) has been busy.... Guess the movie "Jada" came out in 2008 but the DVD is now available. Link

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Issue #1 Has Been Delayed

Today, Redsox and Ratkeeper got word from their DDP contact that issue #1 will not be released on 10/28. The book is running late. DDP will advise when a new release date is announced.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Weekly Gatherings

Beau's Bark - Come join our "open house" chat for most of Tuesday evening to accommodate the time zones!! This is a fun time to get together with old friends and make some new ones! Looking forward to seeing you there!

Sportsman Lodge Bar - Every Friday 9:30 pm EST/ 6:30 pm PST, drop by have a drink and share a story. Go to last page of the thread.

Tuesday Night Ranger Watchers - Come chat and watch with us on Tuesdays at 5 pm Pacific/8 pm Eastern. You will need to be logged on to see the chat room link, which is under the community menu (chat for members).

Update from Redsox

October 7, 2009

Hello Fellow Rangers,

October is here so what does that mean for Jericho?Laverne McKinnon was just hired by Epix to develop original scripted shows. She was at CBS up to 2006 when she left for family reasons but most importantly worked on the pilot of a little show called Jericho while at CBS.

Epix was originally scheduled to launch the first week of October but that time table has been pushed back to the end of October. Right now Epix has announced a carriage deal with Verizon Fios with several other deals reported to be forthcoming.

I think a key section from the article is: "A rep for Epix declined comment Tuesday, but McKinnon reportedly has already been working behind the scenes at the company, a joint venture of Viacom, Lionsgate and MGM". Until now most of the press information being released dealt with feature films and not original programming.

The producers at Junction just inked a new 2 year deal to develop original shows for CBS Television this despite Jericho being cancelled twice, Swingtown and Harper's Island being cancelled after one season.

Skeet Ulrich, Mr. Jake Green appears to still have some type of CBS contract in place some 18 months after the cancellation as he started tonight on his 3 episode run on CSI New York.

Our old friend, Nancy Tellem, current President of CBS Television is rumored to be considering moving to the business side of CBS Corp. From LA Times today: She has been talking to Moonves for the last several months about easing out of her current job in favor of a broader role that would allow her to become something of a troubleshooter for the company focusing on content and distribution challenges.

There seems to be a ARG type game ongoing with comlink which has a thread on the UHD Board and which on September 21, the Board along with it's countdown clock all the sudden became password protected.

The comic book is currently scheduled to come out at the end of October. Our DDP Liaison has stated to me several times that they have not confirmed October 28th as the official release date that too could be pushed back.

CBS is spending money on developing, producing and distributing the comic book, in the worse economy since the great Depression, including building a web page on the DDP site dedicated exclusively to the Jericho comic book.

All of these things taken separately look like they are isolated events, mutually exclusive of each other. But looking at what we have seen since last November when we launched Operation Phoenix and CBS put all 29 episodes on the CW, the evidence continues to mount that Jericho is destined to reappear as a movie or series. We still believe the evidence points towards Epix we hope as a TV movie then Season 4 taking off from where the comic leads off.

Beebull is going to attend the Baltimore Comic con this weekend, October 9 and 10. They are expecting over 10,000 people to attend the con and Beebull will be walking around spreading the news. This past weekend Ratkeeper, Jim4jericho and several others attended the Silicon Valley con which was small but afforded our rangers to spread the word and gain new recruits. We need to continue to attend these types of events, and get posters and post cards up everywhere and anywhere we can. I honestly think we are in the home stretch and that something good is finally coming our way.

Ichthus, who is a terrific Ranger, made a great point this morning, another key to driving interest in the comic is to get people to go to the DDP forum and get discussions going on what we think the storyline will look like. We need to remember that we all got involved because we liked Jericho. for the entertainment it provided us, and for many the community that developed around the show. Link

Keep the Faith
Redsox1986

Rangers Needed at the Jericho Comic Forum

We really need to get the traffic up at the DDP Jericho page, Ichthus thanks for the great suggestion. Below are the links to the Forum and several issue plot line threads. Lets have some fun the next couple of weeks. Hope people can make it to the DDP page and get some real good discussions going on where we think the characters are going.

Devil's Due Publishing Jericho Webpage - Forum: Link
First Issue Speculation: Link
Jericho Issue 3 Spoilers: Link

Future Traditions - the Jericho Podcast

Future Traditions - Episode 22 - Zombies Ate Our Live Show! is now LIVE! Visit: Link

Also, we've got a live recording of one of the Apocalypse Rising track panels: "Distant Early Warning," here: Link

Enjoy! :)

Thank You's

Thank you to:

Jim4Jericho for helping at Silicon
Beebull for promoting Jericho at the Baltimore Comic Con
Susan Gator for promoting Jericho in her classroom.
Lee and Beebull for organizing the East Coast Ranger Gathering
Ichthus for his help with JEBS and on the Jericho Comic Forum.
Steph, Andrew, Ron, Margo and KrzyKitty for agreeing to run a Jericho Fan Table.
We'd like to include more thank yous, so please let us know how you are promoting Jericho.