Jericho Fans To CBS: 'Nuts!'

Fans of CBS' recently canceled post-apocalyptic series Jericho continue to inundate network offices with shipments of peanuts, an allusion to a bit of dialogue from the final episode. The shipments have amounted to three tons of nuts so far, the New Jersey Star-Ledger newspaper reported. The campaign is intended to persuade CBS either to revive the show, about the aftermath of a nuclear attack, or somehow wrap up the show's storyline, which ended this month with a cliffhanger. In that cliffhanger, hero Jake Green (Skeet Ulrich) and his neighbors in Jericho, Kan., were preparing for war against a neighboring town. Given an ultimatum to surrender, Green replied "Nuts," echoing a famous World War II general's response to a similar ultimatum from the Nazis. Earlier, CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler acknowledged a flood of fan e-mails by promising that the network would find a conclusion to the story somehow.