It's all in the family on tv this fall

The last network has announced its new line-up in Manhattan and we can’t help but notice that vertical integration is alive and well in the television industry.

The five broadcast networks went the conservative route this development season, ordering only 33 new scripted shows for the next TV season (including mid-season). Of those new shows, only nine —nine!!!! — are comedies, which is kind of sad but we digress.

For the most part, the networks stuck with their own production companies in picking up their new products, oops, we mean projects. ABC Studios and Warner Bros. Television have 15 of those shows between them. Check it out:

---CBS has four new dramas and one comedy. Three are produced by CBS Paramount and two by Warner Bros., its studio partner in sister network The CW.

---ABC has seven dramas and four comedies. Six are produced by ABC Studios, one by 20th Century Television and another one is jointly produced by both ABC and 20th Century. Of the three remaining shows, two belong to Warner Bros. Television and one to Sony Television.

---NBC Universal has five dramas and one comedy. Four are produced by NBC Universal Studios, one each by 20th Century Fox Television and Warner Bros. Television.

---FOX has four dramas and three comedies. Three are produced by 20th Century Fox Television, two by Regency Television and one each by Warner Bros. Television and Sony Television.

---The CW, the CBS and Warner Bros. hybrid, has three dramas and one comedy. CBS Paramount produces two of them, Warner Bros. Television and ABC Studios each has one.

--Maria Elena Fernandez

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Comments

[Linda Stooksbury]

Just wanted to echo many other comments you have now received about the disappointment with CBS all the Jericho fans are now experiencing. To take a great show and slaughter it without any notice is reprehensible. CBS should be ashamed of themselves.

Thank you.

[Nancy Hanlon]

The new CBS schedule is awful. The cancellation of Jericho is the straw that broke this camel's back. I will never watch CBS again

[A Nicholson]

CBS cancelled the only intelligent drama on TV when it canned "Jericho." Millions have pledged to boycott CBS and its fall line-up of Juvenile Survivor and 1970's BedSwinging adult entertainment. Terribly disappointing. What kind of people are there running these networks? Doesn't say too much about Hollywood "brains," ladies and gents. Image is everything.

[Erin Wourms]

You should be interested to know that fans of CBS' canceled Jericho are not sitting on their laurels and letting this happen. Along with blogging, wikis, e-mails, phone calls to the studios and online forums, a grassroots campaign to display our disgust is underway. In a nod to the final episode, and a World War II response of "Nuts" from US GIs to a Nazi surrender request, fans are bombarding CBS with (you guessed it), nuts! Shelled, dry roasted, packing peanuts, faxed photos of Mr. Peanut, jars of macadamias, all filling the desktops, fax machines and mailboxes of the corporate giant. Sort of a "Why We Fight" befitting response to premature show cancellation. Just thought I'd pass on the note...we'll be interested to see what you do with it." The fansite/rally point is www.jericholives.com for more info.

[ErinFromCT]

There is a movement on the internet.

A "Jericho" movement.

Because we know cbs screwed us, the show, and the actors/producers that put so much into it.

SAVE JERICHO!

It was such a mistake for cbs to cancel this show....it was the best show out there. So original.

I'm in mourning,

[camille ney]

I'm sorry, but, unlike CBS I don't think swingers in the 1970's or errant kids are much in the way of family programming...JERICHO is however and after CBS offered the cavier I won't settle for rancid trash

[David C.]

CBS really blew it with this year's nerw line up. They totally lost me as a viewer when they cancelled Jericho. I am a proud member of the 18-49 demographic, and I am switch to a new network for my news, sports and entertainment.

[Bella]

I am sad that CBS is sticking to its conservative flavor. More crime? More reality? They made a kids Survivor to replace the only innovative and character driven show they had on TV? Smart, really smart. I was a new viewer to CBS, and they canceled the only show that I watched. I guess I will now be leaving. NUTS CBS!!
www.jericholives.com
www.jerichorallypoint.com

[Jacob Jingleheimer]

I can't believe what CBS has done. They have awoken a sleeping giant! All the Jericho fans and myself are going to prove that we mean business! We are all mailing our TV's to CBS in protest!! We mean what we say when we say we are not going to watch television again because of this! We are men/women of our words! I just got done sending inall 4 TV's this morning!
Also we are going to boycott the actors, and not watch anything else they are ever in! I returned my Scream DVD this morning. Let's see how they feel about canceling the greatest show on television EVER!!!!

[Alisa Russell]

CBS does not care about having family programming that everyone can watch and that promotes quality discussions. I am, of course, speaking of Jericho. We all watched this show at my house and are extremely disppointed that it has been cancelled. There will be nothing on CBS worth watching this fall if Jericho is not brought back.

[Mark Wittig]

Please bring Jericho back! It was one of only 4 shows I watch regularly.

[Mark Crossland]

I read la times on line. Jericho must be saved as CBS as yet again dunped a good show for a show about children from lord of the flys.....jericho needs to be brought back because CBS does not know what they are doing. please make every effort to get cbs to bring back Jericho!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Carolyn]

I am thoroughly disgusted with the CBS decision to cancel Jericho, a well-scripted, well-acted, thought provoking drama. The fall schedule is filled with mindless crap that I cannot allow my children to watch. My family and I watched Jericho together; I feel betrayed and will not tune to CBS again - not that it appears that I would be missing anything.

[Kim from Canada]

As a fan of CBS's canceled Jericho, I can't express strongly enough my disappointment with this network. Jericho is one of the best shows I have seen in quite some time. In fact, other than CNN, it was my only reason for turning on my television set.

I am pleased to note that I am not alone in my appreciation for this show. There are many other Jericho fans who are also standing up and expressing their dissatisfaction with CBS's decision whether it be via blogging, Wikis, e-mails, phone calls to the studios, online forums and a great campaign that took its start from Jericho's last episode - NUTS. Fans are bombarding CBS with nuts (shelled, dry roasted, packing peanuts, faxed photos of Mr. Peanut, or anything nut related! This is our reason for "Why We Fight".

[Teresa Rothaar]

No, the fans of Jericho are NOT sitting on their laurels and letting this happen. We love this show, we believe in this show, and we're going to fight like demons to try to bring it back!

JERICHO FANS UNITE!

[Bill]

CBS had a real winner on it’s hands with Jericho, so what did they do? How about a 3 month hiatus, oh, and then schedule it opposite American Idol, and finally gripe about it’s ratings dropping… That’s CBS’ idea of how to treat a heavily serialized show and it’s audience. No way I am giving the time of day to the mindless drivel they are airing this fall. It appears that a thinking person’s TV options are more and more limited every season.

But the viewers of Jericho (myself included) have also decided to fight to save the show against overwhelming odds, and to let CBS know we mean business we are mailing nuts (any kind of nuts) to the programming department in reference to a line from the episode ‘Why We Fight’. So, if we succeed life is good, if not CBS employees will have a lifetime supply of nuts.

[erin]

CBS is blocked from every TV I own. I haven't watched network TV for years because of all the reality crap. Jericho was a show that my family watched together. I will not watch CBS ever again, even if the Colts are playing. This is why network tv is failing!

[Sharon Niles]

Jericho was my favorite TV show. It was innovative and thought provoking. Bring back Jericho!! We have to find out what happens. CBS made a big mistake by cancelling it.

[Amy]

I along with millions of other viewers are upset with CBS for cancelling Jericho. If CBS does not put this show back on the air they will not only lose Jericho viewers but viewers who are supporting all the Jericho fans.
CBS's stand is that Jericho lost viewers after the mid-season hiatus when it was put back on the air against American Idol. If CBS thinks ANY show on their network could beat AmericanI Idol then they really are NUTS

[Linda Tscherne]

I find nothing appealing in any of the new Fall lineups. "Kid Nation" sounds like Kiddie Survivor. I can't believe that the network and the parents of these children are allowing this kind of exploitation. Then there's the mid-season replacement "Swingtime".. Another show I won't watch. Why would a network want to promote extra-marital affairs? Sorry.. their idea of edgy is my idea of trashy. What ever happened to responsible broadcasting? CBS had a fantastic show in "Jericho" and they choose to cancel it. Jericho made people think about how they would react in an apocalyptic situation, think about the kind of person they would become. Now they seem to be trying to tell us to turn into Swingers.. I guess "sex" sells and intellectual shows get cancelled.