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CBS entertainment president Nina Tassler has received the message loud and clear. “More ‘Jericho’ please.” The fans of “Jericho” picked up on a line from the last show of the season, and what was supposed to be the series finale, and sent her bags of nuts and thousands of E-mails to bring the show back.

“The true legacy of the show may be that it is one of the few shows in the modern era that really illustrated how many different ways viewers engage TV viewing,” says Tassler. “Just to illustrate how insane things got, right after we made the pickup early in the summer, I was at a neighborhood camera store, and I’m buying a piece of photo equipment. The guy behind the counter is talking to me and he asked what I did. I told him I worked at CBS. I handed my credit card, and he looked at me and said, ‘Jericho.’ I thought, ‘Oh My God.’ He said, ‘I sent you an email.”

“As if that weren’t bad enough, I’m at a new doctor’s office getting a check up. I had some tests run, and he came in to give me the results. I was nervous. He comes in his white lab coat and his hands in his pocket. I thought it was going to be bad news. Then he pulls out a bag of peanuts. I thought, ‘Oh, Jesus.’ But it really was an indication of how much the audiences really were engaged and quite invested in this program.”

When the show ended last spring, the cast thought that was it. Then Skeet Ulrich received the call. “I didn’t believe it at first,” he laughs. “Then I couldn’t wait to call some of my friends on the cast to share the news. I mean this kind of thing never happens, and we couldn’t be more grateful to the fans.”

At least seven more “Jericho” episodes will air, and if the ratings are decent, there could be more.

Hey fans! If you like the “Dresden Files,” and I happen to love it, you need to let the Sci-Fi Channel know.  Email or write to Bonnie Hammer, President, USA Network and Sci-Fi Channel, and David Howe, executive vice president and general manager Sci-Fi Channel.

When I spoke to Howe, he said they were reviewing the shows of last season to see how they would proceed. It didn’t sound very hopeful. So get those letters in as soon as possible.