Sci-Fi Wire - Jericho Narrows Focus
22-JANUARY-08
Carol Barbee, executive producer of CBS' post-apocalyptic drama Jericho, told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming second season will focus primarily on Jake Green (Skeet Ulrich) and Robert Hawkins (Lennie James), as well as a new character.
"The story is much more focused this year on Jake and Hawkins and on this one major 'A' story," Barbee said in an interview. "We have the addition to our cast of Esai Morales, who is incredible in this part. He is in every episode. He plays Major Beck, who is sent by the Cheyenne government to get this town under control, and he's a very good, decent man working for some fairly shady people. And he goes through a moral journey of his own. And he's a great addition to the cast."
Jericho returns with a seven-episode second season next month that picks up the story from last year's cliffhanger, in which the neighboring Kansas towns of Jericho and New Bern were preparing to go to war. The second season will bring back most of the show's regular cast members, except Gerald McRaney's Johnston Green, who perished in the first-season finale.
CBS ordered up the short season in response to fan outcry over the series' cancellation. The show's seven episodes were written and produced before the current writers' strike happened, and seven turned out to be the "perfect number for us," Barbee said.
"It's sort of a beginning, a middle and an end, and it's doable," Barbee said. "You can sort of see the end of the arc." She added: "What we did this time is we took the story we were going to tell for the town of Jericho, and we condensed it into seven episodes. ... There is no treading water. Something huge happens in every episode: major character changes, deaths, love, loss, war, the whole thing." Jericho returns Feb. 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
Edited by Cartman, 13 February 2008 - 12:21.




