One of the benefits of the fact writers strike is that my favourite formerly cancelled show from last season, Jericho, will be returning to TV February 12th. Given the writers strike I had hoped for a January start to the season since there will be an over abundance of re-runs next month. The show will have an abbreviated 7 episode season, which is being used by CBS to gauge the popularity of the show before it would be hopefully renewed for a proper full 3rd season. Now I found something a little interesting while poking around the official website today with regards to Jericho and the writers strike. I had visited the site last week and seen a rather poorly formatted blog posts relating to the writers strike. Well this posts is nowhere to be found now, with the most recent blog entry is now an old post releating to the Season 1 DVD release from early October. Remote Access did a post about this particular blog item with the photo below, originally from this missing blog post, so I do have proof that it actually existed.

This quote is from the introduction to the blog page.

“JERICHO is back in production! For the first time ever, the producers, writers and cast will have free reign on our site. They’ll be posting daily from set. Dig in for the next chapter in the Jericho revolution.”

I can’t say for sure, but this looks to me like CBS might have reeled in some of that liberty granted to the cast. I guess showing cast members from one of their shows supporting the writers strike on the official CBS website was a bit much for the higher-ups. So much for free reign.