JERICHO , CBS's hit freshman drama about the aftermath of a nuclear explosion in a small, peaceful Kansas town, will be broadcast without repeats for the remainder of the 2006-2007 season.
The network announced today that it has devised a scheduling pattern to broadcast JERICHO in two distinct seasons. JERICHO will conclude its "fall season" with a cliffhanger finale on Wednesday, Nov. 29 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) and come back in February with all original episodes for the remainder of the season.
JERICHO will return on February 14th with a recap special looking back at the first 11 episodes, followed by an original episode on February 21st. The all-new episode on February 21st will provide a look into life in Jericho the day before the nuclear bombs exploded.
To sustain audience momentum and update potential new viewers, CBS will create an online destination for JERICHO during the show's 10-week intermission. The site will include original content, interactive elements, recaps and sneak previews.
CBS will also continue to stream all episodes of JERICHO broadcast to date on its broadband channel innertube. Currently, JERICHO is the Network's most-streamed program on innertube.
JERICHO is averaging 11.08 million viewers, 3.4/10 in adults 18-49 and 4.5/12 in adults 25-54 and has boosted CBS's performance in the Wednesday, 8:00-9:00 PM time period by +50% in viewers, +42% in adults 18-49 and +50% in adults 25-54 compared to last year.
JERICHO stars Skeet Ulrich, Gerald McRaney, Ashley Scott, Pamela Reed, Kenneth Mitchell, Lennie James, Sprague Grayden, Michael Gaston, Erik Knudsen, Brad Beyer and Shoshannah Stern.
Jon Turteltaub, Stephen Chbosky and Carol Barbee are executive producers for CBS Paramount Network Television.
In a related announcement, Kevin James, Leah Remini and Jerry Stiller return with original episodes of THE KING OF QUEENS in December.
CBS will broadcast back-to-back new episodes of THE KING OF QUEENS on Wednesday, Dec. 6 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) and Wednesday, Dec. 13 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET). New episodes of THE KING OF QUEENS will also be broadcast on Wednesday, Dec. 20 (8:00-8:30 PM, ET/PT) and Wednesday Dec. 27 (8:00-8:30 PM, ET/PT). Seven more episodes of THE KING OF QUEENS to be broadcast in 2007 will be announced at a later date.
CBS will also announce additional programming for the Wednesday (8:00-9:00 PM) time period at a later time.
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Torchwood 01x02 Day one |
Episode Synopsis (spoilers abound)
We start out with Gwen and her boyfriend out for a night. They go bowling, and have a bite to eat. Of course their night is interrupted by a flaming UFO crashing. Gwen gets the page that she has to go to work.
The Torchwood people are rushes to the crash site before others get there, but don’t get there in time. “The amateurs got here first” The place is swarming with soldiers. Stumbling into the wrong tent, Gwen tries to tell them she is with Torchwood, they don’t believe her, but Jack rushes in to save her. He tells the soldiers to let them do the real work. The crash site is some sort of space debris. They take a lot of readings, and samples. Gwen accidentally hits it with a tool, and some sort of blue blowing stuff is seen inside. Smoke starts billowing from within, jack throws everyone a gas mask, and a large plume of purple smoke comes billowing out of the crack. It disappears into the night sky.
The purple haze falls on some woman in an alley breaking up with her boyfriend on her cellphone. It goes inside her through her mouth. The next thing we know she’s going back into the club. She kissed the bouncer to get in. When she gets in there she finds a cute guy, and throws herself at him. They sneak into the bathroom and he starts to have sex with her on the bathroom stall. At the point of climax he screams and turns into glowing gold particles, and she inhales him.
Back at Torchwood the team is berating Gwen for releasing the alien, Lanto tells them that finding the alien won’t be hard as there has been a 999 call and a death under unusual circumstances. The team rushes to the club that we saw the girl at earlier. Except now its covered in police, she stops to talk to her former partner for a minute, he’s proud that she’s special ops now. In the bathroom where the man died, Jack is talking to one of the bouncers. When asked how he knows the small pile of ash used to be a man, the bouncer admits that he had a hidden camera and was masturbating watching the sex. Torchwood watches the tape and makes a few funny comments about what happened. They don’t know the girl, or any leads. Jack tells them to pull a body close the dead man’s disfigure the face and make it look like a suicide attempt. Gwen is something shocked at this, but relents when Jack tells her that they can’t tell the family that he died screwing an alien. Gwen feels responsible.
The girl is back home with her boyfriend, who must not have gotten her message. She can’t remember what she did the previous night.
Jack is tracking the trajectory of the rock to find out where it came from. Gwen discovers that she is the only one at Torchwood that has a relationship. She asks them how they wind down, how they relax.
Toshiko is running the girls picture against all of the faces in the
Gwen’s boyfriend calls her, and breaks her trance. Gwen walks out, and Owen makes fun of her. Lanto has Chinese food. Over the table they are all laughing and joking. Jack has to go to the bathroom, and as soon as he leaves they start gossiping about him. Hoping that Gwen knows more than they do. All they think they know is that Jack is gay, because period military isn’t the uniform of a straight man.
They continue studying Clarice trying to find a way to save her. Even going through her personal life. It turns out she is a walking aphrodisiac. They find Owen Naked in her cell. Clarice escapes her cell, but Jack stops her getting out of the hub. They fight for a bit, until the alien grabs the hand in a jar. Jack tells her its worthless to anyone but him. jack offers to let her go in exchange for the jar, but as soon as he opens the door she throws the jar and it smashes on the floor. Jack runs for the jar and picks up the still twitching hand. She escapes. Later Gwen berates Jack for his priorities. The hand is more important than their lives. The readings on Clarice aren’t stable, and are constantly changing. Owen has infected a rat with the gases that the alien has, the rat blows up.
Gwen goes to her ex’s place; apparently Clarice was the other woman… He is kind of a disheveled prick, and Clarice eats him. They are wondering why the alien chose her. It appears that Clarice works at a sperm bank. Torchwood rushes to the scene. She is busily making a meal of all the potential donors at the sperm bank. Torchwood corners her after she’s eaten quite a few of the men. She tells them that it’s getting weaker, and that she needs just one more. Jack volunteers, he kisses her, and she gets some of the gold from him. That’s just a kiss, imagine what the rest has. It won’t be long before Clarice explodes so Gwen volunteers her body for the alien so they can save her. Gwen says she will last longer and they might save her. Just as the alien leaves Clarice and goes for Gwen they capture it in the glowing portable cell. It starts to die in earths atmosphere. It dies in the cell, and Gwen Kisses Jack and tells him thank you. At the end Clarice goes home to her father, Jack and Gwen talk. Jack asks Gwen to keep her life, and not let the job consume her. Gwen asks Jack who he is, why he can’t die, or how he knows what the future holds. He tells her to be normal, for him.
Another good episode, enjoyed the premise, and the sexuality was really pushed to the limit in this one. If this makes it to the states they are going to edit the hell out of it. That was most defiantly the Doctors hand. The one he lost during the Christmas Invasion, it’s interesting that it still twitches.
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Torchwood 01x01 everything changes |
Episode Synopsis (spoilers abound)
Well, we got our grubby little mitts on the new Dr who Spin-off series Torchwood. It was quite good, and it didn’t distance itself too far from the original series to make it unrecognizable, Capt Jack was there, in all his glory.
To start, we enter a dark
The next day Gwen goes down to work, and makes an inquiry about torchwood and Capt Jack. No one in the police has a definite answer to what torchwood is, some sort of CSI her partners imagines. They have a police briefing about the latest ring of stabbings; all are done with a knife about 8 inches long. Later Gwen and her partner try and break up a bar brawl, Gwen gets wounded and has to get stitches. While at the hospital she sees a man running up a flight of stairs and she chases. When she gets to the top she finds the top floor sealed off. Chemicals or something an orderly tells her. Gwen tries to investigate, but finds what she thinks is a strange man. We can tell he’s not quite human, she thinks it’s a mask. He’s wearing some sort of blue shiny torchwood labeled jumpsuit. She tries asking him about the man in the coat. She doesn’t get a response. The orderly comes back and tells her that there aren’t any chemicals or anything, and they don’t know why the floor is sealed up. He starts talking about the guy in the “mask” and how good it is. Getting too close the creature (weevil) lunges for the mans neck and rips his throat out. Out of nowhere Torchwood jumps and subdues the creature. Gwen runs out of the hospital and tries to chase down the Torchwood van. She runs the registration over her radio, but gets nothing. The only thing that she has is that there was an American Captain Jack Harkness who disappeared in 1941. She follows them to the
A traffic cop distracts her and when she turns back they have disappeared. She tries talking to her partner about the hospital porter but there isn’t anyone missing. He thinks that she isn’t well and takes her home where here boyfriend is making dinner. She tells him that she has to work a night shift as they are short. She sneaks down to the place where she lost the Torchwood people. She spots a moped driving pizza delivery person, and decides to go to the pizza place. She flashes her badge and asks if they deliver to Capt Jack, or other versions of his name. She finally gets around to asking if they deliver to Torchwood. Of course they do them all the time, good customers. She gets their address from the pizza guy. Later on we see her walking with two pizzas. She goes through a door under the boardwalk, to some sort of tourist center. The place is all tacky, with brochures and post cards. When she is asked why she is there she says a Mr. Harkness ordered a pizza. Pushing a button a secret door opens, and she is guided through. After going through some mysterious hallways and self opening doors, and a brief elevator ride she finds herself at Torchwood.
The first impression of the place is it’s weird. She has to go through a bank vault rolling door, with a cage that closes when she enters. It looks like a disused subway station that’s been reconditioned as a lair. Inside she sees a severed hand in a bubbling glass display case with a matching head behind it. There is a waterfall through the middle of the place, someone doing welding on a computer, and finally Good ole Captain Jack, who of course seems to be ignoring her. It’s all rather ominous, until they start to laugh. None of them can hold a straight face. They remark that she actually had pizza with her.
She asks what happened to the porter, and they say that he was killed. They planted information making it look like he was never there and when they find his body in the
Capt Jack takers Gwen around Torchwood and introduces her to all the main players. She’s concerned of what they are going to do to her, as it is all very very top secret. Jack takes her to the scenic route, which is an elevator that takes them up straight o the spot where the TARDIS once was. Jack explains that no one can see them when they stand there; some sort of perception filter is there. He thinks that a dimensionally trancesndentant chameleon circuit was once in that exact spot and it welded its perception properties to the spatial temporal rift. He likes to call it an invisible lift. Gwen is concerned that people don’t see the hole when the lift is there and they fall in. Jack tells her that is typical Welsh, show her something fantastic and she finds fault.
Later in a bar, cpt Jack tells her that she should know about aliens, the alien ship on Christmas, the cybermen. She tells him that her boyfriend thinks its some sort of terrorism. They do their introductions, and she tells him that Cpt Jack Harkness disappeared in 1941. He tells her Torchwoods mandate, to scavenge technology to help mankind move into the future. Gwen worries that Torchwood could abuse the technology; Jack assures her that none of it can leave the base.
We then cut to a few scenes showing each Torchwood agent at home, unpacking clearly alien technology.
Back at the bar Jack tells Gwen that
Owen Harper is at a bar, and his perfume bottle of glowing particles is some sort of love potion. He walks off with the most beautiful girl in the place, when confronted with the jealous boyfriend he sprays himself again. The boyfriend kisses him, and says “I’m so having you” The girlfriend chimes in “I’m having him first” He calls for a Taxi.
Toshiko’s item seems to be some sort of alien scanner. She places it next to a book on her shelf, a tale of two cities, and then takes it to her computer. The screen comes alive with the scanned pages of the book.
Lanto is secretly intercepting Gwen’s email, and deletes it before she can get it out. The next day Gwen remembers nothing. She goes to work, and there is an artist’s concept of the weapon used to kill the recent murders. It’s rather an elaborate affair, and Gwen obsesses over it all day. Later that night she is awake, drawing the blade, and having a flashback of seeing it somewhere. She sees the word remember written on a pamphlet which leads her to the waterfall where the Torchwood is. She has more and more flashbacks till she meets Suzie Costello. Suzie admits that she found the artists conception of the knife and pretty much admits that she did it. Suzie loves the job, but hates that she has to run. She laments that they only get shit, there is better things in the universe, but they don’t come to earth. She admits that she killed the people to test the glove that revives people. The more she uses it, the more she can control it. She wants to get to the point where she can make it permanent. Capt Jack is standing between them in the perception filter, but it doesn’t work on Suzie. She shoots Capt Jack in the forehead. He gets up, and the bullet hole in his forehead heals. He tells her its over, and she commits suicide. At this Gwen Remembers. Then we go to the Torchwood facility, everyone starts to turn in their borrowed alien technology. They bag Suzies body, and put the glove under lock and key. Jack didn’t tell them he was shot in the head. He admits that he can’t die. That somewhere far away, he was killed, and something brought him back to life, and since that time he can’t die. He’s looking for a doctor.. the right sort of doctor to explain it. He doesn’t tell anyone because it freaks people out. Then he offers Gwen a place in Torchwood.
Pretty awesome episode, it didn’t lose any of the Dr Who charm, but it was clearly of a more adult nature. There were more thane one definite reference to bisexuality, and we clearly saw all the blood. I really enjoyed it, and can’t wait for more,
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