6. Jericho
Network CBS,
Run 2006-2007, 2008,
Starring Skeet Ulrich, Lennie James, Ashley Scott, Kenneth Mitchell, Michael Gaston, Gerald McRaney, Pamela Reed, Sprague Grayden, Shoshannah Stern, Brad Beyer, Alicia Coppola, Erik Knudsen, Esai Morales. In the wake of Losts success, several similar shows sprung up in an attempt to replicate its formula. Most failed and found themselves cancelled after one season
(a subject Ive covered before), Jericho amongst them. Unlike its counterparts, however, Jericho was both a highly intriguing and engaging show, focusing on the residents of a fictional Kansas town in the wake of a nuclear attack that has decimated much of the rest of the United States. Full of mystery and intrigue, the show aired a full twenty-two episode season before it was cancelled (despite average ratings of nearly ten million), incorporating storylines such as a war with a nearby town and the investigation of a supposed conspiracy behind the nuclear attack. Brought back as a midseason replacement in 2008 after a number of fan campaigns, seven more episodes were made as a makeshift second season before the show was cancelled again, though its plot has continued in the form of comics since.