Jericho and the Unit

[Steve Green]

I noticed that Jericho is appearing on ITV4 starting on the 3rd October, and the Unit on the new Virgin 1 channel.

Either of these worth watching?

The Unit is a co-creation of David Mamet and the Shield's Shawn Ryan, so it has pretty good credentials, and I quite like the sound of Jericho's post-nuclear premise.

Cheers,

Steve

[Jim_Campbell]

The Unit has the immensely watchable Denis Haysbert, plus Robert Patrick as the unit commander.

It's kind of pro-armed forces without managing to be horribly pro-US-foreign-policy, which is quite a good trick.

Worth a look.

Boston Legal is also migrating to Virgin 1 from Living and is worth a look.

Cheers

Jim

[Steve Green]

Cheers,

since it is a replacement for ftn (which basically got the scraps of Bravo/Living) it looks like they're chucking a bit more money at it, with a few more US imports.

I just wish these channels would go easy on the onscreen logos. ITV have just changed their ones to bright colours rather than translucent ones and Sky Three often has a second logo promoting some piece of arse that I have no interest in.

Sorry, it's just my pet peeve.

[CapKlep]

I have watched a fair bit of Jericho.
Unfortunately i think it didn't get great ratings so the higher ups in tv land scrapped it.
Cue many fan complaints with the end result that they are going to finish the story but not over a full season.
I think it will just be a few eps to end it and that will be that.
In answer to your question though, i thought it was pretty good.
It gave you just enough every week to want to com e back to.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Jericho was quite a good watch with a very interesting storyline. Many shocks and suprises throughout!
The Unit's 2 seasons have also been enjoyable to watch the 5 man Rambo unit do the impossible every week and come away unscathed with no repercussions, well that is until the last few episodes of season 2.

[Bico]

Jericho's hard to dislike.  It might not float your boat, but it won't divide opinion like something like Babylon 5 - it's just a smalltown tv drama with some post-apocalyptic trimmings.  It probably didn't go down too well because it answered questions in a timely fashion, rather than keep you guessing and drag the arse out of things like Lost does, but it's occasionally strong on character - the bit in the final episode where the town expects Jake to give them a morale-boosting speech and he just says "We'll get through" is a lovely bit of non-speechifying that's quite welcome.
Not spectacular, but not terrible, either.