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Posted on 03/08/07

Enraged fans raise Jericho from the dead

Even the most casual viewer knows that a TV show lives and dies by its ratings. There is no greater measure of a program's worth than Nielsen numbers.Each fall, the U.S. networks stack their prime-time schedules with a few dozen new series - the majority of which are gone and already forgotten when the TV season winds down eight months later. Cancellation is normally the final chapter in the life of a series, but sometimes a show comes back - if viewers make enough noise.

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