"Jericho" coming back?! What the ... ?!?

It seems like just last week that CBS corporate PR chief Gil Schwartz was serenading the CBS affiliates meeting in Las Vegas with a song parody making fun of the "Jericho" fan club.  Oh wait, it WAS last week. To the tune of "I’m Sorry":

We're sorry, oh oh,
That we canceled Jericho
You've sent us millions of nuts
It's really a pain in our butts
But it would have been better
If you got together
Before the big upfronts in May
When development season
gave reason to send you away
And made you as righteously pissed off as you are today

Well, perhaps Der Bingelmeister should have cleared that song with Nina Tassler, the CBS head of entertainment. Apparently as Schwartz was mocking the dead, Tassler was in advanced discussions with "Jericho" producer Carol Barbee about reviving the serial thriller, set in post-apocalyptic Kansas, for a second season.

And now, it's almost official. According to M.E. Fernandez of the L.A. Times, CBS will bring back "Jericho" for an abbreviated second run at midseason. The run will be just eight episodes, but if it draws the viewers, the show will go on.

I'm as amazed as Barbee, who according to Fernandez "never expected CBS to change its mind because of the devotion" of thousands of fans, many of whom sent those nuts to headquarters.

This has never happened in the Leslie Moonves regime. Of course, technically it's Tassler running the show these days. We just always assumed Moonves had the ultimate power to doom or save a show. Maybe we were wrong.

At any rate — great news!  I've never been happier to be dead wrong. Now, can we revive Gerald McRaney's character, too?