This past Tuesday - just the other day - we quickly brought you
Paramount's announcement that
Jericho - The 2nd Season was already being planned for DVD release. Although the 7-episode sophomore season had only just begun airing, we were surprised to see that CBS DVD and Paramount Home Entertainment was already advising of a release date for June 10th.
There's an old saying: "if something's too good to be true, then it probably isn't true". As of yesterday, Paramount removed
Jericho - The 2nd Season from their schedule, which is posted at their password-protected retailer/press site. We talked to our contacts in the industry, who noted that they saw the same thing on their end, and that they did not get any explanation from the studio about the change. We sent a message to Paramount at mid-day yesterday, requesting a comment about reasons for withdrawing the title from the schedule, and any indication of a new release date if the title is delayed. At this time we have received no reply yet.
Some speculation among our friends in the industry is that perhaps the studio still intends to make the posted release date, but was not supposed to announce the package this soon after the episodes begun broadcasting. If that guess turns out to be the case, then it makes sense that the studio will have no comment on the matter.
It's worth noting, however, that several other titles announced on Tuesday were also withdrawn from the schedule. The other TV-DVD title removed was
My Three Sons - The 1st Season, Volume 1 (see our separate story on that). Also taken off the list were special editions of all three previous
Indiana Jones films, previously scheduled for mid-May. Also the April 8th planned release on DVD and HD DVD of the Daniel Day-Lewis film
There Will Be Blood has also apparently been scrubbed.
It's not unusual - at all - for studios to juggle their schedules and move release dates around; apparently there was a lot of that going on at Paramount this week! Stay tuned, though, and we'll keep you updated on the status of
Jericho - The 2nd Season for DVD.
