Justice: FOX Throws Out Court Drama
Following on the heels of last week’s cancellations of the Happy Hour sitcom and The Rich List game show, FOX has announced that another of its new shows is leaving the air.
Justice debuted on Wednesday, August 30th to high expectations. The network had been showing fast-paced promos of the Victor Garber series all summer long but it still failed to attract big numbers. The highly anticipated premiere was watched by only 8.6 million viewers.
Justice followed a diverse group of lawyers as they worked at a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. Each episode started at the beginning of a trial and followed it through until the verdict. Then viewers were shown, via flashbacks, what actually happened at the time of the crime.
Like many FOX series, Justice took a break during the World Series (after five episodes). When it returned, FOX began airing it on Monday nights, opposite NBC’s popular Heroes and replacing Vanished (which was moved to Friday nights). Three episodes have aired on Monday nights. The most recent episode drew only 4.2 million households, about half of lead-in Prison Break’s audience.
With that in mind, its no surprise that FOX has announced that the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced courtroom drama has been pulled from the schedule effective immediately. The network isn’t calling it a cancellation right now. The FOX website lists that the show will return on December 11th, but the word is that it will not return for very long or at all.
Eight episodes of Justice have aired thus far and production is expected continue on the rest of the 13 episodes of FOX’s order. There is no word as yet if the series or any individual episodes will be released on DVD or online via FOX’s website.
11/17/06 UPDATE: FOX has officially cancelled Vanished and Justice will instead return on Friday, December 1st. No new word on how long it will continue to air. 
April 11th, 2007 at 12:46 am
Justice was one of the BEST shows on ANY network!!! Please bring it back, or at least sell it to someone else who can see what a GREAT show it was!! Maybe Court TV would pick it up, or TNT… (that would be kinda funny actually, seeing as the firm in the show is TNT & G… lol)
I hate how networks do this… they put a GREAT show in a tough time slot and then axe it when it fails to get super-bowl level ratings!
Come on, when was the last time Jerry Bruckheimer had a bad show??? He’s a brilliant director, and this was quite possibly one of his best shows!
April 7th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Please people you take off Good shows like Vanished and leave on the reality garbage. If the local networks don’t strighten up there act they will losing alot of viewers. I myself live on a very fixed income and due to legal matters ihad to purchase local channels via a different company other then my satalite provider. Now I really wonder if it’s worth it. I don’t think so. Just saying keep the stupid shows and lose the smart people that know what they want.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:29 am
I was shocked that this show was cancelled it was awesome! I loved that they actually showed what happened at the end of the show it was clever to do it that way. I am so ticked that I just may stop watching fox altogether. Maybe if none of their shows got good rating they would bring this one back!
April 6th, 2007 at 6:36 am
please reconsider.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:27 am
Wow, I finally remembered to check out why Justice hadn’t been recording on my dvr. So I googled it and discovered that it was canceled. Wow!!!! that was a dumb move. I thought next to Lost it was the best show on TV. It’s better than Shark. What a disappointment!!! FOX needs to reconsider this one!!!!!
April 4th, 2007 at 7:03 am
I can’t believe that FOX finally has a great show and they cancell it!!! I finally have a show I can sit and watch and get into and they shelf it for dumb shows like,til death,american idol,so you think you can dance,Bones,prison break, are you smarter than a 5th grader,well obviously they are not smarter than a 5th grader every great show FOX has ever had they cancel and put junk in its spot. It is no wonder I went from watchiong fox all the time to just when HOUSE is on. If they cancel HOUSE you might as well get rid of the whole station!! Bring back JUSTICE!!!! give it a fair shot at an audience. You can’tr believe that with all the pre-enpting from the baseball series and the moving it around that ppl could have a chance to sit and watch it and make a decision! Give it a few more episodes. Put it on a good night pehaps before HOUSE and keep it there,advertise it and do not move it around so nobody can find it!!!I bet ppl will tume in and watch!! If not at least let the court channel have it and let them take over!!! I hate to see a great show canned because of stupidity!
March 30th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
We’re starting to have 1000 signatures in the first petition (www.petitiononline.com/justice0/). KEEP ON SPREADING THE WORD!
March 29th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Fox is worthless take off that stupid American Idol and bring Justice back. Give it a time slot thats not crap. I watched it even when football was on.
March 28th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
Bring Justice back!!!!!! What the heck were you thinking?!?!?!
March 28th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Fox Sucks. They would have cancelled Law and Order. I hate them> This was the best series f the season.
March 24th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Wow. Way to go FOX…Those people really ARE stupid. I can’t believe they’d cancel Justice! It was the best damn show I’ve seen on FOX for years! Argh…It makes me angry. That show pushed my desire to become a lawyer to a whole new level. I just don’t see how they can cancel it…
March 23rd, 2007 at 6:25 pm
FOX should bring back Justice. That show was excellent!!
March 23rd, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Here are all 3 petitions to bring “Justice” back on the air:
http://www.petitiononline.com/justice0
http://www.petitiononline.com/lgenna
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bringbackjustice
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:13 am
I wish Fox would bring Justice back
24/M
March 21st, 2007 at 4:36 pm
I love Justice ~ don’t cancel the one good show left!!!
March 21st, 2007 at 8:10 am
I’m an italian fan of Justice. I love this show. Please bring Justice back!! ciao
March 20th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
I loved the show Justice. I even got my Husband into the show as well. And we are very disappoint that fox cancelled it. It seems as though Fox was disappointed in not have the number of viewers that they wanted. And I have to blame Fox for that. I mean we all knew when American Idol is comming on. And when the new episode of 24 is on. And prison break,,,But Justice didnt get as “hyped” up like those other shows did. I must have seen a hundred commercials for prison break. I didnt even know about the show Justice until they changed the day that Justiced came on. And when I found out the new time and date,,,it was cancelled.
Fox will regret this. LOL!!Justice was a good show because it was a different type of drama. And I for one hate watching the same kind of stuff on tv. The show had damn good actors as well. Shame on you Fox.
March 17th, 2007 at 7:16 am
I have to agree with the above post. This was an epic show and it’s hard to understand why they would yank it off the air. Vanished was another really good one. What I really don’t understand, is that they would rather play repeats of Bones, House, and whatever (not taking anything away from these shows but still). Is there a petition somewhere we can sign somewhere in hopes of bringing it back???
March 16th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Please put “Justice” back on MySpace again!
March 16th, 2007 at 6:50 am
I along with a friend of mine are so disappointed that this show will not be returning. This I can agree, was one of the BEST shows Fox had to offer. Wth the different ending, it finally gave the viewers some closure. We look at TV for entertainment, but with ALL other shows it leaves you wondering what happened.
I believe you can see that this is not one of the shows to be cancelled. Please reconsider, and keep it in ONE TIME SLOT, so people will know when to watch it. JUSTICE needs a chnce to be seen.