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. 
August 31st, 2007 at 6:50 am
I watch this show in the Netherlands and i love it. I download the episodes but Im really sad to hear that it has been cancelled. Why cant they cancel other crap fox shows.
August 8th, 2007 at 6:29 am
Please bring Justic back~~!
Please ~~!
It’s a really good show~~!
August 7th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Me and my family loved this show. WHY was it cancelled????
this was probably one of the best courtroom, crime drama show that i ever saw. i would actually look forward to this show every week! this show was surely one of a kind. and whats even more disappointing is i cant even get any of the episodes on DVD!
July 25th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Look, I can’t believe Fox is getting rid of this show. If anyone from Fox reads this please listen closley. If its ratings, move it to a time slot where the ratings dont have to be so high, like for instance late nights or early mornings. With where technology is now days, those viewers who enjoy this show will tivo it and come back to watch it at a time that is convienent for them. Tivo gives ratings and think about it, if you put it on late night or early mornings the ratings will be through the roof as compared to other shows at that time or your own shows at that time for that matter. 8.6 million tuned in to watch the season premier and probably more was watching by the time yall decided to pull the plug on it. However the fact of the matter is 8.6 million viewers for a 1hr time slot at say 2am is a lot more in return than the chump change you get from those infomercial guys that nobody watches, now am I right or am I right? Do the right thing for the viewers who enjoy this program as well as for youself. You stand to make more ratings than any other channel out there in this time slot and ratings mean money. Money means your happy and Justice means the viewers are happy. Now, how hard was that? Maybe I should change my career to TSG ( time slot guy) lol. Another piece of advice, if you infact do this or bring the show back at all, reach out to us viewers and let us know that it is coming on by whatever means neccesary. If people are like me, I generally don’t watch much tv, maybe 5 hrs a week. Post billboards or get commercial slots on other stations, lol cause again I do not watch much tv and when I do its normally not Fox, nothing personall i’m just not big into adult cartoons. Oh and don’t compete with Monday night football, you and I both know that you can’t win. Like someont said in another coment, Sienfield started slow but with faith in the show and a little bit of time, look what happend. If you have any available positions as TSG give me a shout, I would be more than happy to kick them stupid cartoons right off the air, thats the problem with people today, they are lazy and simple minded, eating a greasy bucket of chicken and watching King of the Hill, give me a break, go to the gym if you have that much time on your hands.
July 8th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Well, I finally looked online to see what happened to ‘Justice’. It makes sense now why I haven’t seen it for several months .. what a huge disappointment!!
I am looking forward to it returning this December, I sure hope it’ll last longer than it’s inital airing. It’s a show that myself & many others always watched, regardless of the day it aired. I thought it was (and still is) a great show! There isn’t much I watch anymore, but it’s one of my favourites along with ‘House’, ‘Bones’ & ‘Standoff’. If it ever made it to DVD, I’d buy it! Plus, it’s hands down better than any of the reality crap that has flooded the air waves…
June 14th, 2007 at 2:29 am
Is Justice at least going to be available on DVD? I remember when they first canceled Family Guy, but brought it back cuz they realized the DVD sales were excellent.
June 11th, 2007 at 10:10 am
I do like other shows on fox…however this was one that both my wife and I enjoyed together. Bring it back
June 3rd, 2007 at 5:37 am
Well, as a Chinese audience, I have to say Justice is an amazing show. All my friends just wondered why such a good show should be cancelled. So we thought maybe we don’t have the same taste with you foreigners. However, here, I think it was a popular show even for you. It is hard to say goodbye to Justice. I hate to do the things I have to do.
May 27th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
This was one of the best shows that I have ever seen. Put it on Friday against the spouse swapping BS or whatever. Bring it back, at least for a summer fill-in, we have to have something to watch.
May 27th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Wow… This show got cancelled? I just googled it to see what happened to it. This show was awesome. I always DVR’d it and loved it.
May 17th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Are they bringing it back December 1st? Justice by far one of the best shows on Fox. (Excluding Simpsons and Family Guy). Justice was so well written it’s unbelievable.
May 15th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Fox, bring back “JUSTIC” it was thrilling. It takes awhile to understand the show, but once I did, I looked forward to it each week and then, it was gone.
May 7th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
My husband and I had been wondering what happened to Justice. We had only seen it 2, maybe 3 times and then it stopped coming on but it was one of the few shows that we both enjoyed. We couldn’t remember the name, but I finally googled “fox lineup” and found what I wanted. I was very dissappointed to learn it was cancelled. I guess we caught the final few episodes, but thought we were catching a new show to enjoy. We watch alot of sports, so if it was on during my Braves games or Grizzlies, Suns, Mavericks or Heat - or a few other sports -that would be why we never knew. I also flip the channel at most commercials. I wish they would bring it back - it was a great show.
May 3rd, 2007 at 6:40 am
I write of Brazil and would like that FOX revesse the decision to cancel serie JUSTICE, that in my best opinion and one of series that I had the chance to attend…
April 29th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
I was so dissappointed when this show was pulled..It was TERRIFIC…Wish they would put it back on…and give it a chance…
April 24th, 2007 at 11:18 am
Fox are you nuts this is one of the best legal shows on TV. The problem is trying to find it. You run it in one place then take a 5 week break from it and then move it to another place. Once again are you NUTS.
April 17th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
i am so pissed about “Justice” being cancelled!!! ive been soooooooo looking foreward to seeing it again! it was one of those shows that i would tell my friends i couldnt go out that night because i had to stay home and watch it! i am really dissapointed in FOX. it amazes me that they are upset because “ONLY” 8.6 million viewers watched? thats 8.6 million people or households that are PISSED that its off the air! i for one am boycotting FOX until they bring back “Justice”!!!
April 16th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Fox just sucks and I am just about to boycott the whole freakin channel Justice is a really great show and I’m sorry you didn’t get the ratings that you wanted but we people really enjoy the show, I feel bad for the actors and actresses putting themselves in to a show as well as they have this one just to get cancelled, you suck
April 15th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Fox should really bring back JUSTICE!!!! I’vr been waiting for it, and then found out that they cancelled it. Put it on a different time slot and a different night. There are nights where there isn’t anything to watch, stop trying to compete with other shows and make people watch your station continuosly!!
Also, once you guys killed off Gale Harold in Vanished, the story went dead. Just my opinion.
April 13th, 2007 at 11:33 am
All the garbage on TV and THIS show gets cancelled. Talk about the dumbing down of America…the cancelation of this show is a prime example!