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. 
Fox did really goofed up by cancelling one of the greatest shows on television. They did that by cancelling “Justice”. Someday Fox might regret their decisions on cancelling their shows. Stupid Fox.
I liked Justice so much I searched the internet trying to figure out what happened to it. We waited with anticipation for this show every week. The last 5 minutes of the show was really unique – unlike all other shows – as we determined whether we guessed right or not during the show. I am also baffled that this show was canceled – I hope it is eventually brought back – it was really good TV.
My husband and I loved Justice. We added it to our season pass list on our Tivo. We felt it was very well done, and we loved the way it always showed us what really happened at the end. I think you made a big mistake cancelling Justice and would like to see it return. We really miss it. Please reconsider.
Justice was one of the best shows! we love bones and house, but justice was our fav!!! why take off such a great show!??!?!?
CALLING ALL NETWORKS: PLEASE REVIVE “JUSTICE”!!!!!!
cant believe fox justice was an exellent show bring it back
Bring Justice back! We love the whole package, great cast,fast paced, good writing. Another good Bruckheimer production.
I’ve just finished watching all the episodes of Justice I had on my DVR. I went searching for more and found it had been cancelled. I’m so disappointed! It was a very witty show with great dialogue and intriguing plots. I love Victor Garber! After Alias ended I thought he wouldn’t be able to break his role, but he did! He was great! The other actors on the team were all top notch! I hope Fox brings it back.
Extremely disappointing. Amazing how they take this show off the air but keep Trading Spouses and Nanny 911 on. Just what we were yearning for – annoying husbands and wives and undisciplined children – THANKS!
I love this show, but knew from the begining Fox would cancel it. Justice is well written, features a superb cast. Every week has been instense, and it got me glued to the television…guessing what really happened but in the end Justice wasn’t served.
Thanks a lot FOX.
Fox, Fox, Fox…what are you doing?
First, you come out with Vanished. You left us hanging on that one. This is like reading half a book and then walking away.
Second, you pull *the best show on TV*, which I need to say — Justice.
Maybe you would get better ratings if you did better marketing!?! The show was great! I blame you for not getting enough viewers. You didn’t give the show time to spread via word-of-mouth.
Bring it back NOW!
What is next are you going to cancel prison break. Just when you get into a show they pull it from right underneath you. I think that if they were to put it on saturday nights when nothing else is on pleantly of people would watch.
Just echoing what the majority are voicing: Justice was a great show — unique in a crowded venue. It needs to come back.
I can’t believe Justice was cancelled!! It was one of my favorite new shows on Fox that I looked forward to watching! I love House, Bones, Prison Break and where the heck is Stand Off?? PLEASE bring Justice back!!!!!!!
I signed both petitions when I saw that Justice had been canceled – did you know there are less than 1300 names on there? If you really want Justice back, put your name on the petition – only NUMBERS will be the motivation for a huge corporation like Fox to bring back this amazing show!