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. 
It takes years to get a cancelled show revived. “Family Guy” was cancelled (for the second time) in 2002 and it was revived in 2005 because the fans never gave up on “Family Guy.” I want “Justice” fans to do the same. If you want “Justice” to really come back in the future, spread the word to the entire world!
Fox SUCKS!!!!! Why the hell do they keep canceling all the good F**king shows??
WAKE THE HELL UP FOX and get someone that knows what they are doing to run the network!!
And i think Brandon ment to put “Armed & Famous” in the comment posted a few before mine.
OMFG! Noooooooooooooooooooooo….. why??? This is one AWESOME show! Bring it back!!!!!!!!
I love this show. It was refreshing and one of the best shows on tv…I thought. Can’t believe Fox cancelled it. I agree…move it to another night. There is a time slot that can work for Justice. I tivo every episode and watch it. Absolutely, love it!!
I’ve been looking for “JUSTICE” for weeks wondering what happened! Did they even announce it! This was the BEST show on TV!!! Fox lost another viewer!
Bring back Justice on Fox, sign the online petition!!
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bringbackjustice/
We need to call up FX or Spike or VH1 and get them to pick the show up. VH1 has already picked up armed and dangerous when it got canceled, maybe we can get Justice on VH1. Screw Fox they don’t know what they are doing!
Please bring the show back. It was the best show on television!
I am very disappointed that Justice was cancelled. It was a refreshing spin on the crime tv show. CSI, Law and Order are all essentially of the same formula and have its same run of the mill spinoffs. Justice was unique. You screwed up Fox. I watched the show loyally or taped it whenever I could not watch it live. Besides 24, the rest of your lineup stinks. Bring back Justice and Vanished.
I doubt it that FOX are not going to renew any of their new shows from the 2006-2007 season to the 2007-2008 season. There are a lot of shows out there that deserved to be cancelled, but “Justice” isn’t one of them. You screwed up Fox.
Why would you cancel “Justice” and continue “Standoff”????
“Justice” was certainly the better of the 2 series in my opinion.
This was the most awesome coutroom drama I have ever seen; much better than Law and Order in my opinion. This was a terrible mistake to cancel this show.. I was riveted every show, and looked forward to watching Fox when it was on. Now, I have nothing to watch on the network.
This show is great!!!! It sure is better than Shark.
Please do not cancel Justice.
I loved the show Justice… I thought it was amazing… I told friends and family to watch it.. and even called them to remind them when it was on. I say… put the show back on the air.. and give it one more chance! Come on, no1 liked “Everybody Loves Raymond” in the beginning either.. and then that show went super famous.
Go Justice!!!
Justice is much BETTER than Law and Order and CSI. Please bring it back.