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. 
Please bring Justice back. It was one of the greatest court dramas I’ve ever watched. I still have it on my list of tv shows to record on my DVR in hopes that it will appear again. Everything about the show was great: the acting, cinematography, special effects, and especially the plots!! I love the way that the show was setup. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE bring it back!!!!!!!!
I loved Justice it was different from all the other court dramas. When will fox learn. They canceled Family Guy only to bring it back, and Married with children now runs endless reruns on FX. How many other shows have to suffer. If fox keeps this up they will have nothing to air but The Simpsons.
If this show isn’t doing well it’s not because the show isn’t any good, it’s that fox doesn’t do enough on marketing their new shows! Plus changing the time slot every other day! Seriously when was the last time Jerry Bruckheimer had a show bomb? He is a genius and he didn’t fall short on “Justice”! Beside Victor Garber alone will make all the 40 something’s watch, Kerr Smith will make all the teens-30 something’s watch, Rebecca Mader brings in any man with a pulse, and every black woman in America will want to tune in just to look at… Read more »
I am a fan of Justice also. Not only has it been cancelled but Fox removed it’s image completely from it’s website. Why would they do that? They could at least offer the remaining episodes online. I vote for bringing it back.
This was the best serious show since ABC’s “The Practice”; If the cancellation is a matter of audience or ratings, then probably Fox did not advertise it enough!; It had much potential. Besides, there is no other alternative law-show to compete. What’s left? Boston Legal?
Please, that’s only sex for a mockery of the jurisprudence system. If I was a producer, I would sell JUSTICE to CBS or something to resume it.
What the heck. Bring back JUSTICE
DUDE, wtf – they need to give Justice another chance.
BRING IT BACK, BITCHESS!
I have been looking for JUSTICE also wondering what happened to it. Now I find out that it has been cancelled. I LOVED the show and I am very disappointed that they remove this one and they keep other shows that in my opinion are junk. Please bring back JUSTICE. It truly was a great show. I especially liked the fact that they showed you at the end what really happened. A lot of these other shows always leave you wondering. They should give it some time for the audience to get into it. Other shows have been given whole… Read more »
Bring back “Justice”. Give it a chance!
I was just catching up on some shows that I taped and caught one of the last episodes of Justice. This was a GREAT show and I am very disappointed that this has left the air. I reallly wish you would reconsider bringing this back on the air. Guess what I don’t even watch Prison Break anymore, but I would watch JUSTICE! Please bring this back. Thank You.
I REALLY liked Justice. It was the first show both me and my husband both liked and were able to watch together. It was a GOD show. Please bring it back.
I cannot believe with ALL the comments and love people have for the show JUSTICE–that it would be cancelled. Did the Fox people even try it out!! This site has more comments on it than any other. It was a great, innovative show…the best was the end. Well-acted..etc. BRING IT BACK!!
PLEASE bring back JUSTICE… I REALLY BEG YOU FOX… IT was the stupidest thing FOX ever done…. AIR JUSTICE AGAIN!! com’ on lets ake it seriously!!
I still can’t get over “Justice” and I still missed the show already. Too bad that I can’t change the past. If “Justice” was still alive today, they should put it on after “American Idol” and their ratings would go up. FOX cancelled the show for no apparant reason. There are other fans who still can’t get over the cancellation of “Dark Angel”, “The O.C.” and all the other FOX shows. There are rumors that “Dark Angel” is coming back to television, but they didn’t say when. FOX always disapoint their fans and leaving them in the dark. FOX should… Read more »
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