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. 
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… Read more »
We’re starting to have 1000 signatures in the first petition (www.petitiononline.com/justice0/). KEEP ON SPREADING THE WORD!
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.
Bring Justice back!!!!!! What the heck were you thinking?!?!?!
Fox Sucks. They would have cancelled Law and Order. I hate them> This was the best series f the season.
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…
FOX should bring back Justice. That show was excellent!!
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
I wish Fox would bring Justice back
24/M
I love Justice ~ don’t cancel the one good show left!!!
I’m an italian fan of Justice. I love this show. Please bring Justice back!! ciao
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… Read more »
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???
Please put “Justice” back on MySpace again!
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.