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Is FOX already bailing on Canterbury's Law?

by Bob Sassone, posted Mar 20th 2008 3:41PM

Canterbury's Law

TV shows just don't have a chance nowadays, it seems.

FOX is taking its new Juliana Margulies drama Canterbury's Law off of Monday nights and pushing it on over to - wait for it - Fridays. And we all know what that means. Whenever a network wants to dump a show they first put it on Friday nights, traditionally one of the worst nights for television, then it's put on hiatus and then canceled.

The show is averaging 7.7 million viewers, which I would think is not incredibly terrible, except it's doing really badly in the 18 to 49 demographic that networks and advertisers love so much.

The show moves to Fridays on March 28 and is going to be replaced on Monday nights by repeats of House, because God knows we need more repeats of shows right now.

The funny thing is, is there anyone who didn't see this coming? I'm not sure how our brains can predict these things, but if you take the way this show was introduced midseason, the lack of buzz around the show, and the general shrug that TV fans seem to give it, and add to the fact that it's on FOX, and you just knew it wasn't going to see a second season (if it even finished its first).

In a related story, maybe Margulies will now be available for that guest spot on ER.

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marlyne

I don't mind so much that it was cancelled (altho I did enjoy the show), but it rankles that Fox won't let me see the final episode online. All the other episodes are there; just that one has been deleted. Makes me wonder if they've already sold the rights to a cable network...

April 26 2008 at 1:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
maxi

FOX SUCKS-IF A SHOW DOES NOT SEEK TO MAKE FOOLS OUT OF CONTESTANTS, DENIGRATE THEM AS IS DONE CONSTANTLY ON AMERICAN IDOL OR TRY TO TELL PEOPLE HOW AND WHAT THEY SHOULD THINK AS THEIR NEWS AND OTHER "TALKING BOBBLEHEADS" NEWS SHOW DO---THEY DON'T MAKE THE GRADE ON THIS IDIOT NETWORK. TOO BAD OUR AMERICAN POPULACE HAS SUNK TO SUCH A LEVEL. NO WONDER WE ARE APPROACHING 3RD OR 4TH WORLD STATUS.

March 31 2008 at 10:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mr.orange

We don't watch Fox very often. Now we probably will never watch Fox. We liked the show, alot. Of course that is because we are not in the "proper" demographic. I harken back to when Hill Street Blues was yanked. A mass letter writing campaign saved it. Maybe that would work with this show. I have written. Of course, it was a different time.

March 25 2008 at 12:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Abr8sive1

WHAT????!!!!! I LOVE this show! I dont care what night it is on, im watching it, DVR-ing it, whatever. I hope they dont cancel it. I am on "Reality TV" Overload!

March 24 2008 at 8:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sitruc

This isn't a good show being dropped too early. This is a bad show that was only on the air because of the strike. This isn't one of those times where we should be cursing FOX. We should be thanking them. Arguably, they did the right thing(I wouldn't have aired the show at all).

March 21 2008 at 3:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
eric f

OMG, how retouched is that picture!?!?! That's ridiculous. One of the things that Marguilies has going for her is that she's hot AND not 20.

March 21 2008 at 2:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Shawn Harstad

Good. The show sucks anyway.

March 20 2008 at 7:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Oreo

Well this was clear from the very start.

The only reason Fox even bothers with it was because of the Strike, otherwise it would have been stuck on Fridays in the first place.

Why do they need this show when the House people are going to be doing the same thing and then Fox can say "From the creators of House".

March 20 2008 at 6:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Eileen

That's par for the course for Fox, to throw something out there and then cut it off at the knees a week or two later. I refuse to watch anything on the network just for that reason.

March 20 2008 at 5:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
shrbr04

this is an awful show:the production values are great,but the writing and acting are just so terminally pedestrian and artificial.better to download from fox.com and free up the prime time hour for something else."new amsterdam"by the way,is pretty good.maybe fox could negotiate w/chris carter and come up w/a new spin on "x-files",the greatest show ever.

March 20 2008 at 5:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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