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Cancelled Too Soon?

January 10, 2007

Earlier this week, we asked Deathwatchers to tell us which shows they think should still be on the air. We got a lot of responses, though a clear leader never really emerged. Nevertheless, we thought we'd take the opportunity to share your comments.

Viewers seem to really miss “Justice” on Fox, including DeathWatcher Brian, who wrote " I thought it was just okay at the beginning, but as it continued, it started to impress me, if at very least because of interesting characters and use thereof."

We took a walk down DeathWatch memory lane to figure out what went wrong. Though "Justice" is still listed in a coma, the odds of it coming back to air seem very low at this point.

After being moved from a Wednesday timeslot to a Monday timeslot, the show was pulled entirely from the air in November. Fox promised to return the show to air in December, a promise that we mistakenly assumed would never happen. Our readers have informed us that indeed, four episodes were aired...(thanks, DeathWatchers!)

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New DeathWatch Record

January 08, 2007

We’ve never seen anything like it.

Before its premiere last Wednesday night, ABC’s new comedy “In Case of Emergency” was safely stowed at the number 15 spot on the DeathWatch. That’s the very bottom. 24 hours later, it had bounced to number five on the deathwatch, and it currently rests at number four, with odds of cancellation at 16:1.

We tuned in specifically to see how the show stacked up to the other DeathWatch shows, and we have to be honest here – we’re not fans. This is all sad news because we’re huge fans of Lori Laughlin and Jonathon Silverman. (Again we’d like to go on record with our ambivalence towards David Arquette.)

There is one redeeming quality about the show: no laughtrack. We can only hope this signals the end of the abused device.

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