Year: 2006

Variety confirms suspicions that Fox hasn’t given up the ghost on Justice and is saving it from probable death at the hands of Lost. It seems Fox execs are learning patience.

I also fingered Standoff as another possible victim of early cancellation fever. Variety reveals that Standoff is now on unofficial hiatus since scripts are taking their time coming through. They’re also adding Tim Minear as a consulting producer; Minear was consulting producer on Angel and also exec produced Wonderfalls and Firefly. Maybe he can make it interesting…

Both Justice and Happy Hour have been placed on early hiatus by Fox, suggesting their time on this earth is not going to be a long one. Justice is potentially being spared the attack of Lost in a fortnight and is at least being replaced by its own re-runs. But Happy Hour is being replaced by repeats of ‘Til Death (now that has to hurt) and some people are already claiming it’s been cancelled.

Let’s wait to see which new show’s next. My money’s on Standoff.

There’s a very long interview with and profile of William Petersen, over at the Chicago Tribune. Has a few spoilers for season seven, plus lots of discussion about what he’ll be doing – if anything – by the time season eight rolls round.