Looks like the verdict is in on Canterbury's Law. Sources confirm to TVGuide.com that after two low-rated outings on Monday night, Fox is banishing the Julianna Margulies-led courtroom drama to Friday nights, beginning March 28. The show's already seen the last of its unhappy Mondays.It's unclear what this means for Fox's The Return of Jezebel James, which last Friday tanked in its double-header debut.
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You may recognize Keith Robinson as singer-songwriter C.C. White in Dreamgirls, but now he's playing a different kind of writer, working on legal briefs as Chester Grant in Fox's edgy new legal drama Canterbury's Law (Mondays at 8 pm/ET). We cross-examined Robinson to discuss how he turned his singing into an acting career, how Canterbury's stands apart from other lawyer shows and what we can expect from his character this season.
TVGuide.com: Now that we've seen the first episode, what can we expect in the coming weeks?Keith Robinson: You're just going to get a lot deeper into the storylines, and you're going to see more of the shocking ways that we come to conclusions in proving our clients' innocence. I think we up the ante every week with how far we'll go as lawyers to prove our point, even if th
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Question: I just read your review of Canterbury's Law . After reading a couple of other reviews online, I was actually surprised to see your rather positive take on it. Granted, you don't deal much with Shark in your column, but from what I've seen, Law is a complete rip-off. A tough and cutthroat attorney doing the extraordinary to win the cases while taunting her opponents, including the DA, with a messy personal life, etc.? As a fan of James Woods and Shark , I actually cringed when I saw the creators call Canterbury's Law "unlike anything on TV." I beg to differ. Not only is it comparable to at least two other TV shows ( House and Shark ), but if you strip it of all the Gregory House and Sebastian Stark attitude, it is nothing but a legal drama the likes of which we've seen many times before. While I absolutely loved the "think House in a courtroom" idea for Shark (even if those shows have major differences), I thought Damages proved to be "something different," more so than ...
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Monday's numbers:8 pm/ETThe Bachelor: Where Are They Now? topped the hour with a scant 7.7 million total viewers, but enough to edge out the debut of Canterbury's Law. The legal drama delivered 7.6 mil, qualifying as Fox's lowest-rated series premiere in the time period, ever. (MediaWeek's Marc Berman makes a great comparison, noting that a House repeat did 9.7 mil in the time slot a year ago.) An Old Christine (7.5 mil) improved considerably upon last week's Welcome to the Captain.9 pmTrailing Deal or No Deal (11.6 mil) and CBS' old Men/new Old Christine combo, New Amsterdam drew 8.8 mil, a 17 percent drop from its most recent (Thursday) broadcast. October Road's two-hour season finale averaged 4.7 mil — or 50K for every inch of guest star Stacy Keibler's two legs — dropping 600 thou. Girlicious did a typical 1.7 mil.10 pmBehind a CSI: Miami retread, Medium was up just a hair, to 9.2 mil.
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Cheers to Julianna Margulies for resuscitating her acting skills with Canterbury's Law. In easily her best role since ER — I didn't buy her as the cokehead real-estate agent with a taste for mobsters on The Sopranos — the Emmy-winner tears up the screen as a Providence, Rhode Island, defense attorney who'll cross any line to serve her clients. You almost couldn't blame the child killer she busted in the pilot for punching her in the nose. And the episode's final scene, in which she curls up in her missing son's bed and smells his pillow, was quietly heart-shattering. The show may feel a bit derivative (it's Damages meets House), but Margulies' bravely unsympathetic performance overrules any objections.• Read and react to Bruce's opinions on The Wire's series finale, Project Runway's Christian and more!• Share your own raves and rants about other shows on the Reader Cheers & Jeers discussion board.• We may feature your Cheer or Jeer on TVGuide.com or in T...
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