The end of Justice?

Could the new Jerry Bruckheimer show Justice be the first big drama cancellation of the new season? The show's October 4th episode has been dropped in the United States and replaced with a repeat of House. Fox will however repeat the pilot a few days before in an attempt to attract some new viewers. Justice, which stars Victor Garber and Kerr Smith among others, has lost 37% of its viewers since it started last month. Justice has been bought by Living for transmission in the UK.

The Unit and more Brotherhood

Bravo will premiere The Unit on Tuesday October 3rd. The thirteen episode series about a tactical response unit comes from David Mamet and Shield creator Shawn Ryan. Stars include Scott Foley (Felicity) and Dennis Haysbert, better known as David Palmer in 24. The CBS series will commence its second season in the US shortly.

Meanwhile Showtime have renewed the accalaimed Brotherhood for a second season. The story of two brothers in Rhode Island, one in the police the other in the mob, will have a ten episode order. FX will begin screening the first series of 11, on Sunday October 16th. Briton Jason Isaacs plays the bad guy.

New and returning on SKY

Standoff will become the first of the new US fall shows to debut here. SKY One will screen the first episode on Thursday November 16th. Its a tale of two hostage negotiators who are also involved. You will be able to see it on the Fox website before then, and that will save you ever having to watch it again.

SKY are returning two of their very best shows in November. Nip/Tuck returns on Sunday November 26th, with Alanis Morrisette, the latest added guest star to a long list of big names appearing this season. Even better, Rescue Me begins its third season on Tuesday 28th, one of the best shows on the box.

Schedule Stuff

Season Four of Nip/Tuck will start in the UK on November 26th at 10pm on SKY One........BBC2 will air the third and final series of Arrested Development from Sunday September 24th in double bills, Bravo continue to air the first two seasons on Friday nights.......The USA Network have picked up The Dead Zone for a sixth series, season five begins here on soon on Sci-fi....
Former President Bill Clinton will talk to Jon Stewart on the Daly Show Tuesday night on More4.

Heroes, The Wire and lots of 24 stuff

Heroes, NBC's superhero drama, has reportedly been picked up here by the Sci-Fi Channel........HBO have renewed The Wire for a 5th season despite tiny ratings........James Cromwell, star of Six Feet Under and new movie The Queen (he plays Prince Phillip), will join 24 this year. He'll play Phillip Bauer, Jacks estranged father! And if thats not enough Eddie Izzard will portray a villain. I wonder if that was part of the deal that saw his series get picked up by FX.

Season six picks up 20 months after Jack's kidnapping by Chinese government agents. Wayne Palmer is now himself the President of the United States facing the consequences of a series of horrific terrorist attacks.

News on all the USA Network shows

We will meet yet more of the 4400 next year. While the third series is currently airing on SKY One, USA have picked up the series for season four. Thirteen one-hour episodes have been ordered, with production set to begin early next year in Vancouver.

The fifth season of The Dead Zone will begin on the Sci-Fi Channel in the UK on October 31st while Channel Four start screening the previous season next week. The series has previously been aired terrestrially on Channel Five .

Don't hold your breath for Monk. As Hallmark continue to second-run the first three seasons, the BBC are still negotiating the rights to series four and five. The Beeb already have the rights to the first series of Psych.

Trouble in the loop

The Flextech channel Trouble have picked up the hit FOX sitcom The Loop. Set in Chicago, Bret Harrison plays the youngest executive at an airline.

The series also stars Phillip Baker Hall and Mimi Rogers.

Trouble will air the first seven episodes at the end of October. A second season is in production.

Dinner with ITV

ITV4 are set to screen the US cable series Dinner For Five. Similar to the BBC's Michael Portillo series, Jon Favreua hosts a dinner party with a selection of showbiz friends. The series includes appearances from Ben Affleck, Carrie Fisher, Colin Farrell, Eddie Izzard, Garry Shandling, JJ Abrams, Katie Holmes, Marilyn Manson, Rosanna Arquette, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeff Goldblum, Martin Scorcese and Will Ferrell.

It will air on ITV4 this autumn

Race for the Riches

You can expect the UK networks to be scrambling for The Riches

FX has given the go ahead for 13 episodes of this new drama series for 2007 - and everybody will want it over here.

The series, stars Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver, as a married couple with three kids who make their living as scam artists.

SKY will be favourites to get this as both networks are Murdoch-owned.

Casting News

Marcia Cross is pregnant. She's due in April so the Desperate Housewives team will either have to incorporate it into the story or hide her behind plants and sofas for a few months……Former Roseanne star Sara Gilbert has joined the cast of The Class which comes from Friends produce David Crane. Channel Four have the rights…….Bruce Greenwood and Rebecca De Mornay have been cast in the new David Milch (NYPD Blue and Deadwood) drama called John from Cincinatti. The new HBO show is about a family of surfers…..Edward Furlong has joined the cast of CSI New York in a recurring role…….Gilmore Girls star Lauren Graham will appear in at least two episodes of Studio 60 on Sunset Strip coming soon to Channel 4 and More4…..

Schedule News

Brotherhood, the excellent new Showtime series, looks like getting cancelled before FX start screening it on October 17th……..The Dead Zone returns with new episodes to the Sci Fi Channel on October 31....Channel Five will screen the Ellen DeGeneres chat show daily on their new Five Life digital channel……Five also have the new Stephen King mini series Nightmares and Dreamscapes for their Five US Channel. Both channels launch in October

Danson returns

Living have bought Help Me, Help You. The new sitcom stars Ted Danson and former Malcolm in The Middle star Jane Kaczmarek. Danson who has already had two huge hits in Cheers and Becker is looking for his third big hitting sitcom, surely some sort of record.