Sad news: USA Network, which (until this year) bragged about its incredibly high success rate on hour-long originals, has officially cancelled Fairly Legal, Sarah Shahi’s legal dramedy about a feisty legal negotiator. This is USA’s cancellation in less than a week; Common Law was canned just a few days earlier.
It may be true that the show never quite caught fire the way that Psych or Burn Notice did, even at first, but its numbers were never embarrassing by USA standards. It fact, its year-to-date numbers didn’t put Fairly Legal at bottom of USA’s heap: Fairly Legal had actually generated better year-to-date numbers than Necessary Roughness, Political Animals, and even Psych. (UPDATE: meanwhile, the cuts continue: USA announced Friday that Political Animals, one of the shows with lower numbers than Fairly Legal, won’t be give a second season.)
Not that Sarah is taking a break. Just a couple of days before the official word came down, NBC announced that she was being added to the cast of Chicago Fire, in an arc that may very well turn into a regular spot in the cast. Or maybe not! Sarah’s a big-time Twitterer, and after the announcement came down, she tweeted, “Thanks to all my fans! But I’ve got something great coming up ;)…love new beginnings! Nope, it’s not Chicago Fire–that’s amazing, but there’s something else.”
We can’t wait to hear! You can also join Sarah’s Twitter feed, along with the nearly 75,000 other followers she has at @onlySarahShahi. You can also watch the last five episodes of Fairly Legal–for the moment, anyway, here, on USANetwork.com.
