Did anyone watch last night’s premiere? Not bad, I thought, although the resolution was silly and rushed. But that’s this week’s story. The important elements—interesting characters with back stories that might actually be worth exploring—appear to be in place. I couldn't place Ben Shenkman, who adds a lot to the show, but now I see that he's been in several films I've watched in recent years.

So now I have a Monday-night show to watch. Previously, Monday was a “TV optional” night. It may remain so after I further sample “Canterbury’s Law,” but I’m willing to give the show a chance.

I missed the second episode, and now read this, from USA Today:

Recanted. The premiere of Fox drama Canterbury's Law averaged a sluggish 7.7 million viewers Monday and ranked fourth among young adults.

With hesitation, I go to check the results from two nights ago, and learn from Zap2It that Canterbury's Law,' 3.7/6, was third for FOX, beating out 'My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad,' , on NBC. A 'Gossip Girl' repeat on The CW brought up the rear.

Ugh. Not so hot. Maybe once House returns, on Monday nights, it'll pull up viewership. If not, Canterbury's Law won't be around too long.

Sad. I sat down last night, with nothing to do (lovely!), wanting to watch Dancing With the Stars, which I've only seen in short snippets over the years. Then I remembered -- Canterbury's Law is on at 8 p.m. on FOX!

My TV guide confirmed it.

So I sat down right at 8, turned on FOX, and saw ... a repeat of House! Had CL been canceled already? Checking the Washington Post site today, I see this item from last Friday's TV Column, which I'd missed in the print edition:

Julianna Margulies's new Fox drama "Canterbury's Law" is all but dead, after being moved by the network to Friday nights at 9 two weeks after its launch.

And at Fox, if it's on Friday, it's toast. "The Return of Jezebel James," anyone?

Fox has aired two episodes of "Canterbury's Law" on Monday at 8. The show debuted (with no post-"American Idol" preview, which speaks volumes about the network's interest/confidence in the series) March 10 and pulled in nearly 8 million viewers, a smallish audience, but on par with everything else in the time slot. The audience skewed kind of old for a Fox series, but surely Fox knew Margulies wasn't 22 when they hired her.

They did, right?

Anyway, the second week, the debut of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" in the same Monday time slot siphoned off many of those older viewers, causing "Canterbury's Law" to lose about 2 million viewers week to week. But Fox knew "Dancing With the Stars" was going to debut its latest edition this past Monday.

They did, right?

In the end, Fox decided airing reruns of "House" would be the better choice for Mondays at 8, where it will provide Fox's new 9 o'clock drama, "New Amsterdam," about an immortal cop who after 400 years still hasn't perfected his pickup line, with the lead-in it needs to fully realize its ratings potential.

Hahahahaha.

Hey, I'm not doing anything Friday night. I'm not a female viewer, but I do "skew kind of old," so...