Adam Busch

"The Jury" moved closer to dismissal Thursday when Fox scaled down the struggling legal drama’s airings.

Fox’s sibling studio, 20th Century Fox TV, also dismissed the cast and notified the show’s producers that no more original episodes will be shot at this time.

Coming from the "Homicide" team of Tom Fontana, James Yoshimura and Barry Levinson (who also played the judge), each episode of "The Jury" recreated a case in flashback as the empaneled citizens debated the verdict. After their decision was delivered, the facts were presented to the audience.

On Fox’s summer schedule, original episodes of "The Jury" ran in the Tuesday 9 p.m. slot, with encores airing at 9 p.m. Fridays. Beginning next week, the series will air only in the Friday slot, with all five remaining original episodes slated to run.

In the next three weeks, Fox will air reruns of "The Bernie Mac Show" and "Method & Red," the Major League Baseball All-Star Game and repeats of "That ’70s Show" and "Quintuplets" in the Tuesday 9 p.m. period.

While the return of "The Jury" to Fox’s November schedule is highly unlikely, a spokesman for the network stressed that Fox’s late-fall launch provides a long enough hiatus to allow for the show to resume production should it show ratings improvements in the next few weeks.