Judge Judy returning to TV in November, with granddaughter

NEW YORK – Judge Judy Sheindlin is returning to tv connected Nov. 1 with a caller reddish robe, a granddaughter successful tow and the situation of competing with herself.

She announced connected Thursday the commencement day and sanction of her caller show, “Judy Justice,” which volition beryllium disposable weekdays connected the little-known IMDb TV, a escaped streaming work offered by Amazon.

Sheindlin, 79, moved to the caller amusement erstwhile her syndication woody with CBS Media Ventures ended with immoderate acrimony aft 25 years. For much than a decade, “Judge Judy” has been syndication's astir fashionable amusement with the tart-talking New Yorker arbitrating tiny claims cases.

CBS promptly chopped a woody to support “Judge Judy” reruns connected the air.

Sheindlin volition beryllium joined connected “Judy Justice” by a caller tv bailiff and stenographer. Sarah Rose, a instrumentality clerk and Sheindlin's granddaughter, volition beryllium a ineligible analyst.

“She's smart, sassy and opinionated,” her grandma said. “Who knows wherever she gets those traits?”

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Filming for the aged “Judge Judy” ended aft CBS bought the show's aged episodes from Sheindlin. That enabled CBS to proceed selling rights to aerial them done the syndication marketplace without having to wage her to marque caller episodes. Sheindlin was wide believed to beryllium the country's highest-paid tv star.

Sheindlin, a erstwhile New York judge, was besides said to beryllium unhappy with CBS for giving precedence clip slots to Drew Barrymore's caller amusement astatine the disbursal of “Hot Bench,” different tribunal amusement that Sheindlin created, according to The Wall Street Journal.

“We had a bully marriage,” Sheindlin told the Journal earlier this year. “It's going to beryllium a Bill and Melinda Gates divorce.”

Two of her longtime producers, Randy Douthit and Amy Freisleben, volition articulation her connected “Judy Justice.”

“Judge Judy” viewers person been conditioned done the years to seeing reruns, said Bill Carroll, a seasoned expert of the syndication market. Some stations would tally back-to-back episodes, 1 caller and 1 rerun, helium said.

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The show's look and format was kept truthful accordant done the years that to galore viewers it is timeless, Carroll said.

“If you were to accidental to astir viewers that these are not caller shows, they would say, ‘Oh, really?’” helium said. They're astir definite to surpass “Judy Justice” successful viewership although, to beryllium fair, streaming audiences are smaller than astir TV shows, helium said.

CBS said that the fig of stations carrying the reruns is “substantially the same” arsenic erstwhile caller episodes were provided.

Still, the worth of “Judy Justice” to IMDb TV volition beryllium successful driving caller viewers to the service, wherever they whitethorn beryllium exposed to different offerings.

“For them, it can't beryllium thing but good,” Carroll said. “For her, it allows her to bash what she loves to do.”

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