Current Events > Judge Judy ending after 25 seasons

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https://comicbook.com/2020/03/02/judge-judy-canceled-25-seasons/
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On the one hand, I'm kind of sad to see her go.

On the other hand, her shtick got old about 23 seasons ago.

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Poor people with legal beefs everywhere are heartbroken.

Where else can two people who cant afford lawyers get the money they are owed in a semi-real legal proceeding?

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About time they put that bitch down

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Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!

edit: oops wrong show

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NES4EVER posted...

Where else can two people who cant afford lawyers get the money they are owed in a semi-real legal proceeding?

One of the 40 other court shows on TV?
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Literally just starting another show right after, what the hell is the point?
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Does this mean her re-runs will finally able to stream?

I would binge the fuck out of those.

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Know what makes me hate myself a lil bit. My favorite judge back in the day was Pirro >_>. Had no idea who she was outside that robe.

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Bio1590 posted...

Literally just starting another show right after, what the hell is the point?

I hope it's a Jerry Springer Show type of thing

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Bio1590 posted...

Literally just starting another show right after, what the hell is the point?

This, it's meaningless. Call me when Judge Mathis and Muary finally go off the air and is Springer really still running? I thought that dude retired and passed the show on to Steve his ever popular bodyguard

What trash TV, the absurd stories, the fucking boxer bell ringing to make the "guests" pretend to fight, the self rightious preaching at the end, that guy used to be a politician,too.

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MeltyAlert posted...

Does this mean her re-runs will finally able to stream?

there's some on youtube but not all of em.
would be nice if they put them on hulu or something.
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I remember once of the cases was this guy suing his former roommate to return some N64 games including Goldeneye 64 lol

It was a quick segment.

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tremain07 posted...

This, it's meaningless. Call me when Judge Mathis and Muary finally go off the air and is Springer really still running? I thought that dude retired and passed the show on to Steve his ever popular bodyguard

What trash TV, the absurd stories, the fucking boxer bell ringing to make the "guests" pretend to fight, the self rightious preaching at the end, that guy used to be a politician,too.

Jerry Springer is a judge too now lol

his original show stopped filming

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Shes getting paid way too much per episode anyway

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thronedfire2 posted...

Jerry Springer is a judge too now lol

his original show stopped filming

Life constantly reminds me that it's not about your qualifications but about your name recognition no fucking way is he educated in law to be a judge

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tremain07 posted...

Life constantly reminds me that it's not about your qualifications but about your name recognition no fucking way is he educated in law to be a judge

he's had a law degree since 1968

and he was mayor of Cincinnati for a year

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Bio1590 posted...

Literally just starting another show right after, what the hell is the point?

Seems like you answered your own question

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Judy was making $47 million a year on Judge Judy. I'll be interested to see if the new contract is way more or way less.

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thronedfire2 posted...

he's had a law degree since 1968

and he was mayor of Cincinnati for a year

Such a weird life trajectory.

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Reminder that she's doing everything in her power to try and stop Bernie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdJWAEjdV74

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NES4EVER posted...

Where else can two people who cant afford lawyers get the money they are owed in a semi-real legal proceeding?

I don't think it worked like that. I believe she had people look at court cases and pick out the juicy sounding ones so she could then arbitrate. As a result she paid each 5k to go and a hotel and whoever lost got their payment docked from the 5k. Effectively making it so they didn't owe any money and possibly gained some.

Let me try to find a source.

To acquire cases, the show generally uses one of the following three options:
Its 60 to 65 researchers, spread out across the country, enter small claims courts and photocopy numerous cases. These photocopied cases are then sent to Judge Judy producers, who review them all in search of lawsuits they believe will make for good television. According to the show's producers, only 3% of the photocopied cases are worthy enough for television.[7]
Its telephone number posting/announcement presented on each episode for interested individuals to call in with lawsuits.
Its website whereby lawsuits can be written out and submitted into the show.[23]
After one of these three processes, if the producers are interested, their employees will then call both parties and ask them questions relating to their lawsuit, making sure they're suitable for Judge Judy. If the parties agree to be on the show and sign an arbitration contract, agreeing that arbitration in Sheindlin's court is final and cannot be pursued elsewhere (unless Sheindlin dismisses the lawsuit without prejudice), their case will air on Judge Judy.[24]
The award limit on Judge Judy, as on most "syndi-court" shows (and most small claims courts in the U.S.), is $5,000. The award for each judgment is paid by the producers of the show from a fund reserved for the purpose.[25] Sheindlin rules by either A.) issuing a verdict of a specific dollar amount (not always in the full amount of what is requested and rarely if ever in excess of what is requested even if she believes complainants are deserving of more) or B.) by dismissing the lawsuit altogether. When ruled on in these manners, cases cannot be refiled or retried elsewhere. However, if Sheindlin specifically dismisses the lawsuit "without prejudice", that lawsuit may be refiled and retried in another forum. In some instances, Sheindlin has dismissed cases without prejudice deliberately so that complainants pursue defendants in an actual court of law so that the defendants themselves are held financially accountable, as opposed to on the show. In such cases, Sheindlin has expressed particular aversion to the defendants in question.[26] Further, Sheindlin has dismissed cases without prejudice when she has suspected both the plaintiff(s) and defendant(s) of conspiring together just to gain monetary rewards from the program.[26]
Both the plaintiff(s) and the defendant(s) also receive an appearance fee. The appearance fee amount has varied as between different litigants of the show: certain litigants have reported receiving a $500 appearance fee while others have reported receiving $100, and others $250.[27][28] In addition to the appearance fee amount, litigants are paid $35 a day by the show.[28] The litigants' stay lasts for the number of days that the show does taping for that week, which is two or three days.[29] In addition, the airfare (or other means of travel) and hotel expenses of the litigants and their witnesses are covered by the show, and the experience is generally treated as an all-expense-paid vacation outside of the actual court case.[28] If there is an exchange of property, Sheindlin signs an order, and a sheriff or marshal oversees the exchange.[30] Sheindlin sees only a half-page complaint and a defense response prior to the taping of the cases, sometimes only moments before. [8] Most of the cases, not including any footage deleted to meet the time constraints of the show, usually last anywhere from twelve to forty-five minutes.[31][32]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Judy#Inner_workings

So I got it wrong, you get paid to fly in and stay, and you can get up to 5k if you win. I believe you still don't have to actually pay for losing though, except in obvious cases where property gets transferred rightfully. (E.G. you steal a car and have to give it back in which case you lose the car.)

Interesting stuff, a humongous money maker for her. There's a reason why there's a lot of those court shows on TV.

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