They just submit to 30 minutes of humiliation in exchange for a free trip to L.A. After all, as the credits make clear, “monetary awards are paid form a fund maintained by the producer”-meaning that while decisions “are binding and final,” people who lose don’t pay a cent. If that’s not it, perhaps they used some of Byrd’s salary to allow plaintiffs to sue for up to $10,000, instead of the old limit of $5,000. Having been reportedly paid $47 million for 260 episodes every year for Judge Judy, The New York Times reported “Amazon is paying her about $25 million for the first 120 episodes, analysts estimate.” So that means she’ll only be making $208,000 per episode, compared to $180,000 before. I was curious: How would she know? She didn’t ask me. She didn’t give me an opportunity to have accepted a lower salary,” he told EW. But she did inform me that fundamentally, I was priced out as the new bailiff on her new show. I didn’t inquire as to why, that’s her choice. “She informed me I was not being asked to come along on the project. It turns out that, despite being Judge Judy’s bailiff since 1996, Byrd was dumped because he made too much money, and Judy didn’t even tell him that she was leaving to do another show. Most of the job is announcing cases and then passing papers back and forth. I wouldn’t have have blamed Byrd for leaving because, during his 25 years, he only rarely got to do something exciting, like put a videocassette into a VCR. (Photo by Michael Becker/IMDb TV)īailiff Kevin Rasco has replaced Baliff Petri Hawkins-Byrd. Judy Justice law clerk Sarah Rose, court stenographer Whitney Kumar, Judge Judy Sheindlin, and baliff Kevin Rasco. Judge Judy responds, “You’re right and I especially wouldn’t lend a boyfriend money who didn’t have a job.”Īnother major change: there’s a new bailiff. “One of the things I’ve learned is ever lend a significant other money without a written loan agreement, because we’ve seen how they turn badly far too often,” Sarah Rose says. After the litigants talk briefly to the camera at the end of the episode, there’s a brief scene in Judy’s chambers-just follow the sign-for the kind warm, familiar conversation that comes when a multimillionaire TV star grandmother invites her granddaughter in for some heavily coached banter. Rose does eventually speak a sentence or two. However, an IMDb TV press release identifies them as “court stenographer Whitney Kumar, a board-certified court reporter in the state of California, and Sarah Rose, a law clerk and Judge Sheindlin’s granddaughter, extending the legacy of the television and courtroom pioneer by bringing in a new generation of legal analysis.” Judy is now flanked by two people, a stenographer and a law clerk, who never talk or do anything, and who I assumed were extras and/or mannequins based on their silence and terrified expressions in the first three cases I watched. 5 has been replaced as the theme song by something that sounds vaguely similar, and the announcer is new, too. This may seem familiar, but the mics on the defendants’ desks are slightly smaller. Litigants on Judy Justice, in the new courtroom set, which looks nothing like the Judge Judy courtroom except in most every way. Instead of a black robe, Judge Judy is wearing a maroon robe while she interrogates the litigants, summarizing their cases for them, allowing them to briefly answer questions, and occasionally yelling at them creative new phrases such as “You were wrong!” The door to her chambers set now says “Chambers” so everyone will know where to go when they never go in there. Now, the nameplate that says “Judge Judith Sheindlin” is written on one line instead of two. The exciting energy of this fresh new format floods the courtroom set, which has swapped chairs for benches, and wood panels for paneled wood. So I can understand why Judy Sheindlin would want to do something brand new.Įnter Judy Justice. Twenty-five years is a long time to do anything, especially when that thing is being perpetually exasperated by the regular people who make your job exist. 1, Judy Justice premieres on Amazon’s IMDb TV, offering “a whole new program with a whole new cast and an exciting energy,” as Judge Judy Sheindlin said in an announcement. Judge Judy, television’s highest-rated syndicated show starring TV’s best-paid host, ended after 25 years earlier this year.
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