‘Judge Judy’ staying in session
NEW YORK (AP) – Daytime television’s most popular personality, “Judge Judy” Sheindlin, has extended her contract for three years and will keep her court in session into 2020.
CBS Television Distribution didn’t discuss terms of the deal on Monday. TV Guide has reported her current salary at $47 million a year – making her by far the highest-paid personality on television. Sheindlin is 72.
The new deal also gives CBS first look at any projects by Sheindlin’s production company, which makes the new court show “Hot Bench.”
“Judge Judy” is now in its 19th season. It averages more than 10 million viewers an episode, tops in daytime television for the past five years.