It’s case closed for Judge Judy after 25 years on TV but Judge Judy Sheindlin has a new show in the works.
The feisty 77-year-old has confirmed her programme - in which she adjudicates real life disputes in a mock courtroom - will finish after the 2020/21 season airs because network CBS want to “optimally utilise” old episodes of the show by selling the rights to the repeats.
Speaking in an upcoming interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, she says: “CBS sort of felt, I think, they wanted to optimally utilise the repeats of my programme.
“Now they have 25 years of my reruns. What they decided to do is sell a couple of years’ worth of reruns.”
However, Judy insists she has no plans to retire and fans will be seeing even more of her than ever as she’s got a new show in the works, as well as the repeats.
But she declined to say which network will broadcast her new programme.
She simply said: “I can’t tell you yet.”
Judy is currently the highest paid personality on US TV, bringing in a staggering $47 million a year.
She signed a deal with CBS in 2017, in which the network bought all the episodes of Judge Judy for $100 million.