Dept. Q

Judge Judy

A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh's cold cases.

Crime

Mystery

Drama

Netflix

Matthew Goode

Chloe Pirrie

Jamie Sives

Alexej Manvelov

Leah Byrne

Kelly Macdonald

Judge Judy is an American arbitration-based reality court show presided over by retired Manhattan Family Court Judge Judith Sheindlin. The show features Sheindlin adjudicating real-life small claims disputes within a simulated courtroom set. All parties involved must sign contracts, agreeing to arbitration under Sheindlin. The series is in first-run syndication and distributed by CBS Television Distribution.

Judge Judy, which premiered on September 16, 1996, reportedly revitalized the court show genre. Only two other arbitration-based reality court shows preceded it, The People's Court and Jones and Jury. Sheindlin has been credited with introducing the "tough" adjudicating approach into the judicial genre, which has led to several imitators. The two court shows that outnumber Judge Judy's seasons, The People's Court and Divorce Court, have both lasted via multiple lives of production and shifting arbiters, making Sheindlin's span as a television arbiter the longest.

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Syndication

Judith Sheindlin

Petri Hawkins-Byrd

Jerry Bishop

Michael Stull

Steven Kamer

Date	Dept. Q	Judge Judy
Apr 14, 2026Apr 14, 2026	1.771	1.77
Apr 13, 2026Apr 13, 2026	1.961	1.712
Apr 12, 2026Apr 12, 2026	2.177	1.483
Apr 11, 2026Apr 11, 2026	1.794	1.477
Apr 10, 2026Apr 10, 2026	1.675	1.969
Apr 9, 2026Apr 9, 2026	1.794	2.48
Apr 8, 2026Apr 8, 2026	1.787	1.869

Dept. Q vs Judge Judy

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