The show, which has now become a pop culture sensation, nets the formidable judge a whopping $47,000,000 annually. It will be titled Her Honor, which is not as good of a title as Sheindlin’s 1996 book, Don’t Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It’s Raining. According to Variety, the show will focus on her time as the youngest judge in NY while working in Family Court, and because it is a CBS procedural, she just can’t keep her personal life together.
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CBS and Judith Sheindlin (a.k.a. Judge Judy) are teaming up for a semi-autobiographical drama called Her Honor, Variety reports.
Chicago Justice executive producer (and former Law & Order EP) Michael Chernuchin will write the pilot, with Sheindlin getting story co-writer credit, and both serving as executive producers alongside Arnold and Anne Kopelson.
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News of the Judge Judy-inspired series surfaces less than three weeks before the premiere of another CBS series based on a popular TV personality. That agreement also gave the network first look at any new projects from Sheindlin’s production company, which makes the syndicated reality court show Hot Bench.
