LOS ANGELES - "Judge Judy television" firmly maintains his hand on the gavel to 2015.
Judy Sheindlin has signed a new multi-year agreement to stay with the long syndicated program this last season ranked No. 1 day, CBS Television Distribution said Monday.
"I am very pleased with the opportunity to pursue this exciting second career," Sheindlin, 68, said in a statement.
A former judge in New York, the tart-tongued Sheindlin presides over cases of small claims on his program, which is in its fifteenth season.
"Judge Judy" had been renewed until 2013, until the new agreement has been reached. The agreement comes Oprah Winfrey prepares conclude his talk show after 25 years, leaving the Sheindlin and other daytime stars for the position. Chain cable of Winfrey, OWN, launched in January.
Sheindlin had publicly played with the idea to put an end to his show in 2013, but "Judge Judy" remains a strong draw to fate. In the 2009-2010 season, she ranked No. 1 among daytime series and become the first program in a decade to outdraw "The Oprah Winfrey Show".
Sheindlin is "at the top of his game", said John Nogawski, President of Distribution of television CBS, distributor of the show. She has been the TV judge most watched since the beginning of its 1996 show.
She was hospitalized overnight in Los Angeles in late March for undisclosed reasons, but "all is well", said after she was released.
In an interview in 2006, Sheindlin has said: "the truth is, you are really supposed to know when to say goodbye to any job, you are in." I hope that I'll know. ?
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