Judging Amy is an
American television drama that aired from September 19, 1999, until May 3, 2005, on
CBS. The show stars
Amy Brenneman (
NYPD Blue) and
Tyne Daly (
Cagney & Lacey). Its main character is a judge who serves in a
family court, and in addition to the family-related cases that she adjudicates, many episodes of the show focus on her own experiences as a divorced parent and on the experiences of her mother, a
social worker concerned with
child welfare. The show is based on
Amy Brenneman's mother's actual life.
After six seasons,
Judging Amy was cancelled by
CBS on
May 18,
2005. In the
US,
reruns aired on the
TNT cable channel, but the show was removed for their fall 2007 lineup. The final broadcast was on
August 31,
2007, with the airing of the fifth-season episode "The Long Good-Bye". In
Canada, it airs on the
W Network owned by
Corus Entertainment.