Judging Amy Information

Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character (Brenneman) 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 mother, and on the experiences of her mother, a social worker who works in the field of child welfare. This series was based on the life experiences of Brenneman's mother.

After six seasons, Judging Amy was canceled by CBS on May 18, 2005. In the United States, re-runs were telecast on the Turner Network Television cable TV channel for about four years, but this series was replaced by others in the schedule for the fall of 2007. Its final telecast was on August 31, 2007. Starting July 17, 2011 Gospel Music Channel (GMC) began telecasting the show, starting with the pilot episode. GMC aired the show with edits to some of the language, out of order, and some episodes missing.

Plot

Amy Gray (Brenneman), a young New York attorney, after separating from her husband, returns with her young daughter to her childhood home in Hartford, Connecticut. She becomes a judge on Connecticut's family court at age 34 and eventually gets a divorce. Her mother, Maxine Gray (Daly), with whom Amy lives, is a caseworker for the Connecticut Department of Children and Families. In the de facto series finale (the series was canceled after the conclusion of the season), Amy quits the judiciary to run for the U.S. Senate.

Critical reception

Several reviewers have suggested that the show took inspiration from the formula established by Providence. Reviewers also cite the relationship between Brenneman and Daly's characters as the selling point of the show.

Amy Gray makes reference to Providence in episode 3.18, "The Justice League of America". In this episode, Amy is attending her Harvard Law School class' tenth reunion, and her old friends can't seem to remember that Amy has moved to Hartford, Connecticut. They are stuck in the rut of thinking that she still resides in Providence, Rhode Island. Finally, Amy is pushed to state, "It's Hartford, David. Providence is a whole other universe."

The characters

Main characters

• Judge Amy Madison Gray, played by Amy Brenneman: After separating from her husband, Amy Gray returns to her childhood home with her daughter, becomes a judge on Connecticut's family court, gets a divorce and tries to get on with her life. Balancing her new job, her family and trying to rebuild her love life isn't easy, but she keeps trying. She makes a name for herself in family court for her unusual methods and sentences and her stubbornness, which sometimes gets her in trouble. She dates several men, but her two longest and more serious relationships are with lawyer Stuart Collins and ADA David McClaren. With Stuart, they dislike each other at first, but when she asks him to be Eric Black's lawyer, they get closer and finally get engaged. However, Amy leaves him at the altar on their wedding day, saying he has a way to always convince her to do things she doesn't want to do. She meets ADA David McClaren during her short stint in the criminal court, and things are rocky from the start. Eventually, Amy becomes pregnant by him and they plan to marry, but things fall apart when she miscarries and they part ways soon thereafter. In the last episode of the series, she quits the judiciary to run for Senate, to try to prevent the passing of some laws that will effectively end the juvenile justice system by allowing the State's Attorney's office to try teenagers as adults at their own discretion.
• Maxine McCarty Gray, played by Tyne Daly: Amy's widowed mother. A social worker for the D.C.F. (the Department of Children and Families), she had retired once, but she returns to the job at the start of the series, and she's willing to do whatever it takes to help the children in her care, even bending the law. She's an opinionated, strong-willed woman, very set in her ways and capable of holding long grudges (she hasn't spoken to her brother in over 12 years) but loving to her family. Her relationship with daughter Amy is often not easy, since they're so much alike. After a troubled courtship, she becomes engaged to a wealthy businessman, Jared Duff, but he dies 48 hours before their wedding (a storyline twist necessitated by the unexpected death of the actor Richard Crenna, who played the character). By the end of the series, she becomes engaged once again to Ignacio Messina. She has two heart attacks in the last season and has to undergo open heart surgery, but eventually makes certain lifestyle changes and recovers well.

• Vincent Gray (episodes 1"51, 68, 100, 116"138), played by Dan Futterman: Amy's gifted younger brother, with whom she has always been closest. Vincent is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for a collection of short stories titled "A Fortunate Son". Shortly at the beginning of the series, he becomes room-mates with Donna, with whom later he becomes best friends. As he attempts to continue his writing career, he holds a number of different jobs: dogwasher, reporter, and free-lancer. He eventually marries his girlfriend, Carole Tobey (Sara Mornell), who has breast cancer, and leaves with her for San Francisco, parting with Amy on very bad terms. Some time later, his cousin Kyle arranges for him to arrive as a surprise to Amy's wedding to Stuart Collins. The wedding never happens, but he patches things up with Amy. He returns home soon after, explaining that Carole has left him for her oncologist. He later explains that this was a lie, and that he left his wife because he could not handle the struggle of taking care of her. Still stuck on his new book, he gets a new job as a social worker.
• Kyle McCarty (episodes 53"118), played by Kevin Rahm: Amy's cousin, the son of Maxine's estranged brother Richard (William Devane). A former medical student who was expelled because of problems related to his addiction to drugs. Shunning his father, he comes to his aunt Maxine for help. She gives him a home and gets him a job as a counsellor at a facility for runaway teens. He later moves in to share a flat with Donna after Vincent leaves and finds a hospital willing to give him a new chance to finish his medical residency, and gets into a complicated on/off relationship with fellow doctor Heather Labonte as well as fighting an attraction to his supervisor, Dr. Lily Reddicker. After his father dies, he quits his job and finds a new path in life as a medic with the SWAT unit. He finally decides to accompany his ex-girlfriend Heather to Minnesota and take care of their son while she's in rehabilitation.
• Peter Gray, played by Marcus Giamatti: Amy's older brother. He inherited the family business from his father and he's good at it, even if it wasn't his first choice in life. He's a good but grey man who sometimes surprises people with some outbursts. He's married to Gillian and they have been trying to have children for a long time. They agree to adopt the son of a pregnant girl called Evie, and he turns out to be half African-American. Some time after adopting Ned, Gillian gets pregnant and gives birth to Walt. Things get rocky after Walt's birth and they separate for a while, even dating other people. Peter goes through a "rebellion" phase, trying to recall his teenage dreams, until he finds out his business is almost bankrupt. Soon after, he finally reconciles with his wife.
• Gillian Gray, played by Jessica Tuck: Peter's wife. A controlling woman with a good heart who completely loves her husband. She is usually well-meaning, but also often obsessive and nerve-wracking. After being unable to get pregnant, they adopt baby Ned. Some time later, however, she gets surprisingly pregnant, but things go wrong during the delivery of her son Walt, and she falls into a coma for a while. She and Peter have problems soon after, and she even dates another man, but they finally reconcile.
• Lauren Cassidy, played by Karle Warren: Amy's daughter, six years old at the start of the series. A mostly well-adjusted girl going through the pains of childhood and pre-adolescence with divorced parents but a loving family. As a young girl, she struggles over her father's relationship with Leesha, whom she likes at first. When Lauren is 12, her uncle Peter, takes her for her haircut and she returns home with her long straight hair cut into a hipper, shoulder-length cut. Her boyfriend Victor turns out to be the son of her mother's boyfriend, David McClaren, which causes Lauren to feel both awkward and disgusted. When Amy becomes pregnant with David's child, Lauren reveals what a total blow to her social life this will be and is furious, but later, becomes accepting and supporting of her mother after she miscarries. Towards the end of the series Lauren begins to hang out with a group of friends who embrace the Straight edge culture, which puts her at odds with her mother.
• Bruce Calvin van Exel, played by Richard T. Jones: Amy's Court Services Officer, who eventually becomes her friend. The series addresses a number of issues of their cross-racial friendship and how each feels differently about it. Bruce is a stubborn man with strong convictions, whose advice Amy comes to find invaluable. He has a daughter, Rebecca, whose mother breaks up with him after he gives her an ultimatum to move in together. At one point, Bruce is suspended from work for punching a man. He performs community service in a soup kitchen before returning to work with Amy. He is also a fairly devout Catholic, and not thrilled when his sister Winnie takes Rebecca to her more traditional black church with 'more interesting prayers.' Rebecca and Lauren attend the same middle school. In the second-to-last episode, he quits his job to complete his Master's in Family Counselling, something he always wanted to do. There's an attraction between him and Amy that's sometimes acknowledged, but never really explored.
• Donna Kozlowski, played by Jillian Armenante: Amy's clerk. An eccentric woman from a wealthy family, from whom she's estranged. Donna is intellectually a genius (she finishes her law degree in one and a half years) but socially awkward. She is married to a convicted murderer, Oscar Ray Pant, and becomes roommates with Amy's brother Vincent. While living with him, she has a daughter by Oscar, Ariadne Gray Pant, to whom she gives birth in a plastic pool in Amy's living room. Her mother arrives while Donna is in the pool, but is unable to offer her support and leaves. Maxine ends up getting in the pool with Donna. Later Oscar confesses to Donna that he's really guilty and she divorces him. Upon passing the bar, Amy fires her so she would go to work as lawyer, and she becomes a court-appointed minor counsel for the Hartford Youth Advocates, whose office is across the hall from Amy's.
• Sean Potter, played by Timothy Omundson: Maxine's boss and later friend, who has his hands full dealing with Maxine's unorthodox methods. Initially a bit green in his supervisory role (he uses percentages constantly in common conversation), he loosens up over time after his exposure to and friendship with Maxine. Sean and Bruce (Amy's court services officer) become friends and work together to establish alternative treatment programs for youthful offenders (such as "Gun 101"), and Sean is revealed in one episode as an avid karaoke singer...which comes in handy for entertaining the guests at Amy's and Stuart's wedding (which doesn't quite come off). Sean also dates the daughter (Courtney Messina played by Jossara Jinaro) of Maxine's beau (Ignacio) for a while, entertaining her elderly grandmother with a rendition of "Vaya con Dios" (an inappropriate selection for an octogenarian, according to Ignacio).

Secondary characters

• Eric Black, played by Blake Bashoff: A gay teenager who has been abused several times. When all else fails, Maxine reluctantly takes him into her own home, where he rapidly bonds with the family, and afterwards Sean becomes his foster father. Eventually, Eric protectively confronts and kills a stalker who's after Amy and Lauren. He is tried and found not guilty, but as Maxine no longer trusts him, he decides to run away to Canada with his boyfriend, Mark.
• Dr. Lily Reddicker, played by Kristin Lehman: Hospital Chief of Staff who takes a chance by hiring Amy's cousin Kyle. She is a no nonsense supervisor who nonetheless recognizes Kyle's superb medical skills and his need to return to medicine which he tries to hide behind a sarcastic view of the world. She fights an attraction to Kyle because of their professional relationship and her fears that pursuing such could create problems for Kyle because of his addiction problems. Kyle soon becomes troubled by his attraction to both Dr. Lily and a fellow resident, Heather Labonte.
• Heather Labonte, played by Sarah Danielle Madison: A doctor at Kyle's hospital with a substance abuse problem who gets busted with a drug test and gets a job as a bartender. She has an on/off relationship with Kyle, until she gets pregnant. Kyle says he'd help economically, but that they shouldn't be together. Finally, Kyle decides to accompany her to Minnesota and take care of their son while she's in rehabilitation.
• Louann "Crystal" Turner, played by Jennifer Esposito: A former meth addict who runs an outreach program for homeless teenagers. She had a relationship with Vincent and worked with him until she arranged for him to work at a youth detention center to teach a creative writing class.
• Graciela Reyes, played by Tara Correa-McMullen: A gang member Amy counsels. As time passes, she makes progress, though she is arrested one day for criminal facilitation, as she was in the car with her cousin when she was involved in a drive-by shooting. Graciela is tried and found guilty, thus being sent to prison, where she is murdered.
• Rob Holbrook, played by Jim Parsons: A young clerk hired by Amy to replace Donna after her departure. Innocent and extremely eager to please, he proves his worth when his knowledge of Spanish comes into play in a case. Later, when Amy is banned from Graciela's trial, he goes in her stead and reports back to her all that happens. He enjoys cake and playing B-ball.
• Courtney Messina, played by Jossara Jinaro: Ignacio Messina's (Cheech Marin) daughter and Sean Potter's (Timothy Omundson) girlfriend.

Amy's love interests

• Michael Cassidy (John Slattery; Richard Burgi): Amy's ex-husband. He divorced Amy and married a woman named Leesha, who was younger and blonder than Amy. Michael tried to obtain full custody of Lauren, hoping that his daughter would help him to mend his second marriage. He dropped the case when Leesha left him. He told Amy that even though he stood by what he said about her in court, she was still a better parent than him.

• Rob Meltzer (Tom Welling): Lauren's karate teacher, with whom Amy had a short fling. She eventually dumped him for Tom Gillette.

• Tom Gillette (Gregory Harrison): This relationship lasted only four episodes, as Tom left Amy so he could return to his estranged wife.

• Barry Krumble (Chris Sarandon): A fellow judge, whom Amy dated briefly. He "saved" her from embarrassment at her 10-year college reunion, but the relationship fizzled out when she realized they weren't meant for each other because he couldn't "live in the moment" the way she did.

• Stuart Collins (Reed Diamond): A lawyer who, after several on/offs, became engaged to Amy. They rekindled their relationship when she asked him to be Eric Black's lawyer, but she ended the relationship by leaving him at the altar. Six months later, she learned that he had married a 22-year-old Polynesian woman whom he met on the trip that was supposed to have been their honeymoon.

• David McClaren (Adrian Pasdar): A recently widowed assistant state's attorney and the father of Lauren's boyfriend, Victor. His relationship with Amy was rocky from the beginning, as he was still dealing with the fact that his wife had been murdered. He attended victims' support group meetings, one of which he asked Amy to attend. Amy became pregnant by him, and they planned to buy a house together. Amy had a miscarriage and, in her grief, kept David at a distance. This resulted in him breaking up with her.

Maxine's love interests

• Jared Duff (Richard Crenna): A wealthy businessman who met Maxine at a local diner, which he later purchased for her. Things between them became rocky several times, once because of his son's opposition to the relationship. They became engaged in 2003, but Jared died two days before the wedding.

• Ignacio Messina (Cheech Marin): The landscape designer whom Maxine hired to work on her garden. The two of them became close. But Maxine learned that he was not divorced from his first wife, and that he had two children: Courtney Messina (Jossara Jinaro) and Raul Messina (Tito Ortiz). They broke up, but decided to continue their friendship. He remained very supportive during Maxine's health problems, finally divorcing his wife and proposing marriage to Maxine.

Murdered cast member

On October 21, 2005, 16-year old Tara Correa-McMullen (who played Graciela Reyes in the show) was shot to death outside an apartment complex in Inglewood, California. Suspected gang member Damien Watts, 20, was charged with her murder on March 1, 2006; he was convicted on January 23, 2009. When charged, Watts was already in custody for a separate shooting. Watts was sentenced on February 27, 2009 to life imprisonment, with no chance of parole.

Location

Judging Amy takes place in Hartford, Connecticut. Although the show often shows the Hartford Judicial District Court as having the address of 1265 (street unknown), the actual address of the Hartford Judicial District is 95 Washington Street, family matters are heard on 90 Washington Street and the Superior Court Juvenile Matters of Hartford is in 920 Broad Street, Hartford, CT 06106.

Episodes

Season One: 1999-2000

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	EpisodeNumber = 1	EpisodeNumber2 = 1	ShortSummary = Amy Gray, an attorney, has found herself a single mother after a recent divorce. With Amy's young daughter Lauren in tow she moves back to Hartford, Connecticut with her very opinionated mother, a retired social worker. Amy moves back in to her mother's home where the family issues are plentiful. Amy is selected to become a Juvenile Court Judge, with the new career and family, Amy will be more challenged than she ever dreamed. Amy's first case involves a child abandoned by a drug addicted mother. Amy quickly finds the politics and shortcomings of the juvenile justice system a bit overwhelming.	LineColor = FFBF00 }}	EpisodeNumber = 2	EpisodeNumber2 = 2	ShortSummary = Judge Amy is thrown into the dog-eat-dog world of the short calendar, with some 54 cases, decisions must be made quickly. Judge Amy is called to an ER, where a doctor wants to terminate medication being given to a critically ill infant. Lauren is having troubles at school and Amy has a confrontation with Lauren's new teacher. Adding to her troubles Maxine decides to return to work	LineColor = FFBF00 }}	EpisodeNumber = 3	EpisodeNumber2 = 3	ShortSummary = Judge Amy has a friend who is undergoing chemotherapy, and Amy has agreed to take over a case, Amy's first jury case. A young girl was murdered and her parents are suing the parents of the boy who killed the young girl. Amy has a run in with a former law school classmate representing the girl's parents. With an emotionally packed case, Amy instructs the jury to not let the emotion of the case sway their judgment. Both sides are determined to use every trick they can come up with, to win. Elsewhere, Maxine decides to buy a new car and seeks Vincent's help. Vincent does not understand why his mother does not take his writing seriously	LineColor = FFBF00 }}	EpisodeNumber = 4	EpisodeNumber2 = 4	ShortSummary = Amy must determine if a comatose boy who is believed to have healing powers is being abused by his grandmother; Maxine clashes with her supervisor over taking an underfed little girl away from her anorexic mother; Vincent begins a relationship with an older woman.	LineColor = FFBF00 }}	EpisodeNumber = 5	EpisodeNumber2 = 5	ShortSummary = A death threat, coupled with Maxine's disapproval, puts a crimp in Amy's blossoming relationship with Tracy; Vincent begins to feel like he's Chris's pet project; Maxine rekindles an old friendship; Amy officiates at Donna's wedding to a convict; Maxine helps a second generation foster teenager keep her infant son out of the system	LineColor = FFBF00 }}	EpisodeNumber = 6	EpisodeNumber2 = 6	ShortSummary = A woman fights for custody of her son after the boy's father claims that her practice of the Wiccan religion makes her an unfit mother; Vincent gets an agent; in the week before Halloween, Lauren gets spooked by some older boys; Amy confronts narrow-minded attitudes at the P.T.A. meeting; in direct defiance of Susie's orders, Maxine pursues the search for a boy missing from a family with a history of child abuse.	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LineColor = FFBF00 }}	EpisodeNumber = 8	EpisodeNumber2 = 8	ShortSummary = Amy presides over the sentencing hearing of an emotionally immature teenager convicted of the murder of a ten-year-old girl during a drive-by shooting; Vincent is shot when he attempts to rescue a woman who's being assaulted; Maxine investigates a mother who claims that she was abducted by aliens; a divorced couple asks Amy to resolve a dispute about the care of their five-day-old son	LineColor = FFBF00 }}	EpisodeNumber = 9	EpisodeNumber2 = 9	ShortSummary = Amy juggles preparing Thanksgiving dinner, being on call, and coping with a surprise announcement from Michael; Gillian asks Maxine for help in financing another in-vitro procedure; Amy presides over an adoption in which the biological father shows up at the last minute to claim his child; Hillary tries to settle the score with Vincent during a Thanksgiving party at Alan's; Amy sentences two boys convicted of animal cruelty.	LineColor = FFBF00 }}	EpisodeNumber = 10	EpisodeNumber2 = 10	ShortSummary = Amy hears the case of an extremely abused, mentally ill teenager who has stabbed a teacher; Vincent's agent finds him a publisher who will sign him only if he completes another short story in the next four days; Maxine tries to help an overstressed young mother who is afraid that she will hurt her baby; Lauren strains Amy's patience as she waxes enthusiastically over Michael's girlfriend; Maxine faces a house full of her children for a week as Vincent moves back home to devote all his energies to writing, and Gillian takes a much-needed break from the strain that infertility has placed on her marriage; Vincent's short story inspires Gillian to return home to Peter and reconsider adoption.	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LineColor = FFBF00 }}	EpisodeNumber = 12	EpisodeNumber2 = 12	ShortSummary = Amy takes it personally when Stuart appeals her decision to overturn the jury's verdict; Maxine arrives at a creative solution in placing an extremely gifted teenager who chronically runs away from his foster placements; Donna becomes Vincent's new roommate; Amy must decide whether to remove a child from the care of a mother suspected of suffering from Munchausen by Proxy syndrome; after her verdict is upheld, Stuart asks Amy out on a date, and she royally disses him as she turns him down flat.	LineColor = FFBF00 }}	EpisodeNumber = 13	EpisodeNumber2 = 13	ShortSummary = Michael's insistence upon joint custody of Lauren after Amy requests an increase in child support payments dooms the divorce mediation process, and they each retain high-powered and aggressive attorneys; Maxine wants nothing to do with any celebration of her 60th birthday; Amy must decide whether a college senior should be charged as an adult for a fatal hit and run accident that occurred when he was fifteen; Michael's attempt to win Vincent over to his side in the custody battle ends badly; Amy hears a father's petition which contests the divorce agreement requiring him to pay for his daughter's college education; Maxine deals with combative divorced parents who can't seem to manage a peaceful exchange of their three small children	LineColor = FFBF00 }}	EpisodeNumber = 14	EpisodeNumber2 = 14	ShortSummary = Amy must decide if a young boy accused of shaking his infant sister to death is guilty of murder; Maxine fights to keep a 10 year old girl away from her abusive stepfather; Vincent struggles with the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder; Amy finds herself in a sticky situation when she accepts a date with the father of one of Lauren's classmates, and then learns that he's a child advocacy attorney who's scheduled to appear in her court; Vincent gets better acquainted with Lisa.	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Maxine finds out the root is missing a man and diagnoses a sleepwalking youngest boy in a family of five as victim of torturous tickling.	LineColor = FFBF00 }}	EpisodeNumber = 17	EpisodeNumber2 = 17	ShortSummary = Vincent is now a Hartford Examiner reporter, but objects to a sensationalist assignment to cover a case about a house-father killed while committing a crime cross-dressed; Maxine knew him and scolds all modern journalism. Amy can't handle Lauren making friends with her ex's new partner, who allows the girl to pierce her ears. Amy accepted a class in Yale law school but doesn't keep her promises in class and rants about family law being the noblest, most demanding branch and court job. Maxine finds re-offending problem boy Joe Broussard is abused by reputable child psychologist Dr. Amanda Kubiak.	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International

Judging Amy is internationally broadcast by the following stations under the following names:

Country	Name	Translation	Station
	Judging Amy	Liv
	Judging Amy	Judging Amy	Seven Network, Network Ten, 111 Hits
	Für alle Fälle Amy	Amy in any case	ATV+
(Flanders, Dutch)	Judging Amy	Judging Amy	VijfTV, VTM
	Juíza Amy	Judging Amy	Liv
	????? "????	Judge Amy	Hallmark Channel
	Amy u sudnici	Amy in the Courthouse	FTV
(Québec, French)	Amy	Amy	[[Séries+]]
	Sutkinja Amy	Judge Amy	Hallmark Channel, HRT, RTL
	Soudkyn"? Amy	Judge Amy	Hallmark Channel, ?T1
	Amys ret	Amy's court or Amy's right	TV 2
	Kohtunik Amy	Judge Amy	Kanal 2
	Amyn lailla	Like Amy or With Amy's law	Nelonen, liv
	Amy	Amy	Téva
	Für alle Fälle Amy	Amy in any case	VOX
	Judging Amy	Judging Amy	Alpha TV
	Amy-nek ítélve	Judging Amy	Hallmark Channel
	Judging Amy	Judging Amy	Hallmark Channel
	Judging Amy	Judging Amy	TV3
	"????? ?? ?????	Amy's Trial	Channel 2
	Giudice Amy	Judge Amy	Canale 5, Rete 4
	????"? ?? "????	Judging Amy	A1
	Judging Amy	Judging Amy	Hallmark Channel
	Judging Amy	Judging Amy	Fox, American Network
	Judging Amy	Judging Amy	NET 5
	Judging Amy	Judging Amy	Prime
	Judging Amy	Judging Amy	TV2
	La Juez Amy	Judge Amy	FETV Channel 5, Fox
	Judging Amy	Judging Amy	Hallmark Channel, club tv
	Potyczki Amy	Amy's Clashes	Hallmark Channel
	A Juíza	The Judge	SIC Mulher
	Amy	Amy	Hallmark Channel
	Na?a sodnica	Our Judge	POP TV
	Judging Amy	Judging Amy	SABC 2, Sony Entertainment Television
	Judging Amy	Judging Amy	Alice TV
(Galicia)	A xuíza Amy	Judging Amy	Televisión de Galicia
(Catalonia)	Jutjant l'Amy	Judging Amy	TV3
	La Juez Amy	Judge Amy	Cosmopolitan
	Vem dömer Amy?	Who judges Amy? or Whom does Amy judge?	TV4 Plus
	Judging Amy	Judging Amy	Hallmark Channel
	Judging Amy	Yarg?ç Amy	TNT
	Judging Amy	Judging Amy	Living TV, Hallmark, Channel 4, CBS Drama

DVD release

Judging Amy has been released on DVD in Scandinavia and Australia. All Season One episodes are available from retailers in these countries. All releases contain subtitling in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.

	Season	Region 1	Region 2 (Denmark & Norway)	Region 2 (Sweden)	Region 4 (Australia)
	Season 1, Volume 1	N/A	February 25, 2010	May 19, 2010	N/A
	Season 1, Volume 2	N/A	February 25, 2010	May 19, 2010	N/A
	Season 1, Complete Season	N/A	N/A	N/A	May 5, 2010

Although all discs on the Australian set are encoded to Region 4, the first three discs menu (episodes 1 - 12) shows Season One Box One, whereas the last three discs menu (episodes 13 - 23) shows Season One Box Two. This is exactly the same as the split season Scandinavian releases.

Ratings

• Season 1: 21st - 14.1 million viewers
• Season 2: 28th - 13.3 million viewers
• Season 3: 21st - 13.9 million viewers
• Season 4: 26th - 13.1 million viewers
• Season 5: 39th - 10.7 million viewers
• Season 6: 37th - 10.6 million viewers