Judge Mathis
Weekdays at 9am - 9:30am, 12pm - 12:30pm
Source: Warner Bros. Television
SUMMARY: After another extraordinary year and over 1,200 episodes, "Judge Mathis" returns for its ninth season on September 10, 2007 Inspired by Judge Greg Mathis' own gang-to-gavel story, "Judge Mathis" is a nationally syndicated reality-based court show presided over by former Detroit-area District Court Judge Greg Mathis. Each one-hour episode of "Judge Mathis" features four cases, and Mathis' decisions are legal and binding. In addition, he uses the bench to provide resolution and counseling to the litigants. That powerful combination helped earn the show a 2005 NAACP Image Award Nomination and a 2004 NAACP Image Award win.
STARS:
Judge Greg Mathis
QUOTES:
Mathis: Does Meth wake you up? Dusty?
Bailiff: Yes. No. I don't know.
Mathis: Boy, you know.
Mathis: It's time for hard decisions, tough love, and justice that makes a difference. That's what I'm about!
TRIVIA:
• Judge Mathis has been nominated three straight years for an Image Award for Outstanding TV News, Talk or Information Series or Special, winning once in 2004.
• He once failed the bar exam.
• In 1995, he was elected a Superior Court judge for Michigan's 36th District, making him the youngest man in the state to hold the post.
• Saturday Night Live's Tracy Morgan has parodied Judge Mathis in a skit called "Judge Horace."
• He was appointed head of Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign in Michigan in 1988.
• He co-wrote an autobiography titled "Inner City Miracle" in 2002.
• The success of his book earned Mathis the prestigious Blackboard Non-fiction Book of the Year Award in 2003.
• "Been There, Done That," a spiritually inspired play based on his life, toured 22 cities in the U.S. in 2002.