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 c...
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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.
Brenneman played Amy Gray, a young New York attorney who, after separating from her husband, returns with her young daughter to...
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