American TV favourite Judge Judy will come to an end after 25 years - but it's not the last we will see of the unsympathetic icon.
Despite being 77 years-old, Judy Sheindlin, will not be hanging up her gavel for good, as she has decided to rebrand as Judy Justice.
Judy announced that the programme, which shows small claim disputes being settled, announced while appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show , will come to an end after the 2020-21 season.
The Hollywood Reporter revealed that the show will finish after its 25th season on the air.
Speaking about the ending of her show, Judy said: "I've had a 25-year-long marriage with CBS [Television Distribution, which distributes the show], and it's been successful.
"Next year will be our 25th season, silver anniversary, and CBS sort of felt, I think, they wanted to optimally utilise the repeats of my program."
The mother of two said that there was enough content in the archive that there was no real need to make any more shows after 24 seasons of Judge Judy but she wasn't quite ready to retire just yet.
She continued: "Because now they have 25 years of reruns. So what they decided to do was to sell a couple of years' worth of reruns. But I'm not tired, so Judy Justice will be coming out a year later."
Ellen asked Judy where her new show will be found but she remained candid about it, saying: "I can't tell you yet."
Explaining where fans of the show will be able to catch the judge in action, Judy said: "Judge Judy, you'll be able to see next year - a full year, all new shows... the following couple of years, you should be able to catch all the reruns that CBS has sold to the stations that are currently carrying Judge Judy , and Judy Justice will be going elsewhere. Isn't that fun?"
Judy is currently the highest-paid personality on TV, bringing in $47 million (£36.6 million) a year.
She signed a deal with CBS in 2017 in which the company bought the complete library to Judge Judy for a cool $100 million (£77.8 million), which got them for more than 5,200 hours of the show.
Judge Judy is still racking up more than nine million viewers a day in the United States and is the most-watched court show of all time.
