Big Ticket Television, Inc. (also known as Big Ticket Entertainment and Big Ticket Pictures ) is an American production company. Big Ticket is a subsidiary of CBS Studios (formerly CBS Paramount Television and CBS Television Studios), a division of Paramount Global . It is best known for producing the syndicated mainstay Judge Judy from 1996 to 2021.
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28-437: A 'hot bench'." On April 26, 2024, Hot Bench has been renewed for its eleventh and twelfth seasons through 2025–26 season. The current panel consists of Michael Corriero, Rachel Juarez, and Yodit Tewolde, who preside over small-claims cases and then argue the merits of the case amongst themselves in the chamber room before rendering a verdict (under the format, only a majority—two of the three-panel members—need to agree on
42-549: A panel of three judges. The panel acts as an arbitral tribunal , and as with most televised court shows, the cases are a form of binding arbitration in which the litigants forgo their actual lawsuit in favor of appearing on the program. Current cast Former cast Other notable cast The concept was inspired by Judy's vacation to Ireland , a country which occasionally uses panels of three judges to handle one case: "When my husband Jerry and I were in Ireland recently, we visited
56-531: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Big Ticket Entertainment The company was launched on October 21, 1994, under the Spelling Entertainment Group, who named former Warner Bros. Television and Spelling Television executive Larry Lyttle to run the division. Lyttle wanted to name the company Blockbuster Television, after its parent company Blockbuster, Inc. , but Viacom opposed
70-422: The courts and watched a three-judge bench, which I found both fascinating and compelling." She added, "I immediately thought what a terrific and unique idea for a television program that brings the court genre to the next level. We have assembled three individuals with extremely varied backgrounds to serve as the judges. They are smart and talented, with terrific instincts and great chemistry, and are sure to create
84-474: The 2013-14 television season, although most of the production is done by CBS as the company has been largely a figurehead organization since the CBS takeover of Viacom's television unit. In Fall 2014, Big Ticket also began to produce the three-judge court show Hot Bench , which is created and executive-produced by Judge Judy Sheindlin through her own production company, Queen Bee Productions. Big Ticket also produced
98-414: The employ of Viacom. In 2006, PDT became CBS Paramount Domestic Television and later CBS Media Ventures (formerly CBS Television Distribution) in 2007. Big Ticket's most widely viewed productions are the courtroom series Judge Judy (ended in 2021) and Judge Joe Brown (ended in 2013), with the former debuting in 1996 and the latter in 1998. This left Judge Judy as the company's only program in
112-492: The idea due to the chain's fate being unclear. Viacom by that time owned Blockbuster Inc. and its 67% stake in Spelling Entertainment Group. Lyttle chose the name "Big Ticket" by driving by a Blockbuster store and noting Blockbuster's "big ticket" logo. Big Ticket was created primarily as an outlet for non- drama TV series from Spelling, which was largely known for hit dramas at that time. All of its programming
126-489: The only programs under Big Ticket management remaining in production. Hot Bench Hot Bench is an American nontraditional panel-based court show that debuted in first-run syndication on September 15, 2014. The series was conceptualized and produced for CBS Media Ventures by Judith Sheindlin of Judge Judy fame, alongside executive producers Randy Douthit, Maureen FitzPatrick, David Theodosopoulos, and co-executive producer James Glover. The series features
140-417: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Big Ticket . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big_Ticket&oldid=1111780438 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
154-414: The second (and final) season of the court series Swift Justice , Big Ticket became the production company after the series moved from Atlanta to Los Angeles and shared a studio with Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown . The company's most recent program is The Drew Barrymore Show , which launched on September 14, 2020. As of the 2022–23 television season, Hot Bench and The Drew Barrymore Show are
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182-549: The verdict). Before them, the panel consisted of attorneys Tanya Acker and Larry Bakman, along with former Brooklyn New York Supreme Court judge Patricia DiMango . In October 2016, Bakman announced that he was leaving Hot Bench to focus on his law practice. Bakman's final episodes originally aired on October 28, 2016, and Corriero's first episode was scheduled to originally air on November 1, 2016, with series creator Judge Judy Sheindlin and her husband, former The People's Court judge Jerry Sheindlin , serving as guest judges on
196-719: Was distributed by Spelling's syndication arm, Worldvision Enterprises , until Worldvision was folded into Paramount Domestic Television, later CBS Television Distribution, and now CBS Media Ventures . In 1999, Spelling Entertainment was bought out by Viacom Productions , resulting in Paramount Domestic Television (which Viacom had owned since its 1994 acquisition of Paramount Pictures ) becoming Big Ticket's distributor in June 1999. On June 29, 2003, Paramount Television combined Big Ticket Television's production operations with its network and syndication outputs after Lyttle left
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