Judge Mathis is produced by Telepictures Productions and Syndicated Productions, while distributed by Warner Bros.
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25 Facts About Judge Mathis
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Court shows currently in production, Judge Mathis is the third longest running, behind only Divorce Court and The People's Court, respectively.
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Cases on Judge Mathis tend to go deeper and to more revealing places than those of most other court shows.
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Rarely missing an opportunity to jest or poke fun Judge Mathis is given to wit and humor, good-natured ridicule and ribbing of the parties, often rousing his audience to uproarious amusement.
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Judge Mathis has bantered directly at audience members on occasion, resulting in audience amusement.
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Judge Mathis often offers or compels drug treatment and family counseling for those parties in need.
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Judge Mathis was brought up in one of the worst housing projects in Detroit while raised by a single mother.
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Judge Mathis has frequently used his courtroom series to highlight his troubled-youth-turned-success-story as a way of motivating and inspiring his audience that there's no adversity that they can't pick themselves up from.
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Judge Mathis later shared that he took the job as television arbitrator on the condition that his life story was shared as part of the opening for each episode.
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Judge Mathis makes efforts to promote treatment and programs for individuals struggling with drug and alcohol addictions.
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Judge Mathis entered its milestone 20th season on Monday, September 3,2018, and currently is presiding in his 24th season of the program .
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The success of Judge Mathis is particularly noteworthy in that, generally speaking, court show programming has a very limited shelf life.
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Judge Mathis is the fourth longest-running courtroom series behind Judge Judy, The People's Court, and Divorce Court .
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Also of the three, Judge Mathis is the only arbitrator to have hosted his program for the entirety of its run.
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Judge Mathis stated he would like to do his court show for as long as he can.
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Judge Mathis has stated that from the beginning, he only expected his court show to last 3 seasons.
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Judge Mathis is one of the longest running, successful programs in the court show genre.
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When Judge Mathis was crowned the winner of the Daytime Emmy Award in 2018, it became the first courtroom series with an African American jurist to win the award.
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On May 4,2022, Judge Mathis was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Cases on Judge Mathis are classified as tort-law civil disputes with a maximum $5,000 claim, a typical amount for small claims court.
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Production had expressed interest in Judge Mathis being closer to the rest of the celebrity industry.
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Judge Mathis'sdeath was ruled a suicide, although Moran's family think differently.
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On September 20,1999, during the first season of the Judge Mathis show, Leslie Merrill, a former news anchor for WPGH Pittsburgh became the show's court reporter.
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Judge Mathis'srole was to interview the litigants after Judge Mathis passed judgment and rendered his verdict on each case.
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