Jerry Springer Is Doing a Courtroom Show Called Judge Jerry

The Jerry Springer Show may be ending, but Jerry Springer will continue to lord over daytime TV with Judge Jerry, which, as its name indicates, is a Judge Judy-style court show but with Jerry Springer, producer NBCU Television Distribution announced Monday.

Judge Jerry launches in fall 2019 and will consist of daily half-hour episodes. The syndicated daytime show has already been sold to 75 percent of national television groups, so chances are it'll be available on one of your local network affiliates when it starts airing.

On the show, iconic TV personality Jerry Springer will slide behind the bench and hear real cases from very real people and render a verdict with a fair yet firm hand. He'll leave litigants with a dose of classic Springer wisdom like "until next time, take care of yourself and each other."

"For the first time in my life, I am going to be called honorable," Springer said in a statement. "My career is coming full circle and I finally get to put my law degree to use after all these years." (Before becoming a talk show host, Springer was an attorney for 15 years and served as the mayor of Cincinnati for one year from 1977 to 1978.)

The Jerry Springer Show, his legendarily trashy talk show that has been on TV for 27 years, is still airing but stopped producing new episodes earlier this year. Those banked episodes will run out in 2019, and then Judge Jerry will step in.

Judge Jerry will be taped at the Stamford Media Center in Connecticut, where The Jerry Springer Show also taped.