Long-running syndicated court show Judge Alex has been cancelled. The cancellation was confirmed by Stephen Brown, executive VP of programming and development for the Fox Television Stations.
“We would like to thank Alex Ferrer as well as executive producer Kathy Sapp and the entire staff for producing a strong daytime court program,” said Brown in a statement. “Alex’s extensive police, legal and judicial experience combined with his great sense of humor made for compelling daytime television for nearly 10 years.”
Judge Alex debuted on September 12, 2005 and features cases that are presided over by Judge Alex E. Ferrer, a former police officer, lawyer, and Florida judge.
The series is the lowest-rated of the five remaining court shows and will continue airing original episodes through August.
In a statement on his Facebook page, Ferrer said, “It was not my decision to end the show. I enjoyed doing the show and would keep doing it but, for many reasons, the company that produces the show wanted to move on. I am grateful that I was able to work with really amazing people like my EP Kathy Sapp and Associate EP’s Tera Roberson and James Glover; Directors Eddie October, Michael Dimitch and Art Bergel; Bailiffs Mason Burroughs & Victor Simon, my makeup, hair and wardrobe help that changed me from hideous to tolerable; incredible producers and associate producers who found great cases for me to try and so many others in our 100 person staff and crew who made the show a success. I’m also grateful to have so many great fans and friends, many of whom I got to meet; and I’m sure that I’ll still get to meet more of you at other events.”
He also hinted that he may return to television at some point in the future.
What do you think? Did you like Judge Alex? Are you sorry that it’s been cancelled?
Yoicks, History Teacher, I realized another one of your specific questions I didn’t answer; specifically, if it wasn’t about slavery, what was it about? Come to think of it, I don’t think I ever said slavery wasn’t one of the issues; as far as the others, well, I suggest talking with some of the Southerners. Again, I think Harper Lee sums in up incredibly well in one single sentence as she ends The Watchman. I highly suggest you read… esp. what happened to Scout. Of course, the book reads a lot better had you read Kill A Mocking Bird”. I’d… Read more »
What the hell are you talking about? I thought this was about Judge Alex! I am sure there are other sites for literature conversations!
Yes, you are right. We did get off the subject. I like Judge Alex but also like Judge Judy, Judge Millian, and Hot Bench. That got me in trouble with those who don’t like Judge Judy which included Larry. We have taken our history /civil war / slavery discussion elsewhere.
Wow! Perhaps the two history buffs got a little off subject, but I enjoyed reading their post and being a little more educated by them. What you MISSED is how civil they were to each other even when they disagreed. This is something that we can all learn . . . to be more civil. So I end my response by quoting Joseph N. Welch . . . “Have you no shame Sir? Have you no decency?”
Jus2say, history teacher, it sure would be neat to speak via e-mail. I have a hard time sorting through all these responses here to find original questions, etc. I’m not sure what you mean by the “oooops” as I always seem to get the gist of your comments. Out dancing with the wife, again, tonight, I realized another wrench I didn’t throw in to your arguments(?). What about all those “masters” who freed their slaves, many who went onto own slaves themselves? Matter of fact the recent movie about the “freed:” slave (12 years a slave?) who was kidnapped in… Read more »
Well, History Teacher, you are certainly talented with words. However, you make me wonder about the painter who paints over flawed walls; paying no heed to the hidden damage beneath. For example, 54% to 46% means pretty dang well half and half when looking at a group. If that were a percentage of gays among the regular population compared to the (what?) 4%, then, I’d have whole different approach to that problem. The fact that the votes were so close, tells me that there was a problem. Take New York, for example, they weren’t slaveholders, but so many felt for… Read more »
I have been missing Judge Alex on my recorded shows every night so googled his name, only to be saddened by the news that is show was cancelled. I looked forward to his show.. Hopefully he will get another show.
Hey, there, History teacher. I’m sorry about leaving abruptly last evening, but I would not have been happy missing that time with my wife. There were a couple of more things I wanted to say before signing off. First, you are welcome to write me at: LarryBme2@aol.com if just to have more private conversations. I get lost trying to go back to your postings I’d like to comment on. I realize, too, I never responded to a simple question you posed at the end: What was the cause of the war? No doubt, it’s rather simple. Although there were a… Read more »
I started this answer last night, but fell asleep at the computer, so I’ll have another go at it. I re-read your comments, again, when a little more awake. Still, you caused me to double up again. I would suppose if I was in your class, I’d be sent to the office for incessant laughter. You went and done it again. In one sentence you chastise me for not answering all of your questions, then you blow me away with such statements as: “all the whites that didn’t own slaves (that’s better than 95%, you know) aspired to own them”.… Read more »
No, I never sent students to the office so you could have laughed all you like. You have to quote me accurately. I seldom say “all” or “every” in my statements. The actual statement was. “The free whites who could not afford slaves aspired to do so some day.” There were free whites who even had sympathy with abolitionists so I would not tend to over-generalize to such a degree. I don’t know if any of the whites were wallowing in grief over the inability to own a slave or two but many if not most of them aspired to… Read more »
Oops, I mean the 11 slave states that formed the Confederacy, not the 11 slaves.
Don’t want you to have an attack of hysteria. ^)^
Well, History Teacher, I do appreciate your “clarifications”. Perhaps I was responding to the “messages that seemed to come through”. I read and reread very diligently this time; and, could go along with a lot. However, then you go and say: (quote) their way of life was based on slavery (end quote) Good Grief, Almighty, how loaded can a statement be. More than 95% being non-slave owners based their lives on slavery? C’mon! If I have to explain this then we are at a dead end. Their economy, maybe, was heavily invested in cotton (associated with slavery?), but basic rules… Read more »
You seem offended by the idea that slavery set the slave states apart but what else did? Agriculture didn’t. Religion didn’t. Constitutional consent of the governed didn’t. History didn’t. They almost all shared long roots back into colonial history and English history which had a unique story limiting the power of the king. It was only the institution of slavery that separated the slave states from the free states. Virginia dominated the presidency for a generation. Those in slave states who did not own slaves recognized their “peculiar institution.” They were all impacted by slavery. The economy was shaped by… Read more »
I think I replied via another email?
I’m not sure just what to say at this point, History Teacher. I appreciate what you say is “off the top of your head” although it tows the line. However, if you go back and read what you said: every other country was able to solve slavery without war, but conditions in our country made war the only solution (or, words to the effect). Hard to believe a history major is not aware of the Amistad Affair; the slave ship that was heading to Brazil that mutinied (a major movie was made of it). The sailor who wasn’t killed managed… Read more »
It has nothing to do with toeing the line. ^0^ It is what I think the evidence indicates. It was not my statement that other modern nations solved slavery without war. That is your statement. I don’t think that it is relevant. I pointed out that no one else had the conditions that the United States did and I also have said repeatedly that slavery could have been resolved in the United States short of war but it wasn’t. What I was then examining is why it wasn’t resolved short of war. You seem to be misunderstanding what I said… Read more »
Really liked this show. Will miss Judge Alex!
I’m a little taken back with you, history “teacher”. I almost get a feeling I’m reading a textbook when reading your answers. I’m reminded how I put my peers in one of two groups: teachers or preachers. Our task as a teacher, as I saw it, was to present the data to the students and let them draw their conclusions. I become more interested in not so much what they thought, but why they thought it. I’m absolutely dumbfounded that you claim there was no other way than war to solve slavery in our country; a scary excuse used all… Read more »
Every time I try to reply, after I get a paragraph or two written, suddenly one of those commercials pops up and gives me no way out except to close and lose my answer. I am trying again. I might do this in parts. I hate that frame to the right side. Here goes again. Everything I write is off the top of my head. No textbook. I give credit to sources when I am copying material. I don’t totally agree about teaching but do in part. I have long used opposing viewpoints as a primary method but I am… Read more »
Absolutely right about the “complicated”. However, I think you are determined to blame the war on a single cause. Don’t forget, the North INVADED the South. It’s also interesting how we cheered when the Ukraine “succeeded” from the Soviet Union; and, of course, demeaned Putin when he took back part of it. If you really, really study the issues, it comes down to some interesting facts: 1) The Southerner simply hated the damn yankees. Ever consider why? 2) Racial bias was a world wide thing. Look at the Amistad (sp?) Affair …. then, tell me just how innocent the North… Read more »
The Soviet Union was a dictatorship in which there was no consent of the governed to any degree. Even so, the Soviet constitution contained the right of secession though the only reason the nations that broke away were allowed to depart (secede) was that the central government was too weak to stop them militarily. The United States by contrast by consent of the governed formed a perpetual union which was perfected in the 1787 Constitution. Each state ratified in conventions or through elected legislatures to ratify a perpetual union in which there is no right to secession. The Constitution can… Read more »
If Stephen Brown thought Judge Alex made for compelling daytime television, why the heck would you cancel it? ….Dumb move.
My wife and I sorely miss the program along with untold thousands of other viewers’
BRING BACK JUDGE ALEX .
I’ve often asked why all oth÷r countries solved the slavery probablem without war. Am I to understand it needed war here? On top of that, what was the percentage of slave owners in the South? Google, then, the number of freedom slaves that owned slaves. Interesting why so many would give their lives for so few. Nah, much more to that war.
I often suggest that the slaves may have been freed, but it took Martin Luther King Jr to get to the route of the problem
Slavery lasted for millennia. Of the industrialized nations in the modern era , no one else had such a large proportion of its slave population of a different race as was true in the American slave states. Even in the British Empire, when Wilberforce persuaded the Parliament to end slavery in the empire in 1833, England did not have centuries of slavery within England. No one else faced the same kind of racial / slavery mix that existed in the United States. It is heartbreaking to realize how close the brand new United States came to abolishing slavery in the… Read more »
That is fun to know that after retirement you developed an interest in the Civil War. I seldom see it called The War of the Northern Incursion though I do see it referred to as The War Between the States. I have never seen it called the Civil War from a person in one of the Southern States. It is an area of history that can be compelling. The sources are endless. Actually I do think Judge Judy probes with her incessant questioning–as much as any of the other TV judges do including Judge Alex. Granted these shows have to… Read more »