Randy Douthit was born in 1949 and is the producer of the Judge Judy show. He was a member of the Manhattan Bridge, and he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Douthit is married to Judy Sheindlin, a retired American media personality, lawyer, and judge. They have two children together, Bryan Douthit and Courtney Douthit.
DTVL (The Randy Douthit Show), which airs on CBS in the afternoons, was developed by Randy, and his show started on January 17th, 2015, when it became the first daytime talk show to air without advertisers. The show is aired as “sequences” instead of episodes, each lasting approximately one hour or less. The program is also syndicated by CBS Television Distribution and CBS International and distributed by CBS Television Distribution; the 60th United States network was introduced on September 15th, 2015, after being relaunched as a daytime talk show in 1995 and the late morning time slot. CBS broadcast Judge Judy on three networks until the network expanded to four starting September 28th, 2008, with Judge Judy on the fourth network through its owned-and-operated stations.
According to Variety and TV Guide, since being retooled as a talk show in January 2015, every episode has been a rating bomb. The show airs on KIRO in Seattle, WA, and WLKY-TV in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Randy Douthit has represented numerous media clients, including Judge Judy, Judge Joe Brown, Stuart Varney, and John Stossel. He was recognized by the TV Cable and Telecommunications Association for his work as a lawyer in contractual agreements with clients such as Time Warner Cable and Adelphia Communications Corporation. His key clients include AOL Broadcasting Group and MTV Networks, which are subsidiaries of the Viacom Company. Douthit has represented MTV Networks in forming a cable channel for teenage viewers.
Douthit was nominated by the Associated Press and New York State Bar Association for his work representing Frances Berwick in her case against St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Manhattan, New York City. She filed a lawsuit after she suffered injuries during childbirth after she was denied treatment by doctors who refused to perform an abortion as requested by Berwick’s request.