September 26th, 2011 by Shauna
Tagged as: Dancing With The Stars,Nancy Grace,Popular Culture,TV News
Why you’d want to see this is beyond me, but maybe it’s like stopping to stare at a four-car pileup on the highway. Or a two-boobed one. Whatever.
After just one season “on the bench,” CNN’s motormouthed legal analyst Nancy Grace is leaving the syndicated daytime court show Swift Justice.
And you’ll never guess the lady producers have tapped to replace her…..
Daytime TV’s in line for a little Swift Justice. And we’re not talking about Taylor Swift’s VMA revenge against Kanye West. Controversial television personality Nancy Grace is the star of a new courtroom drama, which sees the tough-talking blonde as judge, jury, and executioner.
Grace, 50, is launching a CBS-distributed syndicated court series Swift Justice with Nancy Grace, which premiered Monday as one of the fall’s most anticipated new daytime show. A former Atlanta prosecutor, Grace, is best remembered for channeling her anger over her fiance’s murder into a popular victims’ rights-themed talk show on Headline News.
On Wednesday, a Florida judge ruled that sharp-talking talk show host Nancy Grace can be videotaped while answering questions in a wrongful death lawsuit, but lawyers representing Melinda Duckett’s family can’t share the recording with “any third party or disclose any portion of the testimony without the federal magistrate’s permission.”
Nancy Grace and CNN are being sued by the parents of a woman who committed suicide after being badgered during an appearance on the pundit’s program in 2006. Grace had petitioned the court with a motion to bar cameras from taping her scheduled deposition. The Ducketts blame Grace for inflicting emotional distress on the 21-year-old Florida mother after her 2-year-old son Trenton went missing. Grace spoke sharply to Duckett and accused the woman of having a role in her child’s disappearance.
Nancy Grace is coming to daytime TV.
CBS TV Distribution has inked a deal that will bring the longtime polarizing TV host and former prosecutor to the small screen in a new courtroom-style series dubbed Swift Justice With Nancy Grace.
Nancy’s show is the first confirmed program to join the daytime ranks next fall and will air as back-to-back half-hour episodes in 48 of the top 50 markets in America. She will continue her legal analysis show on Headline News.