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''Courthouse'' is a drama television series that ran from September to November 1995 on CBS. The series was created and executive-produced by Deborah Joy LeVine.〔 The ''Courthouse'' plot centered on a tough female judge,〔 and was partially inspired by ''NYPD Blue'' and the television coverage of the O. J. Simpson murder case.〔 Patricia Wettig led the cast which also included Bob Gunton and Robin Givens.〔 Wettig intended to leave the show due to "creative differences", with sources saying that she wanted the show to be more of a star-vehicle for her, rather than an ensemble cast, but the show was cancelled before her character could be written out.〔〔 The show included Jenifer Lewis and Cree Summer as the first recurring African American lesbian characters on TV,〔 but the role was ordered to be toned down for broadcast.〔 Lewis played Juvenile Court judge Rosetta Reide, who was having a relationship with her housekeeper Danny Gates (played by Summer). The show failed to catch on with audiences, the pilot ranked 47 out of 108 shows, according to the Nielsen ratings for that week, with 9.2 million viewers (16% share), and it was cancelled two months after it premiered.〔〔〔 One critic described the show as "a hopeless amalgam that strains the senses".〔 ==Synopsis== ''Courthouse'' is a TV drama with lots of sex and violence; it follows the lives of the judges and lawyers and all the staff at a big-city courthouse in fictional Clark County. The court has a limited budget and an overcrowded case load, and the courthouse itself is falling into disrepair.〔 The court is led by the no-nonsense presiding judge, Justine Parkes.〔 Then, amid all the turmoil, Wyatt Jackson, a hunky new judge, arrives from Montana.〔 He gets off to a shaky start with Parkes as he is not used to the way big-city courts are run, but there is a hint of romantic tension between the two.〔 There are several romantic couplings among the staff, including an interracial coupling of two prosecutors in Moore and Graham〔〔 and a lesbian affair between Judge Reide and her housekeeper.〔〔 ''New York'' magazine described the show as follows:〔 "Ready to believe in Robin Givens as a tireless defender of public justice? ''Courthouses idea of gritty moral realism is to divide the world into the good and the bad: Bad judges go to the opera while their charges die in jail; good judges have interracial affairs with members of their own gender; and the best judge of all rolls in from Montana looking like he just shot a 501 commercial". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Courthouse (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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