Exclusive Backstage Tour of The People's Court

So I'm in the control room of The People's Court  and we are currently on our lunch break which it's almost four o'clock in the afternoon. And the  control room is where the director sits and the technical director sits and the associate  director sits and this is where we bring all the feeds in from all the places we're  doing the show. From from the judge's house from Doug Llewellyn in the hallway from the  litigants from Harvey Levin in California and that's how we edit the show that you  see

on television. The show is incredibly popular. Obviously you've been on the air for 24  years. We didn't know if we were going to get our 24th season when Covid broke out. So we had to  figure out how to do this. And that took us about three months. We finally figured it out and we  were lucky enough that we were able to obtain all the machines that we needed to do it and we are  able to do it from home. So let's go on a tour. If you've ever wondered where the judge goes when she  goes into her

little room for recess this is it. This is the room she goes in when she recesses. And then when she walks out onto the bench here  we are. Now you see how we have a monitor at the bench right now because we're doing everything  virtually and the litigants are on their monitors and this is the original courtroom of the original People's Court. You  can see the cameras up there and behind this is the open side. As I said we're on our  lunch break and it's four in the afternoon And this is where

they walk  down and this is Doug's hallway this is where we do the interviews with the  litigants. This is what it looks like on TV and this is what it looks like on the open side and then we have our hall of fame. Here all the judges who have presided  on the People's Court starting with Judge Wapner and Rusty and then when we brought  the show back we brought it back with Ed Koch and Ed retired and we had Jerry Sheinlin,  Judge Judy's husband for a couple of years and now we have judge Marilyn

Milian.  I'll show you our audience holding room, here's a little backstage look there,  and there's our current Judge Milian This is our audience holding room although  we don't have any audience anymore and that's pretty much it other than offices and  boring stuff like that. Judge Milian, what's she like? Judge Milian's been great. She's been doing  it for 20 years. She really wants to get to the truth. Sometimes she gets angry, and sometimes  she laughs, and sometimes she's very caring, but

she doesn't like to be lied to. If  you come into court and you lie to a judge you're gonna have to deal with it. You know we've  done cases for ten dollars over a lottery ticket and we've done cases for ten thousand dollars but  it's all about the principal. The person who is being wronged wants to prove they're right.  So people generally are happy or not happy? There's always one happy person who walks out of  the courtroom and there's always one person who's not happy. The winner is usually

the happy person  and the loser is usually not. And that's why we have the hallway. When they go out to the hall  that's where they can express their I didn't get enough time to speak, she didn't look at all my  evidence, but you know judges look at the evidence they need. Absolutely. So on a daily basis what  is your responsibility? I'm here every day. I put out fires. I deal with litigants. I deal  with technical problem/ I deal with the editing. I'm responsible for delivering 150 episodes  p

er season. I'm the guy everybody comes to with their complaints and their problems and I'm  the guy who has to try to figure it out. Got it. All right thanks David. I know you've got to  go back and tape some more shows so thanks