After six seasons, Judging Amy was canceled by CBS on May 18, 2005. In the United States, re-runs were telecast on the Turner Network Television cable TV channel for about four years, but this series was replaced by others in the schedule for the fall of 2007. Its final telecast was on August 31, 2007.

Brenneman played Amy Gray, a young New York attorney who, after separating from her husband, returns with her young daughter to her childhood home in Hartford, Connecticut. She becomes a judge on that city's family court at age thirty-four and eventually gets a divorce. Her mother (with whom she lives), played by Daly, is a caseworker for the Department of Children and Families. In what turned out to be the series finale, Amy quits the judiciary to run for the U.S. Senate.

Several reviewers have suggested that the show took inspiration from the formula established by Providence. Reviewers also cite the relationship between Brenneman and Daly's characters as the selling point of the show.

Amy Gray makes reference to "Providence" in episode 3.18, "The Justice League of America." In this episode, Amy is attending her Harvard Law School class's tenth reunion, and her old friends can't seem to remember that Amy has moved to Hartford, Connecticut. They are stuck in the rut of thinking that she still resides in Providence, Rhode Island. Finally, Amy is pushed to state, "It's Hartford, David. Providence is a whole other universe."

However, this TV series has been largely criticized for "an abundance of clichés in the show's structure" and its "shallow examinations of moral issues", and "little substance". Philip Michaels, writing for TeeVee.org, has criticized this TV program's whole formula, and he stated that, "The emotional tenor of the legal cases that carry most of the narrative load run the gamut from maudlin to preachy, and back to maudlin again, by way of manipulative." However, Mr. Michaels acknowledged that, "Judging Amy isn't watershed television, but then, it doesn't purport to be [that]."[citation needed]

On October 21, 2005, 16-year old Tara Correa-McMullen (who played Graciela Reyes in the show) was shot to death outside an apartment complex in Inglewood, California. Suspected gang member Damien Watts, 20, was charged with her murder on March 1, 2006; he was convicted on January 23, 2009. When charged, Watts was already in custody for a separate shooting. Watts was sentenced on February 27, 2009 to life imprisonment, with no chance of parole.

Judging Amy takes place in Hartford, Connecticut. Although the show often shows the Hartford Judicial District Court as having the address of 1265 (street unknown), the actual address of the Hartford Judicial District is 95 Washington Street, family matters are heard on 90 Washington Street and the Superior Court Juvenile Matters of Hartford is in 920 Broad Street, Hartford, CT 06106.

Judging Amy is internationally broadcast by the following stations under the following names:

Judging Amy has been released on DVD in Scandinavia and Australia. All Season One episodes are available from retailers in these countries. All releases contain subtitling in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.

Although all discs on the Australian set are encoded to Region 4, the first three discs menu (episodes 1 - 12) shows Season One Box One, whereas the last three discs menu (episodes 13 - 23) shows Season One Box Two. This is exactly the same as the split season Scandinavian releases.