Media: Look out, Judge Judy

Also in the Herald, today's Inside Track reports that lightning rod former Judge Maria Lopez has signed a deal with Tribune and Sony for a courtroom reality show. Lopez stepped down from the bench in 2003 after her actions in a child sexual assault case made her, as the Track has it, "a whipping girl for law-and-order types." (She's also taken a pretty good beating from the Herald over the years.) The future star of "The Maria Lopez Show" is apparently unbowed; she's named her production company Sit Down Productions. "Sit down!" is, of course, what she angrily told a prosecutor to do during that controversial case - a video of her jabbing her finger at him helped make it a cause celebre.