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Brokaw memoir about his battle with cancer coming out in May

NEW YORK

Tom Brokaw is sharing the news about his battle with cancer.

The former NBC anchor has a memoir coming out May 12, Random House announced Monday. The book is called “A Lucky Life Interrupted” and will draw upon a journal that Brokaw began keeping in 2013 after learning he had multiple myeloma.

Brokaw, 75, said in a statement issued through Random House that he hoped his book would “help others dealing with this unwelcome condition.”

Brokaw’s previous books include the best-selling “The Greatest Generation” and “A Long Way From Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland in the Forties and Fifties.”

TV’s ‘Judge Judy’ staying in session

NEW YORK

Daytime television’s most-popular personality, “Judge Judy” Sheindlin, has extended her contract for three years and plans to keep her court in session into 2020.

CBS Television Distribution didn’t discuss terms of the deal Monday. TV Guide has reported her current salary at $47 million a year — making her by far the highest-paid personality on television. Sheindlin is 72.

The new deal also gives CBS first look at any projects by Sheindlin’s production company, which makes the new court show “Hot Bench.”

“Judge Judy” is in its 19th season and has been the top daytime TV show for the past five years. During the week ending Feb. 15, for example, “Judge Judy” was seen by an average of 10.1 million viewers each episode, and the second- most popular show, “Dr. Phil,” had 4.9 million, the Nielsen company said.

Associated Press