Netflix exposes ‘the worst TV show of all time’ in chilling new documentary
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. It has been a minute since Netflix has dropped a shocking documentary – but they are delivering this January. A two-parter exposing the on and off screen scandals of America’s most controversial talk show, The Jerry Springer Show, has landed on the streamer.
![[Undated handout photo issued by Netflix of Toby Yoshimura in Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action, a new Netflix documentary giving a behind the scenes look at The Jerry Springer Show. The two-part series will look at the talk show's rise, which saw it become the first to knock Opera Winfrey off the top of the ratings chart, and behind the scenes controversies over its authenticity and on-stage fights. The documentary will be released on Netflix on Tuesday, January 7 2025. Issue date: Wednesday December 11, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story SHOWBIZ Springer. Photo credit should read: Netflix /PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_232860200-ed77-e1735583625567.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action will go behind the scenes of the long-running programme to show ‘a murkier picture of the destruction it caused’ after it came to prominence in the 90s. Reminiscent of The Jeremy Kyle Show and described as the ‘anti-Oprah’, the tabloid-style programme sparked backlash for its outrageous personal drama, which included swearing and nudity.
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It was presented by Springer, who died from pancreatic cancer in April 2023 aged 79, since its premiere in 1991 until it was cancelled in 2018. During its run, The Jerry Springer Show attracted criticism for pitting warring families against each other for entertainment and was proclaimed ‘the worst TV show of all time’ by TV Guide magazine in 2002.
![[Lisa Kleinberg in Netflix documentary Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action sat in a restaurant. She is wearing a blue blouse and appears stern]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_232860208-c4c3-e1735583729135.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Springer later admitted his TV show had been a ‘circus’ and ‘nuts’ but he also defended its more extreme content. ‘In any population of 50,000 people you are going to have some people who are mean, some people that are crazy, some people that are racist, some people that beat their spouse,’ he said at the Edinburgh TV Festival in 2019.
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