Jerry Springer Fights Camera Action Trailer - Plot Synopsis: This jaw-dropping, premium two-part series will tell the story of The Jerry Springer Show as it's never been told before. Packed with extraordinary first-hand testimony and revelations from show insiders, the series explores how this daytime talk show became one of the biggest and most outrageous TV hits of the nineties. But behind the entertaining facade lay some darker truths. As we hear from the producers and ex-guests of The Jerry Springer Show, a murkier picture begins to emerge of the destruction it caused, raising renewed questions about who was responsible, and how far things should go in the name of entertainment.
directed by Luke Sewell
release date January 7, 2025 (on Netflix)
directed by Luke Sewell
release date January 7, 2025 (on Netflix)
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00:00After this, I'm never talking about this show ever again.
00:03Jerry Springer!
00:07I don't think anybody knew how crazy this show was going to be.
00:11I'd like to take this opportunity to apologize for everything I've ever done.
00:15I have ruined the culture.
00:18At the beginning of 1992,
00:22Jerry Springer was coming to Chicago to launch a talk show.
00:26We were this little band of crazy people just trying to survive the week.
00:31All I had to do was convince him, let's make it wild.
00:35Variety show in a weekly magazine, compare the fights to pro wrestling.
00:39Teeth were knocked out.
00:40It really was the modern version of the Roman Coliseum.
00:44Springer's the first talk show host ever to knock Oprah Winfrey off her throne as the queen of daytime talk.
00:50He became a cultural icon.
00:52I want the show to demonstrate outrageousness, yes.
00:57The bigger that show got, it raised questions about what really went on backstage.
01:06The producers were coaching us on what to say and how to act.
01:10They weren't interested in what kind of impact it was going to have on you.
01:15I don't think my mother had any idea what she was walking into.
01:20Some stories went too far.
01:24The man who married his horse and wants to come on the show.
01:28This kind of trash television will not be towered.
01:31I just wish I could go back and say to her, don't do it.
01:35This was the most vile and grotesque freak show that's ever been on television.
01:41We just started pushing the needle towards red.
01:45Let's see how far we can push it.
01:49I would hope that you would feel some sense of responsibility.
01:53It's a television show. It's a television show.
01:57We will all survive it.
02:18You