Netflix viewers gobsmacked watching ‘shocking’ series about The Jerry Springer Show

Netflix viewers person been glued to their screens watching adocumentary bid highlighting the scandal-ridden Jerry Springer Show.

First hitting screens successful 1991, the American speech amusement aired 3,891 episodes over the consequent 27 years.

It became known for its shocking segments detailing cheating, incest and adjacent bestiality, with guests besides often trading blows connected signifier arsenic the workplace assemblage heckled and egged them on.

During its clip connected air, The Jerry Springer Show was labelled ‘reversible’ and ‘the worst TV amusement of each time’.

It was besides engulfed successful respective scandals, including airing an occurrence astir a antheral who joined a horse, portion one impermanent besides murdered his ex-wife connected the time their occurrence was broadcast.

The bid eventually came to an extremity successful 2018 but is present the absorption of a two-part Netflix bid – Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action – which was released this month.

It ‘goes down the scenes of America’s astir arguable speech amusement to exposure its biggest scandals, some on- and off-camera’.

Viewers person rushed to tune in, seeing the documentary alert into the Top 10, wherever it’s presently the 3rd most-watched programme successful the UK.

Sharing their opinions online, galore person labelled it a ‘wild 10/10 watch’.

‘Spending my evening watching the Jerry Springer docu-series connected Netflix 10/10,’ Natasha posted connected X.

‘I thought I’ve seen each that needs to beryllium seen arsenic acold arsenic Jerry Springer & the history/BTS… Netflix proved maine wrong! That two-part documentary was WIIIILD!!!! GO WATCH! 10/10. nary notes,’ Melissa shared.

‘The Jerry Springer doc connected Netflix is really heartbreaking & brainsick af,’ Kristie added.

Others said the documentary had them hooked and they ‘couldn’t look away’.

Meanwhile, others expressed regret astatine being fans of The Jerry Springer Show erstwhile it aired.

‘I conscionable started watching Jerry Springer. Fights, Camera, Action past nighttime connected Netflix. And conscionable finished occurrence 1. I person to say, the archetypal occurrence unsocial had maine feeling truthful gobsmacked. I can’t judge I was truthful naive watching his shows years ago, reasoning that their caller “shock” attack was each scripted and staged for wannabe caller connected the country actors. I really consciousness ashamed present knowing these were really existent radical and real-life situations,’ Debunk Queen admitted.

During the tallness of its popularity, The Jerry Springer amusement attracted astir 8 cardinal viewers an occurrence nevertheless by 2018 that had dropped to astir 1.7 million.

Springer died aged 79 successful 2023. The aforesaid twelvemonth helium apologised for ‘ruining the culture’ with his speech show.

However, speaking connected David Yontef’s Behind The Velvet Rope podcast helium joked: ‘I conscionable anticipation hellhole isn’t that blistery due to the fact that I pain existent easy. I’m precise light-complexioned, and that benignant of worries me.’

Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action is streaming connected Netflix.

This nonfiction was archetypal published connected January 8, 2025.

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