welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. what do you really want to watch on tv? of course, i d like to believe it s the serious, challenging interviews you get here on hardtalk, but my guest today maybe has a different take. jerry springer is the king of tabloid trash talking television in the united states. his show specialises in dysfunctional relationships and sex. his guests curse. they throw chairs. sometimes they fight. critics call it cynical and manipulative tv, but it s made him famous and rich. so, does he care? jerry springer, welcome to hardtalk. it s nice to be here. thanks for having me. it is pretty incredible. your show, from small beginnings in cincinnati more than 20 years ago, has made you famous around the world, and it is still going across america and internationally. how come? probably because it has a niche. when it first came on, we had never, at least in the states, i can only speak about what goes on in the states, we had never seen people that are
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jerry springer is the king of tabloid trash talking television in the united states. his show specialises in dysfunctional relationships and sex. his guests curse. they throw chairs. sometimes they fight. critics call it cynical and manipulative tv, but it s made him famous and rich. so, does he care? jerry springer, welcome to hardtalk. it s nice to be here. thanks for having me. it is pretty incredible. your show, from small beginnings in cincinnati more than 20 years ago, has made you famous around the world, and it is still going across america and internationally. how come? probably because it has a niche. when it first came on, we had never, at least in the states, i can only speak about what goes on in the states, we had never seen people that are on my show on television before. american television was primarily upper middle class white. all the sitcoms, whether it was friends or seinfeld or whatever, always well scrubbed people speaking the queen s english and all of
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