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
Im derek brockway. If youve seen me on the tv before, its probably because ive told you about the weather, or about the best walks in wales. But tonight im going on a very different kind ofjourney, a personal one, to find out about a condition which killed my dad. Well, to see him suffering like that, it was dreadful. I still miss him now. Its not the same, is it . No. Sepsis is taking and changing thousands of lives. People of all ages, across wales. I meet some remarkable people, a mother who lost her teenage daughter. Anyone is at risk of sepsis. Anybody could fall to this silent killer. Doctors on the wards, who tell me how we could save more lives. If i was brought in with sepsis, what sort of treatment would i get . A survivor determined not to let sepsis win. I want my life back. You know, it was nearly taken away from me so suddenly. Its taken more than enough, i think. And i discover the shocking scale of it. We could more than fill this stadium with the number of people that
Im derek brockway. If youve seen me on the tv before, its probably because ive told you about the weather, or about the best walks in wales. But tonight im going on a very different kind ofjourney, a personal one, to find out about a condition which killed my dad. Well, to see him suffering like that, it was dreadful. I still miss him now. Its not the same, is it . No. Sepsis is taking and changing thousands of lives. People of all ages, across wales. I meet some remarkable people, a mother who lost her teenage daughter. Anyone is at risk of sepsis. Anybody could fall to this silent killer. Doctors on the wards, who tell me how we could save more lives. If i was brought in with sepsis, what sort of treatment would i get . A survivor determined not to let sepsis win. I want my life back. You know, it was nearly taken away from me so suddenly. Its taken more than enough, i think. And i discover the shocking scale of it. We could more than fill this stadium with the number of people that