Jeremy Kyle Cancelled

[Samuel88]

Thank god that this low rent copy of Jerry Springer is finally off our airwaves!
Will anyone miss this exploitative show?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48279613

ITV has axed The Jeremy Kyle Show after 14 years following the death of a guest who took part in the programme.

Steve Dymond was found dead on 9 May a week after filming the show, during which he took a lie detector test.

ITV's chief executive Carolyn McCall said the decision was a result of the "gravity of recent events".

 

[hexagon789]

Thank god that this low rent copy of Jerry Springer is finally off our airwaves!
Will anyone miss this exploitative show?

Nope. Television will be much better off without it as far as I'm concerned.

Shame it took so long to get cancelled.

 

[big all]

i have watched it once perhaps 15- 20 years ago
i wondered why they would choose people often with social and relationship problems then manipulate them in my opinion possibly in a fairly immoral way for general entertainment
in my opinion you can only possibly enjoy such programs iff you think you are possibly morally superior and seeing others with problems greater than your own can help you feel better rather than sorry for the way they have been possibly exploited ??

now not having a go at any one as i am not perfect but "baiting " people and stirring things up just for entertainment seems way way wrong in my eyes .

 

[swj99]

I've never seen it. Did they have fights on there like they did on Jerry Springer ?

 

[Crossover]

I've never seen it. Did they have fights on there like they did on Jerry Springer ?

From the bits I’ve seen, yes

 

[GusB]

Good news - sort of ties in with the "What made you smile today?" thread

 

[jon0844]

I worked with someone who was on the show (he was later sacked) and he seemed quite proud of going on it. I could never believe or understand that people really did apply to go on.

It was exploitative but I don't think they had any problems getting people to volunteer, so it wasn't like they dragged people off the street.

 

[Howardh]

Think I've caught it once, that was once too often.

And to think we give those on the show a vote.

 

[AlterEgo]

I am on the fence.

Jeremy Kyle was one of the only places you could see how the bottom of the working class lived. There were few forced redemption narratives or “deserving poor” stories and TV is worse off without it. Some people are total screw ups and their stories are rarely told without the viewer or reader expecting to feel pity for them. Most of the outrage on Twitter is from people who aren’t working class and who consider themselves virtuous for “sticking up for poor people”.

Yes, it was often exploitative, of this there is no doubt. But most of the antagonists on there were not good people and I’m at a loss to understand why people are surprised the show didn’t show them to be good people.

I find some of the people celebrating its demise to be revelling in moral superiority, too.

 

[AlterEgo]

I worked with someone who was on the show (he was later sacked) and he seemed quite proud of going on it. I could never believe or understand that people really did apply to go on.

It was exploitative but I don't think they had any problems getting people to volunteer, so it wasn't like they dragged people off the street.

Well quite, it’s not like they bugged people’s houses and everyone was invited to laugh. It wasn’t the Truman Show.

 

[Ianno87]

I am on the fence.

Jeremy Kyle was one of the only places you could see how the bottom of the working class lived. There were few forced redemption narratives or “deserving poor” stories and TV is worse off without it. Some people are total screw ups and their stories are rarely told without the viewer or reader expecting to feel pity for them. Most of the outrage on Twitter is from people who aren’t working class and who consider themselves virtuous for “sticking up for poor people”.

Yes, it was often exploitative, of this there is no doubt. But most of the antagonists on there were not good people and I’m at a loss to understand why people are surprised the show didn’t show them to be good people.

I find some of the people celebrating its demise to be revelling in moral superiority, too.

I can empathise with this view. If handled properly, it was enlightening to see genuinely vulnerable people front and centre on TV, or exploring how chaotic some peoples' lives can be, often through no fault of their own or a combination of circumstances following perhaps one bad decision they made.

But yes, decended into 'entertainment' far too often, and did sometimes give airtime to some ridiculous stories (I remember two families with an extremely childish argument over who did and did not steal their kids iPad - not exactly showcasing grown-up ways of resolving difficulties, especially as JK's solution was just for him to personally replace the iPad - so the families got what they wanted...)

 

[Groningen]

I have heard that 1 participant commited suicide that he lied with a lie detector test.

 

[NoMorePacers]

Oh dear! What will chavs watch now?

 

[DarloRich]

Thank god that this low rent copy of Jerry Springer is finally off our airwaves!
Will anyone miss this exploitative show?

Nope. Television will be much better off without it as far as I'm concerned.

Shame it took so long to get cancelled.

Good news - sort of ties in with the "What made you smile today?" thread

I suspect that the vast daily audience for the show might miss it. I wonder if the moral superiority being shown here is because you cant relate to the lives of people on the show. It is clear that large numbers of views could and did.

I am on the fence.

Jeremy Kyle was one of the only places you could see how the bottom of the working class lived. There were few forced redemption narratives or “deserving poor” stories and TV is worse off without it. Some people are total screw ups and their stories are rarely told without the viewer or reader expecting to feel pity for them. Most of the outrage on Twitter is from people who aren’t working class and who consider themselves virtuous for “sticking up for poor people”.

Yes, it was often exploitative, of this there is no doubt. But most of the antagonists on there were not good people and I’m at a loss to understand why people are surprised the show didn’t show them to be good people.

I find some of the people celebrating its demise to be revelling in moral superiority, too.

I commend this post to the house. Very sensible and expressed very well.

 

[jon0844]

I have heard that 1 participant commited suicide that he lied with a lie detector test.

Yes, that's the whole reason it has been axed.

 

[hexagon789]

I suspect that the vast daily audience for the show might miss it. I wonder if the moral superiority being shown here is because you cant relate to the lives of people on the show. It is clear that large numbers of views could and did.

I don't really care about that at all. It was boring and uninteresting to watch, that's why I'm glad it's gone iih, though the way the show was conducted was never very nice either.

 

[AlterEgo]

Oh dear! What will chavs watch now?

Are people really still using the word chav?

 

[talltim]

This article is interesting https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/15/jeremy-kyle-cruelty-guests-death-show-tv
Written by a former worker on Tricia, which for those that don't remember was a precurser in the same format.
To summarise, they didn't get many people contacting them to be on the show, they went looking for likelt candidates in known areas of poverty and persuaded them to go on.

 

[3rd rail land]

I'm surprised they didn't run out of candidates for the show long ago. It doesn't surprise me they had to resort to the tactics they did. Its not as if they cared about the well being of the participants.
Awful is not a strong enough word to describe my dislike for this show.

 

[Howardh]

This article is interesting https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/15/jeremy-kyle-cruelty-guests-death-show-tv
Written by a former worker on Tricia, which for those that don't remember was a precurser in the same format.
To summarise, they didn't get many people contacting them to be on the show, they went looking for likelt candidates in known areas of poverty and persuaded them to go on.

And presumably paid them a decent wad?
A mate who has watched a little more than I thought - like the wrestling - they were all actors and it was an audience wind-up show!

 

[Darandio]

And presumably paid them a decent wad?
A mate who has watched a little more than I thought - like the wrestling - they were all actors and it was an audience wind-up show!

From other similar articles it seems they weren't paid anything, never mind decent. It was portrayed to them effectively as a holiday, travel to and from a hotel, hotel stay, food vouchers, free cigarettes etc.

 

[Howardh]

From other similar articles it seems they weren't paid anything, never mind decent. It was portrayed to them effectively as a holiday, travel to and from a hotel, hotel stay, food vouchers, free cigarettes etc.

That's "pay" in my book - and I bet HMRC's book too!!

 

[AlterEgo]

This article is interesting https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/15/jeremy-kyle-cruelty-guests-death-show-tv
Written by a former worker on Tricia, which for those that don't remember was a precurser in the same format.
To summarise, they didn't get many people contacting them to be on the show, they went looking for likelt candidates in known areas of poverty and persuaded them to go on.

Peak Guardian - contributor claims the show's junior employees were working class (did they always stay so, or just until they got promoted to a certain level?) and exploited other working class people!

And as for "poverty p**n" accusations... The main audience for Jeremy Kyle wasn't the employed middle class gawping at the have-nots but rather people - and especially women - on lower incomes who were at home in the middle of the day. If there's anyone to blame for the show's continued success, it's actually people who are only a sliver of a social rank away from the guests themselves.

 

[Crossover]

I hadn't realised quite how many episodes there were - over 3000 episodes over the course of its run!

I was on a tour last year which included Dock10, the studios at MediaCity. As we went into the building (through the non-public entrance) an xray machine was pointed out which it was said was only used for one (non BBC - it was a BBC tour) programme, that being JKS.

 

[d9009alycidon]

Can they now please cancel "East Enders", "Coronation St", "Emmerdale", stc etc

 

[DarloRich]

If there's anyone to blame for the show's continued success, it's actually people who are only a sliver of a social rank away from the guests themselves.

and who are simply one stumble below those complaining/sneering

 

[hexagon789]

As we went into the building (through the non-public entrance) an xray machine was pointed out which it was said was only used for one (non BBC - it was a BBC tour) programme, that being JKS.

I think that says a lot on its own

 

[Bletchleyite]

I keep reading the thread title as being in relation to cancellations on the Kyle line, something which unlike the removal of this televisual dross would actually bother me even though I go there once in a blue moon.

 

[Typhoon]

Give it a year or so and something fairly similar will come back - different network, possibly different medium (Kyle had a radio show in the midlands some years ago, rather more 'agony uncle' but similar nastiness). Enough members of the public love it!

 

[Master29]

Bread and circuses for the masses. It will eventually be replaced with the same again.