Underplayed Gems

The Jeremy Kyle Show (2005)

The Jeremy Kyle Show poster
Genre
tabloid talk show
Country
United Kingdom
Length
17 seasons, 3320 episodes
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

The show presents people trying to resolve personal conflicts. These conflicts often involve family, romantic relationships, sex, and addiction. The host confronts and chastises guests he views as morally questionable.

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What happens

The Jeremy Kyle Show is a British tabloid talk show presented by Jeremy Kyle and produced by ITV Studios. It premiered on the ITV network on 4 July 2005 and ran for seventeen series until its cancellation on 10 May 2019. It was the most popular programme in ITV's daytime schedule, broadcast on weekday mornings and reaching an audience of one million. It replaced the chat show Trisha following its move to Channel 5 in 2004. The show's content centered on confrontations in which guests attempt to resolve personal conflicts, often related to family and romantic relationships, sex and addiction. It featured psychotherapist Graham Stanier, who assisted the guests during and after the show's broadcast, along with the use of polygraphs, despite lack of scientific evidence supporting the use of the device as a lie detector. The Jeremy Kyle Show became controversial for placing guests in confrontational situations, with Kyle often chastising guests whom he felt had acted in morally dubious or irresponsible ways and stressing the importance of traditional family values, while guests frequently displayed strong emotions such as anger and distress. Despite ITV disputing claims that guests were mistreated on the programme and misled by researchers, a judge described the programme as "human bear-baiting" during a prosecution of guests who had a violent altercation on the programme. On 15 May 2019, the programme was cancelled, following the suicide of Steve Dymond, a guest whose appearance had been filmed in the week before but not aired. In September 2024, a coroner exonerated the programme as the cause of or as a contributory factor in Dymond's suicide, finding there was "no causal link" between the two. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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