In television history, perhaps no single show has ever been quite as revolutionary as The Jerry Springer Show — not that many people would see that as a good thing. All the same, over the course of ...

I want the show to demonstrate outrageousness,” Jerry Springer, the late host of the eponymous talk show, once said.

That show turned out to be Jerry Springer, at the time a top-rating talk show where dysfunctional families willingly aired ...