Jerry Springer Show refused to fly guests home if they walked off set, according to new Netflix doc

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Producers of The Jerry Springer Show would threaten not to fly guests home if they stormed off and refused to return for the show’s final panel, a new documentary alleges. It was all for the show.” Jerry Springer hosting his controversial TV show The Independent’s Louis Chilton recently spoke to the director of Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action, Luke Sewell, as well as two of the original series’ producers to find out more about working on the chat show that was both revered and reviled. “When I first saw Jerry Springer as a teenager, I was dumbfounded,” British filmmaker Sewell told The Independent. “It seemed like TV from another planet – this wild, crazy trainwreck that you couldn’t not look at.” The series, he continued, made its name “exploiting guests for people’s entertainment, and ultimately just for ratings.