Netflix commissions two-episode documentary on The Jerry Springer Show

Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action

Netflix has ordered a two-part documentary about notorious US talkshow The Jerry Springer Show.

Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action will be available on the US-based streamer from Tuesday January 7. It will tell the story of The Jerry Springer Show using first-hand testimony and revelations from show insiders.

The series will explore how this daytime talkshow became one of the biggest and most outrageous TV hits of the 1990s. But behind the entertaining facade lay some darker truths.

Producers and ex-guests of The Jerry Springer Show outline a murkier picture of the destruction it caused, raising renewed questions about who was responsible and how far things should go in the name of entertainment.

UK production company Minnow Films is working on the show, with Luke Sewell directing and Sophie Jones, Alicia Kerr and Sophie Leonard exec producing.