Jeremy Kyle Show cancelled for good...is this the end of reality tv bubble?

[steveh35]

itv have announced that the Jeremy Kyle show will cease production permanently after the recent death of a participant, following on from the suicide of a Love Island contestant early this year have we seen the end of public participation in tv shows.

In recent years UK tv channels have chosen to use "celebrities" more and more rather than members of the public in shows, unlike in the 70s and 80s when the public were the stars of game shows and talent shows so are we going to see more celebrities as insurance for ordinary Joes will surely increase with the risks?

Or will we see some kind of spin off shows that gets tv makers around this current issue of mental health?

Who remembers about 20 years ago a contestant dying on Noel Edmonds show I remember the big fuss then surely in the sensitive world we live in now there can be no way back for the Kyle type of show.

 

[steveh35]

A runner on the show claims and you can decide if it is true or not that guests were put in hotels with mini bars to make sure they were drunk the night before, they were given certain clothes to wear on set to make them look the part and the runners had hidden cigarettes which they could give to contestants as they were not legally allowed to smoke at Media City, also tales of fighting and aggression with participants and production staff.

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[mack341]

itv have announced that the Jeremy Kyle show will cease production permanently after the recent death of a participant, following on from the suicide of a Love Island contestant early this year have we seen the end of public participation in tv shows.

In recent years UK tv channels have chosen to use "celebrities" more and more rather than members of the public in shows, unlike in the 70s and 80s when the public were the stars of game shows and talent shows so are we going to see more celebrities as insurance for ordinary Joes will surely increase with the risks?

Or will we see some kind of spin off shows that gets tv makers around this current issue of mental health?

Who remembers about 20 years ago a contestant dying on Noel Edmonds show I remember the big fuss then surely in the sensitive world we live in now there can be no way back for the Kyle type of show.

yeah I vaguely remember a death linked to that edmonds tv show, just looked it up, a bungee jump went wrong. ITV have been rapidly losing the plot for a few years, they killed off heartbeat and invested heavily into simon cowell, vera and doc martin are about the best two things they still have. The jeremy kyle show was living proof of broken britain, that is if you actually needed more proof, I think there were a few 'gambling' stories on there, it could been a good show if it wasn't set up to exploit the guests problems for entertainment purposes.

 

[steveh35]

yeah I vaguely remember a death linked to that edmonds tv show, just looked it up, a bungee jump went wrong. ITV have been rapidly losing the plot for a few years, they killed off heartbeat and invested heavily into simon cowell, vera and doc martin are about the best two things they still have. The jeremy kyle show was living proof of broken britain, that is if you actually needed more proof, I think there were a few 'gambling' stories on there, it could been a good show if it wasn't set up to exploit the guests problems for entertainment purposes.

itv cancelled Heartbeat and a number of other "itv regional made" shows in 2010/11 due to financial issues with reduced advertising revenue and the ongoing itv digital fallout this is when they closed most of the regional itv buildings (Leeds came back from the dead as it was supposed to be closed) , reduced the regional news programmes and in effect all production was only made in The London Studios or the old Granada building.

Now itv is much healthier it makes money so in future it should be less reliant on these kind of cheap reality shows or Simon Cowell it got through it's financial issues and hopefully itv can start to make something better but I suspect This Morning and Loose Women will be here to stay (until one of the women makes a big mistake and gets the show cancelled).

The BBC and itv are stuck in a loop of showing programmes which started around 2005 and have been reluctant to cancel shows such as Homes Under The Hammer and Escape To the Country maybe the two can now realise 2005 has gone it's nearly 2020 a new decade, time for a new daytime format.

 

[mack341]

itv cancelled Heartbeat and a number of other "itv regional made" shows in 2010/11 due to financial issues with reduced advertising revenue and the ongoing itv digital fallout this is when they closed most of the regional itv buildings (Leeds came back from the dead as it was supposed to be closed) , reduced the regional news programmes and in effect all production was only made in The London Studios or the old Granada building.

Now itv is much healthier it makes money so in future it should be less reliant on these kind of cheap reality shows or Simon Cowell it got through it's financial issues and hopefully itv can start to make something better but I suspect This Morning and Loose Women will be here to stay (until one of the women makes a big mistake and gets the show cancelled).

The BBC and itv are stuck in a loop of showing programmes which started around 2005 and have been reluctant to cancel shows such as Homes Under The Hammer and Escape To the Country maybe the two can now realise 2005 has gone it's nearly 2020 a new decade, time for a new daytime format.

the bbc are taking the proverbial still showing that homes under the hammer crap, it's such a cheap programmme, everytime the auction bit was on the same bit of shite music would start up I suppose when dion became a presenter they thought it was a big revamp. I bet bargain hunt is still on . once the bbc get a program up and running to fill the schedules they very reluctantly ever drop it, casualty, holby city, eastenders this crap will be on for another 100 years probably, I can just see it the 100th year anniversary of eastenders in 2085. grrrr!

 

[kou187]

I can confirm that the stars of the show or you could say the (Victims) are indeed put in a hotel that is paid for, and the show pays for the mini bar tab. I have a family member who used to teach at a university and one of there pupils was actually on the show. I was also told the pupil said they received £200 to embarrass them selfs to the nation. A disgusting show that deserved cancelling imo. Every time i would flick by it channel surfing i would just shake my head at how stupid some humans actaully are.

 

[cncas2123]

As much as anyone wants to berate JK and his show, every person who went on to the show, who was in the audience or who watched it knew exactly what they were letting themselves in for.
It’s not a show I watched apart from the odd 5 minutes here or there, but seriously did anyone think it was ever going to be anything but car crash tv?

 

[goatwack]

It wasn't a one-way street, many procariat used that platform to get 'noticed' by their chums and probably saw it as their life's calling.

Yet on the other hand you had bear-baiter extraordinaire who thrived off mocking the guests on his show for cheap ratings, and who seemingly found a winning formula for about 50 long years.

Lie-detector 'tests' are never accurate, plus I'm sure he lied about the results a few times for 'dramatic effect', yet seemingly he'd convinced his guests that they were correct, culminating in that man taking his own life

I'm just shocked it took so long to boot off the air. All the more surprising given the very VERY early episodes of that show were fairly 'grounded' and covered serious topics, not to mention his radio show (where he made his name)

 

[dunover]

Kyle provides a valuable lesson and warning to young people in society by throwing its losers into the bear pit, like a sociological zoo. It's vital it's kept as a warning not to have kids too early with no means to support them, not to be a smack or dopehead, not to get obese, look after your teeth, not to be a lifelong doleite and above all get some kind of education.

Of course that's the majority of the 'guests' but not all. I worked with a bloke once who went on there. He was none of the above and didn't look typically Anglo due to his dark eyes and black hair. His missus was brunette too and their third and fourth kids were twins and very Aryan in appearance, so much so he spent 3 years arguing with his missus that with blonde blue-eyed twins she must've done the postie or milkman behind his back sort of thing. So off he went to the honourable JK for the public humiliation and DNA test, only to find the kids were definitely both of theirs and then spent the next 2 years eating humble pie lol. He even kept it quiet, so it wasn't until a few years later we found out when somebody saw a clip on one of those obscure repeat channels and he told us the story. So yes, it can help people out but clearly there are many participants not cerebrally able to cope with the consequences and deal with the show itself which makes great TV (for some) but opens the whole thing up to accusations of exploitation.

 

[mack341]

Kyle provides a valuable lesson and warning to young people in society by throwing its losers into the bear pit, like a sociological zoo. It's vital it's kept as a warning not to have kids too early with no means to support them, not to be a smack or dopehead, not to get obese, look after your teeth, not to be a lifelong doleite and above all get some kind of education.

oh dear tick, tick, tick...



diy dentistry though is not too bad once you get the hang of it, and saves me dough so I can do extra spins on rhino and bonanza

 

[goatwack]

I still dream of Jeannie (or the 'Tan Monster' in this case) but not in a good way

 

[dunover]

oh dear tick, tick, tick...

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diy dentistry though is not too bad once you get the hang of it, and saves me dough so I can do extra spins on rhino and bonanza

Oh, a NHS dentist! Thank god I get ripped-off by a private one instead.
My daughter wants braces because she's not happy with the alignment of some of her bottom teeth, top ones are perfect. To us there's nothing the matter with them. The bill? £1500!!!!

I'll need 1000x on Bonanza ASAP.

 

[irish-ranger]

Oh, a NHS dentist! Thank god I get ripped-off by a private one instead.
My daughter wants braces because she's not happy with the alignment of some of her bottom teeth, top ones are perfect. To us there's nothing the matter with them. The bill? £1500!!!!

I'll need 1000x on Bonanza ASAP.

Well woe the day she decides to start driving if u think Dentists treatment is day light robbery.
So far for us
£400 in leassons
£850 for a car which she needed even tho she hasn't passed her test
£1500 for learners insurance so me and the wife can sit with her whilst she drives the car sure it's ok she gets a 10% discount when she passes her test.

 

[dunover]

I still dream of Jeannie (or the 'Tan Monster' in this case) but not in a good way

lol...utterly well, I cannot think of an adequate adjective!

The worst one I saw was in London in hotel just before walking to Meistermeet in 2018 - I can't recall too much other than some Elvis-quiffed middle-aged guy with bad teeth and a younger peroxide tart with a mouth that could utter more profanity in 3 minutes than I could do in 25 Rhino videos. She could have been created by Dante. Plus there was another 'woman' vying for his affections. I can never unsee that episode, free beer or not.

P.S. - I just remembered, that was the night I met you and your lady, so if I was babbling incoherently with a 1000-yard stare you know I was still getting through the shock.

 

[Jono777]

Love him or loathe him, they were rioting outside our local Job Centre this morning!

 

[colinsunderland]

I don't know how it lasted so long, cheap shite TV that was a copy of the Jerry Springer show, even down to the on screen graphics.
Kyle was so far up his own arse it was unreal, hopefully he doesn't get any more tv work in future. I'm surprised it got cancelled though, I thought it would be a warning and told to tone things down.

It won't affect any other reality stuff, its all cheap as fuck to make, which is why the TV is full of it. Cant remember the last time I watched something on mainstream TV, its that bad now, was probably the last series of Dr Who, which I stopped watching as even that was terrible lol.

 

[mack341]

I still dream of Jeannie (or the 'Tan Monster' in this case) but not in a good way

At 0.38 I thought for one second he was going to nail it then he goes on about them getting back together and I'm sure I've seen those eye things on an attenborough programme

 

[Jono777]

was probably the last series of Dr Who, which I stopped watching as even that was terrible lol.

Lifetime fan here but no more after that pile of excrement.

Dr Who is a bloke, too many PC messages and subliminal lines etc, rubbish!

 

[goatwack]

Jeremy 'Jezza' Kyle to play the next Doctor?......

 

[colinsunderland]

Lifetime fan here but no more after that pile of excrement.

Dr Who is a bloke, too many PC messages and subliminal lines etc, rubbish!

Same here, and I agree completely, but on top of all that, the writing was the worst I've seen on Dr Who in 50 years.

 

[snorky510238]

I never understood why anybody would want appear on the show in the first place. Failed actors perhaps. From the clips I saw all the guests came under the same categorical heading. Innocent or guilty it was glorified attention seeking at best.

 

[Karolina-CasinoMax]

I'll miss the BIG Steve the most ....

 

[Jono777]

I have a saying I regularly(ish) sort of use for some of the down and outs, tramps, lazy, benefit seekers who unfortunately live in abundance a couple of miles from our area.

"Jeremy Kyle bait, if ever I saw one...."

Guess I am going to have to have a re think now