Remembering Jerry Springer: The talk-show host, who died Thursday at 79, helped usher in a new era of television over the last 30 years: gleefully lowbrow, unapologetically raucous and addictive.
Springer’s cultural influence can be felt across several genres, from reality television shows and bombastic cable news broadcasts to the all-too-real political spectacles that blur the line between the two.
But the Springer circus was the market leader by far. None of his competitors were big enough to inspire a feature-length film:"Ringmaster," a $20 million comedy starring Springer as a fictional version of himself named Jerry Farrelly, debuted in theaters in November 1998. "I would never watch my show," Springer told Reuters in 2000."I'm not interested in it; it's not aimed toward me. This is just a silly show. I don't take it seriously."
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