In September 2008, Richard Dominick was fired from his job as executive producer of both The Jerry Springer Show and The Steve Wilkos Show, reported the Chicago Sun-Times. Fans of Springer's ...

The two-hour documentary details how the thoughtful liberal and popular Cincinnati news anchor "sold his soul" and turned his staid daytime talk show into a salacious slugfest.

Tales of infidelity and incest, physical brawls, and people flashing the studio audience were all standard fare for the show, which came to an end in 2018. Springer, who died at age 79 in 2023, ...

Remember what TV Guide once called “the worst show in the history of television”? Can you hear that “Jer-rey! Jer-rey! Jer-rey!” that the audience enthusiastically shouted, over and ...

Before the man who transformed “The Jerry Springer Show” into a gladiatorial showcase of the worst common denominator took over as its executive producer, Richard Dominick made his living ...

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

Jerry Springer on his show in 1998. But when ratings tumbled, the show hired former tabloid newsman Richard Dominick and the series evolved into the chair-throwing, headline-grabbing, chaotic beast ...

Producer Toby Yoshimura confirms that multiple producers would threaten guests in hopes of making them do what was asked of them. They also coached guests and got them riled up by goading them on ...

There is no line,” Richard Dominick, the revolutionary and reviled brain behind The Jerry Springer Show, once said. “If I could kill someone on television I would execute them.” Dominick, a former ...

But former producers detail the daytime discord. “There’s no line to draw,” says executive producer Richard Dominick, a former reporter for British tabloid “The Sun,” says in the ...