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

A new Netflix docuseries goes behind the scenes of The Jerry Springer Show, with first-hand testimony from insiders and former guests.

Fights, Camera, Action, Nancy Campbell-Panitz's son, Jeffrey, speaks out about his mother's tragic murder, and how he believes the talk show contributed to her death.

That very ranking is mentioned in the second of two episodes in the documentary Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action, which is streaming now on Netflix. And seeing the history of the riotous and controversial daytime talk show laid out by its creators,

The tasteless sleaze Jerry Springer paraded across the screen has long since been eclipsed by the great dumbing down of culture off camera

Building a show around outrage became a "trap" for producers, who "had to keep outdoing themselves" to draw in viewers, the director of "Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action" told Yahoo Entertainment.

Fights, Camera, Action features a ton of new information about Springer’s hit talk show and the seedy history therein.

Its latest effort reexamines the history of "The Jerry Springer Show", which ran for 27 seasons from 1991 through to 2018, becoming a key proponent of what's been dubbed "Trash TV". The show was the home of jaw-dropping confessions and countless clashes between guests.