A new Channel 4 programme exposes the horrific culture of the ITV series. Here, the documentary’s executive producer reveals the show’s awful mistreatment of guests and staff alike
When we set out to make a documentary about The Jeremy Kyle Show, we weren’t planning on doing an exposé. We set out to make something similar to our documentary about Jade Goody – more of a social history of Britain, looking at how quickly our values have changed in a very short space of time.
But, then we started doing research and people’s stories made us realise really quickly that there was a different tale to tell – one that people were burning to tell. It’s about the pattern of misery and of failings on that series, prior to that fateful recording and Steve Dymond’s death. It’s a story where – as one of the people whose lives have been affected by the show says in our documentary – there were so many warnings.
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