New Netflix doc reveals area near Charlotte supplied many 'Jerry Springer' guests
The so-called 'Springer Triangle' generated 75% of the guests on 'The Jerry Springer Show,' a former producer says
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New documentary reveals Charlotte bordered the ‘Springer Triangle’ that regularly provided outlandish talk show guests
A new Netflix documentary reveals that the producers of “The Jerry Springer Show” drew heavily from a region of the country that seems to be right next to Charlotte.
The two-part documentary “Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action,” released this month, goes behind the scenes of the raunchy yet popular daytime talk show that ran from 1991-2018. The doc examines the tension between the show’s commercial success and its borderline exploitation of unsophisticated guests, who confronted each other about affairs and admitted to incest and other unseemly or illegal activities.
In the first episode of the documentary, “Springer” producer Toby Yoshimura — a former bartender with no previous talk show experience — reveals that the show found guests who were primarily from one section of the country, which producers referred to as “The Springer Triangle.”
He explained:
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