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.

The show was the home of jaw-dropping confessions and countless clashes between guests. Luke Sewell's "Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action" is a quick, two-episode look back at some of the biggest scandals and shocks of the show's earlier years, under the stewardship of executive producer, Richard Dominick.

Luke Sewell spoke about the complex legacy of the notorious talk show, which both coarsened American culture and affirmed the values of free speech.

Fights, Camera, Action, out Jan. 7 on Netflix, former producers reveal what went into creating the show and how they primed guests for those fights. Springer died in 2023, and none of them have a bad word to say about him.

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

A former producer for the Jerry Springer Show, Toby Yoshimura, spoke candidly about turning to drugs and alcohol in order to cope with the demands of the show