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The Jeremy Kyle Show, or something like it, will return

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The Jeremy Kyle Show has been cancelled after the suicide of a guest , Steve Dymond (below), was linked to his appearance on it, after he "failed" a lie-detector test. For those who aren't connoisseurs of the race to the bottom of TV "entertainment", the Jeremy Kyle Show is a forum for people who feel they have been betrayed by those close to them, mostly in love, and to whom the media Establishment gives no other voice than confrontation-fuelled TV watched by the same sort of people who go to car races or air shows in case there might be a crash. But let's take a closer look at this. Shows don't just turn up on TV, they are commissioned by middle-ranking executives, and their commissioning is OKd by senior executives. The senior executives who have ordered the show shut down and all episodes taken off the ITV hub are either the same ones who were happy to commission it, or their replacements who were happy for ITV to take revenue for advertising