The Jeremy Kyle Show, or something like it, will return
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 placed during the show's commercial breaks. Indeed, they are the same executives who would have urged Kyle to go further and further to garner more viewers and thus raise more revenue from advertising. Their cancelling the show is not a show of respect, it is cold, calculated reputation management, as is shown by a leaked email from ITV's chief executive, Carolyn McCall, stating that the show had been suspended to "protect its future".
Should The Jeremy Kyle Show be deemed too toxic to return, something like it will, because it has much more utility to the Establishment than revenue streams. It presents working-class people, often in a time of crisis, broken-hearted and vulnerable, in situations that the Establishment can then predicate of the ordinary people they see as scurrying beneath them as a whole. "How can we possibly give specimens like this the vote?" they will harrumph to each other in their elite clubs. "How dare people who can't exercise control over their own lives demand to have a say in setting the direction of the state? How can they make their own choices over education, or medication, or anything at all without our wise counsel?"
If the Jeremy Kyle Show returns it will be toned down somewhat, but this will only increase the demand for an "uncensored" version - demand that will be whipped up by the elite owners of those newspapers who claim to talk for the people but in reality only air those agendas that suit their Establishment chums. There's already been an uncensored "Access all Areas" DVD, which will serve as a template.
Should the Jeremy Kyle show not return, it will be replaced by another show run on the same formula, again toned down but with an "uncensored" sister show which will be the point of the exercise.
Watch this space. And while you're doing so, spare a thought for the shade of Steve Dymond, and all those who have been used as cannon-fodder by the car-crash TV industry.
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 placed during the show's commercial breaks. Indeed, they are the same executives who would have urged Kyle to go further and further to garner more viewers and thus raise more revenue from advertising. Their cancelling the show is not a show of respect, it is cold, calculated reputation management, as is shown by a leaked email from ITV's chief executive, Carolyn McCall, stating that the show had been suspended to "protect its future".
Should The Jeremy Kyle Show be deemed too toxic to return, something like it will, because it has much more utility to the Establishment than revenue streams. It presents working-class people, often in a time of crisis, broken-hearted and vulnerable, in situations that the Establishment can then predicate of the ordinary people they see as scurrying beneath them as a whole. "How can we possibly give specimens like this the vote?" they will harrumph to each other in their elite clubs. "How dare people who can't exercise control over their own lives demand to have a say in setting the direction of the state? How can they make their own choices over education, or medication, or anything at all without our wise counsel?"
If the Jeremy Kyle Show returns it will be toned down somewhat, but this will only increase the demand for an "uncensored" version - demand that will be whipped up by the elite owners of those newspapers who claim to talk for the people but in reality only air those agendas that suit their Establishment chums. There's already been an uncensored "Access all Areas" DVD, which will serve as a template.
Should the Jeremy Kyle show not return, it will be replaced by another show run on the same formula, again toned down but with an "uncensored" sister show which will be the point of the exercise.
Watch this space. And while you're doing so, spare a thought for the shade of Steve Dymond, and all those who have been used as cannon-fodder by the car-crash TV industry.
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