TV review: Jerry Springer documentary goes behind the onstage brawls

'There was plenty of exploitation. But no one kidnapped guests and brought them on stage – they rang in and offered up their private lives in return for fame and notoriety'

The late Jerry Springer, on stage set in Stamford, CT, Tuesday October 4, 2016. (Photo by Howard Simmons/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

I never knew Jerry Springer was Mayor of Cincinnati. Or that this icon of daytime TV started life as a dull chat show which was about to be cancelled before it pivoted to featuring a man who married a Shetland pony. 

There’s that, and lots more, in Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action (Netflix).