Fights, Camera, Action docuseries reexamined guest Nancy Campbell-Panitz's brutal murder at the hands of ex-husband Ralf Panitz after their appearance on the controversial talk show. During the second part of the special,

Fights, Camera, Action, Nancy Campbell-Panitz's son, Jeffrey, speaks out about his mother's tragic murder, and how he believes the talk show contributed to her death.

I want the show to demonstrate outrageousness,” Jerry Springer, the late host of the eponymous talk show, once said.

That very ranking is mentioned in the second of two episodes in the documentary Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action, which is streaming now on Netflix. And seeing the history of the riotous and controversial daytime talk show laid out by its creators,

A new Netflix docuseries goes behind the scenes of The Jerry Springer Show, with first-hand testimony from insiders and former guests.

Building a show around outrage became a "trap" for producers, who "had to keep outdoing themselves" to draw in viewers, the director of "Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action" told Yahoo Entertainment.

The show played a big part, “in people not wanting to understand each other, but just shout at each other and fight,” said Luke Sewell, the documentary's director

The Jerry Springer Show,” which aired nearly 4,000 episodes between 1991 and 2018, was home to all four. Yet at its center, host Jerry Springer (who died in 2023) was an ocean of calm wading through a sea of muck and controversy.