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A recent report by the ACMA has found that half the shit that was on daytime TV in the 1990s and 2000s would never get signed off on today.
While TV censorship experts and Christians complain about the increased swearing and violence on day-to-day sports and reality programming, researchers say it’s got nothing on those inbred panel shows that used to air every single day.
One programme in particular, The Jerry Springer Show, has been canonised in the Smithsonian for its gentle and brave portrayal of life on the Middle-American fringe.
One lead TV Historian, Dr Fox Atereruns, says Jerry Springer panel discussions about different subcultures of American life will be remembered as a golden age in daytime television.
“How would we have ever known about the huge community of midgets in the Ku Klux Klan” he says.
“Or the LGBTIQ community and their complex gender and sexual orientations, which resulted in extremely violent love triangles that ended up coming to blows on stage”
“We still don’t know why this show had to exist for 16 years, and we definitely don’t know what type of humans would pay money to watch it live”
However researchers say, like cigarettes, tabloid panel shows only exist to this day because they were invented when there was absolutely no laws that could have stopped them.
