Whatever happened to this type of show?

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I know Why Jeremy Kyle was no more but whatever happened to Rikki Lake,Montel Williams,Maury Povich,Sally Jessy Raphael,Jenny Jones etc? They were on constantly in the 90s and 2000's now nothing. There's nothing remotely similar now unless I've missed it. Got me through many a late night feed 😄

I think all these 'reality and celebrity' programmes have replaced them.
Like...
Celebrity Bakes a Pie,
Celebrity in a Hot Tub,
Gormless People Doing Mindless Tasks,
Dancing on Thin Ice,
My House is More Worser than Yourn (sic)

Also Trisha show was huge, and Esther Rantzen did a similar show for a while.

I’m guessing people get their tittle tattle from the internet now.

I think it was largely agreed to be exploitation of potentially vulnerable people and would be considered as too potentially risky to produce now.

This. It was kind of the modern day freak show.

lets judge and laugh, be horrified and glad we aren’t those people.

Even the more sedate ones weren’t great although you’re right for a lot of years they were massively popular!

not sure things are that different now except that things have changed format to online etc and the rise of social media has meant some of the people who may have wanted to appear on for example Jeremy Kyle are doing their own thing online now.

as a small example. I had a friend of a friend who was on one of these shows for toxic relationship stuff. This person has had a few just as toxic relationships since. But With The latest relationship it seems one or both of them start Facebook live streaming when things kick off so there are multiple videos of them screaming swearing and fighting and following each other through the house online!

personally iv never seen it as dont know them but more importantly am not interested at all!

I think they just became boring, how many times can you watch somebody not knowing who the father of their baby is ?
Especially the American ,one's several of the guests made numerous appearances trying to figure out who the father/s of their child/ren were .

It's a dated format. It reached its peak of popularity years ago, and we've moved on.