Kilroy Silk was on BBC1 years ago while ITV had The Time The Place. Both shows were more like debates.
I really loved Kilroy. It was like a daytime version of Central Weekend Live (shown on Friday nights), which Midlanders may remember - I was a huge fan of that too. The nearest modern equivalent is The Big Questions with Nicky Campbell (erstwhile of CWL) on Sunday mornings, although that tends to cover faith and moral issues rather than topical news or sensational/lifestyle ones. He can be very bullish and borderline aggressive towards people with certain beliefs, but he still doesn't seek to tear them down for who they are.
They could both cover some trashy and sensationalist subjects (although they also discussed some serious, more newsworthy items as well) and they did often have eccentric guests. The one that stays with me from CWL was the couple who dressed as gnomes 24/7. They'd replaced their seats with plastic toadstools (not sure whether at their request or if the producers just thought it wacky).
Kilroy could be very cantankerous and they never actually reserved him a seat for when he wanted to sit down - he just made for the end of a row of the benches they had and would shove people along with his posterior to make room for himself.
The huge difference, though was that they covered opinions, beliefs and attitudes about topics in general rather than whipping up ad hominem hate campaigns (unless a public figure had done something really controversial) and they had a balance of views in the crowd, which were allowed to be reasonably well represented and heard out. The very despised targets tended to be outspoken politicians, journalists or other people of a status to fully understand the unpopularity that their views would be met with and the experience and confidence to be able to deal with it, rather than unwitting, low-functioning, vulnerable people from underprivileged backgrounds.
Moreover, the host would let the heated debate go so far, and often stir it a little with leading questions themselves, but would never allow it to descend to outright abuse - much less orchestrate the abuse themselves. I don't remember there being any actual fisticuffs of the sort you'd regularly see on JK. There was a lot of agreeing to disagree, but it was mainly fairly respectful.
Plus, those disagreeing with each other wouldn't be partners/ex-partners who would have to return home afterwards to the same house or neighbourhood as each other.