Had the guy from Jeremy Kyle not killed himself, do we think the show is still on today?
I think there’s a slim chance it might have remained on the air. Absolutely not guaranteed, but it had been running for 14 years straight and even though the show had a lot of haters, it equally had an audience and I can just imagine that during Covid when we were all in lockdown it might have gained even more viewers because more people were at home during the day
I think that production of it would have definitely been suspended during Covid but I could have seen it returning to no live audience for a bit followed by small spread out audiences. Definitely would have been fascinating to see a show like that go through social distancing
Then if it survived the Covid era, I dare say it comes back even stronger. Certainly would have continued to be an incredibly polarising series but I think that the initial audience would still remain in 2026
You could argue that cancel culture had the potential to tear the show apart, however because of how many viewers the show got and how I feel like the people who get around cancel culture aren’t part of that viewership of Jeremy Kyle, any attempt to boycott the show I doubt would work as well as other attempts for other shows
What do we think?