Judge Jerry,” one of last season’s biggest daytime success stories.The syndicated show marked Springer’s debut as a TV judge a la “Judge Judy” et al. — and was quite a departure from the raucous “Jerry Springer Show” he hosted for 27 years.“We were mixing two audiences,” Springer, 76, says of Season 1. “Roughly half the audience were people who were just fans of the old show … and they were looking for me to continue with my quips.
Then there was the new audience, who just like court shows and were tuning in like, ‘Oh, this is interesting. Let’s see how Jerry does as a judge.’“There was a balance for me between making sober judgments and legal judgements that have validity,” he says. “I have to be serious about that.
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