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“Judge Jerry” after three seasons leaves Springer without a small-screen home for the first time since “The Jerry Springer Show” launched in 1991 — its host “The Ringmaster” of his raucous daytime circus for the next 27 years.“Right now I’m just taking a little bit of time to try out this retirement thing,” Springer told The Post. “I’m 78 and NBC/Universal has been so great to me.

NEW YORK — Veteran daytime talk show host Maury Povich is retiring, with the last original episodes of “Maury” set for broadcast in September after 31 years on the air.NBC Universal confirmed the impending exit of the 83-year-old Povich on Monday. Old episodes are likely to live on in some form, however, with the company saying that “the show has thousands of lively, entertaining and dramatic episodes that will continue to be successful in daytime for years to come.”“I’m so proud of my relationship with NBC Universal and all those who worked on the ‘Maury’ show but as I occasionally tell my guests on ‘Maury,’ enough already,” he said.His show hit upon a successful formula many years ago and has stuck with it: using tests to reveal, on the air, the father of babies where paternity is in question or lie detectors to see if a spouse is cheating or not.It wasn’t highbrow entertainment, but was popular enough for Povich to build a devoted audience among viewers young enough to be his grandchildren.Povich was a television journalist before going into the talk show world, beginning in Washington, where his father, Shirley, was a well-known sportswriter.

“The Jerry Springer Show,” which aired from 1991-2018, set the bar for tawdry daytime entertainment; guests frequently brawled on stage or threw furniture at each other; it even had its own on-camera security team who got into the action, including Steve Wilkos, a Marine and ex-Chicago cop who’s had his own daytime show since 2007.(“The Jerry Springer Show” still airs in reruns.)“The cases [this season] are a little crazier,” Springer said. “Our producers scan the country for all cases filed before they look for cases that are a little bit over-the-top.

conflict or drama,” Povich, 81, tells The Post. “That’s been the kind of TV that attracts an audience — and has been the key to this show.“I have such a loyal audience that cuts across all social groups,” he says.

The Unspoken” — a fictional private-eye mystery out Oct. 1 — is already #1 on Kindle.So Smith says he was surprised when he got the call on a Friday afternoon asking him if he wanted to return to “The Doctors,” which moved from LA to a studio in Stamford, Ct.

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.

Rachael Ray says that producing live cooking segments for her daytime talk show during the pandemic, from her home in upstate New York, has worked better than she expected.