Despite being hosted by a former politician and news anchor (that would be Springer), the program was famous for its sensational topics—episodes included "I Married a Horse" and "Black Supremacists vs. White Supremacists!"—chair-throwing fights and questionable ethics. But the mastermind behind the whole operation wasn't really Springer—it was a man named Richard Dominick.
“You gotta grab your audience, and you gotta hold them," he says at the start of the two-part docuseries. "And that’s what we tried to do.”
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"I thought the show was terrible," he said of Jerry Springer's beginnings, in an interview for Fights, Camera, Action. "It was just boring. You had a terrible host, a terrible show. The audience is 90. So when I took over the show and became executive producer, the vision that I had, that I wanted everybody to fall into was, 'Let's take a talk show, and let's turn it upside down. Let's make it wild, let's make it sexy,' because that's what I was known for."
"There's no line to draw," Dominick said in a past interview clipped for the docuseries. "If I could kill someone on television, I would execute 'em on television."
How did Richard Dominick get his start?
Dominick started out in tabloid journalism, working for the outlets Weekly World News and Sun, turning out sensationalistic articles like "Toaster Possessed by the Devil."
In the realm of TV, The Jerry Springer Show was Dominick's big break.
The Jerry Springer Show?
In September 2008, an NBC Universal rep announced that Dominick would be leaving his post as EP of The Jerry Springer Show and The Steve Wilkos Show, a Springer spinoff focused on the talk-show host's former security guard, which Dominick had also been producing for the network.
Rachelle Consiglio, who had been with the show for 14 years (and was married to Steve Wilkos), took over the EP role.
Aside from Springer (and Springer-related projects), Dominick has produced a season of The Steve Wilkos Show, which centered around Springer's former bodyguard, as well as Hardcore Pawn, which followed a family pawn shop in Detroit, and the truTV police series Bait Car.
Did Jerry Springer and Richard Dominick get along?
The docuseries suggests that Springer and Dominick had a good working relationship and depicts them as somewhat on-top-of-the-world together; if the talk-show host ever pushed back on his producer, it wasn't shown in the doc.
"To say Richard corrupted him I think absolves Jerry of too much responsibility," Feder says. "But would Jerry Springer have become the Jerry Springer we know without Richard Dominick? I would say absolutely not.”
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