The Jerry Springer show gets cancelled after 27 years and 4000 episodes

The talk show was quietly cancelled this week. But it will live on in syndication, producers say. “There is a possibility” that more original episodes could be ordered sometime in the future if there is interest.

Jerry Springer, the former mayor of Cincinnati, started the crazy show back in 1991. The non-stop fisticuffs bleeped swearing and blurred nudity made it an instant hit.

The 74-year-old hasn’t released a formal statement yet on the end of his era but did address rumours of the show’s demise to ETOpens a New Window‘s Kevin Frazier. “We’ve stopped production of the show,” Springer says. “Whenever you make changes, it’s sad.”