• Jerry Springer to host Cincinnati radio talk show

  January 16, 2005
  Former Cincinnati mayor, councilman, news anchor and national TV celebrity Jerry Springer is set to host a radio talk show in his adopted hometown.

• BBC producer quits over 'Jerry Springer - The Opera' musical

  January 12, 2005
  A BBC radio producer has quit his job over the airing of "Jerry Springer - the Opera," which he said blasphemed Christianity.

• BBC executives receive threats over 'Jerry Springer - The Opera' show

  January 9, 2005
  The BBC has some of its executives under guard in London after receiving threats for airing, "Jerry Springer -- The Opera," Sky News reported Sunday.

• BBC swamped with 'Jerry Springer - The Opera' complaints

  January 6, 2005
  Although it isn't scheduled to air until Saturday, "Jerry Springer -- The Opera" has triggered 15,000 complaints to the BBC about its bad language.

• Simon Cowell ranks as 2004's highest paid British TV personality

  January 3, 2005
  "Pop Idol" and "X Factor" judge Simon Cowell is the highest paid man on British television, with $34 million to his credit in 2004, the Daily Mirror reports.

• Jerry Springer to do daily radio show, continue daytime TV show

  December 10, 2004
  TV talk-show host Jerry Springer will do a daily radio talk show in Cincinnati beginning in January, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported Friday.

• BBC to air expletive-loaded 'Jerry Springer The Opera' musical

  December 3, 2004
  The BBC is scheduled to air a screen version of the musical "Jerry Springer The Opera" in January, possibly the most expletive strewn TV show ever.

• NBC discloses two new Fox reality shows, 'Big Shot' and 'Who's My Daddy?'

  July 12, 2004
  During the television writers' summer tour, NBC Universal Television Group president Jeff Zucker disclosed the names and concepts behind two heretofore-unidentified Fox shows that are scheduled to air during the 2004-05 television season.

• ABC moving ahead with plans to bring British 'Wife Swap' show to U.S.

  August 14, 2003
  The reality TV invasion from Europe continues unabated. CBS's Survivor is adapted from the Swedish show Expedition: Robinson; Fox's American Idol is a clone of the British smash Pop Idol (complete with judge Simon Cowell); CBS's Big Brother comes from the Netherlands by way of Britain ... even Fox's Paradise Hotel comes from Britain. Now The Guardian reports that ABC is ready to go forward with the smash hit British show Wife Swap, which we reported in January was in the casting process.

• Producers of HBO's 'Taxicab Confessions' now casting for new 'But The Sex Is So Good' reality series

  November 20, 2002
  The producers of HBO's "Taxicab Confessions" are looking for young couples for a new reality TV series called "But The Sex Is So Good." The show follows the lives of real couples who have problems but stay together because their sex life is so good.

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