Editing The Jerry Springer Show (section)

===''Too Hot for TV''===

During the show's most popular era in the mid-late 1990s, ''Jerry Springer'' released videotapes and later DVDs marketed as ''Too Hot for TV'', beginning in October, 1997. They contained uncensored nudity, [[profanity]], and explicit violence (such as punches and slaps deemed too intense for daytime television) that was edited out of broadcasts in order to conform to FCC standards for television broadcast decency and suitability. The releases sold and rented remarkably well<ref>Bianculli, David. [https://web.archive.org/web/20071129234237/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/1998/02/08/1998-02-08__it_s_a_circus__is_jerry_spr.html It's a Circus: Is Jerry Springer's No-Holds-Barred Talk Show Harmless Populist Escapism, the End of Civilization as we know it, or both?] ''[[New York Daily News]]'', February 8, 1998</ref> and inspired similar sets from other series. Eventually, the show started producing similar "uncensored" monthly [[pay-per-view]]/[[video on demand]] specials as well as part of [[In Demand]]'s ''[[Too Much for TV]]'' brand of PPV/on-demand content.

In 2015, Springer brought the Too Hot for TV format to the [[WWE Network]] for a series of episodes featuring WWE's most controversial segments.