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The second season premiere of ID's &34;Hollywood Demons&34; shows how the longrunning talk show put together some of its most notorious segments. Jerry Springer producer reveals tactics used to encourage physical fights on the talk show (exclusive) The second season premiere of ID's &34;Hollywood Demons&34; shows how the longrunning talk show put together some of its most notorious segments. By Marina Watts Marina Watts Marina Watts is a news writer for with seven years experience covering entertainment, pop culture and celebrity news. Her previous work appears in PEOPLE, Bustle and Newsweek.
The second season premiere of ID's "Hollywood Demons" shows how the long-running talk show put together some of its most notorious segments.
Jerry Springer producer reveals tactics used to encourage physical fights on the talk show (exclusive)
The second season premiere of ID's "Hollywood Demons" shows how the long-running talk show put together some of its most notorious segments.
By Marina Watts
Marina Watts
Marina Watts is a news writer for with seven years experience covering entertainment, pop culture and celebrity news. Her previous work appears in PEOPLE, Bustle and Newsweek.
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- The new season of ID's *Hollywood Demons* dives into *The Jerry Springer Show*.
- Producers of the talk show reveal tactics used on guests to encourage physical fights.
- *Hollywood Demons* season 2 premieres April 20 at 9 p.m. ET.
The notorious fights shown on *The Jerry Springer Show* were no accident.
The second season premiere of the Investigation Discovery series *Hollywood Demons* focuses on the sensational talk show, featuring interviews with creator Burt Dubrow and producers Brad Khulman and Reena Friedman Watts, as well as one of Springer's last recorded interviews.
In *'*s exclusive clip from the episode, associate producer Houston Curtis reveals how they provoked the show's guests to fight onstage.**
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Jerry Springer on 'The Jerry Springer Show'.
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"I noticed pretty quick what the secret was," Curtis says in the clip. "Here's how we got them to fight in the beginning of *Springer*, post [KKK] fight."
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'The Jerry Springer Show'.
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The producer was referring to the 1997 episode of the show where Springer, who died in 2023, moderated a conversation about race and religion between members of the Ku Klux Klan and the Jewish Defense League that ended in a brawl.
"Let's say that I have two brothers in a conflict. When you're prepping the guests, you tell one of them, 'if your brother says something you don't like, you can yell at them, you can get up in his face, you can even spit on him. But whatever you do, don't hit him.' And you don't tell the other person any of that," Curtis says in the clip.
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"Once you produce one person to get up and spit in someone's face, and then you don't give any instruction to the other one, the other one is going to haul off and knock the hell out of the one who did it, and boom. You got a fight," he adds.
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*The Jerry Springer Show* ran from 1991 to 2018. Though the show began as a typical daytime talk show discussing current events and political issues, it evolved into a tabloid talkshow, featuring brawls, exposed secrets, and controversial topics ranging from abuse to incest.**
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'The Jerry Springer Show'.
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*Hollywood Demons* season 2 will also feature episodes on child stars whose careers turned to adult entertainment, the controversies plaguing *Saved By the Bell*, doctors involved in celebrity overdoses, and the scandals of *16 and Pregnant*.
*Hollywood Demons* season 2 premieres April 20 at 9 p.m. ET on ID and will be available to stream on HBO Max.
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