Toxic telly

EXPLOITING the clearly troubled and vulnerable on a TV freak show was a rubber-necking ratings success but the morality was always dubious.

ITV’s decision to remove all episodes of The Jeremy Kyle Show after the death of a guest is vindicated by complaints from others who appeared or worked on the programme.

We’d no longer tolerate gawping by visitors invited to see lunatics in Bedlam and in 21st Century Britain it isn’t kind to be cruel.

Television bosses must think carefully about what happens next.