Was ITV right to take The Jeremy Kyle Show off the air?

CONFRONTATION and conflict were the main ingredients of the now defunct The Jeremy Kyle Show. It is to be hoped the bullying and hectoring approach of people such as Mr Kyle, Piers Morgan, Lord Sugar and Simon Cowell will be reined in. It’s tragic that it has taken a man’s death to bring TV bosses to their senses. Jeremy Kyle’s ghastly show was a tragedy waiting to happen. IVOR JONES, Bexhill-on-Sea, E. Sussex. WERE there any middleclass, well-dressed, articulate, intelligent participants on The Jeremy Kyle Show? No, it featured dysfunctional, uneducated victims, too bedazzled by the prospect of being on TV to realise they were being used as fodder to provide cheap entertainment for equally dumb audiences.

LINDA SHERIDAN, York. THE greatest clamour for the axeing came from MPs. The great and the good don’t want to be reminded of the marginalised in society, but

these people are also their constituents. Without The Jeremy Kyle Show, ITV will be reduced to a BBC echo chamber where only certain types of people are seen. NICK ATKINS, Swindon, Wilts. WE HAVE seen the end of this trash TV series and it is no loss. With a format imported from the U.S., The Jeremy Kyle Show was based on creating provocative family situations, fanning the flames of damaged emotions, then calling in the security heavies to stop the fighting and swearing. It was the modern equivalent of public hangings.

D. F. GRATTAN, Aberdeen. THOUGH I appreciate The Jeremy Kyle Show displayed the nastiest side of human nature, no one was forced to appear. Neither could anyone claim they didn’t know what might happen. But it’s a mystery to me why people would wish to air their problems on TV. Name and address supplied. GOOD riddance to a vile, nasty, vindictive, backstabbing programme that pandered to the lowest common denominator.

JOHN C. KENT, London SW6. WHY did it take a tragedy to cause the demise of this cruel programme? It was pure voyeurism, giving viewers a sense of intellectual superiority by watching vulnerable souls who misguidedly thought they would gain status by belittling themselves. GILLY BARRETT, Longwell Green, Glos.