Jerry Springer will take part in a Q&A session as part of the Edinburgh TV Festival Francesco Guidicini for the TimesJerry Springer is to deliver the Alternative MacTaggart lecture at this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival. The American broadcaster and former politician will also take part in a Q&A session in which he will discuss his career hosting The Jerry Springer Show, as well as his views on the relationship between politics and the media. Springer said of Edinburgh: “Clearly one of the most beautiful cities in the world — it’s an honour to be asked to speak, usually I’m being asked to be quiet!”The Q&A session will be hosted by Dorothy Byrne, Channel 4’s head of news and current affairs, on August 23. Springer, 75, is best known globally for hosting his tabloid talk show The Jerry Springer Show, which ran from 1991 until…

Source: The Times June 27, 2019 23:04 UTC