LONDON — Over the last 14 years, roughly 20,000 Britons have been invited onto “The Jeremy Kyle Show” to have their lives torn apart on national television. As the presenter himself would gleefully put it, Jeremy Kyle will have to get off his lazy backside and get a job. His show was an especially cruel specimen of a genre that has dominated British television for nearly two decades. But reality television isn’t supposed to be like this — at least, not anymore. In recent years, the British public and press have been re-evaluating the ethics of the nation’s favorite shows.

Source: New York Times May 18, 2019 15:01 UTC