He's promoting a new dating show
GEDDES -- Talk show host Jerry Springer was drawing crowds at the State Fair on Wednesday, as he signed autographs and posed for pictures outside the Time Warner Cable exhibit.
Springer is at the Fair to promote a new show 'Baggage,' which is airing evenings on the Game Show Network. He says the concept is simple: a man gets to pick which of three women he wants in a relationship, but each has baggage--he decides which issues he could live with. Then the woman gets to hear his baggage, and can say yes or no to the match.
Focus groups on the show said they liked it, because people in relationships could relate to the issues, and would get into conversations on whether their partnerships could withstand the 'baggage.'
Springer calls it a family show--he says there's no nudity or salaciousness, even though some touchy subjects come up. He also says that in most relationships it's a couple months at least, before the secrets come out, in the show it happens before the first commercial.
Springer also tells us he's ok with doing these kinds of shows, and that it's a myth that it's only poorer people that have 'unusual' family situations---he says he could go to any newspaper, including Syracuse's--and have ten topics for a show by the time he hits page 4...with most about rich or well known members of the community.
