Nothing Attracts People To The Arts Like Fistfights & Incest

The BBC has snapped up the rights to a TV broadcast of Jerry Springer: The Opera, and will air the satirical look at America’s most over-the-top talk show host in January. A spokeswoman “said it was part of the BBC’s strategy to introduce a new generation of viewers to opera. The BBC have also commissioned six comedy operas from the makers of the hit West End show.”