The Steve Wilkos show - wikipedia The Steve Wilkos show The Steve Wilkos Show Genre Tabloid talk show Created by Steve Wilkos Presented by Steve Wilkos Country of origin United States Original language ( s ) English No. of seasons 11 No. of episodes 1,200 + Production Executive producer ( s ) Richard Dominick ( 2007 - 2008 ) Rachelle Wilkos ( 2008 - present ) Steve Wilkos ( 2018 - present ) Jerry Springer ( co-executive producer ) Selina Santos ( co-executive producer ) Camera setup Multiple Running time 42 minutes Production company ( s ) Stamford Media Center Productions ( 2011 - present ) ( season 5 - present ) Richard Dominick Productions ( 2007 - 2008 ) ( season 1 ) Distributor NBCUniversal Television Distribution Release Original network Syndication Picture format 480i ( 4 : 3 SDTV ) ( 2007 - 2012 ) 1080i ( 16 : 9 HDTV ) ( 2012 - present ) Audio format Stereo Original release September 10, 2007 ( 2007 - 09 - 10 ) -- present Chronology Related shows The Jerry Springer Show External links Website The Steve Wilkos Show is a syndicated American tabloid talk show hosted by Steve Wilkos. The show debuted on September 10, 2007, two months after Wilkos ' departure as director of security on The Jerry Springer Show. Contents 1 History 2 Changes 3 See also 4 References 5 External links History The show has Wilkos expanding on his `` Steve to the Rescue '' shows that he did while serving as a co-host for Jerry Springer whenever Springer took breaks or was doing other projects, such as Dancing with the Stars. The idea of Wilkos having his own show came as a result of this approach, which proved to be so popular with viewers that the producers of Springer pitched the idea of giving Wilkos his own show to NBCUniversal, which proved successful. On his show, each episode of the show focuses on the topics usually addressed by this type of talk show, mainly involving adultery, domestic abuse, paternity, disrespectful children and teenage pregnancy, with other topics of the same genre also covered often. As noted, Wilkos ' show takes a darker tone and deals with more serious topics than Springer 's usually covers, most involving criminal justice issues. Wilkos will often refuse to allow guests accused of excessively heinous misbehavior, such as being convicted of certain crimes ( especially sex offenses and spousal / child abuse ) to sit down in the chairs on his soundstage. Wilkos will sometimes toss these chairs aside when he is angry ( and at times he has also thrown the chairs, thereby breaking them ). He often notes in his show that the reason he does so is because when the accused committed the crime against the victim, they were n't making them `` comfortable '' and as such, they do n't deserve to be `` comfortable '' while on his show. Irrespective of any heinous behavior, Wilkos typically lets pregnant women and teenagers sit on his stage. Wilkos often gets into close confrontations with guests by not letting them sit if he is overly disgusted with them, yelling in their faces, physically intimidating them, and even challenging them to hit him, but avoids physical contact with them unless necessary to defend himself or other guests. When a presumably guilty guest begins to explain their actions in greater detail, Wilkos will often ignore and shout over the top of them. When guests get aggressive, Wilkos has threatened them with arrest. When guests flee backstage to try to get away from Wilkos, he often follows them and continues the confrontations. Almost always, when Wilkos has had enough of a particular guest 's antics, he will eject the guest off the stage by yelling `` Get the hell off my stage !, '' `` Get off my stage !, '' `` Get your ass off my stage !, '' or `` Get the fuck off my stage ! '', and with increasing frequency, will have them forcibly removed from the studio as well. On rare occasions, Wilkos would even throw guests out of the building. At times, when Wilkos is at his calmest depending on how the guests conduct themselves on the show, he will kindly ask the guests to `` walk off the stage. '' A trademark of the show is Wilkos ' chair throwing. When angry, he often picks up and throws chairs, usually breaking them ( in one notable instance, rather than breaking, a chair he threw got wedged into the wall ), and often stating that he would like to do the same to his guests. Polygraph exams are commonly used on the show, as means for resolving issues. Often guests are polygraphed in regards to cases of physical abuse, child molestation, rape, murder, and infidelity. When the results of a polygraph are disputed by an accused guest, Wilkos brings out the production 's polygraph expert, Daniel Ribacoff ( who has been on the show since the third season ) to explicate the results and clarify how a polygraph works. Guests usually take the polygraph exam three times or more to ensure accuracy of the results. The show also focuses on clearing the names of those who are wrongfully accused and / or convicted of serious offenses such as rape, abuse, murder, and other offenses of that nature. If the accused passes their lie detector test, Steve often turns his anger towards the accusers the same way he expresses anger at those who are guilty of committing those offenses. In earlier seasons, Wilkos would often make jokes about prison rape to unnerve or upset abusers and rapists, but this practice is almost completely unseen in recent seasons. Wilkos does n't yell or get in the accused guests ' faces as often as he did in the first season, unless if need be for a greater cause, depending on how the guests take the heat on his stage. Wilkos has appeared twice on Maury ; once in 2008, and participated in the 2,500 th episode in 2013. On November 22, 2013, The Steve Wilkos Show celebrated their 1000th episode, along with Jerry Springer and Rachelle Wilkos as special guests. The 1,000 th episode took a look back on the first seven of the ten seasons of the show. The Steve Wilkos Show celebrated its tenth anniversary in September 2016. Steve Wilkos and Rachelle Wilkos, as well as the producers hosted a series of tributes entitled `` A Decade of Steve '' looking back on the first nine seasons of the show. Changes In the show 's first season, Wilkos frequently closed episodes with readings of both positive and negative e-mails he received from viewers. He would preface the readings by saying, `` If I read your letter, and if you 're not a knucklehead, moron or belly - rubber, I 'll send you a free t - shirt. '' He also proclaimed his show to be `` Moron - Free TV '', and declared that those who sent him negative e-mails were `` not allowed to watch ''. Since the second season, these readings were less frequent, Wilkos no longer used the `` knucklehead, '' `` moron, '' `` belly - rubber '' or `` Moron - Free TV '' labels ( most likely to avoid offense and / or legal issues ), and everyone who had their e-mail read gets the free T - shirt. This segment ended when Wilkos ' show was moved to the Stamford Media Center in Stamford, Connecticut. Nowadays, the readings of positive and negative e-mails from viewers are very infrequent. For much of the first season, Wilkos would read lie detector results as `` you have told the entire truth / you have not told the entire truth ''. From the February 2008 episodes onward, he has excluded `` entire truth '' from this catchphrase. After that, Wilkos would read lie detector results as `` the results of your lie detector test is that you told the truth / did not tell the truth. '' Since midway through the fifth season, Wilkos would begin reading lie detector results as `` The results of your lie detector test came back the same to each question, and they came back that ( subject, accused and the accusers, mostly the accused ) told the truth / did not tell the truth. '' Also in the second season, Wilkos began dividing some episodes into two segments, each one dealing with different guests and issues. In rare cases, there can be three segments on one episode. Additionally, paternity tests and infidelity were added as topics to the show. As time went on with the paternity and infidelity stories, Wilkos would often make jokes with guests just to get laughs from himself, his guests and the audience, since paternity and infidelity are n't as serious an offense as abuse of any kind. According to the Chicago Sun - Times, executive producer Richard Dominick was forced from the program by Springer and NBCU Domestic Television after encouraging Wilkos to become extremely physical with a guest. Rachelle Wilkos, Wilkos 's wife and a long time Springer crew member, became the program 's executive producer. Wilkos ' third season premiered September 14, 2009, originating from the Stamford Media Center in Stamford, Connecticut complete with a new studio. Fellow NBC - Universal talkers Maury and Springer made the move, as well. On October 25, 2010, it was announced that the show was picked up by NBC Universal through the 2013 - 14 season. In October 2014, it was announced that the show had been renewed, once again, by NBC Universal through September 2018 along with Maury and The Jerry Springer Show. See also Television portal Kenny Easterday Jerry Springer : The Opera The Jeremy Kyle Show ( UK version ) The Jeremy Kyle Show ( U.S. TV series ) Face to Face References Jump up ^ `` The Steve Wilkos Show Episodes ''. TV Guide. Retrieved August 4, 2014. Jump up ^ `` NBCU to Launch The Steve Wilkos Show ; Announces Clearances ''. Mediaweek. January 14, 2007. Archived from the original on February 18, 2007. Jump up ^ Berman, Marc ( September 3, 2007 ). `` Mr. Television : Talking Tough ''. Mediaweek. Archived from the original on September 14, 2007. Jump up ^ `` ' Maury, ' Jerry Springer and Steve Wilkos talk shows renewed through 2016 ''. The Stamford Times. July 15, 2012. Jump up ^ Video on YouTube Jump up ^ Video on YouTube Jump up ^ Video on YouTube Jump up ^ Video on YouTube Jump up ^ YouTube Jump up ^ Video on YouTube Jump up ^ Video on YouTube Jump up ^ Video on YouTube Jump up ^ Memories from 1000 Shows : Throwing Chairs - YouTube Jump up ^ Stevewilkos.com Jump up ^ Video on YouTube Jump up ^ TV Guide Jump up ^ Andrea Morabito ( 2013 - 11 - 22 ). `` Ex-Marine Steve Wilkos battles his way to 1,000 episodes ''. New York Post. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 18. Jump up ^ Feder, Robert. `` Choked up ; Ex - ' Springer ' producer says he gave ' everything I had inside me ' ''. Chicago Sun - Times. Archived from the original on September 11, 2008. Jump up ^ The new studio - Steve Wilkos Archived September 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ `` Veteran Daytime Talk Shows ''. Futon Critic. October 25, 2010. Retrieved October 25, 2010. Jump up ^ `` ' Jerry Springer ', ' Maury ' & ' Steve Wilkos ' Renewed Through 2018 ''. October 1, 2014. 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Question: where does the steve wilkos show take place
Answer: Stamford Media Center in Stamford, Connecticut