The Steve Wilkos Show

The Steve Wilkos Show is an investigative talk show hosted by Steve Wilkos, who previously served as a security guard on The Jerry Springer Show up until The Steve Wilkos Show 's premiere on September 10, 2007.

History and Background
The Steve Wilkos Show was announced by NBCUniversal in January 2007. The show's host and namesake, Steve Wilkos, previously worked as a security guard on the talk show The Jerry Springer Show, hosted by Jerry Springer. The show first premiered on September 10, 2007, two months after Wilkos retired from Jerry Springer. The show was originally based at NBC Tower in Chicago, Illinois until 2009, when the show was moved to Stamford Media Center in Stamford, Connecticut.

Format
Since the start of the show, most episodes have consisted of guests appearing who were accused of cheating to crimes such as child molestation, rape and murder, and the accusers. During the course of the episodes, Steve introduces a brief summary of the story, followed by a two-minute tape featuring the accuser or the accusee giving more details and expressing their side of the story. Then, Steve sits on his stage with either the accused or the accuser and asks them various questions to try and get a read on them for about five minutes. Then the opposing side is brought out to argue their side, and in most episodes, one is brought off the stage to prevent fighting or arguing. In most of the episodes of the show, one of the tools used to resolve the situations is polygraph tests, or as they are referred to on the show, lie-detector tests, which were formerly produced by notable polygraph examiner Daniel Ribacoff.

Criticism
The show gained a lot of press after a two-part episode titled "Father and Daughter Having Sex" aired on March 12, 2011, which featured a 19-year-old girl named Brittany who came to the show to confess to having sexual relations with her father, Morgan, for nine months. Many who viewed the episode claimed that the show shouldn't have covered such topics as incest.