become extremely physical with a guest. Rachelle Wilkos, Wilkos's wife and a long time Jerry Springer crew member, became the program's executive producer. Steve Wilkos admitted to being dissatisfied with the show's first season, saying "All I did was yell at everybody and throw people off the stage. There was no level of emotion -- just hardcore yelling." Upon his wife taking over, she encouraged him to be himself and go with his "gut." Wilkos' third season premiered September 14, 2009, originating from the Stamford Media Center in Stamford, Connecticut. Production of the show had relocated from Chicago to Stamford earlier that year, complete with a new studio. Fellow NBC-Universal talkers Maury and Jerry Springer made the move, as well. In May 2022, it was announced that The Steve Wilkos Show had been renewed for a sixteenth season. Notable episodes Some episodes of the show have led to guests being arrested or convicted of crimes: In November 2011, Norwich, Connecticut police arrested Burke Bergman after he failed a lie detector test about sexually molesting his son, in the episode "Three Possible Dads, One Possible Molester" aired on September 19, 2011. Five months following the October 3, 2012 episode "Did You Rape My Daughter?", guest Shaun Whitt was arrested in Flagler County, Florida on charges of raping his then-11-year-old step-daughter beginning in 2010. In September 2014, Whitt was convicted of two counts of sexual battery against a child and sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years. The May 6, 2015 episode "Did You Violate Our Trust...and Our Children?" led to the arrest of 22-year-old Dameion McBride in Kansas City, Missouri for sexually abusing three children. McBride was convicted in late 2016 and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Nearly a week after the May 15, 2017 broadcast of the episode "Horrific Child Abuse Caught on Video", police in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania arrested 21-year-old Jessica Lynn Samick on two charges including felony endangering the welfare of a child. She is suspected of beating and burning a one-year-old boy whom she was babysitting. On October 25, 2019 two days after the episode "He Was Brutally Beating Your Three-Year-Old: Why Didn't You Stop it?" was taped, guest Samantha Delcamp was arrested for her part in the beating death of her daughter Arabella Parker. Her ex-boyfriend Jahrid Burgess severely beat Arabella while Delcamp did nothing to protect her. Burgess was sentenced to 24 to 50