MANCHESTER judge Alan Berg is not on his own when it comes to taking a dim view of daytime telly's Jeremy Kyle Show.

According to a new poll, it is the worst daytime TV programme of all time. Judge Berg condemned the ITV1 show in September, when he dealt with the case of David Staniforth.

Staniforth, 45, admitted assault after butting his ex-lodger - who had been having an affair with his wife - in front of the show's studio audience at Manchester's Granada studios.

After hearing that Staniforth, from Chesterfield, had caved in after repeatedly refusing to go on the show, the district judge called it a form of `human bear-baiting'. He said the aim of the show was to give a `depressing display of dysfunctional people, whose lives are in turmoil, often in some perceived or actual dispute with each other, for the purposes of titillating bored members of the public who have nothing better to do than watch trash TV'.

He then banned the show from TVs in waiting rooms at Manchester magistrates' court.

Now the poll of 3,000 people conducted by alljoinon.com - a social networking site for those at home during the day - has echoed his judgement and put it at the top of a list of the worst daytime programmes.

It was followed in second place by the Daily Politics Show and in third place by Channel Five's Trisha Goddard. Fourth and fifth spots were filled by Loose Women and the Anthony Cotton Show.

In another poll, conducted by men's magazine Arena last week, the show's presenter was voted one of Britain's anti-icons, least deserving of his place in the spotlight.

Kyle came fifth in the table of anti-icons behind Amy Winehouse's husband, Blake Fielder-Civil; graffiti artist Banksy; England and Chelsea footballer Frank Lampard and hit singer Mika.

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