Trivia / Maury

• Channel Hop: The show was produced by Paramount Television (now CBS Media Ventures) until its cancellation after season 7. The show was then revived by Studios USA (producer of The Jerry Springer Show) for season 8, and has remained there even after Studios USA was rebranded to what is now NBCUniversal.
• Executive Meddling: Former employees of the show have claimed that while the guests were real people and not actors, they were coached by the production staff to act over the top and were fed lines to say during the show.
• God Does Not Own This World: Maury couldn't show any clips of the original version of the show since it is owned by CBS.^note Predecessor Paramount Domestic Television produced the original version before Maury defected to what's currently NBCUniversal.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: As aforementioned, the 1991-1998 run is almost impossible to come across, aside from bootlegging, due to ownership issues. Not even the Nosey video service, which showcases a large number of classic Maury episodes that haven't been seen in years, features any episodes from that era.
• Long-Runners: Maury is the only true competitor of Jerry Springer that was still on the air when the latter show was cancelled.^note The Steve Wilkos Show doesn't count, since it's a more serious spin-off of Springer.
• Milestone Celebration:
  • The show celebrated its 2500th episode on September 5, 2013.
  • The show celebrated its 3000th episode on May 25, 2016.
• What Could Have Been: In 1996, Maury and Connie Chung were in discussions with DreamWorks Television to launch a syndicated news program that was slated to air in 1998 once Maury's contract with Paramount expired. According to Maury, response from local stations nationwide was underwhelming, which caused DreamWorks to shelve the project, and the Universal version of his talk show debuted instead.
• You Look Familiar:
  • Frequent fliers galore, especially for DNA tests. One woman, Sholonda, tested 17 men trying to find the father of one child (among whom were one white guy and her cousin). She never found the father. She later came back to reveal to her husband, Tywrell, that she cheated on him again and her second child she had with him might not be his. Fortunately, it turned out he was the father.
  • Georgetta, Marisol, and Simone also appeared 13 to 14 times each, testing 11-17 men for their child or children (as many as 6 in Marisol's case) apiece. Simone and Georgetta have also made appearances in cheating shows; Simone's boyfriend slept with her sister, while Simone cheated on her boyfriend 200 times, and Georgetta bragged about having sex with another woman's man.
  • Several guests, especially out of control teens, that have appeared on the show for things besides DNA/lie detector tests returned because they needed to find out if their significant other was cheating on them or to prove to someone they were the father of a child. One young woman named Jessica, who appeared on the show two times in 2005 because she was very out of control, reappeared numerous (5+) times over a span of 6 years because she was being cheated on by her significant other. This man also denied he was the father of both of their kids, they both were his, and somehow, they still are together. It's worth noting that a lot of times, especially when the former guest is an out of control teen, they don't reference their first appearances.
• You Might Remember Me from...: Prior to starting this show, Maury was best known for being a news anchor in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. He later became the original host of A Current Affair; he hosted a brief 2000 revival of 21 on NBC, and is married to newswoman Connie Chung.

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