In the wake of the death, ITV on Monday had announced it was suspending “The Jeremy Kyle Show,” which had run for over 14 years and attracted about a million viewers per episode. Steve Dymond, 63, was found dead on May 9, a week after he recorded an episode of the show, which had not yet been broadcast. ITV and the British police have not released any details about the circumstances of the man’s death.

But the suspension did not stop an outcry from politicians and therapists who said it was time to cancel the show. Even senior officials got involved. “Broadcasters and production companies have a responsibility for the mental health and well-being of participants and viewers,” a spokesperson for the British prime minister, Theresa May, told the BBC.

Mr. Dymond’s death was far from the first controversy to engulf “The Jeremy Kyle Show,” which has often compared to “The Jerry Springer Show” in America. Lie-detector and DNA tests were a staple of the show, and in many episodes Mr. Kyle would take positions on his guest’s problems and openly — some said aggressively — criticize them.

In 2007, a court fined a former guest $385 for head-butting a love rival. The judge in the case, Alan Berg, found fault as much with the show as with the attacker. “It seems to me that the purpose of this show is to effect a morbid and depressing display of dysfunctional people whose lives are in turmoil,” he wrote in his decision. The show was a “human form of bear baiting,” he added, saying its producers “should in my opinion be in the dock.”

In 2008, a man pointed a loaded gun at his wife’s head a week after recording an episode of the show, according to The Observer, where he had learned he was not the father of their child.