Reality TV - Is This Going Too Far?

Hi MIss Stiletto, Well i am off on my holidays next week and I am going to The Netherlands - as you already knew this I can only presume that you have been looking up the television guide for me as I won't be myLotting it. This show certainly sounds contraversial but fair enough. I am presuming that in Europe this kind of thing is in fact allowed as I know that here in the UK this just would not be allowed. They would probably rather that the kidney went to waste than its fate be decided before hand. I personally think that a great twist would be that her kidneys were in great disrepair and could not be used as transplants. This kind of show I think is wrong but I am not actually surprised. The makers of Big Brother really will do anything to make a quick buck, So when does the show air as this could be my holiday sorted out. I always have to have something to be addicted to and this show could be it. Is it a nightly thing and if so how long does it air for. I can keep a diary of what happens in it and update you upon my return.

I would not watch this. It is something that should be decided by doctors not a reality TV show. I think reality TV she be removed from the air and put comedys back on. Reality is not going to hit the TV screen untill they install a hidden camera inside someone's home and air that.

Apparently this is a hoax, while the participants ARE in need of a transplant, there's no dying donor and no one's going to really chosen for a transplant. The participants know this- it's supposed to increase awareness about the "challenges in getting donor organs". Still a bad idea I think but not as morbid as the original idea.

This show was obviously dreamed up someone with extremely poor taste. It's exploitative and violates basic human dignity. I don't think that a donor should have a say in who his/her organs go to (unless it's a family member or someone with whom you have a personal relationship, you shouldn't be picking a recipient on the basis of anything other than need).Honestly, nothing seems sacred anymore, everything and anything can be reduced to one huge game show or circus.

Gosh, I thought the USA had the corner on tacky and tasteless, totally moronic TV. I hope the good folks of the Netherlands don't watch the show, and maybe even pelt the creators with eggs once or twice. I don't know how they're getting the people to participate, if this were happening in the USA, the people involved would be excluded from UNOS, the entity that regulates organ donation and keeps the list of waiting recipients. It would probably be considered "black market" activity. How completely creepy!

I've never been into reality tv programs of any kind and your right about this one. I read that the whole think is a scam and it's not even going to air. Your right, not only tv but people have gone mad. I wouldn't watch the show if they paid me to.

that's too much reality. It seems like they want to get business of out that person who wants to donate her kidneys. It's shameful. If ever i have the chance to watch it, i will not watch it. Shame for those people who produce this reality TV.

Not my kind of program, I think that people are going mad, one day we will see someone contesting about wich one of the contestants will be killed or not.

Uh-oh... I see an episode of Law & Order in our future. Just imagine, the person not getting picked for the organ getting angry and taking it out on the donor, the donor's family or the producers of the show. This is over the top and if it were airing in Canada I would not be watching it. I'm still trying to figure out why cameras were following Anna Nicole Smith around, or the Osbournes, or Paris and Nicole, etc. etc. We need more good, CLEAN comedy.

I do not like the concept. Nowadays the trend of reality shows are on the air. But I do not feel positive about all such shows. The talent hunts, Fear factor, are nice ones, as they are about meeting challenges and finding talents, and all that. But organ donating......this sounds weird, and sick. No, I am not talking about donation. Donating an organ to some patient who needs it, is never sick, it is infact a very noble act. But using such a cause as a source of income, by some people and channel is just too much. I will not see the show, and if I were in Netherlands, then also I would not have seen it.

i think this is rediculas and i watch all kinds of rubbish. to think that someone doesnt get the kidney that they so badly need all because of something they have said or even something that they may have done in the past is stupid. i certianly would not watch this as i dont think its right. makes me wonder though if the doner is getting any money for this on the side?

Whoa....donating kidneys...thatz a first. I find other shows like survivor and real life bad enough. I would not watch this show as I feel it is unethical. There are so many people on the waiting list for a new lease at life. Making a reality show on this is just oh so wrong....

the reality shows may be a great fun for the audience ,but for the sufferers it is more than a nightmare.also it initiates lot of unnecessary controversies that give birth to unwanted troubles.

ya i think so,these shows in my opinion are wasting time.