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Originally posted by ayjay
Regardless of what people say - it IS for entertainment - otherwise it wouldn't be being shown on TV and no one would be watching it.

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BNN is a public service broadcasting company, and so doesn't always have to put things on TV for entertainment.

The BBC puts a lot of stuff that makes no money, because they are a public service company. They put a lot of educational programs on and things, because it is in the interest of the public.

Perfect example: If it wasn't for the BBC, the paralympics wouldn't have been broadcast on TV since the viewing figures would have made it a financial loss for commercial TV channels.

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Originally posted by saralk
BNN is a public service broadcasting company, and so doesn't always have to put things on TV for entertainment.

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Finally a non-Dutchie understands the nature of this program and public TV channels in general.

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Originally posted by ayjay
Regardless of what people say - it IS for entertainment - otherwise it wouldn't be being shown on TV and no one would be watching it.

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If so you could label the news on TV as "messing around with people's emotions for entertainment" too. Obviously not all TV programs are made for entertainment, especially on public channels.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Please do not compare it with Big Brother. It is absolutely nothing like that. And it isn't because Endemol also created the concept of Big Brother that this is the only thing they think of.

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Exactly, the one and only link between this show and Big Brother is the same production company... other than that it is a totally different concept, different channel/network, different goals, different people, different type (onetime program instead of a multi-season series). Reality TV as genre for this is highly mislabeled too.


I'll be watching tomorrow (if i have the time) out of curiosity. Hope somebody will upload it with subs for the curious people outside the Netherlands, so you can see if its really that bad as some seem to think.

Just as I thought, all fake...

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Originally posted by Ezra
Just as I thought, all fake...

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The show was fake, it was just a publicity stunt to raise the awareness  of organ donors.

EDIT: It's all over the news, just Google for it.

Very well done though.

The show did indeed turn out to be fake, but they only announced that on the very end of the show just when the woman was about to announce the person who would get her kidney. So they did do the entire show, except for the last 5 minutes or so.

The 3 contestants were real, they were indeed people on a donor kidney waiting list... interviews with them and their family were all real. However, the "terminal sick" woman (Lisa) was an actress, and she didn't gave away any of her organs, neither she was sick. Obviously the contestants knew about it.

I only tuned in the last half of the show, but i must say the whole thing was geniusly done. And more importantly, they got their message out extremely well... almost the entire world media has been debating about the show, people are talking about donoring, it even stirred up things in the politics.