RE: how much further can reality TV go ?
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.
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