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RE: how much further can reality TV go ?
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tv is just a liiiiiitle weird :P.

I find that a little bit weird too...and actual life-and-death matter shouldn't be dealt with with millions(?) of viewers on TV IMO...
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RE: how much further can reality TV go ?
there's no way that turning a life-or-death situation which thousands of families are stuck going through into a televised "competition" is the best way to increase awareness of the donor shortage, and i really doubt that that was their motive for making the program. i just think it's a bit sick personally :undecided:
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I find people having to wait years on a list for donor organs because healthy people are to lazy to fill in a form sick.
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RE: how much further can reality TV go ?
true, but as i said - there are plenty better ways to increase awareness. people will always be too selfish/lazy to sign up to be a donor - this program won't change that.
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RE: how much further can reality TV go ?
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(...) to increase awareness of the donor shortage and i really doubt that that was their motive for making the program.
Believe me, it IS their only motive!
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Thats not right. A show like that should never be on air.
Honestly.... did you even read the article?
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there are plenty better ways to increase awareness

Evidently there isn't. This show has sparked up dialogue about organ donation which wouldn't have happened otherwise.

Organ donation is one of those topics that very rarely gets much thought from the public, and I cannot think of anything in recent history that has sparked so much prolonged debate about organ donation.
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(...) to increase awareness of the donor shortage and i really doubt that that was their motive for making the program.
Believe me, it IS their only motive!

What about profit?
The creators of big brother dont really strike me as the charitable type.
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Evidently there isn't. This show has sparked up dialogue about organ donation which wouldn't have happened otherwise.
Just because nothing else HAS been done, doesn't mean that nothing else CAN be done. All it needs is more coverage in the media - making people aware of the situation. I guarantee that at the minute, it's just not something that people think of as a big problem. All it needs is some consciousness raising - not some show broadcasting such an emotional problem for a lot of people in a way that makes it seems like some petty, worthless thing that can just be won on TV.

I don't know. I guess it's not so bad if it's gonna be full of interviews with the contestants and the donor about what it's like and stuff (which it obviously will be). I just think it's messing around with people's emotions for entertainment. 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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RE: how much further can reality TV go ?
Please do not compare it with Big Brother. It is absolutely nothing like that. It is constantly portrait like a massive flashy game show made by "the creator of Big Brother", but that is a totally wrong conception.

And it isn't because Endemol also created the concept of Big Brother that this is the only thing they think of. They have made hundreds and hundreds of TV formats, ranging from reality shows, to documentaries, to benefits, to songcontests, games, talk shows, etc... It is a production company like any other production company in the world which makes all kinds of stuff.
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