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The Big Donor Show

  • 01-06-2007 12:37pm
    #1
    Femelade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭


    apologies if this has already been done, i did a search but nothing came up....
    anyways...we thought big brother was bad....

    http://entertainment.bodogbeat.com/reality-show-awards-a-kidney-28753.html
    A new Dutch reality TV show awards one lucky winner a life-saving kidney. (Courtesy BNN)



    Want drama? Want high stakes? "The Big Donor Show" has ‘em. This Friday three patients will compete to receive a kidney from a terminally ill young woman, 37-year-old "Lisa." Dutch TV channel BNN and the producers of "Big Brother" have brainstormed to produce "Big Donor Show." The show, which will be broadcast as a single episode live on BNN this Friday, will show the three "contestants" (each of whom is a match for Lisa’s organs) who will compete for one of her kidneys.

    Viewers can also participate in the decision by sending text messages to Lisa during the 80 minutes that it is on air.

    Dutch Education and Culture Minister Ronald Plasterk, a molecular biologist and former chief of the Dutch Cancer Institute commented: "The intention of the program to get more attention for organ donation may be applaudable. However based on the information I now have, the program appears to me to be inappropriate and unethical because it is a competition."

    BNN is known for airing other controversial reality TV shows, including one called "Shooting and Swallowing" illustrating the impact of drug use, and another show on sex called "This is How You Screw." Classy.

    Think reality TV is getting out of control? Check out all of Bodog’s wacky reality TV odds including, "Will America’s Got Talent host David Hasselhoff eat a hamburger on screen during season 2 of the show?" Place your bets, folks.


Comments

  • #2
    Winters
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,761 ✭✭✭✭Winters


    Watching big brother makes me want to ripp out my organs, so at least this show gives something back.


  • #3
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Winters wrote:
    Watching big brother makes me want to ripp out my organs, so at least this show gives something back.
    Baddoom tish!


  • #4
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    "The Big Doner Show" wonder if Abrakebabra would sponsor an Irish version ;)


  • #5
    ciano1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭ciano1


    Gran Hermano wrote:
    "The Big Doner Show" wonder if Abrakebabra would sponsor an Irish version ;)
    lol :D:D;)


  • #6
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I want fries with that doner please :D

    Btw, Femster http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055099552


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  • #7
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,202 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    The Dutch are weird. They have a show where the winner gets a kidney. And the watchers gradually turn into (doner) kebabs. Or am I picking it up wrong? :confused:


  • #8
    Femelade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭Femelade


    biko wrote:
    I want fries with that doner please :D

    Btw, Femster http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055099552


    oh , sorry. i did do a search...


  • #9
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Did you search for "doner"? heh heh


  • #10
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Looks like it was all a fake
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6714063.stm


  • #11
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Rabies wrote:
    Looks like it was all a fake
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6714063.stm
    Now I'm gonna rip up my donor card, out of spite.


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  • #12
    Winters
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,761 ✭✭✭✭Winters


    I'd kill for a Donor right now.

    A lovely big Zaytoon mixed donor.....


  • #13
    randomname2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,000 ✭✭✭randomname2005


    DaveMcG wrote:
    Now I'm gonna rip up my donor card, out of spite.

    Are you serious or sarcastic?

    I think it was a brilliant idea, and has already had a good effect, 12,000 people have joined the organ doner list in the Netherlands since it was announced as a hoax. Anything that highlights the need for organ donations is good. And it is not like the people involved were taken for a ride, they knew exactly what was going on.


  • #14
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    It certainly had the desired effect - it was all over the world's media the past week (even our lovely Prime Time)


  • #15
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    delah wrote:
    It certainly had the desired effect - it was all over the world's media the past week (even our lovely Prime Time)

    I'd give MY organ to Miriam O Callaghan any day of the week...........

    I was joking, randomname2005. Did they really get 12,000 new donors? That's impressive.


  • #16
    randomname2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,000 ✭✭✭randomname2005


    DaveMcG wrote:
    I'd give MY organ to Miriam O Callaghan any day of the week...........

    I was joking, randomname2005. Did they really get 12,000 new donors? That's impressive.

    I thought you were, but just wanted to make sure ;)

    Thats the figure they had on the news, now whats the possibility of it getting a few more people to carry organ donor cards in Ireland?


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