Reality TV show offers organ swop as the prize

[El Gringo]

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Reality TV show offers organ swop as the prize
Last updated at 19:55pm on 28th May 2007

Contestants will compete for a dying woman's kidneys in a TV reality show.

The Big Donor Show - made by Endemol, the company behind Big Brother - is due to appear on Dutch TV on Friday.

A cancer victim aged 37, identified as Lisa, will give her kidneys to the contestant who makes the best case in a short video. Viewers will vote by text to urge her who to choose after the videos are shown.

The contenders could wait years for a kidney to come through normal channels. However, the Dutch donor authority said the show was 'a step towards organ trading' and the broadcast is being met by revulsion across the Netherlands.

MP Joop Atsma called it degrading and heartless. He will ask ministers to prevent the BNN network showing it.

But BNN boss Laurens Drillich insisted: 'Participants have a 33 per cent chance to get a kidney. That is substantially higher than on the waiting list.'

Endemol is a Dutch TV production company with subsidiaries and joint ventures in 23 countries, including Britain.

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[jetmizter2]

Wonder how it will all turn out?

And if anything will be said if the 2 who dont get the kidney die?