Who Dies? You Decide.

Personally I think this is a great idea and could stop greedy people clogging up NHS waiting lists wanting a third lung etc.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6699847.stm

You just don't know what these TV promotion & marketing people will think of next - perhaps the UK could have a phone vote for who gets a peerage

Here's a better idea - we put a random selection of people in a house for 100 days and vote to evict them.

Oh, wait a minute...

Back on topic...

I'm not impressed by this I have to say, it's a shame that TV companies have to stoop so low to get ratings.

No, you have to pay big money for peerages.. although on phone vote lines, you do that anyway.

Or you can invectively denounce the House of Lords, and hey presto you get a peerage around 23 years later. Ain't that right Mr Kinnock?

well there cut the price of the BB vote to 25p! WOW what a bargin!

There TWO Q:

A: is it ethical right to do such a show of this Status

B: will it help inform people about the lack of Donars?

There's a show coming up on ITV1, probably this autumn, in which Mike Reid, Malcolm McLaren and Suzanne Shaw compete for what is supposedly a real peerage (though I think it's actually just one of those courtesy titles that you'd pay £600 for and don't really mean anything...). You heard it here first, unless you heard it somewhere else previously!

My money on Michael grade

Wouldn't be too suprised if it was created in the UK. Nowadays we are nicking ideas from Dutch television.

I think the show is pretty sick myself, but it's widely being misreported by critics along the "Who Dies - You Decide!" line - when it's really "I'll die - I'll decide"

I should hope such a show doesn't get picked up by UK television. Not only that, I can't believe it was even dreamt up - such decisions on who lives or dies are not ours to make. If the idea was indeed to bring to public attention the shortage of donors, why not just make a stark documentary that shows the full extent of the problem?

As it is, this form of 'entertainment' seems an awful way of going about it, really.

What next?The Suicide Show?

Having said all that though, sometimes shows which the idea of which are very shocking are actually very good programmes - that German bloke who cuts up dead bodies spring to mind. Gross and questionable programme idea - but absolutely fascinating.