print email comment close How Reality TV Shocked the World URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6700327.stm Description: As "a TV channel in the Netherlands ... [was set] to broadcast a programme where a terminally ill woman [would] pick someone to receive her kidneys," this May 2007 article discussed a number of other reality television shows "that hit headlines." Often these shows were in the news because portions of the shows were a hoax, as the "Big Donor Show" was later learned to be. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Author: Young, Kevin Publisher: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Extra Keywords program LII Database Information: Record 23966 created by Maria Brandt on 06/05/2007 Last modification on 06/07/2007 Published: 06/14/2007   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/23966