[lit-ideas] Re: The Big Donorshow

So, Mike -- YOU're the one behind all these vile TV Reality Shows!  How did
I not guess this, how could I possibly not have seen it....

Julie Krueger

On 5/30/07, carol kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Maybe one or two minor changes, like audience involvement: The home
audience gets to bet on a certain contestant's survival each week. Actually,
I'm pretty sure this would make a super internet futures market, so to
speak. Or did I read about that?
Carol,
hooded at last


On 5/30/07, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I've got an idea for a follow up program:  Race To the Grave -- which of
> the
> two contestants who didn't get the kidneys dies first?  The one who
> lives
> the longest gets an all expense paid vacation to Disneyland.  I see it
> as a
> weekly program documenting the health deterioration of each contestant
> through interviews with their doctors dispassionately discussing the
> course
> of their disease and "heart-rending" interviews with the contestants
> about
> how they feel being chosen to die, and how has their outlook on life
> changed
> through all this?  And interviews with their loved ones asking what they
>
> have  to say about the fact that their loved one has been judged not as
> worth being kept alive.  And what strategy is each contestant planning
> on
> using to outlive the other contestant?  The life of the series of course
> is
> the suspense of which of the two losers will die first?  I think I'll
> have
> my agent pitch it.  As soon as I get an agent.
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
>
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>
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> From: "Erin Holder" <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: [lit-ideas] The Big Donorshow
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> > http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2569363,00.html
> >
> > I will definitely be downloading this.
> >
> >
> >
> > Erin
> > Toronto
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