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Thousands Sign Up as Organ Donors

Over 50,000 people have downloaded an organ donor registration form since Friday night’s hoax tv broadcast in which three people competed for a dying woman’s kidney. Some 1.2 million people watched the broadcast on public channel BNN, which had been condemned by politicians, doctors and commentators around the globe. The woman was revealed at the…

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TV kidney Donor Show revealed as hoax to provoke debate on organ shortages.

Programme’s terminally ill patient was an actor. Dutch stunt praised by media commentators .  The Guardian Saturday June 2, 2007 It was decried as the show that would break the reality TV format’s back. The makers of the Dutch De Grote Donorshow (The Big Donor Show) promised a one-off programme in which a terminally ill…