TV kidney competition outcry
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A Dutch television show is criticised for offering a terminally ill woman's kidneys as a prize.
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The case of a Houston man who advertised for a new liver has prompted the United Network for Organ Sharing to recommend that hospitals discourage patients from soliciting organs and, if possible, to refuse to perform such transplants.
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Media & professional: Last week the BBC Trustees queried its impartiality. Not everyone agreed, writes James Robinson.
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Sometimes a TV series needs a tune-up. Tweak the plots, juice the promotion and it may end up a challenger in the ratings race.
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It is a race that echoes the Beta versus VHS format competition of the 1980s. Only this time the technology is high-definition DVDs, and the stakes are even higher.
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HDTV sports fans are disappointed that there's a limited menu of Olympic sports that can be seen on high definition and that many of these events are shown 24 hours or later than they are on NBC.
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The BBC seems to be coming in for strong criticism from some of your correspondents. Many people would like to see the BBC abolished altogether.   I have been amazed by the information on many subjects that are available from the BBC on the internet.
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Can&#39;t we all just get along? I mean this is getting ridiculously way out of hand. For those who haven&#39;t watched any TV in the last five days, a fight broke out in an NBA
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Kid Nation premiered last Wednesday, and the show was, for lack of  a better term, fascinating. It was formulaic and, well, just plain bad. But it was also fascinating. In case you missed it, the premise revolves around sending 40 children to a ghost town in New Mexico for 40 days. The ages of the children range from 8-15, with the majority lying somewhere in the 10-12 range. Once there, the kids will have no supervision beyond that of a couple of camera crew and the host, Jonathan Karsh, who comes and goes randomly, but always to help the kids on their path.    There's all kinds of hullabaloo about whether or not it's ethical to take kids and simply drop them off in the middle of nowhere. Though they immediately showed the largest factor in the parents' decision to let these kids on to a TV show that could do a mind job on them for years: A gold star (cute) worth $20,000. A star is handed out by the "town council" at every meeting, so presumably about 5 kids will go home with prize money. My guess is that at least one of them will also win some ridiculous prize at the end of the show...say a million bucks.    I'd like to say that's where the show gets "better", but it doesn't. On this show no one gets voted off, and everyone's going home a winner.
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KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine&#39;s two presidential candidates faced off today in a televised debate less than a week before a rerun of their disputed election, with opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko accusing his rival of trying to steal the Nov.
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By Jonathan Storm, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Jun. 24--It's enough to make a critic -- or anybody else who makes less than $1 million a year -- cry.   Big-bucks TV programmers are proving themselves to be stupider than the average-Joe viewer.
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This year, the beauty contest that people love to hate is adding elements of reality TV.
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By David Bauder THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  NEW YORK -- Scalpels and damaged doctors at 10 paces: an interesting duel of medical shows is emerging for the second half of the television season.
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A reality TV show promising a donated kidney as a prize turns out to be a hoax, but ruffles plenty of feathers.
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The European Union's health chief will unveil plans on Wednesday to increase organ donations and transplants amid a row over a Dutch reality TV show in which a dying woman is due to select a recipient for her kidneys.
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A Dutch reality television show in which a woman had to decide one of three contestants to whom she would donate a kidney was a hoax, the program makers said on Friday.
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Transplant surgeons and medical ethicists are outraged by the nation&#39;s first Internet-brokered organ transplant, performed last week in Denver.