A Dutch TV Show called ‘The Donor Show’ has won an Emmy Award for Best Non-Scripted Entertainment. In the show, presented by the Dutch renegade network BNN and produced by national producer Endemol, three kidney patients played along in a quiz to win a healthy kidney from a terminaly ill patient who had volunteered for the show.
The concept of the show caused a lot of news coverage and even political parties who tried to intervine and wanted to prohibit the show to air because of it’s ‘vulgar and inhumane concept’. However at the end of the show the show’s host (and network president), Patriek Lodiers, announced that the entire show was fake and was meant too bring more attention to the problem of having to little donors. The fallout worked in a way, as the government proposed an idea to make every person a donor by default unless they declare differently (as opposed to the current law, which states that no-one is a donor unless they declare they are).
The Emmy for ‘The Donor Show‘ is the second Emmy a Dutch broadcast recieves in a short time, the first one having been awarded to Peter R. de Vries for his show covering the Natalee Holoway case.
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