Candidates in the much talked about Big Donor Show. Dutch television announced that it was a hoax.
Candidates in the much talked about Big Donor Show. Dutch television announced that it was a hoax. (Getty Images)

Transplanted Reality

June 08, 2007

Last week a Dutch reality series, The Big Organ Donor Show, shocked the world twice. First for what it was going to broadcast – a reality show whose winner gets a life-saving kidney- and then again for revealing it was a hoax. Laurens Drillrich, chairman of BNN, explains why his little lies exposed some big truths.

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