Endemol, Purveyors of Fine Television Worldwide...

[The Ol' Guy]

If it gets big ratings, Endemol and other production companies could revise some classic formats for the medically desperate

The Lung Connection
Break The Blood Bank
Eye Rollers
Wheel of Dialysis
I've Got a Seizure (one for my wife...)
Win Ben Stein's Liver
and the All-New Pancreas Hunt
and one won't have to re-name itself - Change of Heart

I'm sure no one here underestimates the total depravity of packagers and nets.

[dzinkin]

[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'153698\' date=\'May 29 2007, 01:47 PM\']
[quote name=\'curtking\' post=\'153667\' date=\'May 29 2007, 10:01 AM\']
Endemol is producing a show in the Netherlands (debuts Friday night) which will feature contestants competing to receive a donated kidney.  The donor is  terminally ill.[/quote]
There, Fixed That For Ya!
[/quote]
Wishful thinking, right? ;-)  Endemol's not going anywhere anytime soon.

[TimK2003]

[quote name=\'The Ol' Guy\' post=\'153701\' date=\'May 29 2007, 02:04 PM\']
If it gets big ratings, Endemol and other production companies could revise some classic formats for the medically desperate

The Lung Connection
Break The Blood Bank
Eye Rollers
Wheel of Dialysis
I've Got a Seizure (one for my wife...)
Win Ben Stein's Liver
and the All-New Pancreas Hunt
and one won't have to re-name itself - Change of Heart

I'm sure no one here underestimates the total depravity of packagers and nets.
[/quote]

Pass-the-Kidney-Stone Plus!
Body Part Language.
Celebrity Spleenstakes.
Iron Lung Chef
Play the Appendixes

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'The Ol' Guy\' post=\'153701\' date=\'May 29 2007, 11:04 AM\']
Eye Rollers
[/quote]
You've just described the entirety of Fox's reality show library. (Except Hell's Kitchen. Gordon Ramsay might be greater than Pat O'Brien.)

Win Ben Stein's Liver

I lol'd. Hard.

/No match, organ goes back. Over to you, Bob.

[Clay Zambo]

The Ear, Nose, or Throat Game

[Clay Zambo]

Make Me Lymph  ...?

[rugrats1]

[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'153671\' date=\'May 29 2007, 10:16 AM\']
...I thought that [Endemol] couldn't sink any lower.  I was wrong.

I'm really, really tempted to open a special no-holds-barred subforum for venting at Endemol.
[/quote]

(Original post deleted by me -- sorry, the show's in Holland. Never mind. Send me to a "room" of your choice for having an itchy typing finger. Never mind.)

[Joe Mello]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'153707\' date=\'May 29 2007, 02:14 PM\']
/No match, organ goes back. Over to you, Bob.[/quote]
No more calls, please.  We have a winner.

[chris319]

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'153672\' date=\'May 29 2007, 07:35 AM\']
Queen For A Day doesn't seem so bad now.
[/quote]
Don't give them ideas:

"Dialysis for a Day"

[aaron sica]

[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'153730\' date=\'May 29 2007, 04:24 PM\']
Don't give them ideas:

"Dialysis for a Day"
[/quote]

"Whose lucky soda can tab will we draw next time? Tune in tomorrow!"

[uncamark]

An Endemol show has been on Fox--"Performing As," the U.S. version of their "Stars in Their Eyes" format where people compete to impersonate singers.  Summer run a few years ago, with Todd Newton hosting.  Long-running British version has a familiar catch phrase over there with "Tonight, Matthew (Kelly, the original host), I'll be..."

(And "Stars" was first Americanized by Dick Clark over a decade ago in syndication as "Your Big Break," with Natalie Cole hosting and the Coors twins looking very lovely.)

[DjohnsonCB]

Sounds like something the UBS network would put on as a lead-in to Howard Beale's rants.  Or maybe directly following them.

[Jay Temple]

Platelets Plus
Super-Marrow Sweep
The Type Is Right

[dazztardly]

I read the article as well as watched the videoclip. This is rather appalling.

If anything comes of this, I hope some viewers will contact Endemol and offer their own kidneys to the other two contestants who didn't win.

-Dan Berger
FLASHGames²

[dad1153]

[quote name=\'The Ol' Guy\' post=\'153701\' date=\'May 29 2007, 02:04 PM\']
The Lung Connection
Break The Blood Bank
Eye Rollers
Wheel of Dialysis
I've Got a Seizure (one for my wife...)
Win Ben Stein's Liver
and the All-New Pancreas Hunt
and one won't have to re-name itself - Change of Hearts
[/quote]

What's My Life Expectancy?
Matched Donors Game
I've Got A Secretion
Super Pancreas
$ale of the Psoriasis
Liar's Club (The HMO Edition)
Dr. I.Quincy
Dialysis or No Dialysis
Real Jeopardy!