“Survivor” host Jeff Probst (pictured) and king of all reality producers Mark Burnett are working to put together a show called “Live for the Moment” that would focus on terminally ill people. Although CBS passed on it for its fall 2009 lineup, that’s only because Probst will be out of the country shooting the 800 millionth season of “Survivor.” Page Six says:
Each week, “Live for the Moment”… will send a different person with a terminal disease diagnosis on an uplifting adventure related to an unfulfilled wish, like and exotic trip or hoped-for reunion.
Having shot the pilot episode earlier this year, starring a man with Lou Gehrig‘s Disease, Probst says, “It’s the best thing I’ve ever been a part of. It’s so inspirational and so positive, I really believe its time for the show.”
Ummmmm… I guess that there’s a possibility that this could be uplifting. Giving people their dying wish is a pretty nice thing to do. But you’ll pardon me and my queasy morality for not being comfortable with the idea of exploiting dying people for ratings. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have cancer jokes to tell.
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Since I was told I had terminal cancer(5/08), with less than 6 months to live, I have been living life to it’s fullest. I think this show would be a hit and Give some the courage to carry on. Here I am 16 months later and just got back from a 2800 mile motorcycle ride from Baltimore to Key West. Hell, I’d still like to be on Survivor…since I am one.
This will have the lack of immunity challange as part of the festivities..
Lol they already made a show…
David Lehre made it…its called Disease Island….look it up on his website.
How is this exploiting them? They’re getting what they want from it. I think ‘exploiting’ is a word that is thrown around entirely too often nowadays.
So it’s basically Make A Wish, but for dying everybody instead of just dying children. And they film it.
Cancer kids can’t play hockey. Don’t care.
Dude thats like totally insane!
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What’s even more disgusting is how people relegate terminally ill people to second class citizens, taking it upon themselves to decide what these terminally ill people want. How about we ask them?
They already made this show, it was called Rock of Love. Wait…claumidia isn’t fatal? I really need to find a new doctor.
This will have the lack of immunity challange as part of the festivities.
They won’t refer to the contestants as “dying”. They’ll call them “future David Carradine roommates”. More sensitive, dontchathink?
I fully support Heidi and Spencer going on this show.
Sorry … my dying wish has been to annoyingly harrass bloggers over punctuation and syntax.
THANK YOU JEFF PROBST!
Gah, dammit KP. You made me change my redundant word selection.
So there are no Survivors?
But you’ll excuse me and my queasy morality for not exploiting dying people for ratings. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have cancer jokes to tell.
Excuse you twice? Now that’s just getting greedy.
As opposed to every MTV reality show, starring mentally ill people.