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06.11.09 A REALITY SHOW ABOUT TERMINALLY ILL PEOPLE

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“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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A REALITY SHOW ABOUT TERMINALLY ILL PEOPLE

June 11th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Burnsy says:

As opposed to every MTV reality show, starring mentally ill people.

June 11th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Kid Presentable says:

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.

June 11th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Vodka Cannon says:

So there are no Survivors?

June 11th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Matt says:

Gah, dammit KP. You made me change my redundant word selection.

June 11th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Kid Presentable says:

Sorry … my dying wish has been to annoyingly harrass bloggers over punctuation and syntax.

THANK YOU JEFF PROBST!

June 11th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Tim Was Tim says:

I fully support Heidi and Spencer going on this show.

June 11th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
WhyDoYouAsk says:

They won’t refer to the contestants as “dying”. They’ll call them “future David Carradine roommates”. More sensitive, dontchathink?

June 11th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Jessica Dwyer says:

This will have the lack of immunity challange as part of the festivities.

June 11th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
RamblingsOfTheUnmotivated says:

They already made this show, it was called Rock of Love. Wait…claumidia isn’t fatal? I really need to find a new doctor.

June 14th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Andy says:

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?

June 14th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
JOhn Davis says:

Dude thats like totally insane!

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June 14th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Coach Gordon Bombay says:

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.

June 14th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Tim says:

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.

June 14th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
xcon says:

Lol they already made a show…

David Lehre made it…its called Disease Island….look it up on his website.

June 15th, 2009 at 5:18 am
sarah says:

This will have the lack of immunity challange as part of the festivities..

September 30th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Mike Fabian says:

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.

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