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Just when you thought reality tv couldn’t get any more tasteless, the Dutch, of all people, set a new bar:

A Dutch TV station says it will go ahead with a programme in which a terminally ill woman selects one of three patients to receive her kidneys.

The donor, a dying woman, will chose the winner with help from YOU! the viewer. Doctors are, of course, appalled:

“The scenario portrayed in this programme is ethically totally unacceptable,” said Professor John Feehally, who has just ended his term as president of the UK’s Renal Association.

“The show will not further understanding of transplants,” he added. “Instead it will cause confusion and anxiety.”

But the producers have managed to convince themselves that they are doing a public service…

“We think that is disastrous, so we are acting in a shocking way to bring attention to this problem.”

…which is understandable, seeing as you’d pretty much have to convince yourself that the world needs you to be as shameless and unethical as humanly possible in order to get through the show development meetings without killing yourself. And if you’re not spending all of your time defending your latest season of ethically suspect bile then you might have to really deal with your role in last year’s mistakes:

The outcry comes at a difficult time for production company Endemol, who were censured by Ofcom last week for their handling of the Celebrity Big Brother racism row.

The Australian version of Big Brother has also drawn criticism for not telling a contestant that her father had died.

And you can already just barely look at yourself in the mirror as it is.