Has reality TV finally gone too far? (Although if you ask me, it went off the edge long ago with Extreme Makeover). A new Dutch program goes beyond washed - up/overweight celebrities by making a kidney the star of the show. A woman named Lisa’s kidney, to be exact. During the 80 - minute spectacle, tastefully called The Big Donor Show, Lisa will choose a recipient for her healthy kidney based on the kidney contestants’ personal histories and stories. Viewers can send her advice via text - message.

Of course, many astute Europeans are up in arms over the show, saying it’s completely dangerous and unethical. But the show’s producers claim they are doing a public service by highlighting the lack of organ donors in the Netherlands. The former director of the television station that will air the show died of kidney failure after being on a transplant waiting list for years.

So maybe the show isn’t exactly in line with Hippocrates, but if Kelly Clarkson can go from a nobody cocktail waitress from Podunk, Texas to an international superstar millionaire, why can’t someone benefit from a televised kidney? Although in this case, the losers of The Big Donor Show are really losers — but hey, just as Katharine McPhee is irritatingly famous now even after she lost American Idol, maybe the losers on this show will get some second - prize kidneys and then some. And let’s be honest, a kidney is a kidney, so everyone wins.

What do you think about this show?