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How Low Can a TV Show Go?
MANHATTAN (CN) - ABC TV filmed a man dying in a hospital, and a doctor telling his family he had died, and broadcast it all on the show "NY Med" without telling the family or the dead man it was filming them, the family claims in court.
The family claims the defendants neither informed them nor asked their permission, and that they found out about it all by seeing themselves and their late husband and father on TV.
Anita Chanko says ABC filmed and broadcast the dying words of her husband as he was being treated at co-defendant New York Presbyterian Hospital aka Weill Cornell Medical Center, on East 68th Street.
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She claims the hospital let ABC in to film its TV show, and that it filmed her dying husband.
The complaint states: "That on April 29, 2011 Mark S. Chanko, deceased, died while being treated by said hospital and physicians and his final words, treatment and death were recorded by defendant American Broadcasting Companies Inc. and used in an episode of 'NY Med' that was first broadcast on the ABC television network on August 21, 2012 and that was then rebroadcast as an on demand program and was made available for viewing on the Internet."
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/03/22/55977.htm
dsc
(52,162 posts)the plaintiffs should get one month's worth of the revenue Disney made last year as punitive damages. I bet that would stop this crap dead in its tracks.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)That's pretty much as low as a TV Show can go.
But the story was pretty low as well.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Erose999
(5,624 posts)Erose999
(5,624 posts)of the Blue Dog democrats), and washed up '70s rockers like Meatloaf and Ted Nugent dance with members of the Palin family in a truckstop bathroom.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)EOTE
(13,409 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)that gave their permission for this. Usually when filming is done in a space and you can't get everyone's signatures, there's a sign somewhere that maintains that filming is going on and if you enter that space, you give agreement to being filmed yourself.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Apparently, there is no regulations as to how low, or even dangerous they can go.