TV Stars Dying On Camera

Wow. TV sure is changing.

I just found (although this is being posted several days later...) a news article about a TV show that is apparently in Australia about risky surgeries. It has already been confirmed that some of the patients die.

The article I was reading is found here.

It's called Last Chance Surgery. One of those surgeries involves a 17 year old hairdressing student with brain cancer. The doctor says that it's virtually guaranteed that in surgeries like that something will go wrong, and a significant chance that something debilitating will be a lasting effect. Because, c'mon, let's be real...you have people cutting into your freakin' brain.

Unlike all the shows we have on ER's and life in the ER and ER Traumas which highlight the morons that end up with sticks in their ears and motorcycle accidents of untold horror and the patients wheeling their way out in the end apparently this show is going to show people with one shot at survival...and you, the viewer, will get to wager on who will make it to the credits.

I personally prefer seeing shows that are more realistic. We can't even get news shows without a wonderful dose of bias thrown in for good measure. "If it bleeds, it leads." Every news station is accused of being either leaning so far to the left or right of politics that we have to turn to stations like the BBC to find out what is going on in our own country. Other shows simply portray life as being so Disneyfied that I want to expunge what is left in my stomach or so unrealistic that...well, I watch the fantasy shows.

What do you think? TV has definitely changed from the more "pure" and far less realistic worlds inhabited by June and Ward Cleaver or even the Seavers. Is a shift to a more realistic world better?

Or is TV simply becoming a cesspool of personal agendas operating under the guise of realism, where "reality TV" is in fact still nothing more than a wheelbarrow of fertilizer?