OK - so I didn't see the show, and I have mixed feelings about the subject. HOWEVER...a man committed (assisted) suicide a couple of years ago in Switzerland, and it was just broadcast on UK Sky TV. A spokesman for a Catholic-affiliated organization denounced the broadcast, saying "there is a growing appetite from the British public for increasingly bizarre reality shows. We'd see it as a new milestone. It glorifies assisted dying when there is a very active campaign by the pro-suicide lobby to get the issue back into Parliament."

From those who know both TV markets (and I don't) - are reality shows generally more bizarre in the UK than in the US? Seems impossible to me, but who really knows?