How Low Can a TV Show Go?

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