BOGOTA, Colombia — The hit TV game show "Nothing But the Truth" has been canceled after a contestant won $25,000 for admitting she hired someone to kill her husband. Tuesday was the final day for the show, in which contestants attached to a polygraph machine answered 21 increasingly invasive questions to win up to $50,000. A U.S version called "Moment of the Truth" is still expected to be launched on Fox in the coming months, along with spinoffs in England, Australia, Germany, Italy and Spain, says Howard Schultz, the Los Angeles creator of the show. On the Colombian version, dollar-desperate contestants confessed drug smuggling, homosexual prostitution and other "truths" before a studio audience packed with unsuspecting loved ones. It drew high ratings and spurred a boom in polygraph use among private companies trying to screen employees and protect themselves from infiltration by Colombia's well-organized mafias. But the show also generated sharp rebukes from U.S. polygraph examiners, family values groups and legal experts, who likened the spectacle to a modern-day Roman circus that sanctions criminal behavior. Complaints of indecency also poured in to Colombia's national TV commission. The episode that sealed the show's fate was broadcast Oct. 2, when Rosa Maria Solano admitted she had hired a hit man to rub out her husband. "The crime couldn't be carried out because the hit man tipped off my husband, and he ran away forever - God save me," said Solano after her revelation. Facing negative public reaction and the threat of legal action for being an after-the-fact accessories to crime, Caracol Television pulled the plug. Schultz, the creator of such reality TV hits as ABC's "Extreme Makeover," said he was unfamiliar with the controversial episode in Colombia, but said he did not fear it would slow the worldwide rollout. "We're very careful about the questions we ask," he said, "and would never sanction any criminal behavior." Source ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OK who else can top this woman who's husband didn't die because the hitman warned the husband he had to kill? You can win money! I can imagine all these ex-convicts/suspects joining this show to confess (old) cases to grab the price money. -lol
haha ho stupid ar -noclue that's why if you have secrets like that, you don't go on shows like this .. ...
who in their right mind would reveal that to get money that they then cannot spend bcos they prob will end up in prison for attempted murder.
colombia mafia style she should have put her money to better use just buy a gun and shot him in the head at least it gets the job done
Those machines aren't always accurate though. Its reaction depends on the person, if he/she is nervous or not, tired or not, ill or not, etc. Also, if someone believes firmly in their own lies, the machine won't detect it. It's all about control of your body and mind. *nods* But that woman was pretty stupid I must admit. If you have something to hide, be smart about it.
yea thats true thats why when ur brain thinks that some lies are true cos u've made ur brain to believe it, when u say it out, even if it is a lie, then the machine will still think its the truth.
Ok....thats dumb...hahaha....greediness can cause u serious trouble... its sorta like jerry springer....everyone tries to top each other with confessions =/ do i schmell schpam? =/
^maybe she thinks she won't have to face any charges since the hitman didn't carry her plan out. (not a smart woman anyway)
True, even if she gave a confession like that, the police can't charge her without any other evidence. Even if they do go to court, she can use the show as an excuse.
