In the United States, there has been at least one similarly deadly talk show episode, albeit without the lie detector tie in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mur

In the United States, there has been at least one similarly deadly talk show episode, albeit without the lie detector tie in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Scott_Amedure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Scott_Amedure In a way, you get the sense that these shows operate with the understanding that dead bodies are known to be a non-zero quantity, given the subject matter of taunting people on camera, such that they get their reputation thrown permanently into a relativistic black hole from which it will never escape. As for gullible people eating up lie detector results, as the saying goes, I don't have to outrun the bear... I only have to outrun you. Which is to say, it doesn't matter if you have firm grounds to disbelieve the lie detector test. I only have to convince your dimwitted peers, who are just itching for a reason to hang you. And as is evident, these TV shows prey on the slower people who simply need to see an interesting instrument and a convincing astrologer inspecting the dowsing rods. Here in the United States, there's a subtle hint that lie detectors are all but tea leaves: They are inadmissible as evidence in a legal context. As a rule of law, no judge will tolerate the results being used as proof of a fact. With a wink and a nod, this is how one is to clued into their actual value. But that's it. No one will accept the idea that they're worthless. They only point out legal inadmissibility as a point of trivia, and then move right along with whatever else they had to say.