Clark County coroner’s office to be featured on TV show
People who say they're dying to get on TV might get their chance to shine like a star, but they'll never know it.
The Clark County Commission on Tuesday unanimously approved a request from the Discovery Channel to follow employees of the Clark County coroner's office as they go about the business of death.
The network will pay the county $5,000 per episode, but commissioners were more concerned with the producers casting the county in a bad light or worse ---- making the heartache a family faces when learning a loved one has died even more unbearable.
Those concerns were allayed by Coroner Mike Murphy, who said the producers have agreed to strict protocols dealing not only with death scenes but with families of decedents.
"This isn't 'Jersey Shore,' " Murphy said. "I view it as being more of a documentary than reality TV."
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