With the ratings success of "reality shows" and tv movies based on real life events, producers compete with each other to obtain screen adaptation rights to the stories that made the headlines. Real life disasters that have the makings of tv success : the bombing of the World Trade Center or the Amy Fisher affair (a 17-year-old girl who tried to kill the wife of her lover). Underlining its ambiguity from an ethical point of view, the report looks into the well-oiled machinery of a certain kind of tv entertainment.