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It's one thing to put crazy people on television. It's quite another to manufacture crazy people for the same purpose!

Since what this network is doing apparently passes the legal test in Great Britain, how long before this sort of thing happens (if it's not already going on)?

A network casting director who is in need of new contestants for a show phones a friend of his who just happens to be a doctor or nurse in a psychiatric hospital and asks if any over-the-top yet not immediately dangerous psychotics are expected to be released soon? And if so, how about arranging a meeting? And of course, there will be a very nice kickback for you when the patient signs the contract.
The casting director promises a particularly nice kickback to a doctor if a promisingly delusional patient could possibly be released earlier than planned, and a meeting arranged.....we must keep to the shooting schedule, after all.
Perhaps a similar kickback to directors of homeless shelters, for putting the show in touch with delusional and paranoid yet good-looking and funny people?

Somehow, these scenarios don't seem so very far-fetched to me, given this article.