Question

Why were the people in the studio expecting to die harrison bergeron?

Answer 1

Harrison Bergeron is a story belongs to satirical science fiction and was published in 1961.

The central subject is about a future society around 2081, where the smart people had to stop their capacities of intelligent and beauty because the government has controlled due to produce an equal society.

In this context there  there was a boy called Harrison Bergeron who try to avoid the rules from the government and he wanted that everybody live without the "handicaps" but he was killed like a terrorist in hand of the system.

In resume, the actual versions of this story remains to  many   people the end of Bergerson for this reason the people in the studio expecting the death of him.