Channel 4 Pulls Book of Daniel
The controversial NBC drama won its time slot in Nashville last Friday, but WSMV, the local NBC affiliate, has decided to cancel it anyway. From The Tennessean:
Well, I object to a lot of what I see on Dr. Phil (also broadcast locally on Channel 4), but I don't asked for it to be pulled from the afternoon lineup.
Personally, I wasn't terribly impressed by Daniel, but I think the complaints are misguided. Drug use and promiscuity are common on prime time television. But Daniel, unlike many programs, does not glorify these behaviors; it presents them as struggles. Anyone who thinks that Christians (and particularly ministers' families) don't struggle with addiction or other morally suspect behaviors is delusional. Theologically, Daniel (at least the first episode) is hardly unorthodox.
I also wonder if the several people that contacted the station asking that the show be pulled had actually watched the show or got their information from the American Family Association or another group lobbying to have the show cancelled.
As it were, though the show is about an Episcopal parish, "Channel 4 received no official complaint from local Episcopal churches."
[Station manager Elden] Hale said he made the decision after receiving "thousands" of complaints about the show, which features a pill-popping Episcopal priest with a gay son, a pot-dealing daughter and a philandering bishop father. Viewers objected to it all, Hale said.
"They didn't like the priest saying, 'G..d… him.' They didn't like the fact that there was a 15-year-old girl having sex in the back seat of a car. Many of them didn't like the portrayal of Jesus," Hale said.
Well, I object to a lot of what I see on Dr. Phil (also broadcast locally on Channel 4), but I don't asked for it to be pulled from the afternoon lineup.
Personally, I wasn't terribly impressed by Daniel, but I think the complaints are misguided. Drug use and promiscuity are common on prime time television. But Daniel, unlike many programs, does not glorify these behaviors; it presents them as struggles. Anyone who thinks that Christians (and particularly ministers' families) don't struggle with addiction or other morally suspect behaviors is delusional. Theologically, Daniel (at least the first episode) is hardly unorthodox.
I also wonder if the several people that contacted the station asking that the show be pulled had actually watched the show or got their information from the American Family Association or another group lobbying to have the show cancelled.
As it were, though the show is about an Episcopal parish, "Channel 4 received no official complaint from local Episcopal churches."
posted by Tinley | 3:57 AM
1 Comments:
The Book Of Daniel. Was it supposed to be a comedy?...It wasn't funny. Was it supposed to be drama?...It wasn't that either. Was it supposed to be anything other than a mockery of Jesus and the religous community? What kind of mindset does a person have to have to find entertainment in that? I wonder.......
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