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Scientology Poised to Launch TV Network
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | March 11, 2018 | Michael O'Connell

Posted on 03/11/2018 2:12:44 PM PDT by C19fan

The Church of Scientology is getting its own TV network. The controversial group, headed by David Miscavige, is poised to launch a channel on DirectTV and platforms Apple TV and Roku on Monday, March 12. Evidence of the network is already on Apple's app store, where "Scientology TV" is available for download from The Church of Scientology International. Running the app reveals a placeholder announcement that content will officially launch at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. P.T. There's also a newly launched Twitter account, with first updates coming early Sunday morning, pointing to a website that doesn't yet appear to be up and running. Request for comment from the Church of Scientology was not immediately returned, but a DirecTV spokesperson confirmed the Monday launch. A promo video indicates the network will occupy the satellite service's channel 320 (currently infomercials.)

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TOPICS: Religion; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: scientology
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1 posted on 03/11/2018 2:12:44 PM PDT by C19fan
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This will be one, entertaining channel.
2 posted on 03/11/2018 2:17:58 PM PDT by goldendelicious
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3 posted on 03/11/2018 2:20:51 PM PDT by gaijin
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Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath
https://www.aetv.com/shows/leah-remini-scientology-and-the-aftermath


4 posted on 03/11/2018 2:24:14 PM PDT by donna (Chelsea Manning is Obama's legacy.)
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Directv still doesn’t carry OuterMax or the Military History channel but you can get Xenu 24/7.


5 posted on 03/11/2018 2:26:41 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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Big deal! They missed the boat on TV channels by about 40 years.


6 posted on 03/11/2018 2:28:46 PM PDT by webheart (Grammar police on the scene.)
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What will be worse.. The scientology network or the obama channel? LOL


7 posted on 03/11/2018 2:28:52 PM PDT by Trillian
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What a monumental waste of parishioners’ money. Miscavige has so destroyed what little good will there was for the church, that this effort will come to nought.

If he were a normal person, instead of a sociopathic despot, he would do whatever it took to repair the church’s dismal relations with the broad pubic. That awful reputation is firmly embedded in the public’s mind, and will not be changed by a bunch of slick tv shows.


8 posted on 03/11/2018 2:29:59 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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All they can hope for is young skulls full of mush.


9 posted on 03/11/2018 2:32:26 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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Big deal! They missed the boat on TV channels by about 40 years.

Really. Like announcing a startup newspaper.


10 posted on 03/11/2018 2:34:33 PM PDT by samtheman (Jeff Sessions is an Attorney General like Barak Obama was an American President.)
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That's absolutely CRAZY! And fantastic! (If you're Tom Cruise)

11 posted on 03/11/2018 2:35:40 PM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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This is their brilliant countermove to address the truth of Leah Remini’s series exposing Scientology.


12 posted on 03/11/2018 2:44:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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And it won’t even be anything useful because anything useful for people wanting to be in Scientology, they make you pay a tom of money for. You cant do any courses via tv and you cant do emeter auditing through tv. So the garbage they put on there will be propaganda bs and promo videos that really don’t have any substance behind them. Just PR crapola.


13 posted on 03/11/2018 2:47:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Maybe in twenty years they can start a YouTube channel.


14 posted on 03/11/2018 2:50:44 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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What do scientologists really believe?


15 posted on 03/11/2018 2:50:57 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (obozo took 8 years to try to destroy us. Trump took 1 to rebuild us. MAGA!!)
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. . . they make you pay a tom of money. . .

Tom of money = amount of money Scientology hoovered out of Cruise's bank accounts.

16 posted on 03/11/2018 2:51:13 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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they also carried the 24x7 obama channel back in 2012


17 posted on 03/11/2018 2:53:56 PM PDT by Vroomfondel
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"If he were a normal person, instead of a sociopathic despot"

Sounds like the second coming of Lafayette Ronald Hubbard...

18 posted on 03/11/2018 2:58:11 PM PDT by Paladin2
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All they can hope for is young skulls full of mush.

That might have been a reasonable hope in earlier times, but today's youth are glued to their iPhones, and look up everything on YouTube.

The church's membership is dropping like a stone. Formerly dedicated staff and parishioners are quietly slipping out the back door in increasing numbers, and they're not being replaced by new converts.

Take a tour of one of their orgs sometime. They're practically devoid of people. Idle morgues.

19 posted on 03/11/2018 3:13:41 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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There is already a Syfy channel.
20 posted on 03/11/2018 3:21:20 PM PDT by deadrock
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