Who are the producers of the show? Was this sort of deliberate or a freaky accident?
Mark Burnett(”Survivor”) and his Irish wife/actress Roma Downey (”Touched by an Angel”)
Considering one of them does Survivor, Trump's Apprentice shows, Shark Tank, and The Voice then I doubt there is a lot of love lost for Obama. I think it was deliberate, and very creative, too.
They have been making this film for over four years now.
Here’s a good story about the making of The Bible that I recently read:
http://www.guideposts.org/faith/stories-of-faith/the-bible-brought-to-life
The Bible Brought to Life
The successful producer of such shows as Survivor and The Voice faces his greatest professional challenge.
My wife, Roma Downey (you might know her from the role of Monica on the TV show Touched by an Angel), and I were having dinner. And Roma mentioned a documentary someone was doing on the Bible.
Roma thought the documentary focused too much on showing that God was harsh and unloving. It used examples like the millions drowned in the Genesis Flood and God’s demand of Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac.
She asked me, “Why wouldn’t they tell the true story of a loving God with a plan for all humanity? A God who sent his only Son to die for us all?”
Then she spoke in that quiet, persuasive voice of hers, the one that Americans came to know so well from hearing it every Sunday night for over a decade.
“Mark, we should do this. We should make a TV series on the Bible. Not unconnected Bible stories, but the overarching, sweeping, loving narrative. A dramatic rendition that goes from Genesis to Revelation. We could tell that story in five two-hour episodes. We could bring it to life.”
I stared at her. It was an incredibly ambitious idea, and it’s not like we weren’t busy enough, raising three teenagers, and also producing some of the most demanding shows on TV (including The Voice and Survivor).
“How can we possibly take this on, and how can we tell this story in only ten television hours?” I asked, shaking my head.
...story continues