Posted on 09/20/2005 12:00:39 PM PDT by doesnt suffer fools gladly
NBC to Air Christian Show
An upcoming TV series featuring Christian pop singer Amy Grant will make its debut next Friday, and NBC is pulling out all the stops to promote it.
In "Three Wishes," Amy Grant will visit a different town every week, where, in a gesture of Christian charity, she will seek to fulfill the wishes of needy families and community groups, according to the New York Times.
The show, which Amy Grant describes as "faith in action," is being heavily promoted by NBC, which, the Times reports, has sent more than 7,000 DVDs of the show's first episode to ministers and other clergy members, along with a recorded message to their congregants from Amy Grant.
NBC also has scheduled Grant, who recently released an album of hymns titled "Rock of Ages," for interviews on Christian radio and taken out advertising in small-town newspapers.
The Times, widely noted for its dismissive attitude toward anything that smacks of Christianity, was unable to resist commenting that the network's promotion of the series is "evocative of a red-state presidential campaign," which "bears scant resemblance to any NBC has crafted before."
To the Times, "red state" means an area of lowbrow superstition offensive to the elite circles in which the newspaper travels.
"Three Wishes," Times reporter Jacques Steinberg noted, "is aimed, in no small part, at a churchgoing rural and suburban audience" you know, the sort of intellectually backward types who inhabit red states.
I wish she'd come to my town and help me finish painting the outside of my house.
That's about it. Good observation.
too bad this is "news"....
In the late 50s and 60s a show call "Life is Worth Living" which featured Bishop Sheen discussing various topics from the Catholic viewpoint for 30 minutes was a top rated show on network TV... Can you imagine any of the majors even allowing a rerun of this show on today?
Fortunately, EWTN rebroadcasts these shows Fridays at 9pm... one of the few shows I make sure to try to catch.
It will be interesting to see what this Amy Grant show is about... if its another just trite feel good show giving someone something like the Extreme Makeover stuff... or something that actually has some substance and spirituality to it... we shall see.
Why do they call shows like this and Touched by an Angel (and anything similar) "Christian" shows. I was a fan of Touched by an Angel and watched it with my family all the time. However, not once did I hear any of the characters mention the name of Jesus Christ, nor even mention the Son of God. Yes, there were constant references to "the Father", but that doesn't make it Christian. It is praiseworthy that the show as brave enough to mention a supreme being such as "the Father", but to qualify as "Christian" it would have to mention Christ from time to time. Just a pet peeve of mine. This show sounds good and my family will likely start watching it too.
I remember a couple of the Christian shows NBC has put on...they were awful.
Good question. Nothing in the details to indicate anything resembling the acts of Christ. A perfomer who sang Christian songs doing a T.V. show that is like 3 or 4 others currently on the air. I don't get it.
I noticed no one has pics. If she's the one I'm thinking of, she posed in Playboy a few years back. She a very Hot woman!
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of someone else.
God does not = some wish granting genie.
http://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/artists/AmyGrant.asp
Maybe the link will work right.
Adulteress. Christian hypocrite.
"Adulteress. Christian hypocrite."
Ah. I see.
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