Posted on 12/27/2005 3:12:45 PM PST by NYer
NBC has begun promoting a new weekly show in January that centers around a troubled, pill-popping Episcopal priest played by veteran actor Aidan Quinn, who talks with a manifestation of Jesus, played by Garret Dillahunt.
"The Book of Daniel" is being touted as the riskiest new show of the year. It is also billed as the only show on television in which Jesus appears as a recurring character.
It's a drama with comedic aspects and is being kicked off Jan. 6 with back-to-back episodes. It is scheduled to air regularly Friday nights at 9 p.m. The cast also includes Ellen Burstyn and Susanna Thompson.
As NBC itself explains the show, it focuses on "an Episcopalian minister and father. He finds himself conversing with Jesus -- his mentor and friend -- who helps navigate family problems, church politics and even his nagging reliance on prescription painkillers."
Comedienne Phyllis Diller plays a member of Daniel Webster's flock.
NBC executives have been excited about "The Book of Daniel" for a long time, though the show failed to make its fall lineup. Dillahunt is said to play a "hip, modern Jesus."
"This challenging new series is our first announced drama for midseason as we continue to seek different out-of-the-box projects," NBC Entertainment President Kevin Reilly told the Hollywood Reporter.
Will this Jesus spew disinformation propaganda a la the Davinci Code?
Carefully selected, I'm sure.
You don't believe that any of those scenarious that are parodied in this show don't happen or exist in real life, real families?
Granted, the chances of ALL of them belonging to one big family are remote, but there are 23 year old homosexual republican sons, 16 year old drug dealing daughters and so in in real America.
As usual tho, "You guys" can't see the forest for the trees and never will when you have your agenda to push also.
And as a footnote to I think it was wardaddy who said "You guys" were against organized religion, you should buy a clue.
I am against RADICAL RELIGIOUS BOYCOTT ORGANIZERS.
I always used to think you could count on these radicals to put business and money ahead of ideology. I'm not so sure anymore. They might subsidize it just to keep it in our faces.
First, Jesus doesn't need to be needed. Second, if He doesn't exist he isn't real, whether he is needed or not. The implication in your statement is that Jesus is real to those who need Him, even if He doesn't really exist. That's the way I take it. Please explain if you meant something else by that.
HE will probably be wearing a Tom Delay t-shirt.
The Muzlims wouldn't wait. They don't even deny most of the attacks people make on them. That they feel insulted is sufficient.
I think it is Maronite.
Risky would be portraying the righteously indignant side of Jesus' ministry. The liberalation theologists can't even acknowledge that part, it would destroy their agenda.
I've emailed our local NBC affiliate asking that this show not be aired, and notified friends to do the same.
Jack Mccall (Deadwood)
"The Devil and Daniel Webster"
by Stephen Vincent Benet
That's exactly what I meant; there is a comfort to be taken from such belief, why would it matter to you what another man believes?
It seems like NBC's political leanings are outweighing its business sense. Who would watch something like this on a Friday night? The people most likely to watch this show, younger liberals, are pobably out on Friday night and aren't going to go out of their way to set up their TiVo's for this stuff.
Older people who might be home on Friday will generally be more conservative and be turned off by the 'edginess'. I concur that it will be gone by March.
Have you ever read the satire called "Taliban Seventh Heaven"> It's quite amusing, I don't know why it couldn't be a series. I looked for the piece on google and wayback, but I can't find it.
Naw, they have other ways of acting out their anti-semitism.
Wasn't planning on watching, until I saw all the born agains getting the vapors over it, now its a must watch.
Can't be a parody in your sanctimonious world, can it???
All TV shows are created just to promote things you are against..I get it now.
"Now go shave your legs".
You do need to get a grip on reality.
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