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.
That was a real neeting needle.
Nice way to help out all the neety people.
Mr. Gingrinch, please be nice.
I neets to write a neets to myself.
There are lots of neets freaks around here.
We ALL need our neets met I guess.
Take that plot, put it on South Park, and you'd have a lot of people on this site rushing to defend it.
Where is reality??? Where is he??? I had ahold of him just a minute ago. Where did he go??? :)
Oh boy, look what happens when I leave for a bit.
Pretty neets, huh? I get in those kind of moogs sometimes. I'm not saying I make smoog moogs though. Pretty much the opposite. Sometimes I guess my name is just moog. My memory too, is a few moogs short of a byte, even when I watch moogies on the DVD to try to get some of it back. The new special interest group called Moogon.org is helping me to get in back, but Moogonover.org seems just as determined to prevent it. The moog is out there.....just as Fox and Mooger. I'm sure in time, though, that I will get sythesized.
you'd have a lot of people on this site rushing to defend
Many do on FR.
"Moog you really should try to control
your intellectual side. You know most
people on FR can't comprehend the deep
stuff."
Uh huh...
That post is what I like to call...
"Classic moog".
LOL!
So are you saying that it is OK to Catholic bash?
Absolutely loathesome show. NBC must be nuts.
By the way, has that Geena Davis as President show been yanked yet? I can't imagine how they'd keep it going until '08, let alone '06.
We need to get smart about this stuff. Don't write. Don't call. Don't get our panties all bunched up.
Just don't watch.
Without controversy, they have nothing because most Christians see right through it and won't watch. Non-Christians will think it's aimed at Christians and won't watch. No one will care and it will all be over.
That said, I'm sad to see Aidan Quinn is part of this show. I like him. Oh well.
So are you saying that it is OK to Catholic bash?
Your question is tendentious, but I'll answer it anyway: Nope. A risk assessment only.
Happy New Year...
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