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.
If you like this show, you'll love this one too.
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Here, want some?
Yup, you beat me to it!
Have you seen any of it?
I think they got their idea from Mel Brooks' show The Producers. If you make it so outrageous and ridiculously stupid, and assinine you end up with a hit. It worked on Broadway so now their going to try it out on the Christians.
Somehow I fail to see the humor in all of this.
NBC=Nothing But Crap
I *may* contact my local NBC affiliate. Probably not. I would rather see them drive themselves further into the ground.
I'm just one person, but I can say this in all honesty: I do not even *look* at what's on network TV anymore in the TV page. I never, and I mean *never* watch it. There is too much on other cable channels, and we have a neat TV and surround sound for DVDs - I won't raise my blood pressure by even considering it.
But I'll consider giving them a piece of what mind I have left anyway.
I suppose it would be too much to ask until someone actually sees the show to call for a boycott? Not that it matters - a boycott will only increase the publicity this show will get....
This is a joke, right?
Wildmon and Donahue are idiots, they always want programming pulled before anyone sees it.
Screw em, I'm watching it.
He has probably bought into the teachings of the newest ECUSA bishop, Vicki Gene Robinson, who divorced his wife, abandoned his two children, and moved in with his homosexual partner.
Vicki Gene Robinson waves to those assembled at his ordination as Bishop of the Episcopal Church
I hope this flushes NBC down the toilet once and for all.
Perhaps he'll be the only character on the show opposed to gay marraige?
I'll be watching 24 on Fox.
The original 1968 Producers was actually one of the funniest movies ever made and not the sacrilege this appears to be.
at least i think so....
same folks who liked Dennis Leary's Merry Effin Christmas will probably like this.
or cakeboys too.
Fill in the blanks at link posted at #14 above. God bless!
You and Motz and Neets should get a room....
Nice Connie.....(I've told you that before I know)
"Do you think the "Jesus of NBC" will touch the homo's and lesbo's on the show and cure them of their illness'?"
No.
I don't remember any one in the New Testament being cured of lust or other sexual problems by Jesus's direct action. Such things were to be expiated by prayer, repentance, and willful self control. But your point remains valid, NBC will not show that either.
What NBC will likely portray is, as CS Lewis describes in the "Problem of Pain"
"a grandfather in Heaven -- a senile bevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves", and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all."
What Would Jesus Say?
As if a bunch of liberal, hollyweirdos could tell me.
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