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Posted on 01/06/2006 2:56:53 PM PST by wagglebee
Three Kansas NBC affiliates have announced they will not be carrying NBC’s "The Book of Daniel.” KSNG in Garden City, KSNC in Great Bend and KSNK in Oberlin have responded to community concern and will not air the program.
They join KNSW-TV in Wichita, Kan., KARK-TV in Little Rock, Ark. and WTWO in Terre Haute, Ind., in refusing to carry NBC’s new series.
American Family Association (AFA) says that NBC has received more than 600,000 emails protesting the program.
After viewing the first episode at WBIR in Knoxville, several religious leaders gave their views on the program. Brian Kearns, minister at Lighthouse Christian Church, said, "I think it’s very demeaning to Christianity. It’s an assault on the Christian faith.”
Rev. Tom Seay of the Bearden United Methodist Church, described it as "just a pretty sorry piece of work.” Dale Powers of the Catholic Diocese of Knoxville said "You’re portraying something as normal that is just absurd.” And Rev. John Stuart said, "What the show has done is demean my faith. You’ve diminished the person I worship ... you’ve wounded me.”
Donald E. Wildmon, chairman of AFA, said NBC is running the program despite the loss of millions of dollars in advertising revenue. "Advertisers are shying away from the program,” Wildmon stated. "But NBC’s hostility to Christians and Christianity runs deep.”
The program’s main characters include Daniel Webster, a drug-addicted Episcopal priest; his alcoholic wife; his son, a 23-year-old homosexual Republican; his daughter, a 16-year-old drug dealer; a 16-year-old adopted son who is having sex with the bishop's daughter; his lesbian secretary who is sleeping with his sister-in-law; and a very unconventional white-robed, bearded Jesus who reassures the priest that his drug-dealing daughter and promiscuous son are good kids.
According to media reports, it is written by Jack Kenny, a practicing homosexual, who describes himself as being "in Catholic recovery,” interested in Buddhist teachings about reincarnation, and not sure exactly how he defines God and/or Jesus. "I don't necessarily know that all the myth surrounding him (Jesus) is true,” he said.
I wouldn't watch this show if someone paid me, but I say let NBC air the show and watch it get cancelled within weeks. NBC should realize that people who threaten to boycott the network weren't viewers of the network to begin with anyway.
I haven't watched broadcast TV in a long, long time.
If it isn't insulting to Christians and an assault, then why don't they do a similar show on Muslims? Or Kennys Buddhists? They wouldn't even entertain the thought.
I think the institution of religion will outlast this latest "edgy" network show.
What happened to Hill Street Blues will happen to this program. It will be nixed in a few markets, get lots of publicity but will end up being shown on most stations and will someday be on TVLAND or some other cable channel.
MENE MENE TEKEL UPARSIN!
Excellent !!
Given the homo plot lines, it will end up on Lifetime - the channel for lesbian women.
I could say that I will no longer watch any NBC programs, but I am right now not watching any NBC programs already.
Just give her post 6 to read.
Just your typical Episcopalian All American Family. I think they just left out the wierdos who will be brought in as the season progresses. I can't wait! NBC[ Nothing But Crap].
WHAT? That's not true at all....they have alot of great movies on there...you don't know what you're talking about.
I have a feeling that if people do make up their minds, "Daniel" gets the axe because of low ratings. It looks perfectly awful, even if you don't consider the religious and spiritual ramifications. My prediction: because of all the publicity, high ratings tonight; next week, hardly anyone will watch.
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They were flipping the bird at Christians. I suspect it's a very expensive display of the middle finger for NBC.
I am impressed that KSNW took the stand in Wichita that they did.
Surprised and impressed. Way to go.
I really dislike McCuddy. Slimy looking guy, and most of his "reviews" suck.
>>I threw my TV away years ago. I also don't sprinkle my food with rat poison.
Ditto that. I don't remember when I stopped paying the cable co. $50 a month to connect my tv to regrettable smut every time I turned it on. But I sure do remember regretting it, every time I turned it on. Usually no more than 5 minutes, and they'd be broadcasting something I'd rather my young daughter didn't hear.
People can live just fine without tv. We don't miss it at all.
LOL--Dish Network sent out notices that they wouldn't be carrying Lifetime (I don't know if they've reinstated it yet), and I wrote back saying, Good, please don't bring it back.
Oh, Fawn, you must be kidding? Lifetime has a collection of the most insipid movies possible! Soap operas, every one of them, and usually with bad writing, bad acting, and annoying "messages" they try to push.
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