Posted on 01/11/2006 7:44:16 AM PST by Mike Bates
ONE of the few advertisers that bought commercial time during the premiere last week of "The Book of Daniel" on NBC will not be back. The series, about a priest, was singled out before its debut by a conservative activist organization, the American Family Association, which condemned it as anti-Christian.
The advertiser is Combe Inc., a company in White Plains that sells personal care products, which bought a 30-second commercial for Just for Men hair coloring. It was one of only about two dozen national spots that ran during the two-hour back-to-back episodes that composed the premiere of "The Book of Daniel" from 9 to 11 p.m. (Eastern and Pacific times) last Friday.
Asked yesterday by a reporter if consumers had reacted to Combe's sponsorship of "The Book of Daniel," the company replied with a statement sent by e-mail that described the advertising buy as "a one-time event."
"The company will not be advertising on the show in the future," the statement concluded, without elaborating. It appears that consumers have called the company, though; when the reporter reached the Combe switchboard, asking only to speak to a company representative, an operator asked, "This wouldn't have anything to do with 'The Book of Daniel,' would it?"
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Book of Daniel is nothing more than Desperate Housewives wearing a clerical collar.
I see a bad program + that people aren't watching + losing sponsors = early retirement for series.
I miss Little House on the Prairie.
Maybe they can book time for the Charmin Ads whose family of bears answers the question..."Does a Bear s*** in the woods?"
Don't we all.
I watched about 5 minutes of the show and then put my tape of Them(starring Marshall Dillon)into the VCR. The acting and the storyline was much better.
I can't wait to hear Heath Ledger call this "racism".
Well, at least that's the reason he cited for "Brokeback Mountain" being
pulled from some theaters.
For Little House On The Prarie...you just need The Hallmark Channel
Things like this do happen in families who work for the church. But we don't need a TV show about it. We had a pastor who got drunk and tried to rape a female member of the church. He was prosecuted and fired. We had neighbors when I was a kid who worked for the church next door to our house. The husband would come home in the middle of the night drunk. The screaming and yelling woke us up. Things like that do happen to church workers. But we don't need a tv show about it. We had a pastor down the street whose son was in prison. I think pastors are no different from anyone else, all just human. The tv show is making Christians look evil.
Doc Baker does boob jobs now??
Arrghh! Even "Half-pint" got plastic t!ts.
You mean it airs something other than MASH and Matlock?
Yes, his malpractice insurance on other procedures just became too expensive.
Racsim? We are all of the same race... The ONLY race. The Human Race.
My son had to fill out an application for college this week. You should see all the "races" he had to choose from.
Chinese, Asian Indian, Japanese, Korean, Laotion, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Other Asian, Black Non-Hispanic, Filipino, Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano, Central American, South American, Other Hispanic, American Indian/Aslaskan Native, Other Non-White, Guamanian, Hawaiian, Samoan, Other Pacific Islander, White Non Hispanic, Decline to State.
We are German, French, Black, Irish, English, Dutch, Cherokee, Scottish, and Devil. Mostly Devil... as my grandpa used to say!
I wanted to just have him write in HUMAN RACE for race!
She did not, she grew up and matured. She didn't have implants.
She's a half pint no longer.
This guy's a pretty good mouthpiece. Given that we already know that they advertised on the first show and then cancelled, calling it "a one-time event" gives no more information.
No doubt he - or she - has a political future.
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