Despite a poor opening ratings show and a boistrous noise from the Christian right NBC defends its controversial series The Book of Daniel starring Aidan Quinn as a minister dealing with the 21st Century realities of the world and his own family. The ticker is that he discusses all these problems with a Jesus that he sees and hears in the real world around him.
NBC Entertainment’s president Kevin Reilly stated that the network stands behind its decision to air the program. “The hard thing is that the show is not quite pulling the numbers that we had hoped for,” Reilly said. “I think it’s a creative show. I like the risk of it. I love the cast. I love the execution. It hasn’t quite found an audience, so we’ll have to see where we are on that.”
If The Book of Daniel‘s showing on January 27th is as poor as the previous outings then NBC may be forced to close this chapter of the book.
Hmm…so Christians can be offended because the show presumes to put Jesus in as a character. Everyone else can be offended because it’s got Jesus in it in the first place. Hell, a show that’s got something to offend everybody, how can it go wrong?!
My sentiments exactly Mark.
They’ve managed to piss off everybody so they must have done something right. 🙂
I, myself, don’t really care.
I don’t watch because it doesn’t look interesting to me. Not my kind of show.
Are these the same so-called “Christians” who always talk about “What Would Jesus Do?” and talking to the lord about every little thing from taking a job to whether to have peas or beans for dinner?
Please.
These people need to stop watching TV…or only watching Praise The Lord, and letting the rest of us watch crappy TV in peace.
Well, that didn’t last long. NBC officially cancelled it.
http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-01-25/
To quote a line from “Spin City”: “That’s why they call it a show of support… it’s not actual support!”
Well hell, if you really want to get this discussion fired up, check out a film called:
“The God That Wasn’t There.”
It’s an interesting take on things, and adds to the debate.
Well, as the popular Christian saying goes, We’re not perfect, just forgiven.
Ah crap.
Ok I actually liked the show. It was pretty darn funny, in a dark humor kinda way and yeah it offended pretty much everyone.
Come on a Italian Catholic with ties to the mob! and hilarity ensued.
Well it will free up some room on the Tivo since I watched it after all the stuff on Scifi on Friday nights.
Well, I’m a Christian and watched two episodes of the show. I wasn’t offended by it, but then, I didn’t particularly like it either. I thought it was a little too much forced disfunction. Too much in the vein of Desperate Housewives, which I don’t like either. So, I’m not sad it’s cancelled, but only because I didn’t think it was a very well-written show. The controversy on the other hand, was pretty silly, and most of the people protesting probably never even watched it.