Blow up your TV
That was actually the name of a very good John Denver song, but I am going in a different direction today. I don't watch many tv shows, but I greatly enjoyed Joan of Arcadia, a show that combined intelligence, good acting, science, theology and art. It is getting cancelled and replaced with a show called the Ghost Whisperer.
Les Moonves, the CBS Prez, was qoted as saying something to the effect that talking to ghosts will get higher ratings with the younger audience than talking to God.
It just drives home the fact that tv exists to sell commercials to those sitting in front of it, and quality of product is not important.
The show had 2 fatal flaws. The ratings dipped after the first year. More importantly, the average age of the audience was over 50, which is a mortal sin of television.
Les Moonves, the CBS Prez, was qoted as saying something to the effect that talking to ghosts will get higher ratings with the younger audience than talking to God.
It just drives home the fact that tv exists to sell commercials to those sitting in front of it, and quality of product is not important.
The show had 2 fatal flaws. The ratings dipped after the first year. More importantly, the average age of the audience was over 50, which is a mortal sin of television.
posted by stewdog | 11:39 AM | Permalink
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Was "Joan of Arcadia" one of those dangerous Christianists?
Not really "Christianists". "God" in this show appeared to Joan in the guise of many differnt people (old woman, lunch lady, little girl, goth punk rocker, etc) but it was a generalist God that seemed to be more of the Old Testament.
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