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Libs are totally clueless!
According to the latest Nielsens, released Tuesday, Sunday night's telecast of "The Bible," produced by husband-and-wife team Mark Burnett and Roma Downey for basic cable's History channel, managed to attract more viewers than anything on broadcast network NBC ... during the entire week.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/14/sacred-mystery-blockbuster-ratings-bible-confound-/#ixzz2Nf9ZKD9q (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/14/sacred-mystery-blockbuster-ratings-bible-confound-/#ixzz2Nf9ZKD9q)
I've been watching it every Sunday night. It's excellent!!!!!
I can't believe the networks were stupid enough not to have picked it up. It's anything but boring.
Looking forward to Sunday night. Part 3; Jesus comes onto the scene.
Quote from: kramarat on March 16, 2013, 02:44:02 AM
I've been watching it every Sunday night. It's excellent!!!!!
I can't believe the networks were stupid enough not to have picked it up. It's anything but boring.
Looking forward to Sunday night. Part 3; Jesus comes onto the scene.
I'll have to wait for it to run again this summer, I missed the beginning. I kinda quit watching the history channel when they started doing those weird shows, give me back History.
Quote from: Solar on March 16, 2013, 06:35:39 AM
I'll have to wait for it to run again this summer, I missed the beginning. I kinda quit watching the history channel when they started doing those weird shows, give me back History.
I told HG it was going to be on and he asked me if it was going to be followed by Ancient Aliens? :blink:
So, yeah. We missed it, but I have a ton of friends on fb who did watch it and most reviews were quite good. With ratings like they are getting, they would be fools to not replay it (or sell DVDs).
Quote from: Solar on March 16, 2013, 06:35:39 AM
I'll have to wait for it to run again this summer, I missed the beginning. I kinda quit watching the history channel when they started doing those weird shows, give me back History.
It looks like you can catch up now. They are reshowing the first two. I also think I saw it airing on Lifetime channel. It's really good.
http://www.history.com/shows/the-bible/episodes (http://www.history.com/shows/the-bible/episodes)
Quote from: kramarat on March 16, 2013, 06:47:34 AM
It looks like you can catch up now. They are reshowing the first two. I also think I saw it airing on Lifetime channel. It's really good.
http://www.history.com/shows/the-bible/episodes (http://www.history.com/shows/the-bible/episodes)
Looks like it will be on all day tomorrow, I will set the DVR.
Quote from: kramarat on March 16, 2013, 06:47:34 AM
It looks like you can catch up now. They are reshowing the first two. I also think I saw it airing on Lifetime channel. It's really good.
http://www.history.com/shows/the-bible/episodes (http://www.history.com/shows/the-bible/episodes)
Got it on dvr. Thanks Kramarat. Toy :smile:
Quote from: JustKari on March 16, 2013, 06:47:11 AM
I told HG it was going to be on and he asked me if it was going to be followed by Ancient Aliens? :blink:
So, yeah. We missed it, but I have a ton of friends on fb who did watch it and most reviews were quite good. With ratings like they are getting, they would be fools to not replay it (or sell DVDs).
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Exactly my point, they went off the deep end.
Quote from: Solar on March 16, 2013, 07:53:09 AM
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Exactly my point, they went off the deep end.
Now wait just a minute!!!! :mad:
I like Ancient Aliens....also, guys running a pawnshop, and guys picking through mountains of trash.
What can I say? I'm easily entertained. :rolleyes:
Quote from: kramarat on March 16, 2013, 08:36:41 AM
Now wait just a minute!!!! :mad:
I like Ancient Aliens....also, guys running a pawnshop, and guys picking through mountains of trash.
What can I say? I'm easily entertained. :rolleyes:
I'm not so easily distracte....ooooh....seee the bunny?
Quote from: kramarat on March 16, 2013, 08:36:41 AM
Now wait just a minute!!!! :mad:
I like Ancient Aliens....also, guys running a pawnshop, and guys picking through mountains of trash.
What can I say? I'm easily entertained. :rolleyes:
That guy with "the hair" is awesome, seriously. It is like he went to the trouble of putting it pompadour style, then got in a convertible, brand new "style" has been born...or maybe the aliens tried to been him up, and all that happened was his hair stood up. I'll try to find a picture.
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We watch that show when there is nothing else on, so we can laugh our butts off. It's good stuff.
Quote from: JustKari on March 16, 2013, 08:53:17 AM
That guy with "the hair" is awesome, seriously. It is like he went to the trouble of putting it pompadour style, then got in a convertible, brand new "style" has been born...or maybe the aliens tried to been him up, and all that happened was his hair stood up. I'll try to find a picture.
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We found the same picture, so I deleted mine. :wink:
That guy's funny. He gets soooo excited when he's talking about the aliens.
I've always loved watching well done science fiction shows, and this one has been pretty good so far. Who knew 3,000 year old fiction could still be so interesting today? History Channel really hit it out of the ballpark with this sci fi show.
You need to get "science fiction" in that post a few more times. It went over everybody's head (sarcasm, because it went over yours)
Mark Burnett says 'weird things happened' on 'The Bible' set
http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/03/06/mark-burnett-bible-set/ (http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/03/06/mark-burnett-bible-set/)
Frankly, I'm disappointed. This is hardly "the story of the Bible." It's "Bible stories." Glorified Sunday School.
Quote from: MFA on March 21, 2013, 03:53:32 AM
Frankly, I'm disappointed. This is hardly "the story of the Bible." It's "Bible stories." Glorified Sunday School.
You've got a point, although I think the production is quite well done. I don't like the way they skip over entire decades, or even 100s of years. They should have made it into series, rather than a miniseries. On the other hand, they had a limited budget, and no one wanted to touch it.
Consider
this though...Given the huge viewership, we will likely see more of this type of programming. Also, I think it is exposing a lot of people to the Bible, that otherwise wouldn't have bothered with it.
My biggest worry, and one that is already happening, is that the left is rewriting Jesus into a socialist. If they can make money by changing the lessons in the Bible to suit their purposes, they will do it. US history is being rewritten as we speak.
Quote from: kramarat on March 21, 2013, 04:37:17 AM
You've got a point, although I think the production is quite well done. I don't like the way they skip over entire decades, or even 100s of years. They should have made it into series, rather than a miniseries. On the other hand, they had a limited budget, and no one wanted to touch it.
Consider this though...Given the huge viewership, we will likely see more of this type of programming. Also, I think it is exposing a lot of people to the Bible, that otherwise wouldn't have bothered with it.
My biggest worry, and one that is already happening, is that the left is rewriting Jesus into a socialist. If they can make money by changing the lessons in the Bible to suit their purposes, they will do it. US history is being rewritten as we speak.
So far, I have only watched portions of it. Roma has said that the purpose of this series was to spread the Word, well this makes me worried because some of the stories have been altered, or combined in the interest of perhaps interest, or saving time.
The fact is, Christians are held to a standard of perfection. How often do we hear from non-Christians when we do something wrong "but you're a
Christian" as if you never make a mistake. If a non-believer looks up the story of the temptation of Christ, like it was depicted on TV, they won't find it, it was similar, but not the same. I like original better. From the outside, it will look like we have to jazz up the stories, when I really don't think we do.
Quote from: JustKari on March 21, 2013, 07:04:37 AM
So far, I have only watched portions of it. Roma has said that the purpose of this series was to spread the Word, well this makes me worried because some of the stories have been altered, or combined in the interest of perhaps interest, or saving time.
The fact is, Christians are held to a standard of perfection. How often do we hear from non-Christians when we do something wrong "but you're a Christian" as if you never make a mistake. If a non-believer looks up the story of the temptation of Christ, like it was depicted on TV, they won't find it, it was similar, but not the same. I like original better. From the outside, it will look like we have to jazz up the stories, when I really don't think we do.
The books are always better than the movies. I guess the Bible is no different. :wink:
All in all, I think it's a good thing. The stories on the TV show are pretty brief, but they give people some kind of context through which to do some further digging on their own...including me. I've tried to read the Bible, without much luck. I think I've been doing it wrong; trying to read it like a novel, from beginning to end. I've actually been using the names and places from the show to look further and get a better understanding.
I don't do very well in church either; my attention span is way too short. :rolleyes:
Quote from: kramarat on March 21, 2013, 07:46:22 AM
The books are always better than the movies. I guess the Bible is no different. :wink:
All in all, I think it's a good thing. The stories on the TV show are pretty brief, but they give people some kind of context through which to do some further digging on their own...including me. I've tried to read the Bible, without much luck. I think I've been doing it wrong; trying to read it like a novel, from beginning to end. I've actually been using the names and places from the show to look further and get a better understanding.
I don't do very well in church either; my attention span is way too short. :rolleyes:
I struggled with that for a long time, I finally took out a study Bible that I had from years ago and I am taking it in manageable chunks, daily, with a small relevant study at the end of each days reading. This helps me because I am not a Bible scholar. I just finished the OT, the first time I have ever read it from beginning to end. I think the NT will go much quicker, just by virtue of the fact that I am more familiar with it. :)