Ship of Fools: Watch the Bible on Channel 5

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Posted by Truman White (# 17290) on :

Looks like GB's own Channel 5 is going to show a US TV version of 'The Bible.'

Any of our US pals seen http://www.christiantoday.com/article/channel.5.to.broadcast.the.bible/32094.htm

Posted by AngloCatholicGirl (# 16435) on :

I caught an episode while I was in the States - avoid like the plague. It was laughably bad and apparently the other episodes were no better. honestly, I expected a little better from the History Channel, I think they had about $10 left over in the production budget and decided to spend it on this series.

United Methodists have some good memes on their Facebook page about how bad the series was as well.

Posted by ChaliceGirl (# 13656) on :

AC Girl- I totally agree with you!! It was a lame, drawn out miniseries, and I was expecting a documentary-type thing. Especially after watching the excellent History channel series "The Men Who Built America", I was really expecting better!

Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Truman White:
Looks like GB's own Channel 5 is going to show a US TV version of 'The Bible.'

Any of our US pals seen
it?

I fixed the link for you.

[ 11. April 2013, 04:54: Message edited by: PeteC ]

Posted by Mudfrog (# 8116) on :

Why was it so popular and successful?

Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Mudfrog:
Why was it so popular and successful?

I honestly have no idea. But, to be fair, there are a LOT of TV series that are popular for reasons that I cannot understand. My local TV critic gave it a very poor review and I don't think he was alone in his field. I personally could only stand about 20 minutes of it before I decided that he was absolutely right.

Posted by AngloCatholicGirl (# 16435) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Hedgehog:

quote:
Originally posted by Mudfrog:
Why was it so popular and successful?
I honestly have no idea. But, to be fair, there are a LOT of TV series that are popular for reasons that I cannot understand. My local TV critic gave it a very poor review and I don't think he was alone in his field. I personally could only stand about 20 minutes of it before I decided that he was absolutely right.

I think the site linked to might be slightly over-egging the pudding. 13 million sounds like a lot, but put against a population 300 million plus , not so much.

I got bored and looked at the current TV ratings and if Duck Dynasty (look it up, I love that show!) can rake in 7 million viewers, then 13 million isn't so unobotainable and, as has been said, ratings are no garuantee of quality.

Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Mudfrog:
Why was it so popular and successful?

The title?

Seriously, as discussed in various places on the Ship before, there are Christian folk who will support anything on the right 'theme' regardless of its other merits, or lack of them.

Posted by Bob Two-Owls (# 9680) on :

A friend in the US advised me to watch this series as it is almost unwatchable. Yet the Time Life series that came out a few years ago doesn't appear to have ever been shown on TV despite a good cast and being reasonably watchable. The one with Ben Kingsley and Martin Landau etc. I have seen a few on DVD but they seem to be hard to get hold of.

Posted by malik3000 (# 11437) on :

quote:
Originally posted by AngloCatholicGirl:
honestly, I expected a little better from the History Channel,

Hah, not me! When i got cable a few years ago, as a history buff i was happy that the History Channel was part of the package. It has turned out to be a disappointment. They are heavy on Nostradamus and speculations that aliens visited the earth in ancient times. Many of their shows don't really even have much to do at all with history AFAICS, but are simply of the overworked "reality" genre, such as Ice Road Truckers and Ax Men.

Posted by Og, King of Bashan (# 9562) on :

quote:
Originally posted by AngloCatholicGirl:
I expected a little better from the History Channel

Seriously, I hate this emoticon, as it is frequently used in Purgatory in place of a logical refutation of an argument, but,

[Killing me]

The History Channel has been a joke for at least the last five years. I have been urging my former college roommate, a history buff and TV critic, to start a blog called "This is why the History Channel Sucks" for a long time now. Somewhere between the constant ancient alien theory shows and MonsterQuest, it jumped the shark. Assuming that the three or so years of "All Hitler All the Time" programming hadn't already done it.

The one thing I have enjoyed about this series (which I have not watched at all) has been the controversy caused by the fact that the actor they chose to play the Devil turned out to kind of look like Obama. (N.B., I do not believe that Obama is the Devil, Anti-Chirst, or anything other than a well meaning member of the UCC.) I totally believe the producers who say that it was an accident, but you can't make gaffs like that up.

Posted by Trudy Scrumptious (# 5647) on :

I'm disappointed to hear the series is so terrible; we'd considered getting it on DVD but it doesn't sound worth the money at all.

I'm very disappointed in the History Channel but to be fair to them I think they did start out doing actual history. Pressures of the market led them to add more and more ridiculous reality shows and alien stuff, because that's what people want to watch. I think the National Geographic channel has gone a bit the same way as have several other cable channels that started out with lofty ideals (from what I hear and see online; I don't get cable TV myself). It seems like only publicly funded TV can maintain any kind of integrity; everything commercial ends up sinking to the lowest common denominator.

Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Bob Two-Owls:
A friend in the US advised me to watch this series as it is almost unwatchable.

If that is what your friends are doing to you, what the heck do your enemies do???

Posted by ChaliceGirl (# 13656) on :

quote:
Originally posted by malik3000:

quote:
Originally posted by AngloCatholicGirl:
honestly, I expected a little better from the History Channel,
Hah, not me! When i got cable a few years ago, as a history buff i was happy that the History Channel was part of the package. It has turned out to be a disappointment. They are heavy on Nostradamus and speculations that aliens visited the earth in ancient times. Many of their shows don't really even have much to do at all with history AFAICS, but are simply of the overworked "reality" genre, such as Ice Road Truckers and Ax Men.

Totally agree. History Channel has gone downhill. It seems like now that the Military Channel is picking up where History left off- with all the Hitler programming and such.

Posted by malik3000 (# 11437) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Og, King of Bashan:
The one thing I have enjoyed about this series (which I have not watched at all) has been the controversy caused by the fact that the actor they chose to play the Devil turned out to kind of look like Obama. (N.B., I do not believe that Obama is the Devil, Anti-Chirst, or anything other than a well meaning member of the UCC.) I totally believe the producers who say that it was an accident, but you can't make gaffs like that up.

<tangent>Back in the 1990s there was a cable TV production of Stephen King's The Stand and I thought the main evil character both looked and sounded a lot like Bill Clinton. </tangent>

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