From The Sacred Sandwich
The Sacred Sandwich is a parody website, somewhat like the Onion, only lampooning trends in the “Christian” culture. We recently talked about how Christians have a tendency to ghettoize themselves by creating their own subculture. I saw this posted at the Sacred Sandwich, and thought I’d share it with you. The sad thing is, it’s not very far fetched.
Rejected TV Show Ideas for Christians
Posted on 17 November 2008
Let’s face it. When walking through the grazing land of television programming to search for decent entertainment, you gotta tiptoe around a whole lot of cowpies. And if the TV shows themselves don’t assault you with provocative images and unbiblical messages, then the commercials will. I mean, do we really need Victoria to show us all her secrets? That’s why many Christians today have opted to turn exclusively to Christian networks or just turn off their TVs.
Recently, however, the major television networks have been trying to woo back the substantial Christian market with more faith-friendly content. Unfortunately, because of a complete lack of originality and a rampant misunderstanding of their target audience, not many of the networks’ ideas for Christian programming have made it to the small screen as of yet.
After a thorough investigation by your wayfaring correspondent, I have uncovered a short list of some of the TV pilots for the Christian market that were recently rejected by ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX. Here are the top 15 titles in no particular order that did not make it onto the networks’ Fall lineups this year:
The Amazing Grace
CSI: Willow Creek
Extreme Makeover: Church Edition
SpongeBob SquareJones
Found
Desperate Deacon’s Wives
How I Met Your Mother Superior
Home School Musical
America’s Funniest Nooma Videos
The O’Reilly Rector
Law & Order: Covenantal Intent
Potluck Nightmares with Gordon Ramsey
Arminian Idol
Warren & Osteen’s Laugh-In
Dancing with the Baptists
Let’s just hope that next year the television industry can gain the invaluable assistance of prominent Hollywood Christians to help them create a new frontier in Christian programming before TBN corners the whole flippin’ market.
Posted by: Gene Schlesinger
Oddly enough, our bible study had a discussion on this very topic today.
i like home school musical and dancing with the baptists. that last one would be pretty lame. I keep getting emails about how atheists are taking “touched by an angel” off the air, also. It’s a shame. Quality…Quality…. Quality stuff.