The conservative watchdog group American Family Association is claiming that its protests are why NBC decided this week to cancel “The Book of Daniel,” the mess of a TV show about an Episcopal priest who has a dysfunctional family and face-to-face visits with Jesus. More likely, NBC dropped “Daniel” because it was a lousy show that got lousy ratings. That’s the way it should work. Rather than pre-emptively block the show, as AMA wanted, NBC aired it and let viewers decide with their remotes whether it was worth watching. It wasn’t.
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If Donald Wildmon gets credit for NBC cancelling the Book of Daniel, I want credit for Sasha Kaun’s game against K-State.
Let’s face it- the vast majority of television fare gets cancelled or never shown to begin with because it’s just not that great! Wildmon had nothing to do with getting “Daniel” cancelled, in fact he probsbly caused a few more people to watch it than it deserved. What a self-righteous hypocrite, to claim credit for what was going to happen all along! Maybe we should blame him for last season’s hurricanes.
Of course this group and the local pastor and church that has become blaspheme to God’s ear will take credit. They love to pick fights that the other side is going to lose anyway. The book of Daniel had some good things in it, but I only made time to watch the first airing. Of that much they can take credit for, I would not have watch the first airing if not for the protest. I had all but forgotten about it being on since, I had other thing to do.
Just last night we were voting with our remote. Channel 12 decided to join CSI:NY in progress when a basketball game ran long. The result? Turned the box off.
I tried watching Daniel last week, and was really disappointed in how bad the show was. I was also disappointed in knowing that as soon as it got canceled for being bad, the “holier than thou” types would claim credit.
Oh well…somehow, with all that strife, life goes on. More things to worry about than a stupid tv show…
I second that Ray.
I third that Ray. Watched the first episode out of curiousity; found it tedious. However, I definitely did NOT find it blasphemous.
Did anyone watch the so-called “decency” hearings last week? (I’m not even gonna comment on the irony of congress holding hearings on decency.) The prez of CBS noted that when they ran “touched by an angel” and dr. quinn, and other family fare, they got KILLED in the ratings. He said “people voted with their feet for racier programing”. He added that “people went in droves to other channels”.
Maybe that is why “Daniel” had such dismal ratings. It wasnt “racy enough” for the bulk of the viewers. Sounds like a case of “do as we viewers say, not as we do”.
Maybe no one wanted to see Jesus played as a good guy. I think people in KS like the “hellfire” god better. We dont really want to see people loved and forgiven do we? Naw, we’d rather see them roast in hell with as much pain as possible.
it got cancelled because it wasn’t very good.
Hee hee, I am still laughing at this. I guess Terry, Joe and Fred think if they run to the head of the parade, they organized it.
Love the mental image of that one, Grrl, thanks!
The fact that Jerry Springer has been the #1 show for so many years tells you what the average (majority) of Americans want to wacth on TV. Sad comment on our culture.
American culture has become n*gger/jewish “culture” in all it’s coarseness and filthiness. Jews and n*ggers reside in a moral sewer and that is why we have hip-hop, and filth like Brokeback Mounting and Jerry Springer on our big and small screens.
Viva La Raza Blanco!!!
Is that you, Ed?
I am a Christian — but I am also a firm believer in local affiliates and networks allowing their viewers to make intelligent viewing decisions of their own. I recorded “The book of Daniel,” mainly to see for myself what all the fuss was about.
I stopped watching and erased it from the DVR after the first 30 minutes. I wasn’t necessarily offended. I was just bored.
The show was intended to shock and move viewers out of their comfort zones. Instead, it was so dysfunctional in nature, that it was just plain weird! The dialogue was flat and uninteresting. And between Daniel’s gay son, his Asian sex maniac son, his daughter’s drug sales, and his own pill-popping, talking to Jesus in the car thing — it was just too strange to follow.
I doubt many viewers will even realize it’s gone.
It was cancelled because it was boring, boring, boring, and couldn’t find an audience. Maybe HBO ought to take it.
I absolutely loved the show. I watched all 3 episodes that aired, and then watched the other one online. It wasn’t an offensive show in the least. And for the pastors who say that they made fun of Jesus, when asked to point out examples of how they did so, admitted that they hadn’t even watched the show.
Wayreth, you must be the exception to the rule. I thought it was one of the dullest things I’d seen on TV in a very long time.
In regard to lawmakers wasting taxpayer money to put a bill into law that Wichita State, KU, and K State play each other in sports yearly, I would have to disagree. Keeping Kansas money in the state should be important. KU and K State pay off several universities per year to bring a team in to play. This total comes to hundreds of thousands of dollars leaving the state. Playing games in the state not only keeps money in the state, but also creates an a great environment of competition among our Board of Regents schools. College Basketball is big business, creating large amounts of revenue, and an attempt to keep this revenue in the state among the schools should be a priority.
Yo, Jason! You posted on the site. We were talking about how awful “The Book of Daniel” was.