Thank God: The Veggies still have religion. Sorta.
Steve Safran September 24th, 2006
Happy Rosh Hashana! “VeggieTales,” the “Davey and Goliath” of this generation, will keep its religious references. NBC says it has not taken religion out of the show. But it also won’t comment on creator Phil Vischer’s claims that the network asked him to take out specific references to “God” and “The Bible.” NBC says it wants to keep the positive messages of the show without advocating one religion or another. I don’t know about your kids, but mine are highly prone to following the messianic preachings of a cucumber.
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1. Dave | September 24th, 2006 at 9:24 am
Couple questions:
1) If NBC wanted a positive show without religious “promotion”, then why did they pick up a Christian show? There’s plenty of positive message-shows out there, at least, for children. Adults are another story.
2) Why did the creator sign the deal in the first place if he’s unhappy with it? Didn’t the deal say something about editing out the faith references? If so… it’s his fault.
If not… then what a dumb move by NBC. Here you finally have a chance to get more-devout Christians (which is a huge audience with lots of disposable income, who often don’t like your programming in the first place) watching, and you edit out their entire reason to tune in.
In the meantime, I’m gonna talk to those CW folks about that 7th Heaven show and get them to remove all the Christian references. I’m sure the ratings will do just fine.
2. Steve | September 24th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
I know of a client who had a kid’s show that he managed to get aired on a prominent Christian network. They demanded (and got) the removal of references to “magic”.
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