Greenville, SC, WYFF-TV (NBC) drops "The Book of Daniel."

[DemoTex]

They caved to over a thousand calls. This is BoJo Country (Bob Jones University) after all.

[LiberalinNC]

1. I watched the show last night and have to say I liked it!

A gay son, a gay sister-in-law, a couple who couldn't have sex unless the wife was stoned, sounds like real life to me. :)

[Ilsa]

2. There is too much realism in the show for some people!

Preachers' kids gay or with heavy-duty libidos, drinking spouse looking for more in her life, financial scandal at the church. The only thing that would have made it more realistic is if Daniel frequented prostitutes or kept a stash of porn in his office.

I watched all of the first hour and most of the second. I loved it. I thought it was clever and well-acted.

[gratuitous]

7. Perhaps it will get better

I thought the first two shows had a LOT of different things going on. Too many different things, really. I disliked the really savage repartee between the kids; gay or not, the one son should have taken his adopted Asian brother out and pounded a little sense into him, actively aided and abetted by sis. And how old are these kids, anyway? The only one I thought was really age appropriate was the daughter, but I surely didn't believe that she turned to selling drugs to finance her anime. And the total disrespect both brothers had for her room and her space wasn't very credible. Also lacking credibility was the parents' reaction to daughter's arrest: "Just leave me alone! I don't want to talk about it!" "Okay, Pumpkin. Wanna stop for ice cream?" I call bullshit.

I thought they overloaded the episodes with plot points, and the storyline suffered for it. Example: The missing $3 million caused less of a ripple than Asian son's messing around with whatshername. They could cut about half the plots, develop the characters and their interrelationships a little more, and get a much better show.

[bluestateguy]

3. That just shows how we are different from "the other"

When they don't like a movie they try to prevent anyone from seeing it with thier astroturf campaigns. Examples would include Book of Daniel, F. 9/11 and the Reagans miniseries. When we don't like a movie (in my case it would be Passion of the Christ), we choose not to see it, and leave it at that.

[Left Is Write]

8. That's it exactly.

I only decide what I'm going to watch or not watch - I don't try to decide for everyone else.

[Initech]

4. Do these people not have a sense of humor or what?

[annabanana]

5. one of the defining characteristics..

(jokes are darksided gargoyles..)

[DemoTex]

10. Whoa! Are you kidding me?

Humor is banned from within 100 feet of the Bob Jones "University" campus. Seriously, we have a dangerous "Christian" cult simmering in the upstate of South Carolina. That's why I am up in NC at the mountain house tonight. I just had to get away from the crazies.

[kevinbgoode]

11. I used to live in Greenville. . .

and while I know it has its stupid fundie element, the city has tried to paint itself as a growing part of the "New South". . .frankly, I'm surprised - that is a pretty large market area and even a thousand calls shouldn't have been an obstruction. Since when does the American "Family" Association speak for all of christianity? Since when is an organization which creates more fiction than fact represent any golden rule of decency?

I hope the cable network there carries a second NBC affiliate. People in that area should write the Greenville station and remind them that their programming license is to use the public airwaves for the entire public - not just the Religious Right. And then inform them politely that you now expect them to label each program with a seal of approval from the American "Family" Association, since it is obvious they are now linked to them. Then someone should launch a nice little petition drive against their Sunday morning "religious" programming, claiming that it is so politically biased to certain denominations that you consider it an attack on christianity and decency itself. Greenville has a fairly lively arts community - a thousand calls shouldn't be that hard to gather. . .

[DemoTex]

12. You hit the nail on the head, Kevinbgoode.

The BoJo tail is wagging the dog here. Greenville is an amazing community. Dr. D grew up here and we married here (at the Fourth Pres). We did a 30+ year tour of the big cities (Atlanta, Houston, Washington, and Dallas .. in that order). Greenville beats them all, hands down. I miss the great symphonies (especially Dallas's!), but that's why God invented frequent flyer miles. Dr. D has millions of miles!

I frequently write LTTEs to the Greenville News, mostly anti-Bu$h and anti-war. My fundy brother-in-law/preacher man's (PCA) wife even requested extra copies of a LTTE I had published in the Greenville News. It was an anti-war screed brought on by the 2000th Iraqi war death. She said that her church women were absolutely ready for the contents of my LTTE.

[johnfunk]

14. Does Greenville want to be part of the "New South"...

... or does it want to be part of the USA?

[AlCzervik]

6. i heard 2 different rw asshats on TV yesterday talking about this and they

both read off the same talking points, i was astonished when i heard this line from both of them===

"they show Jesus as tolerant!"

WTF?? I always thought Jesus was tolerant, like thats a bad thing?

[bloom]

9. That's pretty nuts

I could see how Catholics wouldn't be all that happy about the priest and his shenanigans.

And there didn't seem to be a likable woman anywhere - whereas the minister and Jesus both seemed like quite positive characters.

I think I read where it was mostly the creation of an ex (as in anti)-Catholic gay man. :shrug:

And fundies just shouldn't bother watching it at all.

[annabanana]

13. (psst... he's Episcopalian...)n/t

[bloom]

16. Psss...t -> Priests are Catholic

The minister is Episcopalian. The priest that the minister went to - to do his dirty work is Catholic.

[Erika]

15. Their email address is at:

www.wyff4.com Bob Jones now runs the town?