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Article: Network TV has little `Passion' for Gibson film.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- April 21, 2004
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Despite being the year's biggest box-office blockbuster so far, "The Passion of the Christ" seems unlikely to find a home on the four biggest broadcast networks. Mel Gibson's Icon Productions has been shopping the movie to TV. Only ABC has confirmed turning it down, but executives speaking on condition of anonymity said it was doubtful for CBS, NBC and Fox, too. The movie's graphic scenes of Jesus Christ's crucifixion were said to make broadcasters skittish.
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