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Article: TV Warms to Topics of Spirituality
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 24, 1994
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This holiday season, there seems little doubt that entertainment
television is more favorably disposed toward religion. This trend,
noted last March in a Media Research Center study of 1993 prime-time
programming, has continued this season on both new and returning
series.
On Thanksgiving night, last spring's faith-friendly hit, CBS'
"Christy," made its 1994-95 debut with a two-hour movie. In an
interview with the magazine "TV, etc.," executive producer Ken Wales
was forthright about his show's religious grounding. "Christy,"
Wales remarked, is Christian in an "ecumenical" sense; it "celebrates
the commonality that's in Christ for those who believe."
It's hard to imagine any producer ...