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Walden Family Theater’s “The Watsons Go to Birmingam” is a ride worth taking
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The Watsons Go to Birmingham airs tomorrow night (9/20) @ 8:00 PM ET on Hallmark Channel’s Walden Family Theater. Synopsis: Based on the much-read novel by Christopher Paul Curtis. In the Summer of 1963, Flint, Michigan is home to the Watsons, a close knit…
What’s in a name? Top execs reveal why GMC TV (the former Gospel Music Channel) is now UP
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Movin’ on UP. This past weekend (June 1) GMC TV officially began operating under its new moniker. The new name is simply UP, as in Uplifting Programming. Founded in 2004 as The Gospel Music Channel by Charley Humbard, the entrepreneurial son of the groundbreaking…
As “Touched by an Angel” lands at GMC, Founder and CEO Charley Humbard talks about the ratings success of his little network that could
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The halo effect. GMC TV, riding a ratings wave thanks, in part, to the success of recent feel-good TV movies like The Heart of Christmas, Raising Izzie and Somebody’s Child continues to expand its programming slate with a deft mix of original movies and…
Worthwhile TV and DVD viewing – from the gritty documentary “Serving Life” to “Charlie Brown”
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John W. Kennedy
Here are today’s post-Thanksgiving dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture — including current and upcoming DVD releases. 1. Serving Life documentary serves up heart-rending yet inspirational chronicle of a prison hospice. Narrated by Forest Whitaker and originally airing on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN cable channel, this Odyssey Networks production is as compassionate as…
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