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Pendulum shift: FX and Showtime chiefs signal a shift away from dark fare
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. It’s always darkest before the dawn. Some good and hopeful news for the forces of light came out the Television Critics Association meetings with network execs. From The Hollywood Reporter: “I can’t imagine a protagonist darker than Walter White [of Breaking Bad]. I think…
Matters of life and death — caught on camera by Oxygen and Showtime networks
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Too much sharing? I was recently sent a screener for two episodes the Oxygen reality series I’m Having Their Baby which airs weekly at 10 PM ET. The basic premise of the show, which is in its second season, is that cameras follow as…
God and Hollywood: Notes from the Variety Family Entertainment & Faith-Based Media Summit
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. A Common Purpose. For the second consecutive year, Variety (in coordination with the P.R. firm Rogers & Cowan) held a day-long gathering of distributors, producers, writers, directors, actors and others who are the faces behind the current boom in uplifting entertainment — which, BTW,…
If I programmed the broadcast networks (part four): CBS
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Eyeing CBS. Nearing the end now of my annual indulgence about how to revive the sinking broadcast networks with programming promoting the universal values like faith in God, kindness, forgiveness, gratitude, tolerance, wisdom, personal responsibility and the all-important ability to laugh at one’s own…
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