{"id":1403,"date":"2011-10-11T11:40:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T15:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2011-10-14T05:46:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T09:46:42","slug":"does-tv-have-a-conscience-the-b-is-back-democrats-republicans-and-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2011\/10\/does-tv-have-a-conscience-the-b-is-back-democrats-republicans-and-the-movies.html","title":{"rendered":"Does TV have a conscience? + The &#8220;B&#8221; is back + Democrats, Republicans and the movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media &amp; culture.<\/p>\n<p>1.<strong> Does TV have a conscience?<\/strong> That question was posed by Laura Zalaznick, head of NBC Universal Entertainment &amp; Digital Networks in a speech before TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), a non-profit group dedicated to what it calls &#8220;Ideas Worth Spreading.&#8221;\u00a0 View the video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/lauren_zalaznick.html\">here<\/a>. She makes some interesting points about how, particularly over the past decade, TV has moved toward promoting a sort of coarse judgment of other people &#8212; particularly with the rise of nasty-toned reality shows.<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>The &#8220;B&#8221; word is back.<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/insidetv.ew.com\/2011\/10\/11\/apartment-23-bitch-title\/\">From Entertainment Weekly<\/a>: <em>After ABC changed a new show\u2019s mildly profane title during development, upcoming comedy Apartment 23 has now more-or-less reverted to its original head-turning name. The official new title of the show is Don\u2019t Trust The B\u2014- in Apartment 23, dashing out the letters of the curse in an attempt to soften its impact (not unlike how CBS dealt with the short-lived Shit My Dad Says last season, substituting the non-word \u201c$#*!\u201d). The Disney-owned network has two upcoming shows that previously <a href=\"http:\/\/insidetv.ew.com\/2011\/01\/10\/abc-comedy-pilot-23\/\" target=\"_blank\">used the word \u201cbitch\u201d in their title<\/a>: Don\u2019t Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23 and drama Good Christian Bitches. The former was shortened to Apartment 23 right before the network\u2019s broadcast upfront presentation in May. The latter was change to Good Christian Belles, and was then changed again to GCB. (Good Christian Bitches, in particular, was singled out by some culture critics who were ready to pounce on the show should it hit the air with its original title)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>Democrats, Republicans and the movies. <\/strong>A study conducted for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/politics-box-office-democrats-republicans-244741\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a> says:<br \/>\nDemocrats are bigger moviegoers then Republicans.<br \/>\nRepublicans are more likely to wait for home video.<br \/>\nRepublicans prefer family films; Democrats like edge.<br \/>\nRepublicans\u00a0 are more likely to tsk-tsk sex, violence and cursing.<br \/>\nDemocrats think America is portrayed well in the movies. Republicans disagree.<br \/>\nDemocrats and Repubicans both list comedy as their favorite genre.<br \/>\nBoth like popcorn, <em>Forrest Gump<\/em> and <em>Indiana Jones<\/em>. (Hey, it&#8217;s a start.)<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 <strong><strong><strong><strong>Update: <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>Yesterday I wrote that the excellent Emilio Estevez film <em>The Way <\/em>(starring his father Martin Sheen) had the third highest per-screen average of all movie movies over the past weekend. Debuting in only 33 theaters, it raked in about $3,346 per screen, according to Box Office Mojo, beating out many movies with a much higher profile. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/boxofficemojo.com\/weekend\/chart\/\">a closer look at apparently final figures<\/a> show that there were a handful of additional films that edged it out in term of per-screen averages, most notably\u00a0 Sherwood Pictures&#8217; <em>Courageous <\/em>which averaged $4,193 on 1,161 screen.\u00a0 I apologize for the confusion. Still, <em>The Way<\/em>&#8216;s performance was impressive and I hope you see it. <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Encourage one another and build each other up \u2013 <\/em>1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media &amp; culture. 1. Does TV have a conscience? That question was posed by Laura Zalaznick, head of NBC Universal Entertainment &amp; Digital Networks in a speech before TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), a non-profit group dedicated to what it calls &#8220;Ideas Worth Spreading.&#8221;\u00a0 View the video here.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,24,31],"tags":[35,1630,1631,1636,1629,1476,1634,1632,295,378,1635,1627,1633,1637,1628],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-church","category-christianity","category-movies","category-television","tag-1-thessalonians-511","tag-design","tag-dont-trust-the-b-in-apartment-23","tag-emilio-estevez-film-the-way-starring-his-father-martin-sheen","tag-entertainment","tag-entertainment-weekly","tag-forrest-gump","tag-good-christian-belles","tag-good-christian-bitches","tag-hollywood-reporter","tag-indiana-jones","tag-laura-zalaznick","tag-republicans-and-the-movies","tag-sherwood-pictures-courageous","tag-ted-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Does TV have a conscience? + The &quot;B&quot; is back + Democrats, Republicans and the movies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2011\/10\/does-tv-have-a-conscience-the-b-is-back-democrats-republicans-and-the-movies.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Does TV have a conscience? + The &quot;B&quot; is back + Democrats, Republicans and the movies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media &amp; culture. 1. 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