{"id":695,"date":"2011-05-24T08:53:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T12:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=695"},"modified":"2011-05-24T15:44:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T19:44:23","slug":"fmc-top-10-from-the-end-of-world-rescheduled-btw-to-the-end-of-tv-edginess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2011\/05\/fmc-top-10-from-the-end-of-world-rescheduled-btw-to-the-end-of-tv-edginess.html","title":{"rendered":"FM&amp;C Top 10: From the end of world (rescheduled, btw) to the end of TV edginess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are today&#8217;s Top 10 dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.<\/p>\n<p>1.<strong> (Almost) Final thoughts on Harold Camping.<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2011\/05\/22\/promises-promises\/\">From Anthony Sacramone @ First Thoughts<\/a> (posted on Sunday): W<em>ith   the possible exception of Harold Camping himself, nobody wanted the    world to end yesterday more than me. I\u2019m thoroughly sick of the joint.    War, rumors of war, politicians, lies (but I repeat myself), cancer    clusters, unemployment, certified public accountants, season 7 of House.    The whole thing could have exploded in a gargantuan ball of green    flame, and I would have been there in the cheap seats with my popcorn    (small, no butter) waving goodbye&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>This Just in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Harold Camping on Rapture: It was an invisible judgement day\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eOJwgB6-4tY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/celebs.gather.com\/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979360320\">As Gather notes<\/a>:<\/strong> <em>Apparently  Harold Camping hasn&#8217;t read his own book, which  explicitly warns  against attempting to calculate the date of Jesus  Christ&#8217;s return.<br \/>\nBut the nearly 90-year-old was not given the memo on that one. After   all, locating a passage in the first book of the New Testament is   daunting. Note to Harold Camping: You can find the passage in Matthew   24:36, or repeated in Mark 13:32 for your convenience.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/esv.scripturetext.com\/matthew\/24.htm\">From the English Standard Version Bible<\/a>, here&#8217;s the cited Matthew passage\u00a0 quoting Jesus on the subject of the end of time:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNo one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s good enough for me.  Not to pile on Camping but trying to predict when the world will end is  not a good use of the precious time we&#8217;ve been blessed with to develop a  personal relationship with God, learn how to love others and to,  hopefully, do some good in this world.<\/p>\n<p>2.<strong> History Channel and Mark Burnett team for Bible miniseries. <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/bible-become-history-channel-mark-191339\">From Hollywood Reporter<\/a>:\u00a0 <em>The cable network is readying a 10-hour religious docu-drama for 2013 that will include live-action and state-of-the-art CGI. History has big plans to make must-see-TV out of the Bible&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;The project, which comes from reality producer <strong>Mark Burnett,<\/strong> will air as a five-part, 10-hour scripted docu-drama with live-action  and state-of-the-art CGI. Given both its scale and production value, The Bible won&#8217;t appear on History&#8217;s schedule until 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile&#8230;<\/strong>The producers of <em>The Kennedys, <\/em>the recent controversial miniseries about\u00a0 the Catholic political dynasty that was\u00a0 infamously-booted by History Channel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/kennedys-producer-create-drama-reelzchannel-191066\">have struck a deal to create original series\u00a0 programming for ReelzChannel<\/a><em>. <\/em>Reelz is<em> <\/em>the previously little-known cable network that ended up airing <em>The Kennedys<\/em>.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0<strong><em><\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>Book of Mormon<\/em> spoof wins Drama Desk Best Musical prize. <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/book-mormon-anything-goes-top-191345\">From Hollywood Reporter<\/a>:<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/review\/book-mormon-theater-review-171210\" target=\"_blank\"> The Book of Mormon <\/a>and Anything Goes topped the 55th annual Drama Desk Awards on Monday with five wins apiece.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Mormon &#8212; which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/book-mormon-tops-tony-nominations-184461\" target=\"_blank\">leads the Tony nominations<\/a> with 14 and also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/book-mormon-tops-drama-desk-183780\" target=\"_blank\">led the Drama Desk noms<\/a> with 12 &#8212; was named best musical, while Anything Goes &#8212; which has nine Tony noms &#8212; won for best revival of a musical.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>4. <strong>Fox News lives up to its worst stereotype. <\/strong>I&#8217;m usually a defender of those who accuse Fox News of being racist because, usually, the charges strike me as unfair attacks on legitimate conservative concerns (i.e. border security). But this positive spin on a restaurant that pointedly refuses to serve non-English speaking people was hideous.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"&#039;English Only&#039; Sign Triples Diner&#039;s Business\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OPB-7XesVrg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I still oppose censorship and applaud Orbitz for standing up to the far-left opponents of free speech over at Media Matters. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/orbitz-backs-fox-news-channel-190372\">From Hollywood Reporter<\/a>: <em>Media Matters is gearing up to target a half-dozen of the Fox News  Channel&#8217;s advertisers &#8212; Netflix possibly being one of them &#8212; though  Orbitz Worldwide on Thursday stuck up for the nation&#8217;s top cable news  outlet.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Orbitz, which is the first target of a campaign launched at <a href=\"http:\/\/dropfox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DropFox.com<\/a> &#8212; a new website from the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters &#8212;  on Thursday also accused Media Matters of a &#8220;smear campaign.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>DropFox&#8217;s goal is to pressure advertisers into either pulling their ads  from Fox News or forcing Fox to alter its usually conservative  messages. DropFox focused on Orbitz first because among its assets is a  travel website dedicated to gays and lesbians, a community Fox News is  antagonistic toward, according to DropFox.<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>IMHO:<\/strong> Refusing to serve customers who don&#8217;t speak English and trying to censor free speech, two un-American ideas, one brought to you by the right and one by the left. Both extremes are unfair and unbalanced.<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>5. <strong>Church corruption = big ratings for Showtime.<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/showtimes-borgias-outperforms-tudors-ratings-191133\">From Hollywood Reporter<\/a>: <em>Sunday\u2019s season finale drew 810,000 total viewers at 10 p.m. With encores, Borgias snagged 1.12 million viewers for the night. (The <strong>Jeremy Irons<\/strong> drama premiered with 1.06 million tuning in to its two-hour debut in early April.)<br \/>\nIncluding On Demand, DVR and encores, Borgias topped the highest-rated season of The Tudors (Season 2, 2.7 million) by 20 percent, averaging 3.3 million weekly viewers.<\/em><strong><br \/>\nNote:<\/strong> For those of you who may not know, <em>The Borgias <\/em>stars Jeremy Irons as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pope_Alexander_VI\">Pope Alexander VI<\/a>, considered by many to be the poster pontiff for Renaissance-era corruption in the Catholic Church. <em><br \/>\n<\/em>The series has been renewed for a second season of ten episodes.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>6. <strong>Conservative talk stars losing their luster?<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/media\/article\/rush-limbaugh-ratings-crater-33-27652\">From The Wrap<\/a>:\u00a0 <em>Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s rants against Obama-care and the great birth  certificate controversy of 2011 have done nothing to lift the rightwing  bomb thrower in the ratings.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Limbaugh&#8217;s\u00a0ratings fell 33 percent from October, according to a new study from Arbitron. He&#8217;s not the only ultra-conservative talk show host with listener-ship  issues. Sean Hannity&#8217;s afternoon show slid 28 percent from last fall, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/rush-limbaugh-hannity-imus-radio-ratings-2011-5\">according to Crain&#8217;s Business. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>7. <strong>The debate over heaven.<\/strong> Famed physicist Stephen Hawking says there&#8217;s no heaven and is getting, well, heck, from Christian actor Kirk Cameron and Colton Burpo, a 12-year-old boy who says he&#8217;s actually been there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/kirk-cameron\/about-stephen\/10150200657801657\">From Cameron&#8217;s Facebook page<\/a>: <em>To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind  man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him a free pass on  some of his absurd ideas. Professor Hawking is heralded as &#8220;the genius  of Britain,&#8221; yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that  nothing created everything (Sir Isaac Newton called atheism &#8220;senseless  and odious&#8221;) and that life sprang from non-life. To speak on issues of  science and violate it&#8217;s essential laws is like playing checkers with a  someone who changes the rules when he&#8217;s losing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, ABC News is all over the story with a report on the long-distance debate between Hawking and young Burpo (whose pastor father wrote the book <a href=\"http:\/\/heavenisforreal.net\/\"><em>Heaven is for Real<\/em><\/a> which chronicles his son&#8217;s apparent journey into the afterlife) and a one-on-one interview with Hawking.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"IS HEAVEN FOR REAL? 12-YEAR-OLD COLTON BURPO VS. FAMED SCIENTIST STEPHEN HAWKING\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b8IdcsPnnDg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>8. <strong><em>The Mighty Macs<\/em> are coming.<\/strong> Cathy Rush \u2013 a woman ahead of her time \u2013 takes a seemingly unnoticeable position as the head basketball coach at tiny Immaculata, an all-girls Catholic college in suburban Philadelphia. Courage and determination help her overcome a myriad of obstacles and, in the end, Rush leads a ragtag group of girls to the first-ever national championship in women\u2019s college basketball. Starring Carla Gugino (<em>\u201cSpy Kids,\u201d \u201cRace to Witch Mountain,\u201d \u201cNight at the Museum\u201d<\/em>), David Boreanz (Fox TV\u2019s<em> \u201cBones,\u201d \u201cAngel\u201d<\/em>), Marley Shelton (<em>\u201cEleventh Hour,\u201d \u201cPleasantville\u201d<\/em>) and Academy Award<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>-winner Ellen Burstyn (Best Actress, \u201c<em>Alice Doesn\u2019t Live Here Anymore\u201d<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The inspirational, true story of the original Cinderella in women\u2019s basketball will open Oct. 21, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Mighty Macs Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y_VXhJCetwc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>9.<strong> Spike TV to debut reality series about flipping foreclosed homes. <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/entertainment\/51855389-81\/baird-clark-spike-homes.html.csp\">From The Salt Lake Tribune<\/a>: <em>Utah house flippers Mike Baird and Doug  Clark have seen it all. Foreclosures infested with rats and mold, homes  filled with drug paraphernalia and rotting meat.In the fall, America will see what they do  for a living in Spike TV\u2019s new series &#8220;Flipping Foreclosures,&#8221; from the  producers of &#8220;The Biggest Loser.&#8221; And Spike is coming to Utah  specifically because of Baird and Clark.&#8221;The heart of the series is our enterprising,  ambitious hosts,&#8221; said Tim Duffy, Spike\u2019s senior vice president of  original programming.Baird, 33, grew up in San Diego and moved to  Utah to attend Brigham Young University. Clark is a native Utahn who  grew up in Murray. They met at a foreclosure auction in 2004, and Clark  quit his career as a commercial pilot to join Baird as a foreclosure  flipper. Each of the six episodes ordered by Spike TV  will follow Baird, Clark and their team through the story of one home.  We\u2019ll see them buying the foreclosure, cleaning it, repairing structural  damage, rehabilitating and redecorating, and selling to a new owner.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>IMHO: <\/strong>This show should be spiked.<\/p>\n<p>10. <strong>Quote of the day:<\/strong> <em>&#8221; That whole bleak comedy thing is over. Mostly because there wasn&#8217;t much humor in it. Now it&#8217;s just unlikable people showing off.&#8221; &#8211; <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/bastard-machine\/time-a-change-direction-at-191173\">Tim Goodman @ The Bastard Machine<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>Note:<\/strong> He was talking about the need to overhaul Showtime&#8217;s tiresome lineup which, he notes, includes a drug-selling mom (<em>Weeds<\/em>), a serial killer (<em>Dexter<\/em>), a sex addict (<em>Californication<\/em>), a despotic king (<em>The Tudors<\/em>) a\u00a0 prostitute (<em>Secret Diary of a Call Girl<\/em>) and a drug addicted  nurse (<em>Nurse Jackie<\/em>). And let&#8217;s not forget the aforementioned corrupt pope.<br \/>\nShowtime has certainly pushed edginess over the edge but the entire television industry needs to wake up and understand that mainstream audiences are tired of cynicism and bleakness. It&#8217;s time for unabashed non-ironic idealism to return to television.<\/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 are today&#8217;s Top 10 dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. (Almost) Final thoughts on Harold Camping. From Anthony Sacramone @ First Thoughts (posted on Sunday): With the possible exception of Harold Camping himself, nobody wanted the world to end yesterday more than me. I\u2019m thoroughly sick of the joint. 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