{"id":39981,"date":"2024-09-12T09:06:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T13:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=39981"},"modified":"2024-09-12T09:06:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T13:06:20","slug":"actor-ted-mcginley-calls-on-christians-to-make-hollywood-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2024\/09\/actor-ted-mcginley-calls-on-christians-to-make-hollywood-care.html","title":{"rendered":"Actor Ted McGinley Calls on Christians to Make Hollywood Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39978\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2024\/09\/Ted-Mcguinley_credit-Kathy-Hutchins-Shutterstock.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39978\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2024\/09\/Ted-Mcguinley_credit-Kathy-Hutchins-Shutterstock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathy Hutchins \/ Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Actor Ted McGinley, best known for roles in \u201cHappy Days\u201d and \u201cMarried\u2026 With Children\u201d is becoming a familiar face in Christian films and TV, with his recent role in \u201cThe Baxters,\u201d based on Karen Kingsbury\u2019s bestselling series, and his role in Great American\u2019 Pure Flix\u2019s \u201cEngagement Plan.\u201d They are a different pace from some of the racier roles McGinley has taken on, but as a father himself, he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/ted-mcginley-says-christians-must-support-uplifting-films.html\"><em>The Christian Post<\/em><\/a> he sees value in family-friendly and faith-based entertainment. \u201cThe great thing about these [platforms like Great American Pure Flix] is that you, as a parent, can say to the babysitter, \u2018Anything on this channel is going to be OK while I\u2019m gone,\u2019\u201d he said. He added, however, that there\u2019s still work to be done to get Hollywood to notice and produce more content. \u201cThat&#8217;s hard to come across. Hollywood does not care. The only reason they care is because they could make money doing it, which is fine for me \u2014 if they&#8217;ve discovered that there happens to be a massive Christian audience waiting for content, great. And if they can figure out, \u2018Hey, we can make money doing it,\u2019 that&#8217;s even better, because then it&#8217;ll get better and better, and they&#8217;ll hire better people and better writers and better producers and directors. It\u2019s good for the audience\u2026 there is a huge Christian audience out there waiting for product.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a time when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/11\/did-the-end-of-g-rated-movies-mark-the-end-of-family-friendly-films.html\">G-rated movies have essentially disappeared from theaters<\/a> and Disney executives have been caught asserting their \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/30\/disney-producer-cops-to-adding-queerness-to-animated-shows\/\">not-at-all-secret gay agenda<\/a>\u201d for kids\u2019 programming, family-friendly entertainment can be hard to come by. However, 2024\u2019s biggest blockbuster of the year so far has been the family-friendly film \u201cInside Out 2,\u201d which has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/conormurray\/2024\/09\/02\/summers-box-office-blockbusters-and-flops-starring-inside-out-2-and-furiosa\/\">made over $1.5 billion<\/a> at the worldwide box office, indicating a market for such content. The R-rated \u201cDeadpool &amp; Wolverine, however, follows closely behind with over $1 billion made at the box office. McGinley said that Christians need to come out for Christian films if they want to encourage Hollywood to invest more in the type of content they want to see. \u201cIf the faith-based and Christian audiences want to have a product, they have to make sure they support the good ones when they come out. Otherwise, [Hollywood] will stop doing it, or it\u2019ll just be a much smaller movie.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Ted McGinley, best known for roles in \u201cHappy Days\u201d and \u201cMarried\u2026 With Children\u201d is becoming a familiar face in Christian films and TV, with his recent role in \u201cThe Baxters,\u201d based on Karen Kingsbury\u2019s bestselling series, and his role in Great American\u2019 Pure Flix\u2019s \u201cEngagement Plan.\u201d They are a different pace from some of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":627,"featured_media":39978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","category-christian-celebrity"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast 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