Hollywood baffled by ratings for "The Bible"

Flesh Thorn · Post by **Flesh Thorn** » March 16th, 2013, 12:00 am

Opinion not news......

Sure, it’s easy to criticize Hollywood, but try to remember that the entertainment industry today is an intellectually demanding environment, fraught with cognitively challenging, even intractable, questions, like, to take one recent example: How can the cable mini-series “The Bible” be such a ratings hit when there is no audience for overtly religious entertainment programming?
According to the latest Nielsens, released Tuesday, Sunday night’s telecast of “The Bible,” produced by husband-and-wife team Mark Burnett and Roma Downey for basic cable’s History channel, managed to attract more viewers than anything on broadcast network NBC … during the entire week.
The second installment of this five-part mini-series airing at 8-10 p.m. Sundays through Easter — the first foray into scripted drama for “Survivor” creator Burnett — drew 10.8 million viewers, good for number one in its timeslot and number 11 overall for the week.

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RangerX · Post by **RangerX** » March 16th, 2013, 4:07 am

Why would anyone watch it? We all know how it turns out...

abnhawk · Post by **abnhawk** » March 16th, 2013, 4:52 am

The book was better.. :D

RangerX · Post by **RangerX** » March 16th, 2013, 5:14 am

abnhawk wrote:The book was better.. :D

Damn sure there was less "begetting" and "knowing" in the TV version anyway....

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