CHRISTIAN ACTIVIST GROUP SAYS IT BLOCKED BRITNEY SITCOM EPISODE

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CHRISTIAN ACTIVIST GROUP SAYS IT BLOCKED BRITNEY SITCOM EPISODE
Tuesday, February 7 2006

The Rev. Don Wildmon's American Family Assn. (AFA) is taking credit for killing a planned Will & Grace episode on NBC that reportedly was to feature Britney Spears as a Christian conservative co-host with Jack, the gay character portrayed by Sean Hayes, on Jack's Out TV cable channel. According to an early NBC news release, she was to appear in a cooking segment of the show called "Cruci-fixins." The network later said that the script for the episode had yet to be written "and the story line will not contain a Christian characterization at all." In a statement on Monday, the AFA said, "When NBC said that the script 'has yet to be written,' what they didn't tell you is that the 'story board' had been completed, and the offensive material was scheduled to be a part of the episode." Wildmon himself was quoted in the statement as saying, "Plainly put, NBC heard from their affiliates that they did not want to go through another Book of Daniel situation while losing millions in advertising revenue." NBC recently canceled The Book of Daniel following an AFA letter campaign that, the organization claims, generated hundreds of thousand of written protests.

DANIEL RESURRECTED -- ON THE INTERNET
Wednesday, February 1 2006

NBC has decided to resurrect its controversial The Book of Daniel on the Internet. According to MediaPost, the network is planning to allow viewers to watch the four unaired episodes online -- presumably for free. The episode that would have aired last Friday has already been posted without comment on NBC.com. Fans have apparently not discovered it there yet. A fan blog associated with the Daniel site was last updated a week ago. Meanwhile, Daniel (more)

CHRISTIAN GROUP DAMNS THE BOOK OF DANIEL
Wednesday, December 28 2005
NBC's The Book of Daniel is not scheduled to premiere until Jan. 6, but it is already drawing heat from Christian conservatives. The Rev. Don Wildmon's American Family Association has asked its members to send messages to the network demanding that they cancel the series. "It would be beneficial to all if NBC showed a little more respect for Christians who believe the Bible," the AFA's statement said. It noted that the series features an (more)