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You do realize there’s an entire TV network based out of Birmingham Alabama for all that stuff

• ticviking 4y ago
  Can you think of a major network show where the focus was on Christian themes in a way like queer eye is about LGBT+ themes? The last one I can think of was "Touched By an Angel" and that is over 20 years old now. (edited to add an omitted word)
  • teachrdan 4y ago
    Even this is wrong. The Hallmark channel makes 40 Christmas movies a year, all of them with Christian families, obviously. (Some allow for a character who is Jewish.) These movies attract millions of viewers. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonifitzgerald/2021/12/24/the-economics-of-the-hugely-popular-hallmark-christmas-movies/?sh=64173da63f34 https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonifitzgerald/2021/12/24/the-e... https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanberr/2019/01/11/widely-mocked-hallmarks-christmas-movies-are-hugely-popular/?sh=793840bd5ca8 https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanberr/2019/01/11/widely-...
    • selimthegrim 4y ago
      Wait until they find out who wrote most of those Christmas tin pan alley songs
      • ticviking 4y ago
        It’s not a surprise to anyone who has studied show business at all. The Boscht belt and its associated Jewish entertainment circuit was a critical incubator of talent for our nations popular music. No one is hiding any of this, and it’s trivial to read a memoir from many musicians and see a story about how they wanted to feel more included in the increasingly secularized holidays so they wrote music that was about the stuff that included in them.
    • ticviking 4y ago
      The idea that an underserved market is able to be farmed by a niche cable network supports my thesis. The hallmark channel kind of explicitly Christian entertainment is counter cultural rather than mainstream.