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Reacting to pressure from Christian groups, NBC canceled an episode of "Will & Grace" that featured Britney Spears as a conservative who hosts a cooking segment called "Cruci-fixin's" on a Christian TV network. NBC last week was forced to pull its highly touted new show "The Book of Daniel" because of charges its portrayal of Jesus was blasphemous Spears was to appear as a sidekick to the regular character Jack, who hosts his own talk show on the homosexual network Out TV, which is bought by a Christian TV network. The episode was to air April 13, just before Good...

The Blog of Daniel: Goodbye, Farewell, Amen by Jack Kenny, series creator, The Book of Daniel As this is probably my last bully pulpit for the show, I want to take this opportunity to thank all the thousands of people on boards, blogs and websites across the Internet who've shown such wonderful, loving support for The Book of Daniel. Love. Support. Tolerance. Acceptance. Forgiveness. Those are the Christian values that I was brought up with, and the values that I tried to bring into the world of Daniel. It's late now. I've just spent tonight with Susanna Thompson (Judith), Ivan...

- A conservative advocacy group is taking some of the credit for NBC's decision to cancel its new television series, "The Book of Daniel." The American Family Association (AFA) called for a boycott of the "anti-Christian program," even before the first episode aired. In a message to its supporters on Tuesday, the AFA welcomed news that the program has been canceled. "Your efforts, combined with those of hundreds of thousands of other AFA Online supporters, had an impact." NBC said it dropped the Friday night show three weeks after the first episode aired because of low ratings.

NBC's anti-Christian program The Book of Daniel has been cancelled! Your efforts, combined with those of hundreds of thousands of other AFA Online supporters, had an impact. NBC's decision to pull The Book of Daniel shows the power of the pocketbook. NBC didn't want to eat their economic losses. Had NBC not had to eat millions of dollars each time it aired, NBC would have kept The Book of Daniel on the air. Because of your efforts, the sponsors dropped the program. NBC then decided it didn't want to continue the fight. Even an impassioned plea by Daniel's producer Jack...

LOS ANGELES - The last chapter of the controversial religious drama "The Book of Daniel" has been written at NBC. Although the network stopped short of saying the low-rated show was canceled, a spokeswoman said Tuesday it has been dropped from the schedule.

Because of your efforts, NBC cancels 'Book of Daniel' Dear (just received this through e-mail), NBC's anti-Christian program The Book of Daniel has been cancelled! Your efforts, combined with those of hundreds of thousands of other AFA Online supporters, had an impact. NBC's decision to pull The Book of Daniel shows the power of the pocketbook. NBC didn't want to eat their economic losses. Had NBC not had to eat millions of dollars each time it aired, NBC would have kept The Book of Daniel on the air. Because of your efforts, the sponsors dropped the program. NBC then decided...

A television network tried to tackle religion once again, with the same old results. NBC's controversial program, "The Book of Daniel", about an Episcopal priest named Daniel Webster who is a pill-popper with a drunken wife, drug dealing daughter, gay Republican son, and bisexual aunt, has been canceled. You just can't make a show about "Any family USA" these days, can you? Once again, middle America gets a slap in the face. Jesus was also a recurring character on the program. It's really too bad that the program was canceled before NBC could produce the obligatory "tonight, on a very...

NEW YORK -- A martini-sipping wife, a pot-peddling daughter, a gay son mourning his twin's death, an aging mother battling Alzheimer's disease--and his own habit of popping painkillers and literally seeing Jesus. Daniel Webster, a beleaguered Episcopal priest, clearly has issues. And the American Family Association definitely has issues with him. The Tupelo, Miss.-based Christian family advocacy group unleashed an e-mail protest blitz, mobilizing its 3 million members effectively to try to defrock the fictional Webster and get his new "anti-Christian" television series, "The Book of Daniel," excommunicated from the NBC schedule.

It’s been a bad fortnight for biblical Christianity in the world of popular entertainment. To begin with, NBC has launched The Book of Daniel, a situation comedy about a pill-popping Episcopalian priest. Troubles surround him: one son is homosexual and another is sleeping with the bishop’s daughter. His daughter gets arrested for dealing drugs. A sister-in-law has become a lesbian. Through all difficulties, Daniel (the priest) is sustained by conversation with a smarmy character who is supposed to be Jesus. This “Jesus” gushes inclusivism and spouts wisecracks (“you can quote me”). He is a paragon of liberal (or postliberal) nonjudgmentalism....

NBC'S "THE BOOK OF DANIEL" may be off the air soon--more because of Nielsen issues than sins against a higher power. Ratings for the controversial drama dropped 23 percent Friday among adults 18-49 versus its Jan. 6 premiere. With a 2.2 mark, the show lost 36 percent of its "Dateline" lead-in. (Viewers declined by two million, or 29 percent, compared to the week before.) A call to NBC on Monday was not returned; the network's Web site says the show is scheduled to air this Friday. The drama about a liberal Episcopalian priest who pops pills and has a gay...

From the network that brought you "Supertrain" and "Manimal" comes "The Book of Daniel," a midterm replacement show that has only just started airing but has stirred up controversy. The show stars Aidan Quinn as Rev. Daniel Webster, an Episcopalian priest trying to juggle job, family, and, oh, the ability to see and talk to Jesus. Throw in a wife that likes to drink, a gay son, a teen-aged daughter, and an adopted son from China who is a stud jock, and what do you have? Another reason I don't watch television that much. With very few exceptions, I don't...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Jack Bauer‘s latest marathon workday got off to a good start Sunday, ratings-wise. The Fox drama "24" notched its most-watched episode ever with its fifth-season premiere as the first of two back-to-back episodes got a boost from a primetime overrun (in East Coast and Midwestern markets) of the NFL‘s NFC divisional playoff game between the Carolina Panthers and Chicago Bears. Airing from about 8:13-9:11 p.m. EST, the first episode of "24" averaged 17 million viewers and a 7.3 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic (demographic share data for Sunday were not available Monday because of...

The Book of Daniel was aired by NBC on Friday night. Several NBC affiliates did not carry the program including those in Beaumont, TX; Tupelo, MS; Meridian, MS, Little Rock, AR; and Terre Haute, IN. In addition, NBC lost several million dollars when advertisers pulled out. NBC ended up selling the time for pennies on the dollar. WBIR in Knoxville invited ministers in to see the program. Here are some of their comments. Rev. Brian Kearns, minister of Lighthouse Christian Church: “I think it’s very demeaning to Christianity. If this is their view of Christianity, it’s going to be as...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - NBC's Nashville affiliate has closed "The Book of Daniel" after the show, whose main character is a pill-popping Episcopal priest with a gay son and a pot-dealing daughter, drew thousands of complaints. WSMV-TV General Manager Elden Hale Jr. said he decided to pull the show starring Aidan Quinn after NBC rejected the station's request to air it overnight instead of during "family viewing time." Despite its third-place finish nationally, the show won its time slot last Friday in the Nashville TV market. Hale said viewers objected to the language, the sexual content and the portrayal of Jesus,...

The Hollywood moguls who gave us The Book of Daniel (NBC, Fridays, 9:00 ET) probably think they are presenting Christianity in a positive light. Church people are not freaks. They are just like everybody else, having the same values and problems as the Hollywood moguls. The Book of Daniel is about an Episcopal priest named Daniel Webster. He is addicted to pain pills. His daughter sells drugs. One son is gay. The other is promiscuous with women. His supervisor, a female bishop, is having an affair with his father, who is also a bishop cheating on his Alzheimer's-afflicted wife. He...

It's no secret NBC has become a laughing stock of the airwaves, and "The Book of Daniel" is just one more reason to shamelessly snicker. The one-hour Friday night show, which airs at 10 p.m., is the floundering network's attempt to compete with "Desperate Housewives" and other deviously clever dramas that have surfaced over the last couple of seasons. However, "Daniel" is one book that needs to be shredded after watching last Friday's two-hour premiere. (The show debuted poorly, attracting 9 million viewers, to finish third in its network slot, according to Nielsen Media Research.) It's sad, really, that creator...

Three of the five national advertisers that had commercials run during the debut airing of NBC's controversial "Book of Daniel" will no longer advertise on the program, states the organization leading the protest against the show. According to the American Family Association, just five advertisers ran spots during the program's two-hour premier on Friday night – and at least one of those got bargain-basement rates for the commercials the day before. "Three of the five companies whose ads placed on the show said they would refrain from future episodes," said a statement from AFA. "Chattem (Gold Bond, Icy Hot), Combe...

NBC is promoting the network's mid-season replacement series "The Book of Daniel" with language that implies it is a serious drama about Christian people and Christian faith. Network hype – and the mainstream media – call it "edgy," "challenging" and "courageous." But one look at the characters will likely give you a distinctly different impression. The main character is Daniel Webster, a drug-addicted Episcopal priest whose wife depends heavily on her mid-day martinis. The Webster family is rounded out by a 23-year-old homosexual Republican son, a 16-year-old daughter who is a drug dealer, and a 16-year-old adopted son who is...

ONE of the few advertisers that bought commercial time during the premiere last week of "The Book of Daniel" on NBC will not be back. The series, about a priest, was singled out before its debut by a conservative activist organization, the American Family Association, which condemned it as anti-Christian. The advertiser is Combe Inc., a company in White Plains that sells personal care products, which bought a 30-second commercial for Just for Men hair coloring. It was one of only about two dozen national spots that ran during the two-hour back-to-back episodes that composed the premiere of "The Book...

NBC’s new sitcom “Book of Daniel” aired Friday night and the reviews indicate it was even worse than originally thought. It goes way beyond just being offensive and actually makes fun of Christians and Jesus. The American Family Associating summed up the reviews they received with this e-mail from a viewer. “I watched the Book of Daniel show on NBC tonight just so I could see if it was as bad as you said. Mr. Wildmon you have it wrong - it was worse than you described. The so called pastor takes drugs, smokes, drinks, takes the Lord’s name in...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC's limited-run series "The Book of Daniel" earned its share of advance scrutiny for its portrayals of contemporary men and women of the cloth, but that didn't translate to a large turnout for the drama's premiere Friday. The network had better news on Thursday with the debut of its remodeled 8-10 p.m. comedy block anchored by "My Name Is Earl." ABC also had a pulse for a change that night thanks to the return of its summer sensation "Dancing With the Stars." "Daniel," which stars Aidan Quinn as a conflicted Episcopalian priest grappling with modern-day...

Religious-minded television viewers hoping for another "Joan of Arcadia" or "7th Heaven" – both recently canceled by CBS and the WB, respectively – won't necessarily find the answer to their prayers in "The Book of Daniel," a controversial faith-flavored series premiering with back-to-back episodes on Friday, Jan. 6, from 9-11 p.m. EST on NBC. Aidan Quinn stars as the Rev. Daniel Webster, an unconventional Episcopal priest trying to navigate personal and parish problems, including in the pilot episode his brother-in-law absconding with $3 million in church funds. Like Stephen Collins' patriarch in "7th Heaven," Rev. Webster must juggle pastoral and...

Anti-Religious Entertainment Agenda for 2006? January 06, 2006 Michael Medved “The Chronicles of Narnia” and “The Passion of the Christ” achieved overwhelming box office success by appealing to religious moviegoers, but in high profile projects in 2006 Hollywood risks offending, rather than engaging, people of faith. In Newsweek, makers of the forthcoming “The DaVinci Code” proudly declare that they will do nothing to soften the controversial message of their project—that Jesus married and fathered a daughter, and that the Gospels and early Christians deliberately lied. Newsweek describes the movie’s villain as a Catholic bishop “whose religious zealotry appears to be...

Local News “The Book of Thomas” By TOM DAVIS Tribune Managing Editor Saturday, January 07, 2006 The NBC show "The Book of Daniel," which portrays an Episcopal priest with a multitude of faults, was creating controversy long before it finally aired last night. The drama, which was created by an admitted homosexual, troubles me for a couple of reasons. First of all, I am tired of there being few shows on television that my three kids and I can sit down and watch together. If the network executives had an ounce of sense, perhaps they would remember the level of...

NBC's controversial new series puts an Episcopal priest at the head of a hard-living family - and the Savior himself in a supporting role. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - "Sex. Drugs. Stolen money and martinis." The marketing for an NBC drama that premières Friday at 9 p.m. EST suggests standard prime-time fare. Not quite. This show also comes with a religious motif, though its creators maintain that it's not the latest shot in a culture war. "The Book of Daniel" - already generating buzz beyond what you might find around a network's typical mid-season pickup - is something more than an...

I just finished watching "The Book of David" and I found it tedious and vapid. However, I did not find it sacreligous. The conversations the main charactor has with Jesus is perhaps the most believeable of all the plot twists. With the exception of Jesus, everybody in the whole series are either drug dealers, druggies, racists, homosexuals, crooks, having an affair or screwed up. Most seem to be a combination of all the above. I probably will not watch it again, however, you never know.

Opening the Book of Daniel I watched the opening episodes of NBC’s new sitcom (I think that’s what it was) “The Book of Daniel”. I was aware some critics had panned the show ,and that a few NBC affiliates opted not to carry it. Having watched the first two hours, I was happy to note there were frequent commercial breaks ;which helped break up the monotony of the archly written and played scenario. While I watched, I had a nagging sense of déjà vu-but it wasn’t until this morning that I figured out what that was all about. The Book...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (Jan. 5) - Two NBC affiliates in Arkansas and Indiana are turning the page on upcoming series "The Book of Daniel," which has been drawing criticism for its portrayal of Christianity. The series depicts an Episcopalian minister, played by Aidan Quinn, struggling with an addiction to Vicodin, among other problems in his diocese. Jesus is actually a character on the series, depicted in imagined conversations with the minister. Last month, the conservative American Family Assn. began calling on affiliates and advertisers to bail out of "Daniel." Many stations have been flooded with e-mails and calls from viewers...

Herc’s Seen NBC’s New Dramedy BOOK OF DANIEL!! Is It The Next ED Or The Next LAX?? I am – Hercules!! “The Book of Daniel” is an hourlong about a pill-popping Episcopalian priest with a pot-dealing white daughter, a gay white son, a randy hetero Asian son, a martini-slurping wife, and his own personal Jesus. When I saw Jesus in the promos I confess my interest was piqued. The Denis Leary character on FX’s “Rescue Me” also has an imaginary Jesus who likes to sit in automobiles and have conversations while the main character is motoring. Some of the Jesus...

Three Kansas NBC affiliates have announced they will not be carrying NBC’s "The Book of Daniel.” KSNG in Garden City, KSNC in Great Bend and KSNK in Oberlin have responded to community concern and will not air the program. They join KNSW-TV in Wichita, Kan., KARK-TV in Little Rock, Ark. and WTWO in Terre Haute, Ind., in refusing to carry NBC’s new series. American Family Association (AFA) says that NBC has received more than 600,000 emails protesting the program. After viewing the first episode at WBIR in Knoxville, several religious leaders gave their views on the program. Brian Kearns, minister...

What used to be called "irreverent" is now called "edgy" -- and called it, and called it, and called it -- and "Arrested Development" finally pushed edginess over the edge . . . "The Book of Daniel" emulates "Development's" collection of zany, wacky family members, and the unintentional moral is that they ought to be arrested. *** I cannot recall a series in which a greater number of characters seemed so desperately detestable -- a series with a larger population of loathsome dolts. There ought to be a worse punishment than cancellation for a show that tries this hard to...

Hundreds of offended East Tennessee Christians are asking WBIR, Channel 10, not to air a controversial NBC drama premiering Friday that features Jesus as a character. Station management said it will decide today whether to air "The Book of Daniel," an hourlong soap opera that depicts a pill-popping minister who has conversations with Jesus. On Wednesday, NBC affiliate WTWO in Terre Haute, Ind., was the first station in the country to announce it will not be airing "Daniel." WBIR has received more than 350 e-mails after commercials began airing in recent weeks. Jeff Lee, WBIR general manager, said the overwhelming...

ERRE HAUTE, Ind. (Jan. 5) - Two NBC affiliates in Arkansas and Indiana are turning the page on upcoming series "The Book of Daniel," which has been drawing criticism for its portrayal of Christianity. The series depicts an Episcopalian minister, played by Aidan Quinn, struggling with an addiction to Vicodin, among other problems in his diocese. Jesus is actually a character on the series, depicted in imagined conversations with the minister. Last month, the conservative American Family Assn. began calling on affiliates and advertisers to bail out of "Daniel." Many stations have been flooded with e-mails and calls from viewers...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Two NBC affiliates in Arkansas and Indiana are turning the page on upcoming series "The Book of Daniel," which has been drawing criticism for its portrayal of Christianity. The series depicts an Episcopalian minister, played by Aidan Quinn, struggling with an addiction to Vicodin, among other problems in his diocese. Jesus is actually a character on the series, depicted in imagined conversations with the minister. Last month, the conservative American Family Assn. began calling on affiliates and advertisers to bail out of "Daniel." Many stations have been flooded with e-mails and calls from viewers objecting...

The "book of Daniel" With offence to the Bible and God not to mention all VIRTUES NBC plans to "err" and asking a large SHUT- OFF. With the hurricanes that pounded,the floods in California,the Fire that cut down hundreds,...ect...GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED..GOd Help us-as most still believe we are ONE NATION UNDER GOD!!! Booooooooo and shut off NBC. Visit the new AFA Superstore today! Despite receiving nearly a half-million emails, NBC still intends to begin their new series The Book of Daniel next Friday. While NBC refuses to release the sponsors of the program, AFA has identified 10 potential...

There's a temptation to praise "The Book of Daniel" because it is a skillfully produced family drama about an Episcopal minister and his family and it comes along just as WB Network's "7th Heaven" reaches the end of its long run. In the premiere, Rev. Daniel Webster (Aidan Quinn) sermonizes that we should forgive ourselves if we give in to temptation, but I'm not going to do it. Give in, that is. I'm going to call this a well-intentioned drama with a few comedic quirks but without depth or greater purpose. When it comes to troubles, Daniel's sacramental cup runneth...

NBC affiliate WTWO in Terre Haute, Indiana, has become the first station to announce they will not be showing "The Book of Daniel.” "We expect other NBC affiliates will join WTWO in their decision,” said American Family Association (AFA) Chairman Donald E. Wildmon. He also said that NBC is having trouble finding sponsors for the show. AFA says it has been notified by several companies that they have no plans to sponsor the show. "It appears that NBC will be forced to fill the available ad spots with ‘distressed merchandise’ ads which are sold at pennies on the dollar of...

(AgapePress) - A pro-family media researcher is blasting NBC for plans to air a controversial series featuring a troubled Episcopal priest and other dysfunctional characters. The network will air The Book of Daniel on Friday evenings, starting in early January. According to published reports, the weekly show centers around an Episcopal priest named Daniel Webster who talks with a manifestation of Jesus. In addition, the Webster family reportedly includes a 23-year-old homosexual, Republican son; a 16-year-old daughter who is a drug dealer; and an adopted son involved in an improper relationship with the bishop's daughter. Ed Vitagliano is director of...

NEW YORK — Conservative Christians are gearing up for a holy war of sorts over NBC's forthcoming show "The Book of Daniel," airing the first week of 2006. The American Family Association (AFA), a leading group in the Christian right movement, has called for a boycott of the series about a self-medicating Episcopalian priest whose son is gay, whose daughter deals pot and whose wife is a midday martini-lover

New NBC Drama Show Mocks Christianity Email NBC Chairman Bob Wright over NBC's latest show, "The Book of Daniel." NBC is touting the network's mid-season replacement series "The Book of Daniel" with language that implies it is a serious drama about Christian people and Christian faith. The main character is Daniel Webster, a drug-addicted Episcopal priest whose wife depends heavily on her mid-day martinis. Webster regularly sees and talks with a very unconventional white-robed, bearded Jesus. The Webster family is rounded out by a 23-year-old homosexual Republican son, a 16-year-old daughter who is a drug dealer, and a 16-year-old adopted...

A pro-family group has launched a protest campaign against a new NBC drama featuring a troubled, pill-popping Episcopal priest who is the father of a dysfunctional family. "The Book of Daniel," written by a homosexual, is being promoted as the only show on television in which Jesus appears as a recurring character and the only network prime-time drama series with a regular male "gay" character, a 23-year-old Republican son, says the American Family Association,which has an online petitionTouted as the riskiest show of the year, it includes a wife who relies on mid-day martinis, a 16-year-old daughter who is a...

NBC has begun promoting a new weekly show in January that centers around a troubled, pill-popping Episcopal priest played by veteran actor Aidan Quinn, who talks with a manifestation of Jesus, played by Garret Dillahunt. "The Book of Daniel" is being touted as the riskiest new show of the year. It is also billed as the only show on television in which Jesus appears as a recurring character. It's a drama with comedic aspects and is being kicked off Jan. 6 with back-to-back episodes. It is scheduled to air regularly Friday nights at 9 p.m. The cast also includes Ellen...

Email NBC Chairman Bob Wright over NBC's latest show, "The Book of Daniel." NBC is touting the network's mid-season replacement series "The Book of Daniel" with language that implies it is a serious drama about Christian people and Christian faith. The main character is Daniel Webster, a drug-addicted Episcopal priest whose wife depends heavily on her mid-day martinis. Webster regularly sees and talks with a very unconventional white-robed, bearded Jesus. The Webster family is rounded out by a 23-year-old homosexual Republican son, a 16-year-old daughter who is a drug dealer, and a 16-year-old adopted son who is having sex with...

OK, I am offended now. NBC is flogging "3 Wishes" as a family show, an alternate to "Extreme Home Makeover". In it, they find 3 families with some kind of horrible problem or tragedy, and fulfill a wish of some kind. Tonight, for a sad little cancerous girl, they redressed a home in California as if it were a winter wonderland with lights and snow, just like the Midwest Christmases her mom had. They also helped a young boy fly in a fighter jet, and helped a paralised firefighter. In the midst of this family fare, I was slapped in...

NBC is promoting the network's mid-season replacement series "The Book of Daniel" with language that implies it is a serious drama about Christian people and Christian faith. The main character is Daniel Webster, a drug-addicted Episcopal priest whose wife depends heavily on her mid-day martinis. Webster regularly sees and talks with a very unconventional white-robed, bearded Jesus. The Webster family is rounded out by a 23-year-old homosexual Republican son, a 16-year-old daughter who is a drug dealer, and a 16-year-old adopted son who is having sex with the bishop's daughter. At the office, his lesbian secretary is sleeping with his...