Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The halo effect. GMC TV, riding a ratings wave thanks, in part, to the success of recent feel-good TV movies like The Heart of Christmas, Raising Izzie and Somebody’s Child  continues to expand  its programming slate with a deft mix of original movies and…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. First of all congratulations to my friend Anthony Sacramone whose excellent faith-centric satirical blog Strange Herring has just broken into the Top 50 of all religion blogs as ranked by Technorati. In praise of sarcasm? It’s interesting that I read the news of Strange…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Holy Lightning Round! From Big Hollywood: Thursday night’s debut of “The American Bible Challenge” gave the cable network its highest rated program of all time. The show “outperformed the previous record by over half a million viewers,” according to the network and ranked among…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Independent movie and TV producer Christian Peschken has been named Vice President and board member of the Decency Enforcement Center for Television (aka Decent TV). The non-profit organization that, through the court system, advocates on behalf of enforcing existing laws regulating  content (i.e. obscenity…

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