Actor Ted McGinley, best known for roles in “Happy Days” and “Married… With Children” is becoming a familiar face in Christian films and TV, with his recent role in “The Baxters,” based on Karen Kingsbury’s bestselling series, and his role in Great American’ Pure Flix’s “Engagement Plan.” They are a different pace from some of the racier roles McGinley has taken on, but as a father himself, he told The Christian Post he sees value in family-friendly and faith-based entertainment. “The great thing about these [platforms like Great American Pure Flix] is that you, as a parent, can say to the babysitter, ‘Anything on this channel is going to be OK while I’m gone,’” he said. He added, however, that there’s still work to be done to get Hollywood to notice and produce more content. “That’s hard to come across. Hollywood does not care. The only reason they care is because they could make money doing it, which is fine for me — if they’ve discovered that there happens to be a massive Christian audience waiting for content, great. And if they can figure out, ‘Hey, we can make money doing it,’ that’s even better, because then it’ll get better and better, and they’ll hire better people and better writers and better producers and directors. It’s good for the audience… there is a huge Christian audience out there waiting for product.”

At a time when G-rated movies have essentially disappeared from theaters and Disney executives have been caught asserting their “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” for kids’ programming, family-friendly entertainment can be hard to come by. However, 2024’s biggest blockbuster of the year so far has been the family-friendly film “Inside Out 2,” which has made over $1.5 billion at the worldwide box office, indicating a market for such content. The R-rated “Deadpool & Wolverine, however, follows closely behind with over $1 billion made at the box office. McGinley said that Christians need to come out for Christian films if they want to encourage Hollywood to invest more in the type of content they want to see. “If the faith-based and Christian audiences want to have a product, they have to make sure they support the good ones when they come out. Otherwise, [Hollywood] will stop doing it, or it’ll just be a much smaller movie.”