The Bible

[Peasie]

The Revised History Channel gets it all wrong.

Why is Satan black? And why is he wearing a hoodie?

Everyone knows that Satan is Dick Chaney.

[Emperah]

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mi agree

[Tropicana]

This is the guy who played the devil.




I say he is Black and that he had an African accent. My Mom says no. What do you say? His name is Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni.

[Tropicana]

I don't think he looks like Obama. I do think it is highly insensitive casting.

"The Bible" producers dismiss Obama-Satan connection

The producers of History Channel's "The Bible" miniseries say Internet chatter that their Satan character resembles President Barack Obama is "utter nonsense."
Mark Burnett ("Survivor," "The Voice") and his wife, actress Roma Downey, said Monday the Moroccan actor who played Satan, Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni, has played Satanic characters in other Biblical programs long before Mr. Obama was elected president.

• [*=left]Pictures: The Bible on screen
  [*=left]"The Bible": Does Satan look like Obama in History Channel miniseries?
  [*=left]"The Bible": How a hit TV miniseries was born

The connection got widespread attention after talk show host Glenn Beck last week tweeted: "Does Satan look EXACTLY like Obama? Yes!"

History said in a statement that the network has "the highest respect" for Obama, and that "it's unfortunate that anyone made this false connection."
"Both Mark and I have nothing but respect and love our president, who is a fellow Christian," said Downey, the "Touched By an Angel" actress who is married to Burnett. "False statements such as these are just designed as a foolish distraction to try and discredit the beauty of the story of the Bible."
Beck has actually been a big supporter of "The Bible." The same tweet that pointed out the actor's resemblance to Obama urged his followers: "Don't miss it."
On Monday, Beck tweeted: "Media -- relax."
He said the observation was "funny, nothing more" and that the series "is 1 of my fav shows. Keep watching."
The five-part miniseries has been a big hit for History, reaching more than 13 million viewers for its first episode. The 10-hour miniseries concludes on Easter Sunday.

[Tropicana]

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mi agree

Are you making fun of me dahjah after I have been so nice to you.

[Tropicana]

Historically inaccurate casting.



It's tough to cast Jesus. Does one go with someone descended from people who speak Aramaic

http://wca-ngo.org/multimedia/galleries/meet-ministry-foreign-affairs-secretary-social-welfare

or with someone who fits the historical image we have in our heads of Jesus.

I think this was a good compromise:



It helped that at the time he looked really hot.

He doesn't anymore proving once again, White men don't age well.

[Tropicana]

Mark this day on your calendar. March 4th is when the big TV networks officially started to die.
They’ve been struggling for a while but until now, it’s been mostly a prestige struggle. Because of their broad mandates, networks can’t replicate niche-hip shows like Mad Men and Breaking Bad or shows filled with violence and nudity likeGame of Thrones. But they used to be able to take comfort in the fact that fewer people were watching those shows than were tuning in for hits like The Big Bang Theory and American Idol.



'The Bible' will run for four more weeks on The History Channel.

Mark this day on your calendar. March 4th is when the big TV networks officially started to die.
They’ve been struggling for a while but until now, it’s been mostly a prestige struggle. Because of their broad mandates, networks can’t replicate niche-hip shows like Mad Men and Breaking Bad or shows filled with violence and nudity likeGame of Thrones. But they used to be able to take comfort in the fact that fewer people were watching those shows than were tuning in for hits like The Big Bang Theory and American Idol.


Not any more. Last night The Bible, a miniseries on The History Network (of all places) from super producer Mark Burnett and his wife, actress Roma Downey, was the most-watched show of the nightattracting 13 million viewers. The most-watched network show, according to TV By The Numbers, was long-in-the-tooth 60 Minutes which attracted 11.95 million viewers. The highest-rated scripted show of the evening was The Mentalist on CBSwhich drew 9 million viewers.

To add insult to injury for the networks, there are four weeks left of The Bible miniseries. And because it’s on cable, History’s parent company, A&E, can rerun the first episode as often as it likes to attract more viewers and prep them for the second episode. The first show will air tonight on History’s sister network Lifetime.
If that doesn’t inflict enough pain, consider another Sunday night show that’s killing it (and then eating its tasty flesh): The Walking Dead. The AMC zombie show attracted 11 million viewers last week. It does particularly well in the coveted 18-49 demographic.According to the New York Times the show is the highest-rated among that demographic beating outAmerican Idol, The Voice and Modern Family.
NBC apparently could have had the show. From theNew York Times article:

t a news tour for television reporters in January, Kevin Reilly, who is now at Fox but was a top programmer at NBC when the show was still up for grabs, talked about the one that got away.
“ ‘The Walking Dead’ is an extraordinary thing,” Mr. Reilly told reporters. “I bought the script at NBC from Frank Darabont. I developed it. I loved it.”
But NBC was back on its heels at the time, and Mr. Reilly ended up letting it go. “I thought it was good, but it was an early draft,” he said. “And then, when I left and I heard it went over to AMC, there was just a lot of serendipity involved.”
In fairness, “The Walking Dead” would have never made it to network prime time in all of its gory glory because of broadcast standards.

The cable networks, because they do not use the public airways, don’t have to worry about such things. All AMC needs to do is stick up a note at the beginning of the show saying it’s going to be graphic.
So what can the networks do to compete? Not much. Network shows have to appeal to a broad audience which prefers the easy humor of Two and a Half Men to the quirkiness of 30 Rock. The Bible actually would have been a perfect topic for a network and I’m curious why it didn’t land at CBS or NBC considering Burnett has produced huge hits for the channels with Survivorand The Voice. I’ve reached out to Burnett’s company and I’ll update when I hear back.
UPDATE: History was able to give Burnett and Downey something that likely no network could have offered — the international rights to The Bible. That means the couple stands to make millions as they start selling the ten-part show to different countries.
It would be great to see one of the networks have something as buzz-worthy and high-quality as Lost was back in the day but they haven’t seemed to be able to pull it off.
Their loss is our gain though. Between the cable networks, pay-channels like HBO and now Netflix, there’s plenty of fantastic television around. It’s just not where the big networks would like it to be.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2013/03/04/the-bible-sounds-the-death-knell-for-network-television/

[Emperah]

Are you making fun of me dahjah after I have been so nice to you.

Yuh nuh need fi personalize every dyam ting enuh

[Tropicana]

Well I do take it personally you know.... Clearly I do not have a short memory.

[lonewolf]

Historically inaccurate casting.



It's tough to cast Jesus. Does one go with someone descended from people who speak Aramaic

http://wca-ngo.org/multimedia/galleries/meet-ministry-foreign-affairs-secretary-social-welfare

or with someone who fits the historical image we have in our heads of Jesus.

I think this was a good compromise:



It helped that at the time he looked really hot.




He doesn't anymore proving once again, White men don't age well.

It seems that they got the historical image we have in our heads of the DEVIL correct...He looks just like OBAMA. DWL

[Tropicana]

This is the historical image of the devil.



Notice red not Black.

[blugiant]

oyinbo bible a racist sintinn

devil iss wan arab man woo favevah mixxed race man. guess nuttinn racist bout dat

oww de racist images oyinbo media push affect self images ann oww addar peeps see addar peeps?

pure babylon propoganda dat y mii wood neva watch dat nunsense

[Tropicana]

oyinbo bible a racist sintinn

How can it be a White Bible when it came out of the Middle East?[/QUOTE]

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devil iss wan arab man woo favevah mixxed race man. [/QUOTE]

I have never see an Arab with red skin and horns.

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guess nuttinn racist bout dat.

oww de racist images oyinbo media push affect self images ann oww addar peeps see addar peeps?

pure babylon propoganda dat y mii wood neva watch dat nunsense[/QUOTE]

I am the expert on media messages, images and self-esteem. I have posted a lot about that and I was beat up and told nutten noh go soh....many times.

[Emperah]

middle east is a new creation has only bin roun since 1869, suh a weshawt it really come from?

[RichD]

middle east is a new creation has only bin roun since 1869, suh a weshawt it really come from?

what was there before?