Skip to main content

Dearth of Religious Viewing for Easter

remote I just went and had a look at the TV Guide to see what kind of programming there was over the next three days of Easter. I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised to find that there wasn't any, apart from an episode of Praise be this morning (Good Friday).

I don't think you can really count 'Bruce Almighty' as religious programming, either.

The time was, the stations would at least attempt some kind of film, such as The Robe, Jesus of Nazareth, or even a film that was not quite appropriate to the season such as Charlton Heston in  'The Ten Commandments'.

The programming across the Easter break could easily have been last weekend's or next weekend's viewing.

It really is sad, but I suppose it is just another indicator of our country's growing secularisation.