RatCreature's Journal

I see idiotic program titles like "Easter is party for Jesus" (well it was in German, i.e. "Ostern ist Party für Jesus", and yes, that there is no article makes it sound even more moronic, at least in German, I guess it's not much better in English), and I wouldn't care at all if it wasn't a program on public television, the programs paying for each month is mandatory, if I want to own a tv set legally (€16.50 each month for owning a tv and a radio, the registration offices cooperate with them, and their recent advertising campaign is really disturbing, its slogans are things like "Paid already?" "We'll find everybody." "We make house calls.")

Okay, so they have Christian programs, I'm used to that. (Though it seems to me that the system by which they allot time to the different confessions doesn't really take other religions into account fairly, but whatever.) But why do they have to use so stupid titles? Also I think that with broadcasting Lutheran and Catholic church services on both Good Friday and Easter Sunday, and the Pope's Easter message, not to mention all those Christian-themed monumental movies and the concert broadcasts with performances of Bach's Johannes Passion etc, that side of Easter was sufficiently covered already, there's no need for more Jesus tv on Saturday on public television. (I mean aren't those who care about church services supposed to actually go to church themselves and not watch it on tv, anyway?)

Anyway, as I looked up what this program actually was, because it had the silliest title I've seen in a while (I just stumbled over it in my newspaper, there was no further explanation), I found that the scope of religious Easter programs I can choose from on public television surpasses my expectations, i.e. what I mentioned above, by far: Not only is there another Lutheran church service on Easter Monday for good measure, those things are framed by programs like "Church and society", "Holy sites of early Christianity", "Judas - Saint or Traitor?", a documentation on some village church where the Virgin Mary allegedly appeared to someone recently... (oh, and you can find one feature on some mystical site of Islam at 4 a.m. maybe they think that provides balance *snort*)

BTW, that list only included the two public tv stations that are terrestrial and can be received everywhere, there are additional Church services and religious documentaries broadcasted by the local public tv stations, and the public tv channels that are available only through cable or satellite. There I could also watch documentaries about miracle healers (for three hours but at least late at night), a documentary on culinary traditions of the church year, a documentary about the state of old church bells and their restoration state and problems, broadcasts of bishop consecrations, three three-hour specials on biblical women, a documentation about the Church at Jesus tomb (what's the "Grabeskirche" really called in English anyway?), several other documentations about churches and monasteries, one film about famous pilgrimage routes, another documentation about some local pilgrims' ways, another one about travel agencies specialized on Catholic pilgrimages, something about Armenian Easter, a documentation about Christian ashrams in India... The list goes on. Obviously there is no topic too obscure as long as it is bible, church or christianity related that you can't find in the Easter tv program on public television.

Whatever. In case you're interested it turns out the one with the idiotic title was a children's program, something about Easter songs.

I just read in an article that TNT canceled Witchblade despite good ratings. And Fox decided not to air the last two Greg the Bunny episodes either. Sigh.