Watch: A half-hour TV special, character profiles, set-visit reports and more for A.D.: The Bible Continues

Wow, they’re sure pulling out all the stops to promote A.D.: The Bible Continues.

After posting all the usual very brief videos online — clips, trailers, endorsements from faith leaders and so on — the producers have now released a 23-minute making-of video (basically a half-hour TV special, once you add the commercial breaks).

You can watch that special here:

The show’s YouTube channel has also continued to post the shorter videos, including this bit on Caiaphas…

…and this bit on Pontius Pilate:

The Today show posted this set-visit report:

Zap2it posted this video of Juan Pablo Di Pace talking about playing Jesus:

Guideposts posted an essay by producer Roma Downey on prayer, accompanied by this video:

And Jefferson Bethke, creator of the ‘Why I Hate Religion But Love Jesus’ YouTube clip, posted a video called ‘The Bible Is Messy’ that he shot on the A.D. set:

Finally, there are five faith-leader endorsement videos that cannot be played outside the United States. But I can still post them here, so check them out if you can:

One video is simply called ‘Faith Raves’:

Then there are specific endorsements from Sam Rodriguez…

…Pat Robertson…

…Ronnie Floyd…

…and Jim Daly of Focus on the Family:

Check out earlier trailers and other videos here:

• The first trailer (November 26, 2014)
• The ‘By Our Love’ music video (December 19, 2014)
• The ‘The Next Chapter of the Greatest Story Ever Told’ TV spot (January 12, 2015)
• The second trailer (January 17, 2015)
• The Super Bowl spot (February 1, 2015)
• The Newsboys’ ‘We Believe’ music video (February 10, 2015)
• The ‘First Look’ video (February 18, 2015)
• The ‘Special Preview’ video (February 24, 2015)
• The ‘Miracles’ clip, the ‘Igniting a Rebellion’, ‘He’s a Dangerous Man’ and ‘Power, Passion, Sacrifice and Glory’ previews, the Spanish trailer, the ‘33 Days’ video and the WNDU and KPRC interviews (March 10, 2015)
• The ‘On Location’ featurette and the WWLP and Entertainment Tonight interviews (March 16, 2015)
• The ‘Mother Mary’, ‘Peter’, ‘John’ and ‘Mary Magdalene’ sneak peeks, the EPK materials, the ‘The Next Chapter of the Greatest Story Ever Told’ and ‘Beyond A.D. with Jason Kennedy’ previews, and the Tony Evans, Geoff Tunnicliffe, O.S. Hawkins and Joel C. Hunter endorsements (March 20, 2015)