{"id":9486,"date":"2013-04-10T09:41:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T14:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/?p=9486"},"modified":"2013-04-10T09:41:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T14:41:40","slug":"would-you-watch-a-christian-dating-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zackhunt\/2013\/04\/would-you-watch-a-christian-dating-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Would You Watch A Christian Dating Show?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I have a confession to make.<\/p>\n

When I was in college I, along with my roommates, watched an obscene amount of dating shows.<\/p>\n

By \u201cobscene\u201d I mean all of them all the time. Blind Date, Fifth Wheel, Elimidate \u2013 you name it we watched it. Not so much because we loved dating shows, but because we didn\u2019t have cable and they were a train wreck we just couldn\u2019t look away from.<\/p>\n

While my standards were pretty low back then for what I would watch on television, I\u2019m not sure they were ever low enough to watch what GSN has in the works.<\/p>\n

Emboldened by the popularity of Jeff Foxworthy\u2019s show \u2018The American Bible Challenge,\u2019 GSN it talking about creating a new faith based program called it \u2018It Takes A Church.\u2019<\/p>\n

It is, or will be if\/when it goes into production, a Christian dating show that \u201cwill ask congregations, pastors, friends and family to find a suitable potential mate for a parishioner who is single.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, they could probably save a lot of production costs by just turning this into a reality show, because if you\u2019re single or have friends that are single then you know this is exactly what\u2019s going on in most churches already.<\/p>\n

Though, if they went the reality route I would still want a host because, well, that would just be too awkwardly funny not to watch.<\/p>\n

And I want that host to be Jeff Foxworthy.<\/p>\n

Anyway, you can check out the article below for more info about the show.<\/p>\n

And let me know, would you watch a Christian dating show?<\/p>\n

\"gsndatingshow\"<\/a>GSN Considers Adding Church-Based Dating Show<\/h2>\n

By Stuart Elliot, The<\/em>\u00a0New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n

Spurred by the success of an original game show that rewards knowledge of the Bible rather than, say, how much grocery items cost at the supermarket checkout, the GSN cable channel is considering a dating show with a religious twist: congregations will seek suitable mates for single parishioners.<\/p>\n

At an \u201cupfront\u201d breakfast in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday morning, GSN outlined its plans for the 2013-14 television season, a season that is being reshaped by the popularity of \u201cThe American Bible Challenge,\u201d which\u00a0was introduced during the 2012-13 season\u00a0and is already back for a second go-round.<\/p>\n

Still, GSN executives told reporters they were not planning on creating a channel dominated by faith-based programming. The network, they said, will continue to offer viewers secular shows like \u201cBaggage\u201d; \u201cFamily Feud,\u201d in a new iteration with Steve Harvey as the host; \u201cMinute to Win It,\u201d which will have its debut on June 25 with original episodes and a new host, the Olympian Apolo Anton Ohno; and \u201cThe Newlywed Game,\u201d also in a new iteration, with Sherri Shepherd as the host.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still need to be a broad-based channel,\u201d said Amy Introcaso-Davis, executive vice president for programming and development at GSN.<\/p>\n

Even so, the success of \u201cThe American Bible Challenge,\u201d hosted by Jeff Foxworthy, is hard to ignore.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiterally, it put us ahead of the game in the year\u2019s most talked-about programming trend,\u201d Ms. Introcaso-Davis said, referring to the renewed interest among viewers in programming with religious themes like\u00a0\u201cThe Bible,\u201d the miniseries on the History Channel.<\/p>\n

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