Divine Programming

The Film and TV Studies Speaker Series presents Divine Programming: Negotiating Christianity in American Dramatic Television Production, 1996-2016.Presenter: Dr. Charlotte Howell, assistant professor of film and television studies, College of Communication, Boston University

When 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm on Friday, April 30, 2021
Location Zoom Meeting ID: 998 2686 2475 Passcode: divineFrom the mid-90s to the present, television drama with religious content has come to reflect the growing cultural divide between white middle-America and concentrated urban elites. As Dr. Howell argues in this book, by 2016, television narratives of white Christianity had become entirely disconnected from the religion they were meant to represent. Programming labeled 'family-friendly' became a euphemism for white, middlebrow America, and developing audience niches became increasingly significant to serial dramatic television. Utilizing original case studies and interviews, Divine Programming investigates the development, writing, producing, marketing, and positioning of key series including 7th Heaven, Friday Night Lights, Rectify, Supernatural, Jane the Virgin, Daredevil, and Preacher.