{"id":38689,"date":"2013-06-13T15:15:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T15:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mark_pinsky-nbcs_save_me_may_need_rescuing\/"},"modified":"2013-06-13T15:15:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T15:15:35","slug":"mark_pinsky-nbcs_save_me_may_need_rescuing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38689","title":{"rendered":"Mark Pinsky&#8211;NBC\u2019s \u201d\u02dcSave Me\u2019 may need rescuing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, audiences have no problem when God, faith and religion are regular elements of animated comedies such as \u201cThe Simpsons,\u201d\u009d \u201d\u02dc\u2019Family Guy\u201d\u009d and \u201cSouth Park.\u201d\u009d Psychologically, a cartoon Jesus on the small screen is okay in ways that a live-action Jesus is not.<\/p>\n<p>But with live action sitcoms, success is more difficult to predict. And when the family at the center of show is not Christian the premise can be an especially tough sell. The Canadian Broadcasting Company\u2019s critically lauded \u201cLittle Mosque on the Prairie,\u201d\u009d lasted from 2007-2012, but with steadily declining ratings.<\/p>\n<p>A critical factor for \u201cSave Me,\u201d\u009d which concludes its limited run Thursday (June 13), was how viewers would receive Heche as a Cincinnati housewife and former weekend television weathercaster who converses with God.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/on-faith\/commentary-nbcs-save-me-may-need-rescuing\/2013\/06\/12\/2c791f36-d398-11e2-b3a2-3bf5eb37b9d0_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, audiences have no problem when God, faith and religion are regular elements of animated comedies such as \u201cThe Simpsons,\u201d\u009d \u201d\u02dc\u2019Family Guy\u201d\u009d and \u201cSouth Park.\u201d\u009d Psychologically, a cartoon Jesus on the small screen is okay in ways that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38689\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,93,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-movies-television","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}