BIG DAYTIME NAMES HEADED TO WORLD’S FIRST CHRISTIAN SOAP OPERA: WHAT TO EXPECT FROM ‘HILTON HEAD ISLAND’

"what is being called a 'clean soap.'"

No nothing happens. the stories are about what, bake sales?

Fuck this shite.

File under, "Only in America".

There was a soap on some religious channel in 1981-1984.

"Faith" helped solve their problems which included adultery and drugs. But their religiosity always came first.

Looked it up: "Another Life." The guys look like Eighties Gays in this clip.

Hilton HEAD Island. Unintentionally humorous.

Why not?

GAG!

So, no nude bedroom scenes with guys again, eh, Antonio? SAD.

Antonio Sabato Jr. is hot. You can't have credibility and pretend he's not, just because he's Christian.

I'm actually really curious about how they'd pull this off in 2017, without it becoming a Hallmark movie or the new "Touched by an Angel".

Doesn't Hallmark produce these type of sappy, cheesy, family friendly shows? Is it the daytime thing that makes this one so special?

No mention of where or how it's going to be broadcast/streamed, etc. Do they actually have a contract with someone?

The Christian soap Another Life aired on cable's Christian Broadcast Network from 1981 to 1984. It filmed at the CBN headquarters in Virginia Beach. CBN was founded by Pat Robinson and was one of the early cable networks, launching in 1977. Before the cable launch, CBN programming was on a handful of UHF stations in large cities.

Another Life was created by Roy Winsor, who also created Search for Tomorrow, as well as Love of Life and Secret Storm.

Oppps, that should be Pat Robertson, not Pat Robinson. Sorry.

Interestingly enough, OP of this thread is a Pro-Trump deplorable.

Thank you, R3 and R12!

I recalled something similar from the 80s, but couldn't remember specific details. Dataloungers know so much about so many things.

Ha! The Christians are trying to resurrect a dying genre! Father, forgive them. They have no idea what they're doing.

"A 12-episode drama" isn't really a soap opera in the true sense of the genre. Sounds like any other cable series with a season, just with a different focus.

And as others have pointed out, this is hardly a new idea. When it first began on the radio, "The Guiding Light" was basically a religious soap opera centering around Dr. John Rutledge, a church pastor, and the lives of his family and parish members, with the theme that "faith brings happiness." His fictional sermons were even collected and published in a book.

I'm ready for my comeback.

Maybe this is where some of the other washed up soap actors will try to land besides the ones already on The Bay.

Now Sabato can spread his herpes amongst THIS cast...

Somehow I don't see Judith getting cancer, everyone prays and she is cured, little Johnny is hit by a car and every prays and he survives, Nancy has a drinking problem and she prays and is saved as riveting television.

Will they show the Christians marching in White Supremacy marches and people talking about the anti-American liberals are trying to take away their heritage? Now that might actually get viewers. Deplorable viewers.

Sabato is a nut.

Fingers crossed that Anita Bryant and Victoria Jackson will sing the theme song together.

Sabato can run for political office on the show just as he wants to do in real life.

This is somewhat off-topic, but months ago I was at my local library and on a shelf was a book titled "The Choir Director" by Carl Weber. What made the book stand out was the cover, which featured 3 black people (two women, one man); trust me, I've been to my library enough to know that this was a rare thing.

Anyway, I decide to check out the book. What a soap opera! A lot of sex, plotting, sex, desire for sex, devious wives, murder, etc... All of it taking place at a mega-church in Jamaica, Queens, NY. The author likes talking about sex.

I googled the title before posting this and it's going to be a movie... man I wish it were a TV show because Weber has written a second novel at the same church. too bad all TV is getting is HHI.

Link to Weber's site provided

If this was really about religious people it would be nothing but lies and hypocrisy.

Donna Mills once played a nun on Love Is A Many Splendid Thing so maybe she'll be comfortable with this.

I loved Another Life - it was beyond campy. One black female character ranted about not celebrating Halloween - 'that's the time of them devils!'

Victoria Jackson, Candace Cameron, Kirk Cameron and Roma Downey round out the star-filled cast.

What is going to really chap my hide is if they have "villains" who are two-dimensional caricatures of ball-busting feminists and prancing, mincing homosexuals. That's the usual MO with evangelical films. They have liberals/gays/the "other" portrayed as the most horribly fake caricatures of what an Evangelical person thinks us godless heathens are like. They are constantly proving and re-proving their own confirmation bias with stuff like that.

Please hire Missy Chik Fil A.

Soaps are basically about jealousy and betrayal. i think you can do that w/o sex or alien abductions, but it's difficult to keep it intersting.

Soaps are about family, r30. Just ask Irna.

Some of you should definitely check out the Weber books for soapy action, action, action! big black men who love sex, earthy women who dig going down on a man and taking his cock and bbw who actually get some!

I man, seriously, who give a crap about some 'Christian' soap? It would only be worthwhile if Kirk Cameron were ACTUALLY raptured away while filming.

More 'Christian' (most of them aren't, not in a way Jesús would recognize), delusion. As if most 'Christians' want to watch this crap. Utah, full of Mormons, has some of the nation's highest porn consumption because what people want in private is different from what they claim to want in public. It won't last.

[quote]Antonio Sabato Jr. is hot. You can't have credibility and pretend he's not, just because he's Christian.

Doesn't matter. I used to think Kirk Cameron was cute, but now all I can see it the right-wing bullshit he promotes. Same with Sabato. At some point, who a person is overwhelms what they look like.

I kind of remember the Christian soap. I think there was a storyline where the ugly sister killed the bitchy pretty sister's boyfriend... it kind of reminded me of Erica Kane and her sister Silver. There was another storyline where the nice young heroine was raped, which caused problems with her doctor husband, and the family used to pray as they worked through what happened. I think the prayers were led by the mother-in-law, who served as a moral backbone for the soap.

[quote]Doesn't Hallmark produce these type of sappy, cheesy, family friendly shows? Is it the daytime thing that makes this one so special?

Yeah, they have a few shows which are very sappy and very family friendly. From what I've heard the Hallmark shows like the movies don't really show couples having sex. I used to watch some of the Hallmark movies around Christmas time. A few years back, I watched some Lifetime Christmas movies. Yes, Lifetime and Hallmark both make cheesy movies. But, Lifetime is a a bit different. They show couples having sex and there have been a few movies that had interracial lead couples and gays/lesbians as a supporting characters. You don't really see gay characters or interracial couples on Hallmark. Lifetime's movies sometimes have better acting than Hallmark's movies.

Big names like 100 years ago.

Everybody needs money, baby -

Meanwhile, in their private lives, they'll be doing their usual coke off a stripper's ass.

You've got to be kidding me...

So obviously no gay characters

Didn't Antonio cheat on Virginia Madsen or his ex wife?

This sounds absolutely shite ! Hope they air it the UK !

They should do a Jewish soap instead: [italic]The Old and the Kvetchy[/italic].

Whet Kim Zimmer?

Actually, [italic]Guiding Light[/italic] started out on radio as centering around Reverend Ruthledge (Arthur Peterson, later the major on [italic]Soap[/italic]), but that aspect died down over the course of the show and never seemed to figure into the TV version.

So if you're a washed up actor who couldn't get a role with all the other washed up actors that make up the cast of The Bay. So I guess you'll try your luck on Hilton Head which doesn't sound very interesting.

"So obviously no gay characters "

Unless they're tortured by 'sin' and overcome their 'sinful ways' at a gay conversion camp.

All the dregs will be there. If one could forget what schmucks Kirk and Antonio are, a scene of them fucking would be hot.

Apparently Donna Mills plays Antonio's mother on the show and she urges him not to 'spread his seed' over the townies. She pulls out the bible and quotes from scripture over the evils of pre-marital sex and fornication without the benefit of marriage. This should be a hoot.

Former ATWT star Rita McLaughlin Walter is coming out of retirement to play tavern owner Annie Jackson, who will dispense advice to the Hilton Head residents and try to steer those who would drink their troubles away to the church of Wink Martindale. A supernatural element of the show will include an angel girl whose appearance leads folks to the light.

Is Sabato playing an Episcopalian or Anglican Church of England type?

This sounds like a camp hoot. I think DL should have some hate-watching threads

Donna, dear? It's come to this? How sad.

Apparently every scene will have a biblical scripture passage that frames the scene. When characters talk of making a business deal someone will quote Psalm 112.5 to shame them.

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Greenleaf is a nighttime soap that takes place in a black megachurch ministry.

I didn't even know that this "The Bay" was a thing and that it had been on for so long. Are there other digital soaps? Who watches? Where? Sounds like they'd be grim.

I've lost all respect for Donna Mills

So instead of having fake sex all of the couples will be holding hands or taking long walks on the beach. The one with a gay son will pray it all away!

Yes there are other digital soaps r57 and The Bay seems to a place for washed up soap actors and actors whose acting careers aren't really going anywhere.

How have I never heard about The Bay? Jackie Zeman AND Heather Langenkamp?

It's not even my birthday.

Did it ever happen?

If it keeps groups like 'Ten Thousand Bored Moms' from bitching about my favorite programs, to have their own boring shit to watch? GO FOR IT! Why would I care?

Because its terrible r61

They should find the Real life Jerry Falwell Christian Choir director in San Diego. Christian singer in National Enquirer reported gay scandal. Seriously would be great for show.

Can they hire Robin Christopher? I just really want her working again.

Every day is Sunday, and even scene will be in the Church. That Christian enough for 'em?

It’s true. No longer must you suffer the torrid, un-Christian plot lines of Days of Our Lives or whatever. Now you can luxuriate in the sweet, sanctified Christian storylines of a new soap opera called Hilton Head Island.

“Wait,” you might be saying. “It’s true that I have always wanted this, but now that it’s here, I’m getting nervous. Will this Christian soap opera feature a lot of sex and adult themes, like those non-Christian soap operas?” Never fear, says Greg Gudorf, CEO of Pure Flix Digital.

Didn't Antonio just finish a stint with the Chippendales? Now it's on to a Christian soap. Diverse career, that one...

This r70

Hey! I'm available!

Me too! Charles In Charge not in as heavy rotation as I would like. Go with God.

Even their PR is bullshit ................... 'First Christian Soap Opera' ...................everyone else already mentioned 'Another Life', so try 'First Christian Soap Opera IN OVER THIRTY YEARS'

So the characters fuck and cheat and backstab and then pray for forgiveness later?

A Christian Soap - well it's about time - said, nobody.

[quote] A Christian Soap - well it's about time - said, nobody.

We already had a Christian Soap, it was called Another Life aired on Pat Robertson CBN station

Watch the opening below

Not only "Another Life" so hardly the first -- but Charlotte on "Sex and the City" also had a carpenter "boyfriend" for one season who wanted to move to Utah to be on a Christian soap opera. So the idea has been around forever, even in fiction.

"Another Life" was actually kind of cheesey fun. I remember a black villainess with a Bermuda accent running some kind of criminal activity. Very Eartha Kitt. Maybe that is her above, I didn't watch the clip yet.

I thought that Donna Mills was a lesbian.

And Antonio Sabato Jr. had a kid with a woman he wasn't married to.

Isn't all the Tyler Perry soap operas religious based? Maybe they'll have people fornicating and committing adultery so that they have to repent and shown the evil of their ways. That way they can have the sex to keep the public interested and the religious pay off.

[quote] Isn't all the Tyler Perry soap operas religious based? Maybe they'll have people fornicating and committing adultery so that they have to repent and shown the evil of their ways.

You've obviously never watched The Haves and Have Nots, r81. It's not a religious based soap in the least bit. One of the characters, Hannah, mentions God occasionally, but that's it.

I don't watch Tyler's other shows, so I can't speak for them. However, I've never gotten the impression that Tyler is religious. Although a lot of his core audience likely is.

Tyler's plays are more religious. Meet The Browns and House of Payne were somewhat religious.

There's a prime time soap that set in a church but it but it has many characters who have done some not so church approved things and has lesbians on it.

Think of the story lines. The handsome minister of the Evangelical church molested the 16 year old teen when he was a youth Minister. The patriarch is on his 3rd marriage, and had has unprotected sex with porn stars, just after his 3rd wife bore him his 6th child. Meanwhile, the local 36 year old congressman scouts the mall looking for teenage dates, his preferred intellectual age group. Betty-Lou, has angst allowing her 14 year old daughter to date the 36 year old man. She later learns, he had her 14 year old daughter grab hold on his throbbing member.

Next door, the only African Americans in town, has their son walking in the sidewalk in a menacing hoodie, and get shot by the neighborhood watch patrolman. The trial is haunting television, and the neighborhood patrol found to have stood his ground.

Side stories galore. Yet another television Minister is caught in a hotel room with a prostitute. The minister down the street is caught in a hotel room with a 17 year old male escort for counseling. Even further down the street, on a side road, the another minister is shirtless in a car with a 17 year old Grindr friend. It was a warm early spring evening.

The local schools get lots of thoughts and prayers when a fellow student enters the schools with an AR-15 and shoots 17 terms. The elementary school down the street already got their much needed thoughts and prayers after their 26 are murdered.

There is definitely a need for a religious based soap.

R26 etc. So you girls are hating on this concept? But you would love it if it were about towel heads? Why?

I can only a Christan soap opera where all the mexicans are stealing jobs from god fearing white people. Where no one has sex before marriage and abortion is a word only evil people use. Oh and please let them have a gay conversion story line where jesus stops a man from loving the cock!

Nah, you'll be surprised. Same affairs and kidnappings and stock soap scenarios -- but with a little God thrown in by one character or two to validate the redemption. Wait and see.

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If Donna Mills is so hard up for money she'd do a Christian soap opera, lets do a Go Fund Me for her.

It's got more dignity.

Kirk Cameron in as youth minister found with gay porn on his computer.

Has this been produced, or did it predictably sink into the "in development" zone?

Actually I’ll watch this. I love soap operas and anything has to be better than the current roster of soaps. If you watch old reruns of soaps from the 60s and 70s they look like they could be Christian soaps compared to today’s garbage.

Bump ✝

R93

I guess if it's good enough for Linus it's good enough for daytime tv.