I just saw this on National Catholic Register.com! any thoughts?
--Priest TV Show Vows Respect— The fall television lineup will include a show about Catholic priests. But it won’t be a tale about corrupt or dysfunctional priests, as some shows in the past have been.
Rather, “Vows” — now in production for the American Movie Channel — is about a priest who is faithful and is in love with the Church. ...Karen Hall, the show’s creator, is an award-winning television writer and novelist“When my agent asked if I was going to pitch an idea to the networks for a new series, I told him my only idea was really insane,” she said... Her agent thought a series about Jesuits in a formation house might be, as the agent put it, “outlandish enough to work.”...“Priests for the most part used to be left alone,” she said. “But now people really wonder what it is like to walk down the street wearing a collar, why men choose to be priests in this day and age, and what the priesthood is about. And in the recent annals of priest screen characters, a man who is faithful to his vows and in love with the Church is something that almost never comes out of religious-cynical Hollywood.”
“The orthodox priest-protagonist is a novelty,” she added. “Everything else has been done: the cool liberal priest, the gay priest, the drug-addicted pastor, priests who are pedophiles or who have lost faith. Networks are interested now in what is real, which seems weird enough to them to be compelling.”
Read the whole thing!http://ncregister.com/site/article/3026