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GSN’s prayers have been answered. Last night’s premiere of the network’s The American Bible Challenge has delivered GSN the highest viewership in its 17-year history. The 8 PM Jeff Foxworthy-host show brought in 1.7 million total viewers. With 1.2 million viewers, the previous GSN record holder was the March 2003 documentary Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal. Gaining in the triple digits from its Family Feud lead in, American Bible Challenge helped give GSN a total viewership of 2.3 million last night, another record for the network. The show pits 18 teams of three contestants against each other in their knowledge of the Good Book. The teams compete for money to help support their respective faith communities and charities like the American Cancer Society. The American Bible Challenge is executive produced by Who Wants To Be A Millionaire executive producer Michael Davies of Embassy Row and Tom Forman of RelativityREAL. Consultant producers are Nick Stuart and Maura Dunbar of Odyssey Networks, the country’s largest multi-faith media coalition. Jeff Foxworthy also serves as producer with J.P. Williams and Jennifer Novak also executive producing.
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Cool, they should have more game shows based on successful fictional novels.
Being mean and cynical doesn’t make life better. It cheapens it.
Cynicism is all we have left in a world that bases its laws off a 2000-year-old book written by desert nomads and curated by an increasingly-paranoid group of old, racist white men.
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“fictional novels”
What other kind of novels are there?
This show does not belong on prime time. It should be a sunday show or real early in the day or real late at night. If you want to know more about the bible … go to church.
Marjorie, this show can only be enjoyed by those who already know the bible, it’s not meant to teach anyone. Besides, people learn the bible by reading it, not by going to church. This show is clean, fun and challenging. Why do you want to rain on our parade? Can’t the minority (bible people) get at least one hour out of the week? Tell you what, you can have the other 167 hours, happy?
Minority? Really? This show has become the top rated Game Show for GSN!! That should also answer the question of those of you who wonder why GSN would show it during Prime Time.
going to church is just the place not to know the Bible.
Dude, your comment shows that you know absolutely nothing about the Bible. I suspect you’re actually afraid to read it. But you don’t need to be. It’s really a big love letter from God to His kids. Check it out.
God Bless.
“The show pits 18 teams of three contestants against each other in their knowledge of the Good Book.”
I’m sorry, but any sentence that contains the word “knowledge” next to mention of “the Good Book” is ridiculous on its face.
You should be sorry. So serious are’nt we. And for heavens sake lighten up.
Plato, are you familiar with “The Allegory of the Cave?”
That reminds me of another failed pilot I did. It was about the prophet who wrote the book or Revelations, you know, the one with the angels of death, four horsemen, and seven headed dragon and all that.
Well anyway, at the end, the audience learns that the prophet really did travel to the future and see all those things with his own eyes, but he didn’t realize he was in a movie theater when he traveled to the future, so he thought it was all real.
We love this show! It is not only very informative about the Bible, but fun as well. Thank you to all of the crew, who made this show possible.
I wish all prime time TV hour shows were based off the Bible to incorporate today’s teens and children. Not only are we learning but having fun at it also.Great show and I hope it continues.
I was looking for the “Like” button for that comment!!!
Lighten up? About what? Religious nonsense being peddled in a game show? No thanks.
“Religious nonsense” in a game show context = a match made in heaven!
Firebrand’s comment is just another example of thoughtless atheistic or agnostic (I’m not sure which). That is a very stupid thing to say about a book that contains one of the earliest known references to a round earth (Isaiah 40:22). The earliest known reference to the idea of an expanding universe (Job 9:8 – written some 1500 years before the birth of Jesus), which also appears in Isaiah 40:22 and at least 9 other passages in the Hebrew scriptures (the Old Testament). Not to mention things like the existence of the Hittite nation, King Sargon of Assyria, and Belshazzar being a ruler of the Babylon Empire at the time of it being conquered by the Medes, all of which were considered fictional by atheists, agnostics and “higher” critics. In all of the three cases mentioned above, archaeology proved the anti-biblical skeptics wrong and Bible believers correct.
…and those who make statements like this is the best example of not doing the research.\Sad the lack of wisdom in people anymore.
The oldest and best adage I have ever heard and learned is;”if you can’t say anything nice……just shut the cake hole.”
Wow, lots of salty atheists up in here
It’s so cool to be an atheist these days. Very hip. Shallow and uninformed? Who cares. Just stick with the herd and pretend to have the intellectual high ground.
Pretending? Isn’t that what the Bible is all about?
the college knowledge is what brought the world to where it is now. Enough said. Worlds going down.
Boy, did you sum up or what. Only problem is that the herd is headed over the clift. At least in the Biblical sense. Sorrowful to see such willful ignorance in such a knowledge enriched society.
Even Dawkins is stepping away from his atheistic to the less strident agnostic position due to science becoming just to difficult to deal with as DNA and molecular biology sets up new parameters for evolution. ” As they professed to be wise, they became fools.”
Paula, the assertion you make about Richard Dawkins “stepping away” is deplorable lie. You should be ashamed of yourself for spreading falsehoods.
Good lord, you can’t even spell “cliff.”
Sigh.
So thats your defense for what she said, critiqueing her spelling? Go ahead language teacher tell me how to spell critiqueing.
“Just stick with the herd and pretend to have the intellectual high ground.”
A perfect summation of today’s Christians! What a good post.
John you do a pretty good job of falsely believing you have the intellectual high ground as well. I have earned the right to have intellectual high ground, as I am a two-time televised quiz show champion. I won a high school equivalent of the GE College Bowl when I was a high school senior. The other win was in a one on one duel against Ben Stein on Win Ben Stein’s Money
Please please PLEASE tell me you got to hug Ben.
Unfortunately, no. Ben and Jimmy slipped away quietly and left me all alone on stage to play around with the play money that was dropping from the ceiling. As far as I know that was the only episode where Ben and Jimmy did that.
1Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God.
Shallow and uninformed…lol. Says the person who believes that Jesus actually died and came back to life. You believe in a zombie.
Thank-you for having an intellectual show on. This is helping me more with my knowledge of the word of God. We used to play Bible trivia when the kids where growing up. And firebrand, how appropriate of a name. Maybe you could have used “hell fire” since there is one, HELL! It is a real place, buddy!
Sure, they usually pop up when religion and the
Bible comes up. Although some in religion give others a reason to criticize, when it comes to the correct Bible translation their arguments are as shallow as a desert puddle.
Blasphemy! Kirk Cameron is waaaaay more Christian than Jeff Foxworthy. Kirk should be hosting this show. WWJD? Jesus would not approve.
Maybe they asked him to host but he had the good sense to turn them down.
no he would not!
Are you really using WWJD with regard to the choice of a game show host? Have we really watered down what Christianity is supposed to be about so much that we can look at even the most inane situations, utter “WWJD,” and then purport to know what He would want? I would think that He wouldn’t want us using knowledge of scripture as trivia and would instead–per the Gospel message–want us to actually go out and live our faith to help others instead of using it sometimes for entertainment and other times for cheap political gain.
Foxworthy’s a much better choice, appealing to a broader demographic. Cameron’s appeal doesn’t extend much beyond the “Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs” wing of evangelicals.
Reminds me of my failed pilot called JUDGE JESUS. It was like JUDGE JUDY, but the judge looked like Jesus and used the Bible to decide the verdict and sentence. For instance, for trashing his friend’s car, the defendant had to pay ten goats and two virgins. It was inspired by the line in the Apostles’ Creed where it says “And he (Jesus) shall come to judge the living and the dead.”
Thank you GSN for contributing to the further dumbing down of America.
QUOTE: “Thank you GSN for contributing to the further dumbing down of America.”
How so? Even if you do not believe in the Bible at all, you should still believe in the basic idea that perhaps some time long before ours, there really was such a thing as the ten commandments. Perhaps they really were the law. At least believe that much!!!
Belief is not enough. We demand facts. PROOF.
From a person who considers Keeping up with the Kardashions high art
Very cool
great show!need more positive info in this world today!
This show is the antithesis of that positive info.
To paraphrase the old saying, no one ever went broke underestimating the public’s intelligence.
Great show! I hope it continues on its successful path!
Seems to be lot of haters guess the concept of changing the station or turning off the TV just flies over their heads
what they delve into as respects knowledge hasn’t kept them occupied or interested long enough so they watch Bible challenge and pretend its funny. Their laughs must be so forced. Pitiful.
The Bible is a wealth of information that would make for an endless supply to delve into for a very interesting game show. The nay-sayers that stay nay-sayers after the show should run its course will be the ones that didn’t actually watch. Thank you for such a fun and refreshing program.
Thanks, Paula
But is the audience “smarter than a 5th grader”?
the atheist are perhaps smarter than a 5th grader but not smart enough to “see” with an unveiled eye the value of the Bible. It takes something special to perceive it. The blind don’t. Those who are immoral and want to stay that way refuse to and the proud are absolutely determined to undermine it. Its their loss. Hope they change. I wouldn’t want to be them for anything.
The Deadline comments board has become popular. I remember when I used to be a bunch off pissed off execs and lonely writers.
Or maybe we’re seeing a cultural shift? Where people don’t have dialogues about important issues in real life because our political dialogue has broken down to the point where we have topics we aren’t allowed to mention (gun control, climate change). Instead people take the the Internet where they can spout out their beliefs to and infinite audience from the safety of their own home.
Makes me want to throw away everything with a cord.
Thnak you, thnk you, Jeff and GSN for the delightful show. I Loved It! Recommended it to a lot of friends. Have known Jeff since he was a boy growing yup in Hapeville with my sons. This is the berst show you’ve done, Jeff! Keep at it! Pay no attention to the athesists and cynics. “The truth shall set yu free”. God bless you
Excellent TV program. I am planning to see all episodes!
Excellent show!! Very well done Hope it stays on GSN We have set TV 2 view next exposides
Fantastic Show. I’m learning a lot. But I am excited to realize how many questions I got correct. I can hardly wait to have my husband take the challenge.
This is a great show. In a time where greed and self-gratification is running wild, we finally have a show, not just an episode, based on winning money for worthwhile charities that help out the disadvantaged.
It should not matter whether we believe or not believe in the Bible, but we should support the show because there are unselfish people trying to win money to support these great charities.
Thank you GSN for your support in helping these charities and making it fun.
I happened to see this show for the first time while waiting in a doctor’s office. I couldn’t believe it. Finally a show without sex, violence, cussing and cramming the “new normal” down our throats (a part of social engineering that we aimlessly accept without question nowadays). How different this country would be if people had enough sense to know what is good for them and turned some of the trash. We do reap what we sow. Garbage in, garbage out type of thing. I fail to understand why the Bible is such a threat in a time where trash reigns. If you don’t like it, turn it off or change the channel. Nobody is forcing you to watch, it’s your personal perogative. The fact that this show reached an all time high shows that people are hungry for the word of God and tired of the empty shows offered on TV. This show is fun and charity is good for the soul. Jeff is a fun host. I’m sure he would admit that he is not perfect. He seems the kind of man who keeps things in perspective. We all fall short because we are sinners. Stop being so mean spirited and uptight. Lighten up and enjoy some Bible truth with believers! Maybe you’ll learn something.
lovely comment
Wonderful show. Yes and amen.
Does anyone know what time the shows on eastern standard time? Can’t seem to find the schedule on the GSN site.
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