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Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by selimthegrim on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:16PM (#34614927)
You do realize there’s an entire TV network based out of Birmingham Alabama for all that stuff
Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by ticviking on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:23PM (#34615049)
Can you think of a major network where the focus was on Christian themes in a way like queer eye is about LGBT+ themes?

The last one I can think of was "Touched By an Angel" and that is over 20 years old now.

Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by teachrdan on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @03:44PM (#34617414)
Even this is wrong. The Hallmark channel makes 40 Christmas movies a year, all of them with Christian families, obviously. (Some allow for a character who is Jewish.) These movies attract millions of viewers.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonifitzgerald/2021/12/24/the-e...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanberr/2019/01/11/widely-...

Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by selimthegrim on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @04:36PM (#34618175)
Wait until they find out who wrote most of those Christmas tin pan alley songs
Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by ticviking on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @08:20PM (#34620742)
It’s not a surprise to anyone who has studied show business at all. The Boscht belt and its associated Jewish entertainment circuit was a critical incubator of talent for our nations popular music.

No one is hiding any of this, and it’s trivial to read a memoir from many musicians and see a story about how they wanted to feel more included in the increasingly secularized holidays so they wrote music that was about the stuff that included in them.

Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by ticviking on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @08:17PM (#34620713)
The idea that an underserved market is able to be farmed by a niche cable network supports my thesis. The hallmark channel kind of explicitly Christian entertainment is counter cultural rather than mainstream.