Describe the variety of specifically religious programmes on the four main television channels.

over the four main television channels. The first of which is the service type. Two examples of his type of programme is "Sunday Service" and "Songs Of Praise" this programme shows different hymns, prayers and readings from religious books. "Songs OF Praise" and "Sunday Service" do special programmes for events like Christmas and Easter, featuring different places and special churches. The second type is magazine. An example of this type is "The Heaven and Earth Show" which is broadcast on BBC 1, this programme shows you life with a "spiritual twist." it has a mixture of religious news, reviews and interviews. "The Heaven And Earth Show" features a phone-poll which has a different question every week to do with the show, the idea is people ring in and give there opinions on the matter at hand. Some interesting results came through, they found out that although attendance to church is dropping by 1 percent every year, Evangelical and Charismatic Christianity is increasing. Also they found out that Christianity still has the most adherents in the UK, followed by Muslims, Hindus and finally, Sikhs. The last type of programme is documentaries they tell you about what is going on in the world of religion. And they help you learn things about different religions. There are many other programmes that could be classed as religious because they contain religious and moral issues. On television Christianity is the main religion talked about other faiths aren't covered very much you might get the odd hour special which shows you what its like to be a certain religion for a day but other than this you don't get many programmes that are on every week that explain views of other religions. Even though some channels still broadcast religious programmes the amount of them is not great so religion does not have that big of an influence on modern day media. The religious programmes shown these days are aimed at the "vaguely religious" which are people who believe in God but don't go to church. When television broadcasting first began, religious programmes were aimed at the religious people that attended church but now they are aimed at the more "vaguely religious" the Central Religious Advisory Council were not happy about the target audience changing they wanted more religious programmes to be shown about all the different religions as it is a multi-faith society. The religious programmes on television nowadays are watched more by people over than teenagers. Although viewers aged sixteen to twenty-four and twenty-five to thirty-four watched the same number of religious programmes in February 1998 as they did ten years previously. The BBC was established when the majority of Britain was Christian. However, in modern times Britain is one of the most multi-cultural countries in Europe. As times have changed the BBC has had to keep up, and now many broadcasts shown are specific to many different religions or to a certain religion.