The present generation always believe on the matter that have true facts. So if we want them to believe in religion than we should provide them with facts. The religious program that are under the category of the documentary program deals with the topic based on facts.
We’ll take the e.g. of “Moses”. Moses is presented by Jeremy Bowen-Presenter /journalist. It comes on BBC1 at 8pm on Sunday. Jeremy Bowen argues that some of the myths surrounding Moses could be based on fact after all.
Moses is a strange story, I mean you can imagine trying to cross the Red Sea would be horrendously difficult but a Reed Sea is something quite different. This is marshland areas and this is probably what they crossed. Ancient Egyptian texts mention an area called Patchoufy: The Reeds. This is probably what they crossed. If you're talking about a shallow reed swamp of maybe two or three metres maximum of water, this sort of thing is physically possible. In fact it's been witnessed within the last 100 years... The Egyptian army might not have been completely decimated. Many of the horses would have been killed, chariots would have been stuck in the mud.
As Moses deals with facts with the stories the audience can be Archeologists, religious and vaguely religious people(Questioning), Jewish, Christianity, Islam and adults.
Worship program:
There are many people who are old, disable or not able to go to church under such circumstances. The worship program provides service for them. The e.g. can be songs of praise. It is recently, the most popular program on television in uk. It comes on BBC1 on Sunday at 5pm. In the songs of praise the people together sings hymns. They also provide us with Subtitles so its becomes interesting for the deaf people There were total 11.4 million viewers in 1998 and it came down to 6 to 8 million viewers. But still not bad. Songs Of Praise viewers have reported seeing 'miracles' on the show – people have called in to recount seeing the Virgin Mary in a stained glass window bowing her head, while others have seen statues of apostles and prophets raising their hands. They sometimes visit a particular place i.e. countryside, city or town. Get their views about god. Do they trust god? It’s very interesting to know about the views of the people as it gives knowledge about how many people have +ve attitude about god.The audience might be the peoples who can’t go to church under some circumstances that are old, disable etc., religious people, people who love to hear the Hymns.
Magazine Program :
The magazine program deals with the various types of topics. So it is interesting as we get some change in the topics. It doesn’t seems boring. I am going to discuss about the program “heaven and earth”. Heaven and earth comes on BBC1 at 10am to 11am on Sundays. The presenters are Philipa Forester and Kelly Ross. With the name of the program we can judge what the talk might be about Heaven and the people on earth. Heaven itself is the religious word and earth includes humans. So the talk is about the spiritual matters. But it is vaguely religious program The program “heaven and Earth” deals with the people who has real experience of the incident in their life which makes them feel to believe in god. The target audience might be the people who are interested in other people’s lives, adults, who reads others mind i.e. psychologists etc.
Conclusion:
By observing the time of the program, target Audience etc we can say various things about the religious program. There are many people who deeply believe in God and like to watch the religious program but are helpless, they can’t watch the religious program due to their job timings, so some of the program are forecasted on Sundays so that all people can watch. The parents can also insist their children to watch the program as they have day off on Sundays and gain some knowledge about religion. Some of the religious programmes are focused on only one type of religion, race and, on age as well. The type of religion chosen in the program also depends on the caste and the thinking of the producers and presenters and the COUNTRY. In London the program might be on the Christian religion, in India might be on Hindu, in Pakistan might be on Muslims etc. By watching religious programmes one gain peace in their mind. If we’ll go in church their is omplete silence and it really gives peace in our mind if the person realises it. I conclude with that the person should watch any type of religious program once a day and it’ll really change the behaviour of the particular person.
