It’s no accident that “amazing” is the reflexive superlative of the Internet age. Amazement — great wonder tempered by perplexity and even disorientation — is a deep feature of the Web; its users seek it, cultivate it and register it on message boards.

Reality TV has long relied on big prizes to motivate risk taking, back stabbing and other engaging behaviors that keep viewers watching from week to week.

Can religion and reason peacefully coexist? From a scan of the headlines it doesn't seem so. The world appears polarized, incapable of even agreeing to disagree on matters of faith.

Attracting audiences to religious programmes has always been a challenge. But an injection of reality television seems to be providing the answer. Sally Turner reports

For many, miracles are distant legends. Others believe they are real events in the here and now. Here radio and TV presenter Roger Bolton recounts his sceptic's attempt to reconcile the two.

Faith-based business is big business. That much was clear from a day at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention.

Controversial show not yet officially canceled; Drama drew low ratings, protests

NBC series generates a controversy

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC has given a script commitment to a one-hour drama centering on an expert in "deprogramming" people.

BEVERLY HILLS - After spending much of her life as the subject of interviews, Naomi Judd is turning the tables.

New York (AP) -- After numerous allegations about liberal bias at the broadcast networks, an intriguing hourlong "20/20" grants airtime for five religious conservatives to explain their belief in Christianity's central miracle, the bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the grave.

The bible of rock 'n' roll, Rolling Stone magazine, will run an ad for the Holy Bible next month — the same ad it rejected two weeks ago for its "spiritual message."

Security has been stepped up at the London theatre staging Jerry Springer: the Opera as the controversy over the BBC's decision to broadcast the production intensified yesterday.

The Jerusalem Post, an English-language newspaper born in Israel in 1932 as The Palestine Post, is about to get new owners who are betting they can rebuild its circulation by reaching an international readership of Jews and fundamentalist Christians.

East Asia and Middle East have worst press freedom records

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