Can’t see anything going wrong with this question, can you?
So here’s the thing: a robust, post-Enlightenment society needs to be able to critique and question anything, including religions – that much is a given. But should TV be one of those things that critiques it? If it, is there a line TV shouldn’t cross, and if so, where is it? Is comedy allowed to satirise religions? In short:
How much should TV respect religion?
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.
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I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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