Television Features

My wife and I have incorporated several learning methods to do this in my home, including kid-friendly books and visits to historical sites, but we’ve also discovered several TV and audio theater programs that have boosted our children’s knowledge of U.S. history – and whetted their appetite to learn more.

This week, I joined 2,000 others in witnessing the newest variation on this century old story: Little House on the Prairie, The Musical. An Ingalls tale without Michael Landon. A history book without a soul. This time, there were very few tears.

It’s the stuff Hollywood is made of. And now Hollywood has returned to the biblical story of David to create a TV show called Kings. Set in the modern kingdom of Gilboa, the two-hour pilot airs on March 15 at 8:00 P.M. (ET) on NBC.

Who isn’t fascinated by the world of multiples? Thank goodness Discovery Health Channel’s Jon & Kate Plus 8 is back, with six-year-old twin daughters Cara and Mady and the busy sextuplets who are celebrating their third birthdays.

Any assessment of art will contain a certain degree of subjectivity, and a Top 10 list of the year’s best movies is no exception. What were we looking for in a movie? Does it confirm a Christian worldview or attack it? And then, of course, from an aesthetic perspective, is the film entertaining? Would we recommend it to our friends?

A sports enthusiast, a music fan, an animal lover, child actor Dominic Scott Kay is many things. But what he is, first and foremost, is a Christian. I chatted with him recently about dogs, cats, fish and guinea pigs ... and what it was like to work with Julia Roberts in "Charlotte's Web."

In his first major film role since leaving Julliard, Oscar Isaac has taken on the role of Joseph in the upcoming Bible epic, “The Nativity Story.” But when he signed up, the 26-year-old actor had no idea what he would soon be facing.

In TLC's new series, "The Monastery," five men are at the crossroads in their lives. They've come from all walks of life to spend 40 days and nights at a monastery, where they'll hopefully find answers to their spiritual questions.

With three films under his belt buckle and a fourth in the works, country music superstar and former high school ball player Tim McGraw is tackling Hollywood, too. His newest film, "Flicka," releases in theaters nationwide this week.