Two more NBC
affiliates chose not to air the network's new drama The
Book of Daniel, which features an Episcopal
priest with a gay son, the network said Friday. Four
affiliates nationally have rejected the series,
and conservative Christian groups have campaigned
against it.
KBTV in Beaumont,
Texas, and WGBC in Meridian, Miss., were the latest
stations to reject the series. Earlier, NBC affiliates KARK
in Little Rock, Ark., and WTWO in Terre Haute, Ind.,
said they wouldn't air it. NBC has 230 affiliates
nationally, and a spokeswoman noted that the four
affiliates make up less than 1% of NBC's national audience.
The series stars Aidan Quinn as the Reverend Daniel
Webster and depicts him as talking regularly with
Jesus Christ. (AP)