9/22-9/27 Highlights

Introducing weekly highlights! Check the blog each Sunday for the rundown of all our great programming coming up in the week. Watch everything on CatholicTV, CatholicTV.com, Roku or Google TV.





This week:
(all times Eastern)

Christian Witness: Encore. Drs Angela and David Franks speak with George Weigel, author of Evangelical Catholicism.
Watch: Sun 4am, Wed 10:30am, Thurs 8:30pm, Sat 4pm

We've Got To Talk: New. Fr Dan wants to talk about God, faith and relationships. This week's topic- "Special in His Eyes".
Watch: Sun 6:30am, Mon 2pm, Wed 9am, Fri 8:30pm, Sat 12:30pm

One Billion Stories: New. Join Seth DeMoor as he continues sharing the stories of Catholics around the world. This week we hear about College themed stories of faith.
Watch: Mon 4:30pm, Tues 12am & 9pm, Fri 6pm, Sat 12pm & 11pm

Spotlight: New. The film fathers look at World War Z in this episode of Spotlight, CatholicTV's movie review show.
Watch: Mon 6pm, Tues 8:30pm, Wed 4am, Fri 4:30pm, Sat 10:30am and 10:30pm

WOW: The CatholicTV Challenge: New. Father Robert Reed tests 3rd graders' knowledge in the 9th season of WOW. This week's "wudabout": Optatam Totius, the Vatican II decree on priestly training.
Watch: Mon 7:30pm, Tues 5pm, Wed 8:30am, Thurs 1am, Fri 6:30am

This is the Day: New. Join Father Reed and Jay in the living room on Tuesday as they speak with Father Scott Hurd, author of When Faith Feels Fragile and Grace Mazza Urbanski, Director of the children's ministry at the Apostleship of Prayer. No This is the Day on Friday**
Watch LIVE Tuesday at 10:30am, rebroadcast at 7:30pm

The Gist: New. Rachel, Danielle, and Carolee speak with Chelsea Gheesling, founder of The Good Girl Comeback which seeks to bring back the "good girl" and inspire young girls and women to find true fulfillment.
Watch: Tue 11am & 8pm, Wed 5 am & 6pm, Thurs 12:30am

**TELETHON: After experimenting with February, we've brought the Telethon back to its usual fall date, and we appreciate all the support you can give us. Join Father Reed, Jay, Kevin, and some favorite CatholicTV hosts for musical performances and lots of fun.
Friday, 9/27 and Saturday 9/28 from 9am to 10pm

CatholicTV Game Show Wins 2 Telly Awards

The CatholicTV game show “WOW: The CatholicTV Challenge” (WOW) has been awarded 2 Telly Awards.

WOW was awarded a Silver Telly (silver is the highest) for educational programming and a bronze for religious/spiritual programming.

The Telly Awards is a New York-based organization which was founded in 1978. More information about the Telly Awards can be found at http://www.tellyawards.com/

Approximately 100 students squeeze into a television studio for each episode. The studio is full of computer-controlled lights, a starlit background, and music playing in the background during each episode.

During production of an episode of WOW on April 28, 2010, Fr. Robert Reed, Director of CatholicTV and host of the game show told the students, “the most important thing about the show is to help the people who watch the show grow in their faith. The most important thing about the show is not who wins, so let’s have fun!”

Not only does the show require help by nearly every employee of CatholicTV, but 100 different students come into the CatholicTV studios for every day of production. Each new group of students require a bit of “training” in order to produce the show.

Wow: The CatholicTV Challenge (WOW) is a children’s game show that teaches viewers the Catholic faith. The show resembles the show Jeopardy!, yet has young contestants just like the show “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” WOW is hosted by Father Robert Reed, a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston. Contestants are 3rd graders and are asked open-ended questions. Father Reed gives a brief explanation of the answer and occasional commentary. The show erupts with laughter and shouts of “Wow!” when contestants answer questions correctly. Each show has a Catholic theme such as “The Sacraments” or “The 10 Commandments”.

Fr. Robert Reed is the developer, Executive Producer, and host of WOW.

More information and full episodes of WOW are available at http://www.CatholicTV.com/catholic-kids.aspx

Director of CatholicTV and Host of Catholic Game Show Father Reed To Appear on USCCB Website

Each day, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) website offers video scripture reflections on the day’s Mass readings. Father Robert Reed, Director of CatholicTV, will give these reflections on June 25th and June 27th.

Although the USCCB website is promoting a 2000-year-old Catholic faith, the website uses modern means such as streaming video to spread the Gospel. The USCCB website also offers movie reviews (http://www.usccb.org/movies/), an online NAB bible, and an online Catechism among other features.

Each day, a different priest or lay person offers video scripture reflections. These priests and lay people come from all around the country and even include students such as Jonathan Jerome from the Catholic University of America. Priests include both diocesan and religious order priests.

These short video clips range from 2 to 4 minutes and can be embedded into any website.

Father Robert Reed is a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston and also Director of CatholicTV. Fr. Reed co-hosts the talk show “This is the Day”, presides frequently in the televised Masses and rosaries on CatholicTV, hosts the Catholic game show “Wow: The CatholicTV Challenge”, and also stars as the voice of the animated dog “Nosey” on the same show. Fr. Reed also assists at area parishes during weekends. In order to see his reflections at the USCCB website, visit this link on or after June 25th and June 27th.

http://www.usccb.org/video/reflections.shtml

Click below to see Fr. Reed as host and voice of “Nosey” the dog on “Wow: The CatholicTV Challenge”

http://www.catholictv.com/shows/default.aspx?seriesID=137

Catholic Kids say the most amazing things!

WOW:The CatholicTV Challenge

Kids from St. Augustine are great and very knowledgeable about the Resurrection!