| (3) See http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/,
the web site for ExxonMobil
Masterpiece Theatre Were Newman as well known in America today as other 19th Century English writers such as Jane Austen or Anthony Trollope, then Masterpiece Theatre would be hard at work on a six-part television miniseries production of Father Newman's 1848 novel LOSS AND GAIN or the sometimes terrifying 1856 CALLISTA. It is also useful to go to Masterpiece Theatre’s content provider: BBC and BBCAMERICA. See the web site: http://www.bbcamerica.com/about/about.jsp. If there is to be popular lobbying for Newman novels to be dramatized on television, we have to go to the U.K. As the web site says: "ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre is primarily a series of programs that originate with our producing partners in the UK. We're always reviewing books, scripts and plays for possible co-production, but they come to from those partners who can provide the majority of the financing for any given project. " If we cannot immediately persuade Masterpiece Theatre to stage Newman's novels or BIOGRAPHY to treat of his life, there is also Eternal Word Tevevision Network (EWTN). The American Chesterton Society (http://www.chesterton.org) plans to produce for EWTN a sequel to its earlier Chesterton presentation, "The Apostle of Common Sense." The Chesterton Society is both energetic and practical. It might be helpful, therefore, if The Venerable John Henry Newman Association made common cause with the Chesterton Society, exchanged ideas and if both then worked together to make their heroes better known. The Chesterton web site is full of other ideas which Newman popularizers could draw upon: a one-man traveling Chesterton show, a President willing to go anywhere to talk Chesterton, tips on starting a local Chesterton society and on and on. |