I mean, it stands by itself. There's a suspicion around that maybe the people who've been at this for thousands of years might know something about it. There are risks, however, when a commercial medium like television tries to depict religious figures and stories about which believers feel passionately. That is the highbrow way to present Jesus, but the people who sit in the pews don't like that. They're not going to like a presentation of a man who was not God, did not walk on water, and explains away all the miracles.
Analysts see an upside and a downside to television's new interest in religion.
If television is treating something that is very dear to you, you're going to be very favorably impressed by that. You're going to feel that your faith has been validated as well. While network entertainment divisions have gotten religion, at least for the moment, the picture is more mixed on the news side.