The Chosen passes Baywatch as the most widely translated show in history
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 17 May 2024
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Summary
The Chosen recently surpassed Baywatch as the most widely translated TV show in history. But how did The Chosen go from a crowdsourced dream to one of the most popular programs in the world? And what can its path to reach that point teach us about following God’s calling for our lives?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. Today is Friday, May the 17th, 2024. I'm Chris Elkins of the Denison |
| 0:08.5 | Forum, narrating today's daily article written by Dr. Ryan Dennison. When the Chosen set out in |
| 0:16.4 | 2017 to crowdfund its way to a first season, their goal of introducing the authentic Jesus to a billion people was ambitious, to say the least. |
| 0:27.6 | And while they have still a ways to go to reach that point, they've recently crossed the threshold of 200 million viewers around the world. |
| 0:36.9 | Streaming platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and The Chosen app have contributed greatly |
| 0:42.9 | to that number. |
| 0:43.9 | However, their growth has been fueled just as much by the degree to which the show has been |
| 0:48.9 | translated and dubbed into many languages around the world. |
| 0:53.3 | As Adam McKinnis writes, |
| 0:55.0 | The Chosen has partnered with Come and See |
| 0:57.0 | to dub the show into 50 languages |
| 1:00.0 | with the hopes of eventually taking that number beyond 600. |
| 1:04.0 | That far surpasses the previous record holder, Baywatch, |
| 1:08.0 | which saw its episodes translated 34 times. And the extra effort to dub the show |
| 1:13.9 | rather than just make it available through subtitles is crucial for areas where literacy is lacking. |
| 1:20.5 | McKinness describes how, in Madagascar, for example, the nation's president, Andre Rajalina, |
| 1:26.7 | reached out to come and see to request that the group |
| 1:29.6 | make the native Malagasy language a priority, even though it's spoken by a relatively small |
| 1:35.8 | number of people. When it was made available last year, the chosen became what is believed to be |
| 1:41.1 | the first show ever dubbed into that language. And as Come and See CEO Stan Jantz describes, |
| 1:48.0 | the impact has been felt throughout the island nation, |
| 1:51.0 | with the show taken into remote areas, |
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