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The Chosen is an historical television series completely adapted from the Bible.

Staying true to the details of the text in the New Testament,

the show follows the birth, life, and death of Jesus Christ.

Dallas Jenkins, creator, director and co-writer of The Chosen,

came up with the concept of the series

once he realized there had never been a multi-season show based on the life of Jesus.

Today, The Chosen has over 110 million unique viewers and is a truly global phenomenon.

Joining us with a little more on the show and faith content in Hollywood is the

Chosen's vice president of original content, Catherine Hornock. Faith content for the longest time

was just a niche market. It was a subset, if you will, of content creation. It was never a core

fundamental tent pole within the Hollywood

system, and now it's becoming truly viable within the system. The funny thing is, I'm a high

school teacher who God interrupted my life and said, no, I want you to go work in Hollywood.

And I had to remind him, I've had no training, I don't know anything about Hollywood. And he just promised that the multiplication of the talents are real,

if we're just faithful. And boy, has he kept his word. And so for the last 20 years, I have climbed

through kind of the back alleys and the back doors of Hollywood to what many might say is the top.

I'm helping to collaboratively steer one of the biggest brands in the world.

My passion has been the evolution of faith content. At MGM, I worked under Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, who I looked to

as kind of of my generation, the mother and father of faith content. Not only has Mark had huge

success with the survivor, the voice, hands made tale, he is one of the greatest producers of our

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