MINISERIES PREMIERE: This is a warning, not a recommendation. Survivor creator Mark Burnett and his wife, Touched By an Angel star Roma Downey, clearly want to treat their selected biblical stories with reverence and dramatic impact – but the road to bad TV is paved with good intentions. The Bible, presented by History with its first two hours premiering tonight, is more clunky and less dramatically effective than the spate of recent TNT biblical telemovies, not to mention such vintage TV miniseries as Jesus of Nazareth. To watch The Bible and enjoy it, you have to forgive an awful lot – which, I guess, is a virtue, for those who insist upon trying. For more on The Bible see Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes.

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