Pray TV
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Director Rick Friedberg Duration Music director George S. Clinton Language English | 5/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Running time 1h 26m Screenplay Nick Castle, Dick Chudnow Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Nick Castle , Dick Chudnow Release date 1980 Cast Dabney Coleman (Marvin Fleece), Paul Cooper (Pom), Paul Reubens (Jack Chudnowski)Similar movies The Loft , Rodney Dangerfield: Nothin' Goes Right , Sorry for the Disturbance , Dave Chappelle: HBO Comedy Half-Hour , X-Large , Bill Hicks: Igby's, LA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pray TV (also known as KGOD) is a 1980 comedy film spoofing televangelism.
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Plot
Failing UHF TV station KRUD, Channel 17, is "reborn" as Christian television station KGOD. The new format is a big success but attracts an incompatible mix of fringe ministries and broadcasters wanting time on the station. A series of humorous vignettes show the different religious shows the station broadcasts: a faith healer, a radical black nationalist preacher, a preacher with a drive-in church, a Christian game show, etc.
The film is very similar in both plot and style to the film UHF which was released in 1989.
Production
Pray TV stars Dabney Coleman, Paul Cooper, Rosemary Alexander, and Lewis Arquette, with cameos by Paul Reubens and the band Devo (who play a Christian rock band named "Dove"). It was directed by Rick Friedberg.
Release
Pray TV was picked up by Filmways Pictures in 1980 (under its original name, KGOD). The film premiered on television instead of theatrically, and aired on Showtime in 1983 under its present title.
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