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If you've seen us on TV and never heard us on the radio, welcome!

If you're a longtime listener, and you're wondering if we're ruining a perfectly good radio program by venturing into television, we urge you to take a look around. We've pulled together trailers, episode details, outtakes, and other material—including a much fuller description of what we're trying to do on TV and how we've gone about making the jump.

DVDs of the first season are now on sale at Amazon and elsewhere on the web. You can also download the entire first season from the iTunes Store. Season Two should be available in late 2008 or early 2009.

More than anything, we've tried to make a television show that would look and feel like the radio show. We're excited about the results and hope you'll feel the same way.


EPISODE ONE | Debuted March 22, 2007
Reality Check

Three stories of people hatching a plan and believing they've made a dream—big or small—come true. Instead, they're snapped back to reality: an experience that, as everyone knows, can be unpleasant.test
EPISODE TWO | Debuted March 29, 2007
My Way

An exploration of the benefits and costs of stubbornness. If you're a 15-year-old boy, and you don't want to fall in love, maybe you can just decide not to do it. Ever. Stories of trying to cheat death, love, political reality, and memory with only an idiosyncratic vision and a lot of stamina.
EPISODE THREE | Debuted April 5, 2007
God's Close-Up

An artist, his Jesus-model, the model's girlfriend, the girlfriend's father, and a bunch of bearded men all converge in Utah. An elaborate artistic tableau is set up in the desert, and there are several attempts by the faithful and the not-so-faithful to bridge the divide between them. Nancy Updike reports.
EPISODE FOUR | Debuted April 12, 2007
The Cameraman

Being behind the camera changes you. It's not just that you see everything differently; you act differently also. This episode features two stories—one big, one small—exploring this phenomenon.
EPISODE FIVE | Debuted April 19, 2007
Growth Spurt

What do you do if you don't like where you are in life? You simply decide to move forward, into the next stage, by sheer force of will. A widow; an ambitious, first-time screenwriter; and a 13-year-old girl all charge forward into their futures—with uneven results.
EPISODE SIX | Debuted April 26, 2007
Pandora's Box

Three stories of consequences that follow from human beings' doing what we do best: poking our noses everywhere, fixing things that may or may not be broken, and opening our big mouths. A hot dog stand in Chicago unleashes dark forces in the human soul; and scientists try, unsuccessfully, to create perfect pigs.


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