Like soap operas in the United States, telenovelas began on the radio, with 30-minute daytime segments geared toward housewives in Latin America.

There is simply no ignoring the elemental power of seeing Jesus’ depicted, earnestly and largely reverently, on national TV.

The show stars popular singers John Legend as Jesus and Sara Bareilles, who was raised Catholic, as Mary Magdalene, and features 1970s rock figure Alice Cooper as Herod.

Bonneville put his Cambridge theology degree to work in a new documentary about Jesus.

The Gaffigans have produced comedy specials, best-selling books and five children. They even survived a brain tumor. What have you done lately?

The six-part part series, which will play Sunday nights starting March 11, is subdivided into some novel plots of papal territory.