PAX-TV Special 'Breaking the Da Vinci Code' Disputes Source Documents Behind Dan Brown's Novel

PAX-TV Special 'Breaking the Da Vinci Code' Disputes Source Documents Behind Dan Brown's Novel

DENVER, May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Dan Brown's best-selling fiction thriller The Da Vinci Code ignited a worldwide controversy with his bold opening statement - "FACT: All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents and secret rituals in the novel are accurate."

Grizzly Adams Productions (GAP) announced today that their Breaking the Da Vinci Code documentary airing during "network sweeps" on the PAX-TV Network, May 11th (9-10 PM ET/PT, 8-9 PM CT/MT), disputes Brown's alleged factual source documents used in writing his novel.

With Brown's novel breaking the 25 million-copy sales mark worldwide, and the upcoming 2006 Columbia Pictures movie release directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, GAP's Da Vinci Code documentary is poised to create new controversies around the novel and upcoming film, "as every claim relating to Christianity in Dan Brown's novel has been challenged at some level in our TV special," says GAP's President, Charles E. Sellier.

The Da Vinci Code novel controversy centers around the reliability of the New Testament canon, the role of the "lost books of the Bible," the assumption that Mary Magdalene was married to Jesus, the Roman Catholic Church fabricating the divinity of Jesus, and that the Church covered up these presumed truths for over 2000 years. Even beyond the documentary's challenge to Brown's historical source documents, the show's producers say everyone wants to know - Is the novel really fact or fiction? Was Jesus really married to Mary Magdalene? Did they have a child together that became France's royal bloodline? Did Catholic secret societies hide these secrets about Jesus? Were Leonardo da Vinci and Sir Isaac Newton in on the secrets? Did Leonardo reveal cover-up secrets through his Last Supper painting?

GAP's prime-time TV documentary answers all the novel's provocative questions by drawing on three best-selling scholarly books, The Da Vinci Deception by Erwin Lutzer (Tyndale House), Breaking the Da Vinci Code by Darrell Bock (Thomas Nelson) and Cracking Da Vinci's Code by James Garlow & Peter Jones (Cook Communications).

"We've found that a large number of Christians and non-believers alike are confused by the claims in Brown's novel," says David W. Balsiger, Producer of the TV special. "Our documentary sets the record straight by stating the real facts about the historical sources used by Brown." In exclusive interviews for the TV special, well-known experts in theology, archeology, art, ancient history, philosophy and science vigorously disagree with Brown, exposing numerous historical errors presented as fact in his Da Vinci Code novel.

Grizzly Adams Productions, named after its long-running NBC-TV series on Grizzly Adams, has produced more than 500 family-friendly TV specials, features, series, and episodes for NBC, CBS, PAX, Discovery and other networks. The extended 120-minute DVD version of the TV Da Vinci documentary is available to the trade through Grizzly Adams Family Entertainment at (866) 328-0057 / http://www.grizzlyadams.tv/.

Contact:

Ann Strauss Grizzly Adams Productions, Inc. (970) 663-3820

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