
T, Heyborne has played Elder Calhoun in “The Best Two Years,” a movie about four missionaries in the Netherlands, and Jared in “The R.M.” (“Returned Missionary.”) Along with a number of national commercials, including a Snickers spot with Mr. Most Americans probably wouldn’t recognize Kirby Heyborne’s blond waves - but many Latter-day Saints do. But there were a few who said that because it was made by BYU, they wouldn’t watch it.Īnd then there are the actors. He said that the audiences, made up of parents with children, loved the show. Michael Dunn, the managing director of BYU Broadcasting, said the show was tested with focus groups in Dallas (“heavily evangelical,” Dunn noted) and San Diego (“very heavily agnostic”). Take “Dwight in Shining Armor,” a comedy that premiered this year about a 21st century teenage boy in the suburbs and a warrior princess who awakens there after being asleep for a thousand years.
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It has played host to Mary and Joseph, John the Baptist and Jesus - as well as Lehi, Amulek and Alma the Younger.
Set way back from the road, this maze of open-air passageways and courtyards is about the size of two football fields, an unusual vision of limestone bumping up against the Utah Rockies. PROVO, Utah - In the heavy quiet of the Utah desert, past fields of alfalfa and fruit trees, past the Goshen trailer park and a big, sprawling dairy farm, the domes of Jerusalem rise up from the patchy grass.