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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

Sci-Fi Channel to air “Cracking the Da Vinci Code”

$Cracking Da Vinci\'s Code: You\'ve Read the Fiction, Now Read the Facts$ Grizzly Adams® Productions, Inc. (GAP), producers of family friendly network television shows, announced that the SciFi Channel will air GAP’s Cracking Da Vinci’s Code program examining Dan Brown’s controversial novel, The Da Vinci Code. The SciFi Channel, owned by NBC Universal, will broadcast the two-hour Da Vinci special, as a world premiere during prime time on May 18.

The broadcast of this program is timed to coincide with the release of the Sony Pictures major theatrical movie The Da Vinci Code on May 19. The Ron Howard directed film, from Columbia Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, stars Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou.

GAP’s Cracking Da Vinci’s Code, based on the best-selling book of the same title by Dr. James Garlow and Dr. Peter Jones (Cook Communications), will examine the facts and the fiction behind Dan Brown’s best-selling novel. A variety of church groups, and even Opus Dei, a Catholic organization portrayed as a sinister group in Brown’s book, are asking that the Columbia Pictures movie include a disclaimer that the show contains fictional elements.

The TV special produced for SciFi is expected to provide a more factual examination of the characters, events and organizations Brown wrote about in his book and portrayed in the movie.

“Cracking Da Vinci’s Code engages the viewer’s intellect and provides provocative insight into this 2000-year-old mystery, and the historical evidence that leads viewers to the truth behind The Da Vinci Code,” says David W. Balsiger, senior producer for GAP.

“Although a work of fiction, Brown’s book claims to be meticulously researched,” observes Chuck Sellier, president of GAP. “The so-called fact page at the beginning of Brown’s book compels an investigation into his research which this TV special does in greater depth than any other expose of his novel.”

Can the controversial contents of The Da Vinci Code be true? Are Brown’s “facts” provable? Was Jesus married? Did he have a daughter? Did Leonardo Da Vinci try to warn us through his painting of The Last Supper? Some of the information that provides the basis for Brown’s novel, if true, could profoundly affect the Christian faith.

Cracking Da Vinci’s Code uses interviews of leading experts in theology, archaeology, art history, philosophy and science to examine the facts and the fiction behind Brown’s best-selling novel—40 million copies sold to date! Along with commentary from leaders in these fields, Cracking Da Vinci’s Code includes on-location segments of key places featured in the book, as well as information about Da Vinci’s masterpieces featured in the story.

“Cracking Da Vinci’s Code will fascinate viewers with its investigations. Seeing the actual location brings the evidence to life,” states Balsiger. “Being told something is true has less impact than being shown the truth.”

Grizzly Adams Productions (GAP), named after its long-running NBC Network TV series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, produces “Sweeps Weeks” TV Specials and series for the i Network (formally PAX-TV) and major cable channels. During the past 30 years, GAP producers have created more than 500 family friendly TV specials and series for NBC, CBS, PAX, Discovery, The Learning Channel and other networks.

About Cracking Da Vinci’s Code; Fiction or fact? What is the truth about:

* Jesus—Was he married and the father of a daughter?
* Mary Magdalene—Was she Jesus’ choice to lead the church until some men took it away from her?
* Christianity—Was it the product of pagan beliefs?
* The Church—Did the church kill more than five million females?
* The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper—Do these paintings contain hidden clues and warnings to us?

Using historical evidence, Cracking Da Vinci’s Code provides provable answers to the questions viewers have wanted to know about the “facts” behind the Da Vinci Code novel and movie.

Religious retailers may order Grizzly Adams DVD programs from Triumph Marketing at (678) 947-5615. Secular retailers can acquire DVD program titles from Grizzly Adams Family Entertainment at (866) 328-0057 / www.grizzlyadams.com. For more information on GAP’s library of 400 TV specials/VHS/DVD programs, distributed by Grizzly Adams Productions, visit www.grizzlyadams.tv.

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