this is not your grandfather s bible. everyone seems to be good looking, big production values. reporter: the epic ten-part series which airs through easter is now being flooded with viewers. 13 million on its first night alone. making it the most watched entertainment program on cable. among the show s faithful followers, celebrities like l.l. cool j, lisa rinna, even oprah winfrey who couldn t stop tweeting about the show as it aired sunday night. even one of the series featured songs performed by celo green is giving the old book a new attitude. but the making of this tv juggernaut is something of a david and goliath story of its own. reality producing genius, mark burnett and his wife actress roma downey recently told elizabeth vargas that despite their star power, they were forced to film with a limited budget. most journalists are saying how could you have spent $20
congratulations. gretchen: he takes on terrorists, defending our national security, on the hit show ncis: los angeles. is anyone here? mellow? hello? you work here? there is customer service there, huh? gretchen: chris o donnell joins us live again this morning. so glad you made it back to the curvy couch. good morning. good to be here. brian: l.l. cool j, camera hog? [ laughter ] he can hog whatever he wants. he s a big dude. brian: he is. didn t he bought up an assailant that went into his house? is that true? yeah. someone broke into his house. home invasion is never a fun thing. but yeah, the guy, to make it simple, he picked the wrong house to break into. steve: we ve come a long way in your genre of show. my mom used to call those shoot em up shows. for an hour there would be some shooting. now things are so graphic in real life with so much things
silly with black people. i think that is for 2016 that is what they are working with. speaking of which speaking of silly with plaque people. with black people. we are just a little goofy with black people. we are not in the category of silly. gavin, you mentioned the cap. you referred to it as a cap from the 1980s. it was actually created in 1938? yes, i would believe that. as with all fashion labels, they have their zenith and it exploded when l.l. cool j wore won on the debut album which i believe was 1986? it just shows it don t matter when it came out. it is when black people used
you could tell a heartfelt rendition of that song. and even at some points it looked like she was fighting back tears. whitney was a mentor to her. jennifer did. she really stole the show. jennifer did a wonderful job. if there s an heir apparent to whitney houston jennifer proved once again why she s it. a lot of folks gave her a shout out. l.l. cool j, rihanna, stevie wonder. a lot of people. all weekend there s been extensive coverage of her passing. in case you wanted to catch more there are radio stations throughout the country that are going all whitney 24 hours. b.e.t. will air a special monday from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. lifetime will reshow the bodyguard which of course made that song famous. mtv s doing video blocks in the morning from 6:00 to 9:00. vh1 airing specials all throughout the week. and of course oprah who did whitney s last big in-depth interview, they re going to air the whole two-hour special again on thursday on oprah s network. again, that s thursday. the intervi
they did tell us some very important things. they told us that there was no foul play involved. so this is not a murder case. and no signs of trauma. no physical injuries associated with her death. so we do know that she was found in the bathtub of her hotel room in los angeles. we also know that the paramedics on the scene tried to revive her with cpr but were unable to do that. so right now we are waiting for those tests to give us the all-important answers, and for the coroners to come forward with their official cause of death and tell us what happened here. > and, david, apparently whitney s 17-year-old daughter was also taken to the hospital hours after her mom s death. what do we know about her this morning? well, bobby christina brown is a teenager. she is whitney houston s only child from the marriage she had with bobby brown. the teenager was taken to the hospital according to a source close to the family. she was released. she was just described as being overwh