Type: Television Series
Length: 1 Hour
Genre: Period Drama
Sunday Morning in Sin City is a quirky, irreverent drama set in the late 1970s about two twenty-something evangelists who plant their flag in the city most other Christians want nuked: Vegas. Struggling to find a church that’s a good fit for their unconventional, contemporary style of faith, they decide to create their own—and spawn one of the nation’s first megachurches right in the mob’s debaucherous backyard.
After falling victim to a robbery that disrupts their plans of evangelizing through Thailand, our idealistic young newlyweds are forced to put their heads down and go to work in Sin City just to make it all back.
Led by their vision for a better world and refusal to blindly follow tradition, their stroke of bad luck gradually becomes a streak of serendipity after they plant roots that grow into a towering religious empire. Their inclusive, community-based approach draws people from all corners of the city: hotel workers, gambling addicts, prostitutes, musicians, drag queens, hitmen—the people behind the city’s curtain, all of whom yearn for something more.
This is not a story about corrupt megachurch founders or cult leaders. This is a story about some broken kids and their friends trying to live an authentic life in a city of illusion and image that seems hell-bent on changing them.
Written by Khris Baxter & Michael Warnecke
Pilot and pitch available upon request