LIVE+LOCAL
Fun, funny, faith-filled television for the whole family.
Should You Watch It?
If you want a sitcom that treats faith, family, forgiveness, and work with warmth, LIVE+LOCAL is an easy recommendation. This six-episode series follows the co-hosts of a struggling Christian morning radio show, mixing comic bits and interviews with real Christian artists, authors, and comics.
Dave Coulier and Emily Pendergast work very well together, giving the series a strong center. The show also builds toward a heartwarming, satisfying climax, while its interviews offer entertaining and inspiring conversations with Christians such as Jeff Allen and Dallas Jenkins.
There are a few mild jokes and personal conflicts, but no foul language, violence, sex, nudity, smoking, or drugs. For a faith-filled comedy suitable for all ages, LIVE+LOCAL is worth watching.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESTommy Murphy and Tina Knott have hosted the morning show on K-HUGG, a struggling Christian radio station in Middle America, for years. Their program features comedy bits, interviews, and a newly promoted intern handling traffic and weather.
When a new program director arrives, his changes unsettle Tommy and Tina. Then they learn the station’s longtime owner plans to retire and may sell it, putting the future of their show at risk.
Is It Any Good?
Four stars means LIVE+LOCAL is highly enjoyable television, and the source review’s praise is clear. The sitcom is fun and funny, and it uses a mockumentary style that suits the morning-radio setting.
Coulier and Pendergast work very well together as the heart of the series. The episodes are strengthened by entertaining, insightful, and inspiring interviews with Christian guests. The story builds to a heartwarming, satisfying, and funny climax in the final two episodes.
The Worldview
LIVE+LOCAL presents a very strong Christian, biblical, moral worldview. It promotes faith and family while also emphasizing forgiveness and compassionate capitalism through the story of a struggling Christian radio station.
The series includes interviews with Christians who discuss faith, family, work, and service. Jeff Allen explains that his relationship with Christ brings him the greatest joy, followed by his relationships with his wife, children, and grandchildren, and then his career. The source review presents these ideas as central strengths of the program.
The show’s economic themes are also notably sympathetic to small-business concerns and compassionate capitalism. Its worldview is pro-family and openly Christian, with no departure or distortion identified in the source review.
At the center is a call to forgive and serve others through relationships. Scripture says, “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you” (Ephesians 4:32).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
Very strong Christian, biblical, moral worldview that’s also pro-family, and there are some strong capitalists elements about the economic issues revolving around running a small radio station
Foul Language
No foul language, but there’s references to passing gas in Episode Four and, when a man tells a woman in Episode Three, “Don’t go in there,” about a room with a lot of fancy electronic equipment, the woman jokes that that’s what the man sometimes says when he exits the bathroom
Violence
No violence
Sex
No sex
Nudity
No nudity
Alcohol Use
A joke about drinking in one episode
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
No smoking or drugs;
Miscellaneous Immorality
Some light personal conflicts and a discussion about the differences between Halloween, All Saints Day, All Hallows Eve, and harvest festivals.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
Tommy, Tina, and their colleagues face pressure when the station’s future is uncertain. How can faith shape the way we handle work-related fears?
Matthew 6:25–34 · Philippians 4:6–7Jeff Allen describes Christ as the source of his greatest joy and service to others. What relationships and responsibilities should flow from our relationship with Christ?
Mark 12:29–31 · Galatians 5:13The series promotes forgiveness. Why is forgiveness difficult, and how does God’s forgiveness change the way we treat others?
Ephesians 4:31–32 · Colossians 3:12–13LIVE+LOCAL presents compassionate capitalism through the struggle of a small radio station. What would it look like to pursue both wise stewardship and care for people?
Proverbs 11:1 · Philippians 2:3–4The Final Word
LIVE+LOCAL offers six funny, warm episodes centered on faith, family, forgiveness, and service. Its mild content concerns are outweighed by its strong Christian worldview and satisfying story. For an all-ages faith-filled sitcom, WORTH WATCHING.
