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Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Fox News Media wants to take some of its fans to church. To promote “The Saints,” a new eight-part documentary series executive produced by Martin Scorsese for the Fox Nation streaming outlet, the Fox Corp.-backed conservative media organization has opened an interactive kiosk outside its New York headquarters that looks like something akin to a medieval house of worship. Inside, visitors can listen to the famed director via audio and take interactive “selfies” that use artificial intelligence to show people as if they were transformed into the historical figures spotlighted in the program.

Sunday marks the start of Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints, a docudrama series starting Sunday on Fox Nation that is hosted, narrated and executive produced by the Oscar winner. Scorsese will tell the remarkable stories of eight men and women whose unshakeable faith led them to be canonized by the Catholic Church. Each episode focuses on a singular saint, starting with four over the next month, and the last four episodes will run in the lead-up to Easter.

Martin Scorsese’s next project will be a docuseries about the saints. Watch the trailer below.The new series, called Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints will see the legendary director host, narrate and executive produce the show which will release episodes weekly from November 17 to December 8.The series will be released in two parts, with the final four episodes airing in April 2025 to be “spanning the Holy season.”Each episode will focus on a singular saint, with episodes dedicated to Joan of Arc, John the Baptist, Sebastian, Maximilian Kolbe, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, and Moses the Black.According to a press release, the series will span 2,000 years of history and will tell the story of “eight men and women who risked everything to embody humanity’s most noble and complex trait — faith.”You can watch the trailer here:In a press statement about the series, Scorsese said: “I’ve lived with the stories of the saints for most of my life, thinking about their words and actions, imagining the worlds they inhabited, the choices they faced, the examples they set.“These are stories of eight very different men and women, each of them living through vastly different periods of history and struggling to follow the way of love revealed to them and to us by Jesus’ words in the gospels.

Selena Kuznikov Martin Scorsese is partnering with Fox Nation for an eight-part docudrama series, “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints.” Hosted, narrated and executive produced by Scorsese, the series will encompass eight one-hour episodes exploring the stories of eight figures on their journey to sainthood. The docudrama will premiere in two parts, with the first four episodes set to release on Nov.

Martin Scorsese is exploring the journeys of eight men and women toward sainthood in a new docudrama series for Fox Nation.

Also on this day: Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is slain in Canterbury Cathedral by knights loyal to King Henry II.Andrew Johnson, the 17th president of the United States, is born in Raleigh, N.C.Texas is admitted as the 28th state.The massacre on Wounded Knee takes place in South Dakota as an estimated 300 Sioux Indians are killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them.The capital of Oklahoma is moved from Guthrie to Oklahoma City as the state legislature approves a bill that is signed by Gov.