Seems ABC is airing a more accurate description of their version of the Passion with the showing of 'Judas' tonight. Read some of the reviews from the critics.
http://www.imdb.com/StudioBrief/#8Critics Appear More Passionate About 'Judas'
After collecting dust on ABC's shelves for more than two years, the network has decided to air the drama Judas tonight (Monday), presumably hoping that the gospel story will get a boost from the publicity surrounding Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. "Now ABC feels safe enough to release its quality-sapped product to a controversy-sapped nation, secure that while it may attract a few viewers, it probably won't attract many unhappy accusations," commented critic Matthew Gilbert in the Boston Globe. Indeed, Steve Johnson writes in the Chicago Tribune: "This is a hopeful story, and, hopefully, some of the people who see The Passion and take it as gospel will also see this and realize there are many ways to tell a biblical story." Critic Tom Shales in the Washington Post apparently considers Judas to be a vast improvement on Passion. "ABC's movie seems happily lacking in anti-Semitic aspersions. Writer Tom Fontana ... has Pontius Pilate's wife tell her husband ... 'Fix it so the Jews themselves are held responsible.' ... The Big Lie was born, and two millennia later, Gibson would find a way to recycle it and gross more than $200 million in the process. Surely his parking space in Hell has already been reserved."