Withering Flower

The AmericanLife TV Network — previously known as the Nostalgia Channel first and GoodLife TV Network later — was originally launched in 1985 to serve the viewing needs of baby boomers, showing mostly reruns of series from the late 1950s, 60s and early 70s like The Honeymooners, The Bob Newhart Show and Mission: Impossible. In 2001 the Unification Church purchased the network and maintained the baby boomer programming, but a new approach is set to take over the network this fall as ComStar Media Fund — an organization led by televangelist Robert A. Schuller and GodTube.com founder Chris Wyatt — purchased the cable channel this past May. Baby boomers or not, the American Life Network (ALN) will now be devoted to family-values programming. A couple of different approa