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Martin Scorsese attends the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 10, 2024, in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Lionel Hahn/Getty Images) Getty Images Amid the familiar mix of political, lifestyle, and cultural programming that defines the Fox Nation streaming service, its most-watched titles include a striking outlier — a docuseries about Christian saints, narrated by Martin Scorsese. Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints, which returns to the Fox News Media platform today for its eight-part second season, is not only hosted, narrated, and executive-produced by the Academy Award-winning director. The Dec. 7 finale that will focus on the newly canonized Carlo Acutis, a teenager from Italy who died in 2006, was directed by Scorsese’s 26-year-old daughter Francesca. The episode marks her first formal collaboration with her father — and, speaking of her father, the series itself is written by one of Scorsese’s frequent collaborators, Kent Jones. The first half of the new season profiles Saint Patrick, Saint Peter, and Thomas Becket. Fox’s streaming platform, series creator Matti Leshem told me, turned out to be the perfect partner for the series. “Fox Nation knew they were taking a risk, and they took it with remarkable faith,” he said. The audience, he continued, is more eclectic than outsiders might assume, and viewers of all backgrounds have apparently tuned in. When I asked Leshem what first drew him to stories about the saints, he pointed back to childhood. “My father was a devout atheist — yet paradoxically had sent me to Ramaz, an Orthodox Jewish school,” he said. A family move to Denmark eventually placed him in a Catholic school run by the Assumption Sisters. “My gateway to the saints was the Nativity,” he explained. He’d been cast as the innkeeper…

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