Mark Burnett, producer of the hugely successful 10-part miniseries of major Bible stories, is working on another faith-based project.

"Roma [Downey] and I will do a follow-up, 100%. Something big," he said yesterday, June 9, at the Produced By Conference in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Reporter reported.

Creator of Survivor, Burnett and his actress wife, Roma Downey, of Touched by an Angel fame, produced The Bible, which aired for five Sundays this spring on the History Channel—culminating on Easter, March 31.

Released on DVD and Blu-ray April 2 by Twentieth Century Fox (Provident Distribution), The Bible sold 525,000 units in its first week of release, becoming the top-selling TV program on DVD in the last five years and the best-selling miniseries ever on Blu-ray, digital HD and DVD. The highest-rated cable show of the year, the miniseries has become the fastest pre-selling, faith-based title in 60 years, according to CBA.

"I believe in the next 15 years, more people on the planet will have seen our Bible series than not seen it," Burnett said, The Hollywood Reporter reported. "We've also just finished recutting the Jesus part of The Bible into a feature."

The feature version of the series, which will focus on Jesus, will be two hours and 13 minutes long, edited down from three hours. Burnett noted that he could see himself and Downey distributing Bible-related programming for the next 10 years, The Hollywood Reporter stated.

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