Following the 4 March 2007 airing of "The Lost Tomb of Jesus" on the Discovery Channel, Ted Koppel aired a program entitled "The Lost Tomb of Jesus: A Critical Look", whose guests included the director Simcha Jacobovici, James Tabor (a consultant and advisor on the docudrama), Johnathan Reed, Professor of Religion at the University of LaVerne and co-author of "Excavating Jesus Beneath the Stones, Behind the Text", and William Dever, an archaeologist with 40 plus years experience in Middle Eastern archaeological digs.