VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|Rev Canon Angela Tilby, Christchurch Cathedral Oxford  |CONTENT|[b]Rating[/b] 5 out of 5 (Extraordinarily platitudinous)

[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap130509.html][img=images/2013/05/pic130509.jpg popup=false float=right][/url]Once again, there's no news worth talking about, except [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22447018]Alex Ferguson[/url], whom I'll briefly mention in passing and then forget about. I also have to mention that it's [url=http://www.platitudes.org.uk/platblog/index.php?entry=entry120519-071021]Ascension Day[/url] today. This has to be mentioned very quickly indeed as it's the one aspect of Christianity that is so silly that we haven't even figured out how to make it metaphorical yet.

Now on to what I really wanted to talk about: what's good on telly at the moment. You'll recall how I previously [url=http://www.platitudes.org.uk/platblog/index.php?entry=entry130205-083516]recommended Casualty[/url] as an insight into the human condition.   Or before that there was my reflection on the occasional documentary [url=http://www.platitudes.org.uk/platblog/index.php?entry=entry120522-084058]56 Up[/url]. Then before that there were a couple of other [url=http://www.platitudes.org.uk/platblog/index.php?entry=entry100728-082551]really good documentaries[/url].

Well this time I want to talk to you about Master Chef and the Apprentice. In a sense, isn't the whole of life like Master chef and the Apprentice? The struggle against the odds, the good guys winning, the proud being humbled? Alan sugar looks just like Jesus, doesn't he? Then there are the contestants, or as I like to call them, disciples. Who can forget that famous episode where Jesus said, "Judas, YOU'RE FIRED!"

Just as it was for dramas and documentaries, it is also possible to generalise and take meaning from tacky, mass market TV competitions. Indeed, if one tries hard enough, one can extract abstract lessons from almost any TV programme. Next time, I intend to analyse the deep theological and spiritual aspects of the Teletubbies and Watchdog.

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