Posts Tagged ‘ITV’

i've just been 'outed' on national TV – as a 'reverend'

// July 21st, 2008 // 2 Comments » // General, TV

Just been catching up with stuff since I got back from 3 weeks in a hospital waiting for them to complete their administration – and this morning I got a random text message from a friend that just simply said, “Reverend”… I was thinking – ‘what on earth is that about’ until I sat down this morning to watch the recording of ITV’s ‘A Match Made in Heaven’, featuring one of our congregation – and this week – according to the text titles – the Reverend Chris Denham! ha ha!

I have to say a sigh of relief is in order as the pre-edit version that we saw had a quick cut shot of me during the preach – but it caught me at a totally out-of-context moment. I’d been talking about James and John asking Jesus to sit at the Right and Left… they literally come up to Jesus and say, “Jesus, we want you to do whatever we ask!”… and that’s the statement that was all I said in the cut shot… beautiful… looks like I was preaching how to demand stuff from God!

Anyhow – sigh of relief as it was cut from the broadcast version and some other less controversial statements were heard… in fact I think the whole thing looked pretty awesome. We’ll have to get it stuck on You Tube so you can all share in our national launch!

So guess I’m now going to get a lot of ‘hello, reverend…’ for the next couple of weeks….

Finally my 15 minutes of fame… or maybe 15 seconds

// July 5th, 2008 // No Comments » // Notice

Looks like I’ll be in front of the telly next Sunday night watching “A Match made in Heaven” on ITV… not because I particularly enjoy random ITV documentaries about people dating – but because I’ll get my 15 minutes of fame… or more likely 15 seconds. And no – I’m not the one dating but Tracey from our congregation.

I’ve seen a short preview of the whole thing and thankfully we look fairly normal as a church – except for one split second moment of me preaching which has me saying something completely out of context… if it wasn’t so funny I’d be upset… but hey – that’s what happens when you let TV cameras in on your services. Remind me next time to ensure they run any preaching footage past me before being allowed to screen it!!

Anyhow for anyone interested in watching it – set your Harddrive recorders for Sunday night 13th July at 11:45pm! (Nothing like a prime time viewing slot!)