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Hey there!

Here are two questions:

Will Derren Brown broadcast a new tv show?
Does anybody know when it will be?

Yes
No

Lawrence wrote:Yes
No

You used a Ouija Board to answer that question didn't you ?
On a serious note, the Derren Twitter and FB sources normally are rather good for knowing if anything is starting on stage or TV soon.

Will Derren Brown broadcast a new tv show? It's currently in development. Applications for participants were recently made available via DB's website. He also tweets the odd nugget.
Does anybody know when it will be? Most likely filming in the summer after the London West End run of Svengali finishes, and airing around October time.

Cheers

JS

jimmyshoes wrote:Will Derren Brown broadcast a new tv show? It's currently in development. Applications for participants were recently made available via DB's website. He also tweets the odd nugget.
Does anybody know when it will be? Most likely filming in the summer after the London West End run of Svengali finishes, and airing around October time.

Cheers

JS

Thank you very much

..... and Apocalypse is it's name, first part broadcast this evening, the conclusion next week.

Very much in the vein of Hero @ 30,000 feet and his other life changing events, this time a sort of Zombies meets Survivors disaster flick - any thoughts so far?

The "victim" was quite obviously an actor and a poor one at that. It was like a drama made by sixth form students with a budget. I know I'll be shot down in flames by Derren fan-boys and 14 year olds but Derren has become the Dynamo of Mentalism.

I'm not sure if half way through these programmes is a good point to assess but whilst we were watching last night's episode, Mrs.M asked me what the point of the programme was so I mentioned what had been said earlier that it was to change someone's perceptions, shake them out of their lethargy and make them value the life they have by manipulating their surroundings and reactions. She pondered for a nanosecond and said, But he's done all that before, several times'. At the moment, that's my assessment as well. Not on;y Hero but the one where that girl who was a self confessed less considerate driver being shown what appeared to be her own death in a car smash, ably reinforced by an actress wearing a life mask created by our very own Tom Lauten, then there was the one where the audience were making more and more dangerous decisions about what they thought was a random member of the public....

Derren's stage shows are excellent and his talents in that direction are still unsurpassed but his TV appearances seem to be trying to get further and further away from that side of things. Once he was a magician, then a mentalist, now a manipulator of people. It brings to mind things like The Truman Show and The Running Man, which were once only works of fiction. It seems that the acceptance of voyeurism, as generated by Big Brother and it's clones, is alive and developing.

Having said that, at no point were there any suggestions that this programme would involve any magic or mental ism so perhaps we ought not to expect it to appeal to many of us here?

I'll wait until after the next show to say more.

Dynamo is ripped to shreds on magic forums for using actors and stooges but when Derren does the same his fan boys put on the blinkers. Not only was it a ridiculous set up with an actor more wooden than Pinochio, it was bad television.

I actually find it quite sad, seeing someone who was producing stunning shows reduced to this.
I won't bother with the rest. You may as watch TOWIE, it's more convincing!

I'm not totally convinced they guy was a stooge, even bad actors act better than that but I'll keep an open mind on the issue - for now!Certainly there was a lot of time, money and hundreds of people involved, not to mention umpteen hundred hidden cameras, microphones, miles of cable, vehicles, and so on. Somehow I can't see all that expense being risked without some assurance of a broadcastable outcome of some kind.

I'm convinced he was an actor. Many of the things done in the show wouldn't have passed Channel 4's legal team if they were real.

One of Mrs.M's first perceptions was, ' If he can't find his phone, why didn't he do like everyone else does when they can't find theirs and just call the number from another phone? If it was in the house, as his brother assured him is where he'd last seen it being used, then he would have heard it ringing.'

Out of the mouths of babes and wives.....

Am i allowed to say i hated this in 24 foot high capital letters! Love the stage work but this was awful.

Here's Derren writing in The Radio Times about the show: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-10- ... -had-ended

Hmmm. Ironically he has a bit of a god complex going on there...